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by xvector 3y ago
Turn into technology. But as others have mentioned, there will be no shortage of stuff to do, even if we end up immortal. That in itself would be a contradiction of the problem statement.
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by xvector 3y ago
> But if it's a proper simulation, base reality must be even more detailed. Like, a lot more. Not necessarily. You could create the feeling or impression of detail on-demand - consider a 2D fractal in software that you can zoom into
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by xvector 3y ago
Mentioning the fact that the EU has an industrial deficiency in tech is not "uncivil" any more than mentioning that the US has a manufacturing deficiency. It is just a fact - I am not sure why you would think it uncivil.
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by xvector 3y ago
> Basically, I believe the advanced calculations to be correct because they lead to things which are (eventually) used in daily life. I think you are missing my point - if you can short circuit logic, you will never be able to know wheth
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by xvector 3y ago
Spotify is a market maker as per the spirit of the DMA (ask any artist), but they are conveniently excluded from the DMA. The requirements of the DMA are gerrymandered to leave a curious hole in the place where Spotify would be. Mistral not
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by xvector 3y ago
The assumption in your comment is that any of this is real to begin with and logic isn't being short-circuited in our brains to make everything "check out" even if it doesn't. If you simulate a universe with cube blocks
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by xvector 3y ago
Most EU tech regs are designed to rent seek from big tech under the guise of privacy or consumer rights. They never actually apply the laws locally, or they carve out exceptions. Take the DMA and Spotify, or the AI Act and Mistral, etc. T
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by xvector 3y ago
Perhaps we could require a simple "nutrition facts" on each article about the journal's conflicting interests: for example, a ragebait article about big tech? Then the disclosure of the ad revenue conflict between big tech an
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by xvector 3y ago
For [1], unfortunately it does. True regarding the second point. [1]: https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-addre...
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by xvector 3y ago
He used ProtonMail. I wonder if ProtonMail can pull IP logs for this guy and share them.
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by xvector 3y ago
They implant backdoors and sell zero-click RCEs that exploit those backdoors.
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by xvector 3y ago
Actually most CS majors require ethics courses. I've met very few developers that don't care about ethics, especially when they work on something product facing. We've seen entire teams at Google quit or refuse to implement s
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by xvector 3y ago
> metabook won on this. They won on distributing E2EE and the Signal Protocol to 99% of the world, which previously transmitted everything in plain? Sounds like a pretty good win to me.
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by xvector 3y ago
> thats a freaking lie and you should feel bad for repeating it. It's trivial to RE the app. Plenty of 3Ps continually RE the app. Support your claims of WhatsApp being backdoored with facts, not random assertions you pull out of
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by xvector 3y ago
Security SWE here. I have worked with WhatsApp's security engineers, I donate hundreds to the Signal Foundation every year, and I like to think I have a good amount of experience by now in the security industry. > you are a fool if
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by xvector 3y ago
> To me, it's wild to think that people on HN don't know about this relatively recent history and are so naive to think that these protections were just pulled out of the air to frustrate developers, IMO we have modern journali
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by xvector 3y ago
Users cannot consent to Cloudflare seeing their traffic and it's not an issue. Users consent to Facebook seeing their traffic and it's suddenly a problem?
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by xvector 3y ago
> broke French laws. Swiss authorities compelled the disclosure. That's a terrible reason. Torrenting breaks French law. Having the wrong bread or cheese with your wine probably breaks French law. And if your company can be compelle
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by xvector 3y ago
Ah, good 'ole trustworthy Swiss companies! Like Crypto AG![1] Realistically, all VPNs are compromised. But for most people's threat model, that's irrelevant anyways. Proton for instance revealed the location of a climate acti
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by xvector 3y ago
If someone consents to your clear request to read their data in the plain, then it's not evil. Still not my cup of tea, but if you clearly explain and obtain consent, it's shady but fine.
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by xvector 3y ago
National Security Letters.
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by xvector 3y ago
I heard about this a few years ago. The trial participants were informed, consented, and paid. If you consent to a root cert being installed and analytics being proxied, well, that's that.
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by xvector 3y ago
I can't think of any cases where someone would be deterred by 25 years in prison, but not, say, 8 years in prison.
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by xvector 3y ago
Coal workers don't like renewables even though it's great for humanity because it threatens their jobs. The same goes for AGI and everyone else. It's irrelevant what the average person thinks about AGI because they can't
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by xvector 3y ago
Man, giving up your privacy because you dislike a company is... some decision. You do you.
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by xvector 3y ago
If you want to create an AGI it will eventually "target" all professions. Art, writing, and basic programming are just the easiest ones to tackle first. You have fast iteration cycles because iteration is virtual. This temporary p
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by xvector 3y ago
> Then you're in a position where you've handed over to Apple gobs of private data that they have unencrypted backups of. What are you even talking about? You can E2EE all your information in iCloud, even your iOS backups, such
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by xvector 3y ago
1. The monopolies literally make no money - WhatsApp is run at cost and doesn't turn a profit. 2. You are not gonna have universal phone-number based messaging that is E2EE without a monopoly. Even RCS has monopolistic gateways. Decent
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by xvector 3y ago
> let's trade international protocols for Zuckerware. What could go wrong? To be clear, you want to use "international protocols" that aren't even E2EE by default over WhatsApp, which is built on the Signal protocol w
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by xvector 3y ago
WhatsApp is literally built on the same protocol Signal uses. Signal engineers helped integrate it into WhatsApp.

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