yholio

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by yholio 8y ago
I think it's incredibly naive to believe that the main problem of cryptocurrency today is the lack of privacy. The ease of which you can launder crypto is the main obstacle against it's widespread integration into the financial sy
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by yholio 8y ago
The follow-up post is a must read: in the panic ensuing after a failed switch flip, they made a series of disastrous mistakes that almost caused a fatal road accident. The animality of the human mind is fascinating, all it takes is a small
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by yholio 8y ago
Exposing a person's misery without their consent is usually not ethical, for example the last stages of someone dying of AIDS. There is nothing to be done and the person deserves some dignity in death. That is not the same for someone
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by yholio 8y ago
The final decision to terminate is usually taken by a human, not an algorithm. However, that human is not allowed to speak to you because anything they say is a potential liability in court or in PR terms. Companies exist to produce profits
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by yholio 8y ago
That's the major appeal of biometrics, the user is considered an attacker, either by knowingly transmitting his credentials or getting dupped into it. Biometrics restore the illusion of control to the designer, they now have the luxury
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by yholio 8y ago
>Biometric data can usually be gathered from a person, often discreetly Not only that, but merely authenticating a user into the system will always produce a full duplicate of their secret. So unless all terminals have the same clearance
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by yholio 8y ago
Why and how is it an ad-hominem? What exactly is being critiqued about the person of the original author? The point of the argument is to bring economic trade-offs and external contains into the discussion.
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by yholio 8y ago
Put your money where your mouth is. If you think something can be improved, and the cost of that improvement is justified by it's benefits, then you have a valid business idea. More often than not, somebody with far more domain specifi
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by yholio 8y ago
The guy is full of shit, but so is Microsoft. The travesty here is that the justice system sided with the corporate gorilla in a commercial issue that should be solved in a civil court. There is no greater social value at stake here, there
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by yholio 8y ago
Does it matter? The attack vectors are orthogonal, requiring a linear increase of resources. For something like a clock sync source, it might not be worth it for the attacker.
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by yholio 8y ago
> And we don’t control crimes like murder by allowing people to break the laws and then testing them in court. I usually err on the side of constructive conversation, but I have to say that is a ridiculous straw-man - and you know it.
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by yholio 8y ago
This is not even a law, it's a regulation from an agency that tries to assert itself as a regulator of communication satellites. This has strategic implications for US and it's probably a good idea anyway from a space collision po
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by yholio 8y ago
Welcome to the brave new world of the "cloud": you data, business, money, most intimate secrets and livelihood is at the whims of a foreign corporation that will stop at nothing if it means 2 cents more on their bottom line, or ge
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by yholio 8y ago
Because Dropbox is a file storage service, not a file distribution system. The typical use case is that an uploaded large file will be downloaded a single time by someone else, at different times when computers are online. This requires an
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by yholio 8y ago
It's clearly an asymmetric consent system, designed to make it harder to whitdraw consent. These are forbidden explicitly under GDPR.
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by yholio 8y ago
Of course. But is your business in the center of a major metropolis and as a consequence of that, pais for labour a multiplier proportional to other costs in the area, like rent and services? I doubt it, you might have higher costs but you
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by yholio 8y ago
> the eventual end game at this rate is for establishments that are extremely expensive and able to actually pay their workers decently That's not the end game, because there is an endless supply of low paid labour willing to commut
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by yholio 8y ago
A country willing to destroy it's hard currency would have absolutely no problem seizing the bank accounts of it's citizens. So these types of events are not really arguments for or against cash, it's all dumb luck if you get
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by yholio 8y ago
The point is, I shouldn't have to do that; if access to banking is necessary for survival then the burden should be on the bank to get a court order before they have the right to freeze an account. If I sue the bank, it's an absol
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by yholio 8y ago
My bank locked me out of my account because they didn't approve of the way I was using it (crypto whitdrawal). All fully legal, from an exchange account I hold in my name. They now give me the runarround asking me to prove with paper
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by yholio 8y ago
The suggestion was that the same procedure be applied for male biology. And of course, the waste should be examined on the long run, where every transwoman should have the right to a similar procedure if the money and donor are available an
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by yholio 8y ago
Sounds like a great opportunity to increase the theft premiums for people owning fobbed cars.
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by yholio 8y ago
All this waste of medical resources to deliver essentially a feeling to the mother, while there are plenty of adoptable and miserable children all over the world. At least in this case, they used the mother's own DNA.
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by yholio 8y ago
> They can't come out right away and say "guys we failed at self driving, it doesn't work", that would tank the personal careers of everyone important in the company. That's exactly what would happen if a newly d
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by yholio 8y ago
The graph of PageRank is fundamentally different from academic citations because it allows for cycles and that allows the algorithm to converge. Papers cannot cite future papers, so you are left with trying to value older papers from a numb
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by yholio 8y ago
Coal mines are exceptionally dangerous places. They require constant ventilation against methane accumulation and pumping out water that seeps in all the time. The soil is friable and there is a careful trade-off between personel safety and
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by yholio 8y ago
The analysis fails because it looks only at technical and cultural determinants for what is primarily an economic process. To counter this with my own dubious and oversimplified explanation, Microsoft did not fail because it has created a
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by yholio 8y ago
> Vince O’Brien, one of the NCA’s leads on drugs, told the Observer that dark web marketplace operators appeared to have made a commercial decision, because selling a drug that could lead to fatalities was more likely to prompt attention
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by yholio 8y ago
He is actually saying same things that were said about China, in the same words, but about US. It's a rhetorical move to force the interlocutors to change their perspective and examine their own prejudices. To me, both comments read li
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by yholio 8y ago
Sexual abuse is always about power: physical, emotional, verbal threats, boss-employee relations, career gatekeepers. Not about romantic advances from undesirable partners. This type of story often focuses on explicit acts and behaviors bec

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