yifanl

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by yifanl 8y ago
I'm going to reframe those questions. Why are there no "men in tech" events? Why are no efforts made to encourage white guys to study compsci? After all, if there's a genuine need for them, I would strongly expect them t
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by yifanl 8y ago
If you're making a profit off of the content you're hosting, then as far as I'm concerned, you should be held responsible for that content.
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by yifanl 8y ago
I think the wording in Randall's comic was very deliberate. "Nothing is ever foolproof", "Nearly incapable". Software engineers can absolutely reach those standards. But we also understand the threat model well enou
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by yifanl 8y ago
One of the vital sections of any election system would be the vote counting. If you could have a third party verify the count within your system as accurate/inaccurate, then you wouldn't need that system in the first place.
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by yifanl 8y ago
If the problem is "what determines truth", then there isn't an organization out there that could resolve the issue (barring something like the Chinese government, I suppose)
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by yifanl 8y ago
I don't think that's true. If there is a sufficiently large group of willing listeners (or determined trolls), then having a bad idea out there in reach of that audience legitimizes it far faster than private discussion could. At
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by yifanl 8y ago
In this specific case, we have an essentially static system that's exposed to the public that you need to protect from an unknown number of attackers with substantially more resources than you do. To use the analogy of the plane design
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by yifanl 8y ago
If your prevailing attitude is that all of society has already failed, then I suppose, no, the integrity elections are not important. But that's a disturbingly cynical outlook, and if the general attitude of the whole populace was as s
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by yifanl 8y ago
To the end user, what difference does it make?
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by yifanl 8y ago
A very educational variant I've heard is to up the number of doors from 3 to 10000. Now that Monty is closing off 9998 doors, it makes the leap of logic much less difficult. Clearly the one door he didn't close off is special.
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by yifanl 8y ago
I recall that a second large theft [1] did not get a hard-fork resolution. Whether it's due to bias from the core team or a wish to stay away from being a final arbitration after the first event, I'm not in a position to judge. [1
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by yifanl 8y ago
You don't need deep machine learning to write a simple script to fetch data from your servers. If Google can read all Gmail users' emails, Fastmail can read all their users' emails.
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by yifanl 8y ago
As far as I'm concerned, Facebook is not a content aggregator, it's a content publisher. It directly profits off of the users, and by extension the comments and pictures and whatever else the users post. As such, they are responsi
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by yifanl 8y ago
Personal anecdote: Someone in my high school class nearly failed a course after she picked up a particularly engaging series. It was interesting to hear her talk about how her parents punished her by prohibiting her from reading for the mon
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by yifanl 8y ago
Is there any advantage to this over the bog standard paper bag?
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by yifanl 8y ago
More or less. As I recall, the few Mac home users in the mid-2000s were talking about how Macs couldn't get viruses as a selling point.
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by yifanl 8y ago
Communications on the internet are different than physical communications. So different in my view as to not really have a useful comparison point. If I tell a joke, people will chuckle and it'll be on their mind for 10 seconds, and th
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by yifanl 8y ago
So a form of targeted accelerationism? That's an interesting thought, but assuming it works as intended, wouldn't the end result of this be a total destruction of trust? A whole society where all non-physical interaction is treate
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by yifanl 8y ago
Do we have one?
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by yifanl 8y ago
My understanding is that Star Citizen ran into an insane amount of both feature and scope creep. Of course, at its core, it's a game about space exploration, so I can understand just how vast that would be at an abstract level, but try
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by yifanl 8y ago
When facebook came out, the vast majority of sites _did_ (or were assumed to) operate that way.
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by yifanl 8y ago
For some subreddits, the up/down point system can be pretty useful, there will some substantial comments that genuinely have better (or at least more) content than other comments. But for the majority of subreddits, I have it sorted by
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by yifanl 8y ago
All software can compile down into mathematical expressions, logical branches and conditionals. That doesn't mean AI is limited to "Hello World" and FizzBuzz.
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by yifanl 8y ago
Worse than that, it's faceless people taking willing participants and turning them into amusement bots.
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by yifanl 8y ago
That would be a fault of the system then.
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by yifanl 8y ago
I wouldn't consider that easy, scheduling aside 10.5 hours for exercise daily is unfeasible for a lot of us.
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by yifanl 8y ago
I imagine it's still popular because those harsh fines are not issued very often.
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by yifanl 8y ago
I can absolutely understand, if we aren't capable of producing anything of value, forcing us to work doesn't do any good for society beyond putting every working age person in a skinner box. My issue is more that I'd be putti
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by yifanl 8y ago
I can't imagine a more grim scenario than whole populations being entirely reliant on government money. I'm not decided on where I sit on basic income yet, on the one hand, it might become a necessity as jobs vanish, but on the ot
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by yifanl 8y ago
Tests by definition can be failed. If you couldn't fail, then what's the point? You can pass all the prerequisites, but none of that guarantees that it doesn't fail at the real world testing phase. All that said, in this spec

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