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by ythn 8y ago
> One should be allowed to alter one's own consciousness any way one sees fit. And to what degree is one accountable for the things they do in pursuit of and under the influence of altered consciousness?
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by ythn 8y ago
Yeah but if a neighborhood kid with a lockpick breaks into your house, installs cryptomining sw on your computers, laughs at how weak your lock is, admonishes you to spend more money in better security, what will you do? Take his advice and
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by ythn 8y ago
Couldn't you theoretically escape a planet's gravity without going into orbit? I mean, gravity weakens by the square of distance, so it wouldn't be long before Earth didn't have much influence on you
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by ythn 8y ago
> Possession of information of any kind should not be illegal, as information is in and of itself not harmful; And how does one come to possess information without creating or receiving (distributing) it?
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by ythn 8y ago
You'd still need to know that the number is a base 256 encoded string, and the chances you run across such a number in an innocent context (i.e. math publication) seems infinitesimal. Someone who knowingly hosts a base-256 encoded secr
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by ythn 8y ago
Large numbers can mean anything depending on how you interpret them. If you provide the means (metadata) to interpret a given large number as illegal information (state secret, crypto key, etc.), why shouldn't that be illegal?
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by ythn 8y ago
> If from a completely different domain, someone who has no relationship whatsoever to the maintainer of that first site creates a page explaining how DVD players contain AES keys and then links The link is the illegal metadata. It'
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by ythn 8y ago
> That description can be embedded in the number. If you use ASCII it’ll be pretty obvious. In that case, the knowledge that information is encoded in that specific number and the drawing attention to that fact is the illegal metadata. I
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by ythn 8y ago
In my opinion, I don't think it's the number itself that's illegal, but the metadata that you attach to it. "11234349387298245791029384857" may or may not be an illegal number. Nobody cares and mathematicians can us
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by ythn 8y ago
Seems like you could still "downgrade" via an upgrade: 1. Disable firmware digital signature verification (not sure if this is at the hardware level or not) 2. Modify the older firmware such that its reported version is newer than
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by ythn 8y ago
> The reason they prevent downgrades are to reduce support costs, to ensure broad compatibility, and because of security flaws in older versions That's a reason, not the reason. I'm sure you can think of many other reasons
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by ythn 8y ago
Maybe women and people of color just perceived SO as a more hostile place because they imagined the person on the other side of the keyboard as a white male (true or not) and took it as an attack on their gender/race, forgetting that t
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by ythn 8y ago
Yeah I'm talking more from a company incident perspective. Say you have a reformed felon who committed rape. In an on-site position, they may relapse and rape an attractive coworker. However, in the remote case, you can't rape fem
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by ythn 8y ago
Seems like places that have remote employees would be perfect for hiring reformed felons. If I ever made a company as successful as GitLab I would have no qualms hiring this guy for remote work. Nothing wrong with hiring them for non-remote
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by ythn 8y ago
The problem is that proponents of mass immigration frame it as "either you are for mass immigration, or you are for the slaughtering/suffering/starvation/etc. of refugees in war torn areas"
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by ythn 8y ago
There are alternate front-ends that use HN's backend you can use. Such as: https://vue-hn.now.sh/item/16893581
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by ythn 8y ago
Reminds me of an anecdote Richard Feynman had in his book on the Brazilian education system [1]. Basically, the students could memorize crap from books but didn't really comprehend what they were learning, such that when Feynman woul
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by ythn 8y ago
Is it even possible to be completely unbiased?
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by ythn 8y ago
I wonder though if you could do "regenerative braking" in electric planes, i.e. spin up a flywheel anytime you descend, and then tap that energy next time you want to ascend. Doesn't really make sense for planes that cruise a
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by ythn 8y ago
> The planes are zero emission aircraft running on lithium ion batteries How heavy is that battery pack??
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by ythn 8y ago
I generally agree that we as a society need to be more forgiving of people's pasts. The #MeToo fad is more about bringing justice to offenders that escaped justice in the past, but this guy didn't get off scot-free for years like
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by ythn 8y ago
You're right, the analogy is not good. I was more thinking about making an app for fun that solves some problem, makes you and your users a little money on the side, mostly intended for teenagers/college students, etc., but then t
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by ythn 8y ago
> AKA have no rights or security as an employee ever anywhere. I get what you are saying, but somehow this attitude also rubs me the wrong way sometimes. It's like "Hey, I'll pay anyone a nickle per piece of trash they pic
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by ythn 8y ago
I wish it said that kind of thing in the changelogs more often (in general). I would be much more eager to download updates if I knew the app was getting slimmer, and not fatter. On a side note, I'm annoyed Skype now forcibly updates i
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by ythn 8y ago
I'm not saying all regulation is bad. But some regulation is has a major stifling effect on innovation and startups simply because the cost of compliance is too high for new players (but manageable for established big boys).
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by ythn 8y ago
But they are the champions of security and safety
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by ythn 8y ago
To me it seems like Yet Another Barrier To Entry For Tech Startups (TM). I remember the good old days (re: 10 years ago) when you could make all sorts of cool things without being bogged down by regulations. I guess that era is over (at lea
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by ythn 8y ago
Well, the alternative to PGMs is a lot more collateral damage. Want to take out that bridge? Carpet bomb or dive bomb and hope too many civilians/pilots don't die. Want to take out that factory? Carpet bomb or dive bomb and hope t
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by ythn 8y ago
"tragedy of the commons" I as a freelance developer sometimes make releases whose sole purpose is to refactor/slim down/increase performance with no new features. Yeah, some of my users are disappointed I didn't pri
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by ythn 8y ago
So you're saying something like UBI could turn America into social media/streaming entertainment zombies... But wouldn't that make the entertainment industry explode?

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