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by zaphar 4y ago
I'm very much calling out that my experience is different. But you are also making assumptions that may not be what you expect. Most wouldn't have said that my relatives had capacity to house my family. They did it any way. This i
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Like... barely anybody my age is having children and the ones who do have this look on them when I have a real conversation with them where they are vulnerable that they love their kids more than anything but that having k
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by zaphar 4y ago
Ahhh, yes I see where you got lost. You are assuming that they either: * Have a team willing to commit to managing CAs as part of the DC/Login infrastructure. or * Are actually using something like Vault in their infrastructure. Common
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The insertion slowdown is typically due to several different factors: * Often the columns are stored sorted so insertions can cause a lot of IO as the data get's shuffled around if the insert needs to happen in the middle of the curren
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by zaphar 4y ago
It's hard to get good data on this stuff but the perception you get when doing a little digging is that we have somehow managed to produce a lot of mental health issues over the last decade. My pet, conspiracy?, theory is that the alwa
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by zaphar 4y ago
Good luck figuring out a style that isn't "cribbing" off of another artists style. In which case if that becomes legal then the ML will just be used to generate unique styles which are similarly cribbing. There is no definiti
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GI can mean a few different things. Which one are you asking about?
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I worked at Google for 7 years and never went to college either. I was never hampered by that in my career. If anything people were more impressed that I was doing this without the degree than if I had actually had a degree to point at.
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No where in that thread is he suggesting they weren't standing on the shoulders of those who came before, but he's also right a rendering engine is not a browser and at the time Chrome was revolutionary in a number of ways. It was
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I use a take home exercise. It should take at most 30m to 1h to complete. I have a well calibrated objective scoring system for the exercise. It's trivial to figure out if someone copied it from elsewhere. I find it works pretty well a
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If a position is remote then the market is national or even global depending on how the company handles tax concerns for employees. Which means the upper bound is competing against the lower bound and the real market is probably going to co
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My fear is that the place that I once considered crucial for the development of a counterculture becomes dominated by reactionary "intellectuals" who got so rich by tech and now have become the status quo. So b
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If a computer search or errand text resulted in criminal charges, then there would be an opposing counterforce to that. Why? You gave no supporting evidence for this statement. You just stated it as if it were indisputable fa
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At some point when the incentives keep driving these "institutions" to make choices like this maybe you need to start questioning how the existing structures drive those incentives forward.
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The relationship between wisdom and intelligence is complicated in practice. But the benefit of wisdom is often that it allows you to accept the bad that you can't fix or affect and move on. You can't single handedly fix any of th
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by zaphar 4y ago
You seem to be arguing as if this is an all or nothing proposition. Instead there are definite degrees of intent and interaction here. In the E2EE case the degree of interaction and intent is quite low. In the mixer case the degree is quite
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by zaphar 4y ago
When I and a friend use E2EE between us neither of us are helping to hide a criminal's conversation regarding their criminal activity. The same can not be said about a mixer. They are not at all equivalent.
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If you are mixing your money with known criminals so that they can hide their money then you are money laundering even if you have other legitimate reasons for hiding your own money. The creative fiction that you can't know you are m
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by zaphar 4y ago
Justice is the job of the people. We vote, directly or indirectly, on the laws as written. And in the case of jury nullification can bypass the law completely.
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If the matrix project was run by terrorists then your comparison would be accurate. It is not however. Tornado Cash however is run by a group with the express purpose of money laundering which is a crime. This difference is important and is
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No they aren't. They are sanctioning a software project and service that runs on Blockchains not a protocol.
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I don't think you can actually say you have no intent to help them. All of the other uses you mention other than a mixer have perfectly valid uses that don't involve committing a crime. But mixing your money in with illicitly obta
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A mixer doesn't fit that definition. Even if they obtained a court order they may not be able to provide the information. You are moving the goal posts.
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Or to put it another way. If you use a mixer you are knowingly helping to launder money. Which is itself a crime.
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We aren't talking about criminal conviction though. We are talking about something entirely different. We are talking about people freely transacting with people who the government already knows and has convicted of illegal activity.
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Coinbase just hands the coins over to the Treasury and problem solved.
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They can track all funds that exit the mixer. They may not know how those funds got in the mixer but they can require all exchanges that have a legal presence under their jurisdication to reject any funds who's history originates fro
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The problem with the 'mixer' approach to this is that the US Gov knows the bad money went into the mixer. They also know that it's harder to determine where the bad money came out to. This means that money that all of socie
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Here in the US you have lots of non-HOA options. Even in the areas with lots of HOA options you can read the rules beforehand and choose the HOA ruleset you prefer. Myself I don't like any of the HOA rulesets so I avoid them It's
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MIT produces interesting engineering content. They've been a regular on the HN frontpage for as long as I've been coming here which is a pretty long time. Why would it be weird?

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