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by zucker42 4y ago
Here's the threat model that justifies uses a public VPN: 1. The VPN provider and its infrastructure is trusted. 2. Attackers (private or government) can access data the VPN stores some period of time after you use it, but not while yo
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by zucker42 4y ago
Forget the internet for a second and imagine there was a collection of cases in a book compiled by a group of law professors and legal students, summarized for easy reference. That book omits some cases that are relevant to the subject of t
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by zucker42 4y ago
A large idea in modern poker theory is playing the Nash equilibrium strategy. A Nash equilibrium is where no player can improve their expected result by unilaterally changing their strategy, and two player games provably have the property t
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by zucker42 4y ago
US DOTs have people devoted to safety no doubt, but they also endorse road and city designs which have safer alternatives.
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by zucker42 4y ago
> soliciting six murders-for-hire in connection with operating the site This was not proven in court, and at least two federal agents involved in the investigation were found guilty for misconduct related to the investigation, which shou
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by zucker42 4y ago
I think the joke is they were fired before they started, and then hired again.
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by zucker42 4y ago
To be fair, an actual fire risk is one of the biggest reasons something might be perceived to be a fire risk.
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by zucker42 4y ago
The main way in which DMCA 1201 is unconstitutional is that it violates the first amendment. The EFF is litigating a case to this effect right now. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court's one big proponent against copyright overreach is lea
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by zucker42 4y ago
Because the law is absurd, unconstitutional, immoral and harmful. Nonetheless, it's still enforced.
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by zucker42 4y ago
I understand why you might not like getting these emails, but is there any reason you think they're bad in some general sense (at least worse than any other email advertising). I'm sure there are some customers out there who would
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by zucker42 4y ago
Here's a great video by Patrick Boyle on SPACs[1]. TL;DW SPACs favor promoters and early (usual institutional investors) at the cost of later investors. [1] https://youtu.be/aXWCSQUvnKI
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by zucker42 4y ago
Strong Towns criticizes U.S. street design and development practices. Mainly they argue that many of the design practices pushed in manuals and by the engineering profession are dangerous and lead to worse cities (especially because they gi
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by zucker42 4y ago
The problem with the article is it assumes that Netflix's drop in stock price is due to mistakes the company has made. In my view, the reason Netflix has been less successful than shareholders expected has more to do with what its comp
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by zucker42 4y ago
Thanks for the response.
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by zucker42 4y ago
Why is the SN750/SN850 the default SSD, given it has relatively high power consumption[1] and separately is there any reason to believe that building a DIY version with a different SSD wouldn't work? [1] https://www.tom
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by zucker42 4y ago
SBF founded a SuperPAC that's focused on future pandemic prevention/mitigation. He supported many candidates and a ballot measure in CA. One candidate who he put particular support behind was Flynn, a house candidate in Oregon who
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by zucker42 4y ago
It's interesting that this article paints SBF's actions here as reflective of EA, when from what I've seen EA as a whole tends to be more skeptical about spending money on political campaigns (for example, ideas like [1]). [1
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by zucker42 4y ago
> We are now in a world where wealth is being rapidly redistributed from people who don't read the instructions, to those of us who do. Are the people who "read the instructions" really the ones who benefited here? The mai
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by zucker42 4y ago
As I understand, Dai is an overcollaterized stablecoin. People mint Dai by locking up cryptocurrency into its smart contracts worth more than the Dai they get. I believe that collateral can be automatically liquidated in the case of a crash
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by zucker42 4y ago
Patrick Boyle argues fairly convincingly in my mind that the problem with this was the design of Luna itself[1]. TL;DW TerraUSD maintains its price by minting $1 worth of Luna in exchange for one TerraUSD coin. But this assumes that there a
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by zucker42 4y ago
There's significantly more competition among VPNs than there are among ISPs in any given area, so it should be no surprise that some VPNs are more trusted than ISPs. Most people have only a few choices for their ISP, and maybe only one
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by zucker42 4y ago
Are you limited in how much documentation you can release because of contracts or legal reasons? For example, if Framework or another company wanted to build a fully open source mainboard for an Intel or AMD processor would that be possible
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by zucker42 5y ago
That's generally incorrect. Circumvention is generally illegal, regardless of if you're using it for otherwise legal activities. Below I've included the relevant text from the law. In that specific example, though, you might
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by zucker42 5y ago
A good OS existing for M1 in 2 years does not make Intel/AMD laptops paperweights now.
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by zucker42 5y ago
First, the article is about a Linux laptop, not a Windows laptop, and the reference to Apple Silicon is a bit of non-sequitur anyways. so I feel like your comment lacks relevance to the OP. Secondly, the reasons one would want to choose a L
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by zucker42 5y ago
As far as I can tell, Option B won over Option C by 35 votes (there were 142 people who preferred B over C and 107 who preferred C over B).
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by zucker42 5y ago
Debian uses the Schulze method (if things haven't changed recently), so I do not see how that would have an impact on the result.
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by zucker42 5y ago
Your comment has the implication (intended or unintended) that Ukraine was the instigator as far as ceasefire violations go. As far as I can tell, that's not true. However, the real way to find out for sure would be to go through the O
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by zucker42 5y ago
> No one wants to hurt the innocent people in Russia. The actions of the node-ipc maintainer's seem to provide evidence against this assertion.
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by zucker42 5y ago
Yeah, but that means the problem is in fact protestware and not "ideology" in some vague sense.

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