Eli_P

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by Eli_P 6y ago
> editing it on a computer, and then "printing" it back out to a DNA molecule That's kind of what Novavax claims, search for the interview with David Rubinstein on WEF. NVAX wants to print short fragments of virus's p
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by Eli_P 6y ago
I use open source app Nebulo[1] which is a localhost pseudo-VPN which reroutes all DNS to any DoH/DoT you want. It also has a request log, I was (not very) surprised when it came my default file manager connects to facespace when I don
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by Eli_P 6y ago
Accessibility utils like screen readers do OCR and read aloud the content for blind people.
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by Eli_P 6y ago
All correct. It's just important to remember who's the attacker: Alice -- ISP1 -- 1000 hops -- ISP2 -- Bob Alice and Bob's identities are protected from each other, but not from the govt because ISPs collect metadata.
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by Eli_P 6y ago
Yes, overlay network 's configuration will be somewhat different, but physically it will be the same. It's like you're rearranging apple bits in a pie to save them; the pie will be sliced and eaten anyways.
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by Eli_P 6y ago
I doubt the number of nodes is important when you can split a large group of them into a few subgroups and analyze them or alter how they interact with each other, then repeat subdivision; because again, them overlay networks are like small
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by Eli_P 6y ago
> I wonder why there are so few people Maybe because people understand that it's security model is flawed: the peers in the mesh treat all the other peers as not trusted, that's okay; but the network design doesn't seem to
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by Eli_P 6y ago
Huh, your imaginary city reminisces one in The Murderer by Ray Bradbury.
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by Eli_P 6y ago
> Abolish copyright If they did, it'd be still complicated. A real example, a modder makes some content for an old abandoned game. He needs some voice over, so he contacts the original voice actors, but they deny to do that job on t
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by Eli_P 6y ago
> I don't fully grasp what privacy is > people like me find it hard to quantify what that thing is Privacy is [REDACTED]. Intelligence is not privacy. Recently I cleaned some olde books I don't need anymore and there were a
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by Eli_P 6y ago
It seems like the context is built with a simple bag of words model. One day I searched "how to make a mousetrap", the following day I got a recommended video about statistics, where the author explains something on a mouse popula
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by Eli_P 6y ago
> that increased exposure to any porn has effects on attitude What does your research say about the fixation of that attitude? Is it like, forever and ever? How those effects compare to watching martial arts, war footage from the news, m
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by Eli_P 6y ago
This might help https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/covid-19
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by Eli_P 6y ago
It's not that easy. Take into consideration spreading of sensors like light/water/gas/sewerage meters, which report measurements to a central SCADA. I touched that around a decade ago, I had to build link with the meters
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by Eli_P 6y ago
High entropy edition: with RSA padding, signed by famous cryptographers.
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by Eli_P 6y ago
> the protections of an LLC Won't protect one guy or a small team in case of legal disputes, it's called piercing the corporate veil. I wonder if the EU has something similar.
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by Eli_P 6y ago
What's interesting, does that strategy end like: less effective ads -> need more of them -> raise ad price + show more of them? Another thing is regarding k-anonymity which I suppose privacy-first guys would use. If I gather user
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by Eli_P 7y ago
For entities whose behavior fit their model, it's called negative selection[1], a mandatory attribute of emerging dictatorship. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_selection_(politics)
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by Eli_P 7y ago
If I use a bunch of older Chromes from portableapps, are those affected by feature testing, provided I've disabled google update but I'm not behind a firewall? In other words, is feature polling just hard-coded or it is bound to a
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by Eli_P 7y ago
You might be a visual kind of person, those make a good mathematician. After a decade of experience I happily dump all the boring stuff to type checkers and linters. One day in the morning I was being in a state of half dreaming - half awak
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by Eli_P 7y ago
The link you gave, says (sic): > Sign up now for free access to this content > [...] > Email (NOTE: Free email domains not supported) I think this sort of antinomy[1] sounds ironical especially in this thread. This is practically l
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by Eli_P 7y ago
> in the devtools console Wow, you are right, thanks. Lesson learned.
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by Eli_P 7y ago
I found it interesting how Chrome and FF handle differently cpu-heavy code like this: arr = new ArrayBuffer(4) arrInt = new Uint32Array(arr) t0 = performance.now(); for (; arrInt[0] <= 1000000000; ++arrInt[0]) {} ; per
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by Eli_P 7y ago
I'd pitch that to the board like the algorithm was just smart enough to detect the partial activity coefficient ranging in [0, 1].
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by Eli_P 7y ago
Dating apps today are more like gambling with your time. Its mechanics is pretty same as for lottery game, so it will generate profits for the same reason all scams do with our primate brain. Monkey gives a banana now and expects 10^6 banan
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by Eli_P 7y ago
There's another issue with Unicode: the same string can be encoded in many ways, which affects at least collation. On server side I deal with it with normalization[1]. I'm sure I can do it on the client with js but that just doesn
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by Eli_P 7y ago
Listen to Terence McKenna's recordings where he describes tripping experience, or somebody doing DMT, or Michael Stevens doing ayahuasca. Maybe all these observations are anecdotal and not scientific, but it feels like ideas and though
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by Eli_P 7y ago
I mean family is a structure built on top of real human beings. Social structures are real while everybody trusts in them, same as how any belief system works, money, etc. Even the definitions of family are different in various cultures. Wh
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by Eli_P 7y ago
> Web 2.0 brought none of the democratization it promised It introduced formula "If you're not paying for a product, you are the product", while in old world model delivery of value is more about givers/takers ratio
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by Eli_P 7y ago
It's hard to understand how family as an abstract entity can be happy. If we don't have some metric of happiness for one, how can we add it up? If abstract happiness existed it would be incomprehensible, like consciousness in Chin

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