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by dispose13432 10y ago
The "boringification" of computers will bring us back to the 70s. If we have to prove _everything_ on your computer, from your calculator or Pokemon, how much do you think a license of windows will cost? $250,000? Linux/FreeB
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by dispose13432 10y ago
I have no problems with that guy. I have problems with all those guys who signed the key. And, again, as you mentioned, those were security experts. You think that your neighbor won't fall for that?
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by dispose13432 10y ago
I'm saying that taxes will go through the nose (close to 25%) for everyone with quite questionable benefits (will barely pay for rent).
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by dispose13432 10y ago
>Only some will be given free money, I thought the idea is that everyone from Bill Gates to the beggar will be given it?
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by dispose13432 10y ago
1. $587 a month in many cities in the US will barely rent a room. Even in St. Louis ( https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-st-louis-rent-tre... ), average monthly rent for a one bedroom apartment is $1000 a month. In L
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by dispose13432 10y ago
>Since it's designed to study the disincentives to work, by the end of the study it's likely to include many employed people. On the other hand, people realize that UBI may go away any day. What will be when canceling UBI has a
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by dispose13432 10y ago
EDIT Sorry. My mistake
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by dispose13432 10y ago
> Entire point of SSL/TLS is to ensure end to end authenticity and confidentiality. The point is that country A can strongarm a certificate authority under their domain to sign any certificate they want. So if A wants to MITM google
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by dispose13432 10y ago
1. Key pinning. 2. Certificate transparency 3. Can't do it "accidentally". That's why a lot of people have 2 foot high fences, not that you can't jump over them but to create the atmosphere that this is private, and
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by dispose13432 10y ago
>access to free lawyers at least for the poor etc is more important than access to the legal databases That itself is a problem, while we have public defense lawyers, we don't have public preventive lawyers (who I can call and ask i
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by dispose13432 10y ago
My question is: 1. How often does this happen? 2. Hoe many tests did SpaceX do before the first FT launch? Considering that most rockets don't use supercooled fuels, I would expect insane tests (they can't rely on NASA's hi
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by dispose13432 10y ago
>And the reason people initially used Facebook, Skype, and WhatsApp is not that they were easier to use or better. It's advertising. Notice how all of these are proprietary software made by companies with the means to advertise thei
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by dispose13432 10y ago
That's why insurance isn't the end-all/be-all. They've got enough money out of insurance to build themselves a new satellite, the problem is that they need that satellite yesterday , not today. On the other hand, SpaceX
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by dispose13432 10y ago
So let's go through a hypothetical situation: A has friend 1 and 2. He vets them, checks their ID, goes to a key-signing party, trusts that they are 1 and 2 with his life. Now he gets an email from "5000" who claims that he&#
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by dispose13432 10y ago
Web of Trust seems to be an inherently broken paradigm. Think about this. Let's say I trust my friends (so when my friends sign John Doe is John Doe, it's really him). It's a big deal (not every friend is so security consciou
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by dispose13432 10y ago
Ok. Found it, https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/tree/master/editor doesn't say, but https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/ says MIT
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by dispose13432 10y ago
What's the license of this? GitHub doesn't seem to say?
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by dispose13432 10y ago
>Some of us have a different opinion based on our own genuinely-held beliefs Such as? Browsing a website with an adblocker in a public place may literally give me a virus. That's what HTTPS everywhere protects against.
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by dispose13432 10y ago
>It's not like uber is threatening to disconnect the driver if they don't work, it is entirely an at-will engagement. What about "dumping"?
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by dispose13432 10y ago
> It seems to require much less effort for folks, which is perhaps why they do this It's also much easier to find readers. Compare: Facebook: become friends with your co-workers, now they see your picture Blog: Please go to jup
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by dispose13432 10y ago
>Is he paying $50 more for not participating, or getting a $50 discount for participating? On the other hand, think about it like this: What if insurance costs $10,000 a month, with a $9900 discount for "healthy behavior", so y
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by dispose13432 10y ago
>They could have just as easily wrote their own fast and secure implementations of flash and Java instead of disabling them. Especially for Java given Google's deep experience with it and that they already have their own runtime. Yu
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by dispose13432 10y ago
But batteries are a significant source of weight.
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by dispose13432 10y ago
Why do you think the airspace won't have traffic? You want to end traffic with modern accessible tech? Build ten layer freeways.
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by dispose13432 10y ago
> my living expenses (everything but tuition) are easily under $10,000 USD You rent a room or have a few room-mates? New York (which has skyscrapers) average rent is $3000 a month for a one bedroom apartment. https://www.tim
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by dispose13432 10y ago
The thing with basic income is that I'm not sure it's currently practical: The US has a bit over 315 million people. To pay everyone minimum (barely livable) wage, every person should get $15,000 ( http://poverty.ucdavi
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by dispose13432 10y ago
True, but there (I hope, at least) is an old OpenOffice (at least in VS) where you can find a parser.
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by dispose13432 10y ago
HTML is supported by only one vendor? Which one? Firefox or Chromium-WebKit or Explorer?
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by dispose13432 10y ago
He forgot to mention that since it's closed source and Adobe isn't releasing a SFW converter, even the Internet Archive can't backup a copy of the sfw file and have it useful. OpenOffice, OOTH, can be converted to HTML or PDF
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by dispose13432 10y ago
>The failure modes of software are not as well understood, but are rarely life threatening. Well, it's not life threatening, but what do you think will happen if every month your credit-card stops working for a few days because of a

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