dodobirdlord

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by dodobirdlord 1mo ago
Laws tend to be written pretty broadly, with the understanding that when you encounter a law that seems like it could be construed in a ridiculous way, it’s the ridiculous construal that is silly and not the law. Judges and juries exist to
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by dodobirdlord 3mo ago
Places like Apple run their supply chains to ground. Literally in some cases, as they track sourcing of component materials back to the mines they are dug out of.
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by dodobirdlord 4mo ago
The chain of thought is quite straightforward. Functionally nobody wants an intermediary-free channel because there are adversarial entities on the other end.
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by dodobirdlord 4mo ago
Panicking is fairly important for ergonomics and safety. If panicking wasn’t available and execution had to proceed in all situations, recovering from a situation like memory corruption where invariants have been violated would require a lo
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by dodobirdlord 5mo ago
This was more or less true until everyone and their dog started running agents in a 24/7 busyloop as a bit.
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by dodobirdlord 5mo ago
The signature scheme used by bitcoin is far from the best encryption we have today, and more resistant to being updated than most more important things. So it’s an interesting novelty.
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by dodobirdlord 5mo ago
If you don’t also drop wallets with compromised signatures at some point after introducing secure signatures (effectively editing the ledger) they will be up for grabs. Absent a functional ledger rewrite I expect there would be some window
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by dodobirdlord 5mo ago
Doesn’t this effectively still destroy all legacy wallets? Once the throttling limit goes into effect, it will be impossible for holders of legacy wallets to transfer their bitcoin without paying ~1 bitcoin per bitcoin they want to move. Do
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by dodobirdlord 5mo ago
In the absolute disaster scenario where the ecosystem is taken by surprise by an adversary with a CRQC, regulated custodians could form a consortium to reconstitute a new quantum-resistant version of bitcoin, pooling their ownership ledgers
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by dodobirdlord 5mo ago
Does anyone happen to know if it is settled law in the United States that transferring bitcoins using a cracked key is a criminal act? It’s not immediately obvious to me that it would be covered by the CFAA.
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by dodobirdlord 5mo ago
What risk are you envisioning in #1?
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by dodobirdlord 6mo ago
Prosecutors don't have to "prove" things, they have to convince a jury. If your defense seems implausible a jury probably won't buy it.
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by dodobirdlord 6mo ago
Mass in the universe appears to be (very) roughly uniformly distributed, so even if there are large bodies of antimatter far away in the universe there would have to be a transition boundary somewhere between here and there where the univer
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by dodobirdlord 6mo ago
I suppose they could also put the points on the car and impound it after it accrues enough points to have a drivers license suspended. Hard to drive if you don’t have a car.
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by dodobirdlord 7mo ago
Assuming we’re talking about RFC 2119, it’s important not to collapse the distinction between SHOULD and MAY, which is there for a reason. MAY elements are legitimately optional, SHOULD elements are there for a reason and are disregarded at
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by dodobirdlord 7mo ago
Google probably did parse these messages as well-formed before inspecting them and deciding to drop them based on the lack of this field. The RFC imposes no mandatory obligation to deliver messages just because they are well-formed.
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by dodobirdlord 8mo ago
Amazon’s hiring bar has historically been very low, with a philosophy that if it doesn’t work out you can always just fire the person later. A similar philosophy exists for staffing up teams for speculative projects. If it doesn’t work out
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by dodobirdlord 10mo ago
There are relatively few cases of true synonyms in English (or any language). There are subtle differences in meaning, register, etc that are recognized by native speakers.
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by dodobirdlord 10mo ago
The codec can be triggered to run automatically by adversarial input. The irrelevance of the format is itself irrelevant when ffmpeg has it on by default.
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by dodobirdlord 1y ago
I think you misread the original post. It is about overregulation fostering the spread of PE operated hospitals. Not about overregulation causing PE operated hospitals to have worse outcomes.
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by dodobirdlord 1y ago
How does this relate to the original post? The original post posits that overregulation contributes to the dysfunction of the US healthcare system. The next response calls for specifics. The comment you responded to provides a specific regu
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by dodobirdlord 1y ago
Only if you myopically assume all drugs have equal abuse potential, addiction potential, and negative consequences of abuse. The US federal drug schedule is a clown show.
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by dodobirdlord 1y ago
Health insurance prior authorization policy, approved medication lists, and network pharmacy policies complicate maintaining continuous access during the DEA-imposed artificial shortage by complicating transferring prescriptions to pharmaci
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by dodobirdlord 1y ago
People are fairly attached to causality.
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by dodobirdlord 1y ago
If the variables are word-sized, sure. But what if they are larger? Now a race condition between one thread writing and another thread reading or writing a variable is a memory safety issue.
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by dodobirdlord 1y ago
The literal meaning is incoherent nonsense because the sperm and egg were both alive before conception.
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by dodobirdlord 2y ago
The comment you replied to was discussing the president’s authority to shut down agencies. (And lack thereof.)
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by dodobirdlord 2y ago
It was consolidated into the Department of State as part of the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 as an agency with an administrator and responsibility for administrating the distribution of aid under certain preexisting
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by dodobirdlord 3y ago
It’s not the ATCs job to get the plane down at the primary airport, on the pilot’s preferred schedule, in accordance with the airline’s policy of using ILS for landing at SFO at night. Any two would be a satisfactory outcome, and it sounds
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by dodobirdlord 3y ago
If the pilot declared an emergency the ATC would make room for them, whatever the inconvenience to the airport and the other planes on approach. But after the fact there would be an investigation, and the pilot would be at fault if they fal

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