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by jbstack 11mo ago
"Unfortunately no single defense provides complete protection" For the server, maybe. For the user, a password manager (used properly) is a solid single defense solution.
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by jbstack 11mo ago
I tend to think it's neither, but rather an inevitable result of the lossy process of condensing legal text (which has been carefully written to include all the nuance the drafter wanted) to something shorter and simpler.
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by jbstack 11mo ago
Confirmation bias doesn't really apply to the same extent with law as with other fields. If the AI says "Fisher v Bell [1961] 1 QB 394 is authority for the principle that an item for display in a shop is an invitation to treat&quo
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by jbstack 11mo ago
I guess I kind of agree with your disagree, but disagree overall! The UI in LibreOffice feels quite clunky and outdated and never seems to have been given any thought since the OpenOffice days. But Google Docs is so feature poor that I&#x27
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by jbstack 11mo ago
Next step: escape the Google ecosystem. LibreOffice for docs (its far superior to Google Docs anyway). Syncthing for drive.
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by jbstack 11mo ago
I'm a legal professional who uses AI to help with my work. I couldn't ever imagine making a court submission with hallucinated legal references. It seems incredibly obvious to me that you have to check what the AI says. If the A
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by jbstack 11mo ago
Yes, and I agree with that point. I just think you haven't extended it to its natural conclusion which is that if societal structure fails, even physical possession of things you own isn't going to help you if you have gangs of cr
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by jbstack 11mo ago
The problem is, you're not just writing a large cheque in return for a working treatment. You're writing a large cheque to roll the dice on some research that might (and probably won't, statistically) result in a working trea
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by jbstack 11mo ago
Apples and oranges. You're talking about prevention, but this is about cure / treatment. Once you have already have Alzheimer's, exercise isn't going to save you.
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by jbstack 11mo ago
If you don't pay your debts or taxes then even items that you own and which are in your possession can be taken from you, thanks to the rule of law. Conversely, if someone comes along and takes it from you without legal justification
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by jbstack 11mo ago
Unless you are suggesting that the encryption algorithms underlying Bitcoin have been broken (which would be absolutely huge news with all sorts of far reaching consequences), then it's clearly the former.
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by jbstack 11mo ago
How's that? HFT lowers the barrier of entry for ordinary participants who just want to invest their savings either directly or through something like a pension fund, because they get all those benefits I mentioned, and those benefi
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by jbstack 11mo ago
It's a bit unfair to call it pointless. Empirical studies have shown that HFT increase liquidity in markets, leading to narrowed spreads, market depth, faster execution speeds, cross-market informational efficiency, etc. All of these a
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by jbstack 11mo ago
Sounds like you're defining processed food, whereas this is about ultra processed food. For me, processed food might include something like unsweetened peanut butter where while the only ingredient is peanuts, it's still been
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by jbstack 11mo ago
I have the same policy. It's not worth risking your life just to save a bit of money or try some gadget that is only made by a no-name brand. Often you keep these devices very close to your body or head (e.g. earphones) where they can
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by jbstack 11mo ago
Nonetheless, there's a fundamental legal difference between ownership (e.g. of the notes and coins in your pocket) and a chose in action (the right to sue the bank for the money which you don't own). If you own something and someo
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by jbstack 11mo ago
> I think people would be outraged if someone told them it belonged to the bank. You might find it interesting to read about 2013 Cyprus bank levy then. The government unilaterally raided people's savings accounts, taking between 6.
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by jbstack 11mo ago
So to clarify, does this mean you don't plan to go down the route of having a "community edition" vs a "enterprise edition" with missing features in the former?
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by jbstack 11mo ago
This whole comment is predicated on the idea that something is only worthwhile if it will lead to a "venture scale startup" and that to do anything else is to "waste the best years of your life". I, for one, am glad that
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by jbstack 1y ago
Very subjective. I made the switch to Linux from Windows 7 over 10 years ago and even at that time I found Linux to be orders of magnitude better in almost every aspect, and those few areas where it was worse (which, aside from games, I&#x2
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by jbstack 1y ago
I think you missed the point. Linux was already good: it didn't become good because its competitor became worse. Rather, the competitor becoming worse gives some people the push they finally needed to make the switch.
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by jbstack 1y ago
Knives are dangerous if used dangerously. Let's ban knives.
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by jbstack 1y ago
The part I'm not convinced about is that the self-deception actually works. In order to achieve it, I have to go through the thought process of "I have papers to grade and a mess of work to do which are important and have deadline
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by jbstack 1y ago
> If someone is waiting for you to do something that you have promised, then it acquires a kind of urgency and importance even if it wouldn’t harm you not to do it in a timely manner. I don't agree with this though. If someone is wa
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by jbstack 1y ago
> The procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important. This is the reason this method has never really clicked for me, despite coming acr
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by jbstack 1y ago
The same way you assess results in a programming language you have used before. In a more complicated project that might mean test suites. For a simple project (e.g. a Bash script) you might just run it and see if it does what you expect.
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by jbstack 1y ago
There are plenty of scenarios where you want to work with a new language but you don't want to have to dedicate months/years of your life to becoming expert in it because you are only going to use it for a one-time project. For ex
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by jbstack 1y ago
Does the CPU really spend a lot of time rendering text output if I don't use a GPU to do it? My guess is that it would take away a vanishingly small fraction of the time available for useful computation - but maybe I'm wrong?
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by jbstack 1y ago
Can someone explain to me why I should want my terminal to be hardware-accelerated? I use my terminal to get stuff done by running commands and viewing the output. Sometimes I might run a TUI but I've certainly never found one that req
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by jbstack 1y ago
Will Chat Control be retrospective? I.e. once it's implemented will governments have access to all previous communications or just those from that point onwards? Also how does it work geographically? Is it based on my location, where m

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