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noodlesoups
6y ago
Moving has a lot of inertia, and might not be possible if nobody is interesting in buying your house, or other area's rent is too high. Your area might have _had_ great service, but has rapidly degraded. There are tons of things outsid
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noodlesoups
6y ago
>I sort of find the idea of self-driving cars as ... selfish? Well we are selfish creatures. It makes perfect sense, what is the purpose of anything if not for you? I don't think we'll be satisfied by nothing less than everythi
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noodlesoups
6y ago
Context awareness is what one needs for sensing BS, a herculean task
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noodlesoups
6y ago
That requires a whole different kind of effort. These hacks can be done remotely from the other side of the world and leave little trace
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noodlesoups
6y ago
robots that can operate heavy machinery do not interpret the world the same way we do, and do not have anything resembling actual intelligence. That is exactly why they can't interact with real world cases of fully valid plastic signs
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noodlesoups
6y ago
So they're injecting their own ads into sites?
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noodlesoups
6y ago
Redunancy and efficiency are common tradeoffs we are constantly trying to balance. It's only a question of how important the effects of downsides are. Sometimes someone dies as an immediate result, and for some it means waiting for ano
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noodlesoups
6y ago
There are pockets for women's clothing?
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noodlesoups
6y ago
Wholly dependent on your environment. I don't see a case very often where I'm at
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noodlesoups
6y ago
Just make sure it detaches properly, you don't wanta a dozen wire to yank you in mid ascend
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noodlesoups
6y ago
Suppose it depends on your country. Here's Finland's (10 §): https://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/ajantasa/1999/19990731 Although the constitution was recently changed (same one) here aswell, so you m
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noodlesoups
6y ago
It's doubtful all this would be required just for refugees. Though I've heard of conspiracy theories about taking them in order to justify all-encompassing surveillance to your own populace
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noodlesoups
6y ago
It's not difficult to imagine mandating signed bootloaders and signed software to be the norm aswell, there is no one who can make chips by themselves.
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noodlesoups
6y ago
Using established methods is not difficult, though making a good crypto to begin with absolutely is.
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6y ago
>Any self-respecting drug cartel and terrorist organization has been using modern encryption at all levels There are plenty of organizations who by this logic don't. However they don't dissappear, even though we already have th
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noodlesoups
6y ago
The saying is twisted, because it already assumes privacy is a privilege, which it is not. It's a basic right, written to the constitution
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6y ago
>but this isn't malevolence. It's fear and lack of competence. I'm not sure which is worse. We absolutely need people with the expertise in the area to make these kinds of decision. It's like giving a gardener the pos
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6y ago
Cryptography is more math than programming unfortunately. It might take a lot of time to become apt at it, but it is a very commendable goal. The problem isn't necessarily in using a weaker encryption, it's that you can detect tha
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noodlesoups
6y ago
EU is composed of multiple people with multiple, differing goals. It's also to note that things like GDPR only affect peons like corporations or people, not the governments.
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6y ago
It's not like e2e is heavily utilized must-have for crime either. Tons of crime happen through regular unencrypted text messages, and nobody gets caught. But this isn't about protecting in the first place, so it isn't all tha
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6y ago
It's never been about protecting people, it's about power. What is the source of most power? Knowledge. Knowledge about anything and everything. It's unimaginable what you could do with access to every conversation ever had,
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noodlesoups
6y ago
All problems are fractal in nature, they require a problem-scope in order to be solvable. In this case, it would be "how fast is fast enough?", which would be fast enough that the human operating the application doesen't lose
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6y ago
Is it with or without an existing hole?
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6y ago
It's more likely users would be mad that their browser update makes them play cookie-clicker to get to their sites. By and large users are unaware of how much resources something uses, or should use. They don't really care about a
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It's impossible to make any sane limits that would universally apply to web pages. An isolated environment for an arbitrary application is the web's purpose, not just loading a text document. You can actually play hw-accelerated d
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>The best part is that I'm paying for that privilege when I'm not on WiFi. Datacaps are some of the best examples of the worst kind of rip-offs. How they're tolerated is beyond my imagination. Here I can get a 100/50
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6y ago
>ACS researchers found that the rate at which people are diagnosed with colorectal cancer in the United States is dropping among those 65 and older but rising in younger adults. Could it be that more young people are taking screenings, w
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6y ago
I think reckless driving options would do poorly, offering the option to casually go over the speedlimit would be quite a burden on the manufacturer. There also aren't many situations where your safety isn't tied to others around
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6y ago
It's always insurance that pays regardless, so it isn't really a part of the equation. It also depends a lot on what kind of accident it is. Is someone driving into you? Not much physically you can do to avoid it no matter who
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noodlesoups
6y ago
This shouldn't be that difficult from legal perspective. Since you don't have the authority to kill someone, you can't choose who to kill. Any action other than avoiding collateral altogether might be punishable. As a side-no
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