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by null0pointer 5y ago
Is there a reason why you might want to mix endianness within a file format? Wouldn't it just be extremely error prone as demonstrated in the article?
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by null0pointer 5y ago
Suggesting it was a lab leak is not the same as saying it was genetically engineered. I can’t tell anymore if the people conflating the two are either stupid or malicious.
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by null0pointer 5y ago
> lots of humans that have any political pull at all tend to be authoritarian I think it's probably more like a survivorship bias than an innate quality. The only people who are capable of surviving in politics long enough to the po
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by null0pointer 5y ago
The issue with that is the instant those coins move to a new address people will notice and probably panic.
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by null0pointer 5y ago
The distinction here is that the iPod/iPhone is the product, while iMessage is merely a feature. By creating iTunes for Windows they were expanding the potential customer base for iPods. By supporting iMessage on Android they would no
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by null0pointer 5y ago
Unfortunately Matrix still has the issue of key sharing between clients. If you want to read previously sent messages when you log into a new client for the first time you have to do the key sharing dance with one of your existing clients.
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by null0pointer 5y ago
I genuinely thought this was parody until I came to the comments.
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by null0pointer 5y ago
Glad to see someone made this. I've long thought about creating a podcast app which does the same, but never got around to actually building it.
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by null0pointer 5y ago
So what? The parent comment is about payment processors blocking transactions to SciHub.
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by null0pointer 5y ago
Is LBRY a registered business? I don't see how SEC could regulate cryptos much more than they already do. I suppose the could force US exchanges to disable withdrawals like the Chinese government did a while ago for Chinese exchanges.
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by null0pointer 6y ago
Ironically I might be inclined to believe someone with too high a trust score is actually less trustworthy because they tried too hard to optimise for it.
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by null0pointer 6y ago
1. Trivial to bypass: Check 2. Further degrades the privacy of the general public: Check Just another day in internet legislation.
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by null0pointer 6y ago
Here's a list of all the times the people banning books have been on the right side of history:
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by null0pointer 6y ago
Could you explain a bit more how negative sales tax is unrealistic? We already subsidize things we want to encourage. > A system that only taxes spending fundamentally has problems in that the richer people can afford to save and invest.
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by null0pointer 6y ago
I agree, a vastly simplified tax code is needed. Here's my dream for a simpler tax code: The only tax is a Sales tax/VAT/GST. Pros: - Individuals never have to think about tax. It would completely eliminate tax returns. That
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by null0pointer 6y ago
I tried the impossible whopper too and I could certainly tell the difference. It was very close, and if I wasn't paying attention I might not have noticed, but it does taste distinctly different. Not trying to say you're wrong, ju
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by null0pointer 6y ago
How is this different from Colored Coins? Or CryptoKitties? I'm pretty bullish on cryptos in general, but I just don't 'get' this. Maybe it will take some time to sink in with me, but at the moment it just seems like the
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by null0pointer 6y ago
Actually I would say yes, they are. Once you have a reasonable cash buffer and are out of the danger-zone for random financial ruin most people should invest all excess rather than be paid a pittance for their bank to do it for them.
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by null0pointer 6y ago
How can you say "if you scaled up the bitcoin system" and "this is not how bitcoin scales" in the same argument? Bitcoin could handle arbitrary scaling with little power-usage increase had it not been intentionally hamst
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by null0pointer 6y ago
Hopefully this serves as a wake up call to all those people who previously supported censorship. Up until now it has mostly been groups that are extremely difficult to defend because discussions around them always got mired in politics. Fin
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by null0pointer 6y ago
Ok you're right. We would need more data points to determine whether the enforcement was selective or not.
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by null0pointer 6y ago
While the underlying issue is legitimate (whether or not DDoS-Guard has enough physical presence in Belize), this is undeniably targeted selective enforcement with the intent to deplatform.
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by null0pointer 6y ago
Not true at all. Censorship is any type of redaction or restriction, no matter who performs it. You are confusing censorship with a breach of the first amendment.
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by null0pointer 6y ago
I will not deny the atrocities the US has committed and will undoubtedly continue to commit. Any nation with that level of power will end up doing the exact same thing in order to maintain that power. It’s no secret that China wants that po
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by null0pointer 6y ago
Are the supply and demand curves supposed to be reversed?
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by null0pointer 6y ago
As much as I think Ross's sentence is too severe, I wish he would pardon Snowden or Assange instead. You know, people that actually did good for the world and are being punished for it.
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by null0pointer 6y ago
This is an extremely weak argument. At a certain scale, policy becomes about statistics rather than absolutes. This applies to absolutely everything, including the laws themselves. Companies in all industries have to occasionally issue reca
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by null0pointer 6y ago
And you are conflating the principle of freedom of speech with the implementation (the 1st Amendment). Many believe that people do indeed have an inherent, natural right to not be censored, while also acknowledging that 1A is only partial p
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by null0pointer 6y ago
As someone who just set up a matrix server for my friends last month, I'm very pleased to hear this optimism!
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by null0pointer 6y ago
> offline rendering is where realtime is headed Curious what you mean by this. Just that realtime will start using more and more offline techniques as hardware speeds up? Or are you talking about pre-rendered scenes?

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