paconbork

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by paconbork 16d ago
I extensively make use of incognito mode for YouTube when I want to watch something but not have it influence my recommendations. What's the closest analog for a paid service like Netflix? Creating an alternate profile for trash?
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by paconbork 29d ago
"Please scan this item with our app to see the price"
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by paconbork 3mo ago
A fly that naturally spreads one mile per day does not travel from Panama to Texas in four years.
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by paconbork 4mo ago
Yeah, this is the main thing I use privacy.com for
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by paconbork 4mo ago
Here's a post about it from FIRE, the org that defended him https://www.fire.org/news/victory-tennessee-man-jailed-37-da...
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by paconbork 4mo ago
Gah, thanks for this. Thought I was used to that slight-of-hand but this one got me
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by paconbork 3y ago
On the Dan Ryan, driving the speed limit would be very unsafe considering most people are going at least 15 over!
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by paconbork 3y ago
Hawaii already has this rule for what it's worth. The issue there is that they have so many EV's on the road that these chargers are always in use and have lines (and aren't really that fast to begin with). Having experienced
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by paconbork 3y ago
Tried this while in Hawaii with a rental EV (with no charging at my hotel) and it did not work at all. Hawaii is one of the states with the most EV's per person and there's frequently chargers in places like malls and grocery stor
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by paconbork 3y ago
I think that worked in the timeframe it did because women as a group aren't generationally poor (which is to say they aren't born any more or less well off than men), and so the entire shift was one of cultural attitudes. Perhaps
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by paconbork 3y ago
Why do you assume that public transit produces substantially less particulate emissions than EVs? I'm sure you've smelled ICE busses before, but even if you upgrade those to electric, Electric busses are very heavy, leading to an
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by paconbork 3y ago
The roads in this old video of NYC still look pretty wide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXRnGwbrnOo Mind you there's some cars in the videos, but they aren't any bigger than the horse-drawn carriages that roads
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by paconbork 3y ago
People bidding whatever they can afford is largely a lack-of-supply problem, is it not? If more housing of a given status level were available, eventually it wouldn't be necessary for everyone to spend everything they can on bidding wa
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by paconbork 3y ago
With you until the last sentence. The high prices for small condos in urban centers are an indication that there are fewer of them in supply relative to what the market demands. There's nothing wrong with letting urban centers densify
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by paconbork 3y ago
In fairness, the original anecdote is about 2002
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by paconbork 3y ago
My 2005 Honda Accord gets this right (big, obvious buttons). Definitely not looking forward to finding a car whose UX doesn't suck when this one finally kicks the bucket.
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by paconbork 3y ago
I mean yes, it's biased compared to the mythical unattainable standard of being completely unbiased. But that's not the bar. The bar is mainstream news outlets, which are drastically easier to outperform even with a half-assed att
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by paconbork 3y ago
Who do you think purchases the products that heavy industry makes?
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by paconbork 3y ago
But only a small portion of the battery's weight is lithium, right? This older source has a 453 kg Tesla battery as containing 63 kg of lithium, for example: https://electrek.co/2016/11/01/breakdown-raw-m
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by paconbork 3y ago
You avoid taking flak from the Responsible AI people that way
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by paconbork 3y ago
I'd suggest "The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work" but that might be a bit too on the nose
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by paconbork 3y ago
Surely it may not stop some criminals mastermind, but most criminals are idiots with bad impulse control. I'd wager that many are caught by this process
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by paconbork 4y ago
Sounds a bit like differential privacy
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by paconbork 4y ago
I want it to write raunchy poetry, to give me bad recipes for crystal meth, to let me probe at its deepest biases, to do what I want it to do rather than what's deemed acceptable by the AI Safety killjoys
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by paconbork 4y ago
If I can use it without the filters, absolutely
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by paconbork 4y ago
Why not just use Ristretto with Curve25519 to avoid cofactor issues?
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by paconbork 4y ago
Then they can flag the offending post through twitter's reporting system like everyone else
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by paconbork 4y ago
So they send you an email with an activation code but you don't need to click on any links or otherwise interact with the email. Theoretically, someone else who knows your email could have registered you... Probably not too believable,
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by paconbork 4y ago
If you can't stop the bots, might as well monetize them?
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by paconbork 4y ago
The actual free speech absolutist position would be "if it's illegal, the government can intervene. Otherwise, it remains"

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