zxcmx

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by zxcmx 6y ago
Yes, you're right. They deeply failed as a port authority and a warehouse. I was trying to explain why civilian city leadership might not have good intuition for why the storage issue would be a problem for them.
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Problem: how do you have an elite murder squad that just kills exactly the people you want and no others? What if grandma gets in the way? How about Hamed, who might know a guy who knows a guy, who might jeopardise the goals of Murder Squad
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by zxcmx 6y ago
How much of every corporate job is communicating / consensus vs doing?. Arguably "content creation" is core to every > middle class job now - you have to get people onboard to get things done. Personally I still think writ
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Have you ever thought about your house? The whole damn thing is fuel. Do you store things in the attic? plastic tubs? How about the basement? cardboard? Do you have wool, paintings, plastic toys, plastic anything, wooden anything? Look arou
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by zxcmx 6y ago
This is also true for your computer hardware, the software you run, the medicines you take, the food you eat, the water you drink... I guess my point is that that human trust is so pervasive and fundamental that there are diminishing return
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by zxcmx 6y ago
I wonder if a hybrid approach between disposable and "keep cup" could work. The "default" takeaway option could be the short-lasting paper cup. For car, office or just comfort, you could have a squashy, silicone (stands
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Users everywhere have had to put up with U.S law for a long time. The laws and norms of the USA are more or less "fully baked in". Try posting a nipple or copyrighted track, for example. If Facebook had come from a different place
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by zxcmx 6y ago
There are lots of things being done, but much more could be done - and for that we need to convince governments, which takes data. In particular we need to convince governing bodies that action is in their direct and immediate economic in
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by zxcmx 6y ago
If you don't find the OHI ( https://www.conservation.org/projects/ocean-health-index ) credible, I'm not sure there's much more I could write that would convince you. Sorry :/ The point is that the o
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by zxcmx 6y ago
That's a big question, and one that's difficult to orient and frame productively. This resource might interest you though: http://www.oceanhealthindex.org/news/Ocean_Isn't_Dying
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by zxcmx 6y ago
I think the point is that viral "dying oceans" memes and stories may be undermining conservation efforts. They are too emotionally powerful and pull our collective focus away from the science. It frames the problems we face as imp
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by zxcmx 6y ago
You need a way to sync them on multiple computers, use them as a guest (eg when you've borrowed a machine temporarily), do recovery flows, manage their regeneration and rotation, generate unique certs per site, basically all the manage
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by zxcmx 6y ago
It's an interesting business model I think. They produce IP (researching and producing very clear instructions for fixes) and manage supply chain (trusted replacement parts & tools, worth more vs aliexpress equivalents because they
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Apart from it not really being in anyone's financial interest - not content providers, copyright holders or advertisers, it would be viewed as a security risk if anyone could easily do that - e.g: https://www.theverge.com&#x
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by zxcmx 6y ago
I agree that "lies" and "bullshit" seem to be among the defining problems of our time. What seems to have broken down is trust. In the many cases where you rightly point out the truth is discoverable, who do we trust to
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by zxcmx 6y ago
I think the spirit of the post was to investigate through source spelunking. Since there is so much history I often find it hard to see why things work the way they do, just by looking at how they work. If one is ready to "cheat&qu
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Truth itself is not really knowable in many interesting cases, and even scientific truths which might appear "objective" at any given point are subject to debate, change and revision. The thing that needs to be protected is the p
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Passing as higher status gives you access to opportunities you otherwise wouldn't get. It's not a vestigial impulse, it is perfectly rational.
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Broken computer. Could be hardware, could be sofware, could be both. But even though there are common scenarios, each computer can also be broken in a different way.
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by zxcmx 6y ago
If your account recovery works by sending an email... which then sets a plaintext email cookie, there's no actual auth, right? To make this make sense, I think you are assuming but without explicitly stating the use of signed cookies?
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by zxcmx 6y ago
We could "spin" the anti-space side as a religion too I suppose. It involves a bit more ascetism and self-flagellation though. I already live in a "heavenly" future compared to most of my ancestors. I have hot and cold r
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by zxcmx 6y ago
This seems like a variant of the "just world hypothesis".
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Credit card companies charge ~ 3% to manage a far more complex and fraud-prone ecosystem. It's Apple's sandpit and they make the rules, but I think it's hard to rationally justify their take other than "because they can
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by zxcmx 6y ago
"I'm being oppressed by my own retirement fund". :/
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by zxcmx 6y ago
If they don't have to be computer controlled I'm rooting for the swarms of incendiary bats. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb
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by zxcmx 6y ago
I think part of it is the images and stories used to "explain" hunger. Hunger is usually framed as a supply failure, not as a distribution failure. The picture is swollen bellies and the story in people's minds is "crop
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Ok, so I don't think airpod waste is a big deal in the grand scheme of things. But I also don't think I'm a luddite re: disposable electronics. I think I'm the opposite. I agree that as integration and product complexi
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by zxcmx 6y ago
An unresolved question is whether we would be better or worse off, without low level colds and flu. Do regular challenges play a role in modulating immune response and health?
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Both can be true; BSOD is trivial, RCE can be very hard.
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Not exactly. You can separate transmit and receive IPs, if your tx network does not implement source filtering. So you can tx from one place and receive from one or more other places "sensors" that you use to receive SYN-ACKs. You

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