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In BOTH the UK and US contexts, too! Pretty comprehensive

"I discovered this neat new hack called 'fraud'"

Its really cool! I might use it as a backup for when I need to do annotated screenshots. Otherwise, it's just so quick to have the gnome extension "screenshot tool" automatically put my selection in the clipboard

Just imagining the next wave of indie games with hyper-realistic humans with subsurface scattering in low-poly, cell shaded environments

> I dislike the way that cryptocurrencies have managed their initial allocations, but it's way better than the way that fiat currencies have managed their initial allocations (usually encoding generations of violence, rascism and oppression).

Just a nit, but I would argue that those encoded privileges are still present; just now with the added indirect layer of "People who were adjacent to the cypherpunks mailing list circa 2009"

You need WAY more than just electricity. In order to have any chance of receiving any amount of bitcoin, you also need specialized equipment, connection to the network, and access to a mining pool.

Those three things would give a government interested in banning cryptocurrencies plenty of leverage to disrupt mining operations in their country.

All they would need to do is regulate the import of ASIC mining hardware; sinkhole any traffic that looks "bitcoin-y" (damn the collateral damage, we're fighting fascist communist pedophile terrorist drug traffickers here!) and similarly block access to any known mining pools.

They could go even further and introduce severe and draconian penalties to anyone producing, possessing, or using cryptocurrencies (which of course would be selectively enforced).

At this point, once you factor in the real-world element, the fact that, in theory, you only need electricity to produce bitcoin becomes such a small part of that equation.

I think at that point why not use PoS (or better yet, a DPoS scheme), if there isn't any real-world benefit to PoW? I think the tradeoff of introducing a small amount of revocable trust in exchange for RADICALLY reduced energy consumption is pretty clearly worth it, given the real world constraints.

Almost, but because of the incentives, the greater the adoption, the more valuable each individual block reward actually is. The more valuable each individual block reward is, the more energy you can afford to spend attempting to mine it.

Honestly, the only scheme I have seen that seems like a reasonable trade off of trustlessness and energy efficiency is DPoS.

Wow, been a while since I've seen an article constructed almost entirely by stringing together strawman arguments.

Is this the output of one of those new GPT algos? Or is it just a markov chain trained on snippets of reason.com articles?

I think it is REALLY hard to overstate how dangerously naive a view of the american justice system that is

Rad

Gonna paint with a REALLY broad brush here; but I think that a LOT of the same people I see lamenting the web closing off into silos are the same people who, over the last decade or so, helped push everything into said closed silos.

this thought is a result of a conversation I had with an investor I was building a site for. He was really upset that over the years his RSS habits had gotten less and less useful to him. I find a little ironic justice that people who built this closed off ecosystem in pursuit of 10x returns are also feeling some pain as a result.

Guess I am just petty. Also I really fucking miss Trillian, RSS readers, and podcasts that didn't care where you were listening to them from; and I don't think I will ever stop resenting this industry for breaking that.

you may be drastically overestimating the leftist ideals of the WSB set.

That is literally all I could think of when I read the name. If you are an outlier, then I guess I am, too. My immediate, uncensored first thought after reading the title of the post was "What asshole names their business after that guy?". It was kind of hard to even parse the rest of the post after that.

I think you can find people who are publicly abusive and privately kind in online communities.

I just finished listening to a podcast called My Year in Mensa, which centers around an unmoderated Mensa facebook group, and the author's interactions with them. As you can imagine from an unmoderated community, it sucks and a lot of people say shitty things there.

A common refrain the author heard from people defending the group is "They're the nicest people in real life!", which may absolutely be the case, but publicly, they are presenting abusive versions of themselves.

He has always been like that. There's a (possibly apocryphal) story about him meeting with the developers of Goldeneye and suggesting that they have a scene at the end of the game where you visit the hospital and visit all the people you shot throughout the game and give them well wishes.

ok, that makes sense, but I think that describes such a general idea. I am incapable of imagining a single thing everyone on the entire planet is capable of agreeing on; so inherently, any action anyone could possibly ever take would be subject to mutually exclusive opinions.

I get that you are using algorithm as a short-hand here; but can you elaborate and describe what type of algorithms you suggest be opt-outable?

Algorithm is a super general term, but everyone uses it to describe something super-specific. I feel like everyone sorta has their own personal definition. I am in favor, at least in principal, of legislation that would curb some of the more abusive uses of datascience; but the idea of trying to legislate "algorithms" seems... fraught.

So? You are just describing how discourse works.

Entity A does thing that impacts entity B. Entity B makes those effects known to a broader group than entity B. Maybe entity A does thing about it, maybe not.

But the web was also made of SQLi and reverse shells in 2005 as well.

Nobody should argue the utility of using php in 2005; just as nobody should argue that it wasn't also a superfund site of a language in 2005 as well.

Having used this site for a long, long time. No, almost never.

I got something similar, but without a remote box (or a remote box that I control, rather).

I made a docker container that has the torrent client and openvpn installed in it. All torrent traffic bounces off the VPN, and uses the VPN IP but I am still able to access the torrent client interface via the direct IP

The notion that people think Google's monopoly exists in the streaming video space just might be the most intellectually dishonest thing I have read today. Neat!

Today's JavaScript is so divorced, so radically different from the the original implementation to be considered a different language, though.

This is amazing!

I have said for a while that if someone built a tool that would let me be signed into multiple AWS accounts, and switch as needed at the same time, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

You have my 20 dollars now.

One request, though. I would like a way to show the name of the workspace on the workspace switcher panel, instead of just ctrl+1/2/as etc

Wait, so does that mean that every customer would have 18.45 QUINTILLION addresses to use?

God, I knew the IPv6 space was insanely large, but Jesus h, man.

I don't think that's the case.

Every single instance of genocide in the last 150 years or so started as just some folks expressing a relatively fringe ideology, with plenty of others debating against it vigorously. For whatever reason, that ideology caught on, and then the mass murders start.

People, as a general group, don't evaluate their beliefs in a rational manner. They are biased in favor of the first things they heard; and whatever is most palatable given their emotions and things they already believe.

It's how you can get into a situation where massive numbers of people believe some combination of the ideas earth is 6000 years old and also flat and also that 5G causes covid and also covid was a hoax and face masks are just a mkultra trauma psyop run by the pedophile satanic illuminati cabal run by Hillary Clinton and George Soros.

If people can hold all that in their heads, and not believe any evidence to the contrary; then the idea of suppressing the notions that Black folks/Jewish folks/Muslims/migrants/whatever are the root of society's problems and we should do violence to them starts to make a lot of sense.

I also think that the idea that markets, particularly abstract ones, such as the "free market of ideas" are capable of producing long-term positive outcomes for most participants is, at best, without evidence and at worst pure fallacious thinking.

Yea, but it's been shown that well placed posts on wallstreetbets can cause trading activity. A post like "some of you guys are cool. Don't hold any tesla puts on Wednesday" might be enough to generate a bunch of trades you can hide under.

I am not even sure it would move much in either direction. Some traders would think it's good, some bad. Everyone's bets would cancel each other out and the delta in either direction would be small.

My guess is it would trend downward since my evaluation of $tsla is that it is a personality driven bubble; but my evaluation isn't everyone else's.

They also exposed the emails of applicants and cos that had posted there. The site was just embedding them in the html