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Would it be bad if you were the prisoner?

It's not even remotely a tricky problem. It's just a trick, of convincing ourselves it's not our problem when we are the cause.

> 70% of land was owned by wealthy nobles, and they used the profits from their land ownership to purchase all new land-producing/discovering capital and therefore become the owner…

Either way you're ignoring human nature. The other human nature is the nature of power to corrupt, ignored in reducing the transparency of the judicial and executive processes. I c…

Considering that the status quo is currently that literally asking the individual and querying the source of truth to confirm the history of an individual directly for the purpose …

> Yep, making it illegal to pay the ransom is a good way to stop people from having that choice. If police themselves are paying a ransom, that might make it hard to make it illega…

I think you actually have that backwards. You can't ban public mugshots and have a free and open society. If arrests can be secret then there is no executive or judicial oversight.…

The traffic goes through this "new infrastructure" not out of necessity but because it's free and allows the user to pretend like a number of problems don't exist. Terrestrial opti…

or, really, what I mean to say is, there is no way to stop everyone from paying ransoms when we assume they are rational or even pseudo-rational actors, except by making it impossi…

I think the pragmatic current realization of a functional data flow pipeline as described in my earlier reply incidentally achieves exactly what you mention here: > Sure, but even …

I'll try to adhere more closely to the ritual forms of disingenuous presentation and allusion brinksmanship. As an aside, I find your choice of pronoun fascinating and enlightening…

It would be helpful if you could clearly spell out the opinions the rules actually apply to. I've been guessing wrong lately, it seems.

Do you think it's also fair to describe $266,400 as "much larger than" $13,900? Do you think $266,400 will buy a house? Do you think $13,900 will buy a house? I understand that you…

The proportion of the population that will pay a ransom with a positive expected valuation will never be 0 unless you can guarantee that it is impossible to make a ransom offer whi…

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-net-worth-by-ag... ok?

Yeah, the economy is going so great we've only had 2 armed uprisings in as many years with 2 orders of magnitude growth in housing cost versus wage growth or housing cost versus po…

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I feel obligated to note that operating a Tor exit node is very much to type.

> That starts getting into "I'm sure someone can come up with some solution that meets some of these goals". The sooner we, as engineers, can collectively acknowledge that we're do…

Surprisingly less true these days. Increasingly things seem to be moving towards ASICs for switching and general purpose CPUs (usually with a lot of support from the NIC offload ca…

The funny thing to me, if you think about it, is that nothing really changed, it's just become more transparent. It's for decades, if not arguably always been a bunch of bullshit m…

Cue HN adtech cheerleading squad shitposting the taint off their soul in 3, 2, 1...

Your statements in the blog about performance of that pattern are not accurate to the best of my knowledge. A program structured as a sequence of short, tight loops over vectors/sl…

I'm not trying to, either. Read the laws or remain ignorant, I don't care.

I don't really know enough about what happened to have an opinion on it, and neither do you, but the media's told you to hate him, so here we are I guess. Moving on, what I actuall…