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    Comment #13314985

    The "boringification" of computers will bring us back to the 70s. If we have to prove _everything_ on your computer, from your calculator or Pokemon, how much do you think a licens…

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    Comment #13307270

    I have no problems with that guy. I have problems with all those guys who signed the key. And, again, as you mentioned, those were security experts. You think that your neighbor wo…

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    Comment #13307094

    I'm saying that taxes will go through the nose (close to 25%) for everyone with quite questionable benefits (will barely pay for rent).

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    Comment #13307031

    >Only some will be given free money, I thought the idea is that everyone from Bill Gates to the beggar will be given it?

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    Comment #13306942

    1. $587 a month in many cities in the US will barely rent a room. Even in St. Louis ( https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-st-louis-rent-tre... ), average monthly rent for a …

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    Comment #13306926

    >Since it's designed to study the disincentives to work, by the end of the study it's likely to include many employed people. On the other hand, people realize that UBI may go away…

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    Comment #13306911

    EDIT Sorry. My mistake

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    Comment #13305920

    > Entire point of SSL/TLS is to ensure end to end authenticity and confidentiality. The point is that country A can strongarm a certificate authority under their domain to sign any…

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    Comment #13305908

    1. Key pinning. 2. Certificate transparency 3. Can't do it "accidentally". That's why a lot of people have 2 foot high fences, not that you can't jump over them but to create the a…

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    Comment #13305669

    >access to free lawyers at least for the poor etc is more important than access to the legal databases That itself is a problem, while we have public defense lawyers, we don't have…

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    Comment #13305630

    My question is: 1. How often does this happen? 2. Hoe many tests did SpaceX do before the first FT launch? Considering that most rockets don't use supercooled fuels, I would expect…

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    Comment #13305424

    >And the reason people initially used Facebook, Skype, and WhatsApp is not that they were easier to use or better. It's advertising. Notice how all of these are proprietary softwar…

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    Comment #13305121

    That's why insurance isn't the end-all/be-all. They've got enough money out of insurance to build themselves a new satellite, the problem is that they need that satellite yesterday…

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    Comment #13304670

    So let's go through a hypothetical situation: A has friend 1 and 2. He vets them, checks their ID, goes to a key-signing party, trusts that they are 1 and 2 with his life. Now he g…

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    Comment #13303437

    Web of Trust seems to be an inherently broken paradigm. Think about this. Let's say I trust my friends (so when my friends sign John Doe is John Doe, it's really him). It's a big d…

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    Comment #13303323

    Ok. Found it, https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/tree/master/editor doesn't say, but https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/ says MIT

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    Comment #13303311

    What's the license of this? GitHub doesn't seem to say?

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    Comment #13303165

    >Some of us have a different opinion based on our own genuinely-held beliefs Such as? Browsing a website with an adblocker in a public place may literally give me a virus. That's w…

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    Comment #13297235

    >It's not like uber is threatening to disconnect the driver if they don't work, it is entirely an at-will engagement. What about "dumping"?

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    Comment #13296950

    > It seems to require much less effort for folks, which is perhaps why they do this It's also much easier to find readers. Compare: Facebook: become friends with your co-workers, n…

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    Comment #13296757

    >Is he paying $50 more for not participating, or getting a $50 discount for participating? On the other hand, think about it like this: What if insurance costs $10,000 a month, wit…

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    Comment #13296673

    >They could have just as easily wrote their own fast and secure implementations of flash and Java instead of disabling them. Especially for Java given Google's deep experience with…

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    Comment #13287943

    But batteries are a significant source of weight.