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Comment #24799019
Moving has a lot of inertia, and might not be possible if nobody is interesting in buying your house, or other area's rent is too high. Your area might have _had_ great service, bu…
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Comment #24799007
>I sort of find the idea of self-driving cars as ... selfish? Well we are selfish creatures. It makes perfect sense, what is the purpose of anything if not for you? I don't think w…
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Comment #24798988
Context awareness is what one needs for sensing BS, a herculean task
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Comment #24798980
That requires a whole different kind of effort. These hacks can be done remotely from the other side of the world and leave little trace
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Comment #24798971
robots that can operate heavy machinery do not interpret the world the same way we do, and do not have anything resembling actual intelligence. That is exactly why they can't inter…
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Comment #24798857
So they're injecting their own ads into sites?
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Comment #24717449
Redunancy and efficiency are common tradeoffs we are constantly trying to balance. It's only a question of how important the effects of downsides are. Sometimes someone dies as an …
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Comment #24717397
There are pockets for women's clothing?
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Comment #24717392
Wholly dependent on your environment. I don't see a case very often where I'm at
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Comment #24717382
Just make sure it detaches properly, you don't wanta a dozen wire to yank you in mid ascend
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Comment #24568777
Suppose it depends on your country. Here's Finland's (10 §): https://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/ajantasa/1999/19990731 Although the constitution was recently changed (same one) here asw…
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Comment #24568113
It's doubtful all this would be required just for refugees. Though I've heard of conspiracy theories about taking them in order to justify all-encompassing surveillance to your own…
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Comment #24568098
It's not difficult to imagine mandating signed bootloaders and signed software to be the norm aswell, there is no one who can make chips by themselves.
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Comment #24568057
Using established methods is not difficult, though making a good crypto to begin with absolutely is.
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Comment #24567925
>Any self-respecting drug cartel and terrorist organization has been using modern encryption at all levels There are plenty of organizations who by this logic don't. However they d…
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Comment #24567784
The saying is twisted, because it already assumes privacy is a privilege, which it is not. It's a basic right, written to the constitution
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Comment #24567623
>but this isn't malevolence. It's fear and lack of competence. I'm not sure which is worse. We absolutely need people with the expertise in the area to make these kinds of decision…
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Comment #24567554
Cryptography is more math than programming unfortunately. It might take a lot of time to become apt at it, but it is a very commendable goal. The problem isn't necessarily in using…
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Comment #24567358
EU is composed of multiple people with multiple, differing goals. It's also to note that things like GDPR only affect peons like corporations or people, not the governments.
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Comment #24567212
It's not like e2e is heavily utilized must-have for crime either. Tons of crime happen through regular unencrypted text messages, and nobody gets caught. But this isn't about prote…
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Comment #24567175
It's never been about protecting people, it's about power. What is the source of most power? Knowledge. Knowledge about anything and everything. It's unimaginable what you could do…
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Comment #24419710
All problems are fractal in nature, they require a problem-scope in order to be solvable. In this case, it would be "how fast is fast enough?", which would be fast enough that the …
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Comment #24419571
Is it with or without an existing hole?
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Comment #24419461
It's more likely users would be mad that their browser update makes them play cookie-clicker to get to their sites. By and large users are unaware of how much resources something u…
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Comment #24418518
It's impossible to make any sane limits that would universally apply to web pages. An isolated environment for an arbitrary application is the web's purpose, not just loading a tex…