They aren't referencing the 1951 movie, but instead the 1920s shorts series called Alice Comedies, the first of which is literally called Alice's Wonderland. These weren't really retellings of the original stories, but…
Actually, it uses port 8448 for federation [0], which is unlikely to conflict with other services. But, even if it does, there are ways to specify a different port or subdomain [1]. [0]…
> As to your second point, we often hire underage people to do work such as restocking shelves. If sex work is truly the same as retail work would you also argue that hiring an underage prostitute is no different than…
Well, the burden of proof is on you for saying that there are small trucks on the market. But, it turns out that the complaint about the Tacoma is spot on. The Tacoma's weight has increased from the 3155 lbs. - 3877 lbs…
Actually, I recommend you check out Freenet [0], a project that's 20 years old. In fact, the Wikipedia page explicitly states: > Information flow in Freenet is different from networks like eMule or BitTorrent; in…
> Realtime mass surveillance of every party who receives money is isomorphic to realtime mass surveillance of everyone. I don't believe it is. For instance, imagine a closed system of three people: Alice, Bob, and…
It's referencing a theorem from string theory, as discussed in this Numberphile video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww The catch is that this isn't valid in what we consider standard mathematics, and you can…
> This isn't a crazy outcome and it matches up well with traditional property laws. Yeah, but copyright is not a form of traditional property right. Intellectual "property" rights are better thought of as intellectual…
Well, despite what anarcho-capitalists may say, in an anarchist society you would find it very hard to maintain capitalism as is familair to us today. This is because the State, and by extension its threat of violence,…
For your first question, this is mostly about legal interpretability. The GPL has a long text that describes explicitly what it allows and doesn't. Yes, that is based on an ethical framework, but that ethical framework…
WebAuthn is only secure because it entrusts to browser to pass verified domains to your USB key. Why can't SQRL just do that with no other protocol modifications? Then we don't trust the user with anything,…
No, because the point of the value of defending people no matter what is to protect against government overreach. The government has a significant asymmetry of power against its citizens (it can, you know, arrest or…
To me, it feels like the complete lack of a deliberative process implies that the legislators are not actually providing meaningful oversight in the slightest. Sure, oftentimes special interest groups will understand an…
> Politicians are good at getting elected, and OK at being, at least for some limited tenure, broadly receptive to some set of identifiable principles or goals that people vote for. But that doesn't mean they're good at…
They aren't referencing the 1951 movie, but instead the 1920s shorts series called Alice Comedies, the first of which is literally called Alice's Wonderland. These weren't really retellings of the original stories, but…
Actually, it uses port 8448 for federation [0], which is unlikely to conflict with other services. But, even if it does, there are ways to specify a different port or subdomain [1]. [0]…
> As to your second point, we often hire underage people to do work such as restocking shelves. If sex work is truly the same as retail work would you also argue that hiring an underage prostitute is no different than…
Well, the burden of proof is on you for saying that there are small trucks on the market. But, it turns out that the complaint about the Tacoma is spot on. The Tacoma's weight has increased from the 3155 lbs. - 3877 lbs…
Actually, I recommend you check out Freenet [0], a project that's 20 years old. In fact, the Wikipedia page explicitly states: > Information flow in Freenet is different from networks like eMule or BitTorrent; in…
> Realtime mass surveillance of every party who receives money is isomorphic to realtime mass surveillance of everyone. I don't believe it is. For instance, imagine a closed system of three people: Alice, Bob, and…
It's referencing a theorem from string theory, as discussed in this Numberphile video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww The catch is that this isn't valid in what we consider standard mathematics, and you can…
> This isn't a crazy outcome and it matches up well with traditional property laws. Yeah, but copyright is not a form of traditional property right. Intellectual "property" rights are better thought of as intellectual…
Well, despite what anarcho-capitalists may say, in an anarchist society you would find it very hard to maintain capitalism as is familair to us today. This is because the State, and by extension its threat of violence,…
For your first question, this is mostly about legal interpretability. The GPL has a long text that describes explicitly what it allows and doesn't. Yes, that is based on an ethical framework, but that ethical framework…
WebAuthn is only secure because it entrusts to browser to pass verified domains to your USB key. Why can't SQRL just do that with no other protocol modifications? Then we don't trust the user with anything,…
No, because the point of the value of defending people no matter what is to protect against government overreach. The government has a significant asymmetry of power against its citizens (it can, you know, arrest or…
To me, it feels like the complete lack of a deliberative process implies that the legislators are not actually providing meaningful oversight in the slightest. Sure, oftentimes special interest groups will understand an…
> Politicians are good at getting elected, and OK at being, at least for some limited tenure, broadly receptive to some set of identifiable principles or goals that people vote for. But that doesn't mean they're good at…