These buyers agreed to move into a house for which there is both a one-time-fee equal to, let's say, $300k, and a monthly rent. They may (or may not) be refunded a large portion of their move-in fee when they move out…
to slow down attackers who want to brute force your password hash. At least that was the idea. I guess it also includes the salt stuff built in so that it's harder for implementers to screw up. Is a 9-order-of-magnitude…
Servers usually accept data in a thousand ways in a thousand endpoints. Anyone who tries to prevent buffer overflow or slowloris attacks by limiting password length specifically is doing it wrong. An absurdly long…
Allowing extremely long passwords makes everything more secure because it teaches users to use better passwords. https://xkcd.com/936/
You aren't persuaded by what I wrote because I did not attempt to persuade you. You asked me to explain what I meant by "plausible deniability" so I did. > Neutral inanimate object or tool X is "bad" (we need…
They won't be thrown out. You'll surely be able to buy these in the future just like you can buy cell phones and fire crackers. But you can't take cell phones and fire crackers anywhere you want. You may not drive a car…
The other devices do not feature plausible deniability when caught. The glasses do. That's the problem.
Naaaaa I don't believe you. If you were actually concerned about objectification of women, especially as it applies to relationships, you would be 100 times more concerned about TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube than porn…
Maybe it's not mentioned because it's not supported by data and probably wrong. I think if that if porn were effectively banned outright, not only might nothing change, it might get worse. After all, we remove…
Airtaxis can't retrofit suburbs just like cars can't retrofit 1850s cities. Imagine a city built around airtaxis and delivery drones. I think it is doable which means that they'll do it.
There are other weird things. If these become widespread, meta will know and be able to sell (or turn over to the government) a list of everyone you spend time talking to in public and private. Cell phone companies only…
Evidence-based UI design maxed out in 1995 with the release of Windows 95. Evidence-based design was popular in all sorts of areas back then. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994) I think is the gold-standard of…
I still feel like there is a difference between Fractional Reserve Lending and this. 181 million shares are anti-owned: the traders don't want to own the thing, they want to anti-own it. Surely that has to count for…
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03195929
New revenue model idea: Charge $40/month on a person's credit card; a subscription. This buys the customer miles. Whenever you want to go somewhere, you use your miles. I think it would work based on the fact that…
You're right! I wrote it backwards! I swapped the 95 and 100% in the post above. My claim is that the cops in the article are walking around drug testing widely. Not literally everyone they see but if they are testing…
I think it remains to be seen whether the various AI tools we have today are a net-negative or net-positive for society. Most inventions are a net positive: The steam engine, vaccines, chimneys. A few are net-negative:…
This has Base Rate Fallacy written all over it. If you had a drunk-driver-detection machine that output "positive" 95% of the time when the driver is drunk and output "negative" 100% of the time when the driver is not…
Your math teacher was wrong when he said, "You won't have a calculator" but he wasn't wrong when he implied "You need to learn this." If children are allowed to use AI as an omnipresent tool, what do you believe…
You misunderstood the article. Paul Graham isn't saying "Don't buy things based on brand", he's saying "Don't buy brand." It's perfectly healthy to use brand as a heuristic to help yourself more easily buy products that…
Yes Even multiple exposures of one frame of film is, as far as I can tell, still generally considered one photograph.
That doesn't make any sense. Did you mean double exposures?
It does devalue the image indeed. He didn't cut out the jumper and paste it onto the sun but he did take images of the sun and paste them onto the jumper, using the jumper as a mask. Which seems to me like a distinction…
You're better off guesstimating yourself than trusting contractors. The contractors are incentivized to severely oversize any AC units they install or else people leave bad reviews on their pages/listings when the…
> In what world is that true? It's true in this one. Companies will design drones that comply with the very detailed regulations and go no further the same way car companies don't put seatbelts, airbags, or auto-brake…
These buyers agreed to move into a house for which there is both a one-time-fee equal to, let's say, $300k, and a monthly rent. They may (or may not) be refunded a large portion of their move-in fee when they move out…
to slow down attackers who want to brute force your password hash. At least that was the idea. I guess it also includes the salt stuff built in so that it's harder for implementers to screw up. Is a 9-order-of-magnitude…
Servers usually accept data in a thousand ways in a thousand endpoints. Anyone who tries to prevent buffer overflow or slowloris attacks by limiting password length specifically is doing it wrong. An absurdly long…
Allowing extremely long passwords makes everything more secure because it teaches users to use better passwords. https://xkcd.com/936/
You aren't persuaded by what I wrote because I did not attempt to persuade you. You asked me to explain what I meant by "plausible deniability" so I did. > Neutral inanimate object or tool X is "bad" (we need…
They won't be thrown out. You'll surely be able to buy these in the future just like you can buy cell phones and fire crackers. But you can't take cell phones and fire crackers anywhere you want. You may not drive a car…
The other devices do not feature plausible deniability when caught. The glasses do. That's the problem.
Naaaaa I don't believe you. If you were actually concerned about objectification of women, especially as it applies to relationships, you would be 100 times more concerned about TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube than porn…
Maybe it's not mentioned because it's not supported by data and probably wrong. I think if that if porn were effectively banned outright, not only might nothing change, it might get worse. After all, we remove…
Airtaxis can't retrofit suburbs just like cars can't retrofit 1850s cities. Imagine a city built around airtaxis and delivery drones. I think it is doable which means that they'll do it.
There are other weird things. If these become widespread, meta will know and be able to sell (or turn over to the government) a list of everyone you spend time talking to in public and private. Cell phone companies only…
Evidence-based UI design maxed out in 1995 with the release of Windows 95. Evidence-based design was popular in all sorts of areas back then. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994) I think is the gold-standard of…
I still feel like there is a difference between Fractional Reserve Lending and this. 181 million shares are anti-owned: the traders don't want to own the thing, they want to anti-own it. Surely that has to count for…
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03195929
New revenue model idea: Charge $40/month on a person's credit card; a subscription. This buys the customer miles. Whenever you want to go somewhere, you use your miles. I think it would work based on the fact that…
You're right! I wrote it backwards! I swapped the 95 and 100% in the post above. My claim is that the cops in the article are walking around drug testing widely. Not literally everyone they see but if they are testing…
I think it remains to be seen whether the various AI tools we have today are a net-negative or net-positive for society. Most inventions are a net positive: The steam engine, vaccines, chimneys. A few are net-negative:…
This has Base Rate Fallacy written all over it. If you had a drunk-driver-detection machine that output "positive" 95% of the time when the driver is drunk and output "negative" 100% of the time when the driver is not…
Your math teacher was wrong when he said, "You won't have a calculator" but he wasn't wrong when he implied "You need to learn this." If children are allowed to use AI as an omnipresent tool, what do you believe…
You misunderstood the article. Paul Graham isn't saying "Don't buy things based on brand", he's saying "Don't buy brand." It's perfectly healthy to use brand as a heuristic to help yourself more easily buy products that…
Yes Even multiple exposures of one frame of film is, as far as I can tell, still generally considered one photograph.
That doesn't make any sense. Did you mean double exposures?
It does devalue the image indeed. He didn't cut out the jumper and paste it onto the sun but he did take images of the sun and paste them onto the jumper, using the jumper as a mask. Which seems to me like a distinction…
You're better off guesstimating yourself than trusting contractors. The contractors are incentivized to severely oversize any AC units they install or else people leave bad reviews on their pages/listings when the…
> In what world is that true? It's true in this one. Companies will design drones that comply with the very detailed regulations and go no further the same way car companies don't put seatbelts, airbags, or auto-brake…