throwayguestman

never mind the actual sums involved, 1% on top of 10% is a 10% increase in coverage. Is coverage inclusive of the time lost in labor as well?

> Which means the analogy was successful.

Sure, if he's saying he is powerless against higher powers. But if he's trying to make a quantitative assertion, a qualitative analogy is not the right tool.

I do understand, but "the trust you need to put to use the code" is what we were talking about, no?

>The purpose of an analogy is to simplify something that's too hard to understand for the person you try to convey your idea to

An analogy applies a principle to a common setting without loss of specificity. Specifically the dedicated adversary is lost in this abstraction, so it's a bad analogy.

> 15 to 25km/hr

just btw, 25 km/s is almost 100.000 km/h.

So, the problem still stands, theoretically.

Not only do you likely need to populate your host with packages not from your host. But also, your host will also still be connect to a public net, even if only indirectly (e.g. private net), and hence potentially manipulated.

> there are just fundamental issues with the lang and language services

I'd rather listen to a podcast going in-depth on that theme.

s/Neoliberalism/Vote Rigging/ ???

>little boxes of geometric gibberish used as identifiers

in which context?

> If a business card can delight people who receive it, then it has a point.

The first rule of the advertising club is AIDA: Attention, Interest, Desire, Action. A business card should draw attention, if only to distract from the terribly clichéd action of handing over a business card :)

could the submarine rotate into a vertical position?

looks more like a bathtub from the size of it