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> The stock market has fallen 25% this year. If true, I'm not sure if that means anything. Isn't the Chinese stock market notoriously volatile? I'm also under the impression that there's a much greater proportion
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> This is definitely an instance of burying the lead. Perhaps the audience isn’t HN, rather it’s the engineers they want to keep engaged after their project got sacked. As an engineer, having to parse a bunch of corpspeak to extract the
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> tl;dr the only reason to care about SNI in TLS 1.3 is if you are a privacy freak. It's not a security concern. You also need to care about SNI if you're trying to evade a firewall in a repressive country that blocks encrypted
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> "Leningrad University’s maths department had a quota of two Jews per year among 350 students. Its Moscow equivalent was more zealous and actively investigated all candidates for traces of a Jewish background. Students with Jewish
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> Harvard's admissions policies do not have discrimination as a deliberate goal. Apparently this "personality rating" was initially included in the Harvard application process explicitly to discriminate against Jews: From
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> Absolutely. With a professional judge (NOT an elected judge!), you're in the hands of someone with years of training in law and justice. With a jury, you've got 12 yahoos off the street who don't know anything about the
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I also feel bad for us, as users, because social media (at least the friend-focused kind) is dominated by one dude's vision.
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>> And shame on the government for not doing any due diligence in trying to prevent this acquisition/monopoly. > Monopoly? In 2012, Instagram had 40 million users and no revenue[1]. Hardly a monopoly. I think you misunderstand
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> Say what you want about Zuckerberg but the guy was well ahead of his time and could see how things would evolve and what tick with people brains. Did he really predict that, or did he just see an upcoming potential competitive threat a
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> Do you not think the standard should be higher for someone on national TV with an audience of millions? Yes, but he should not be held an impossibly high or unreasonable standard, which I believe is what EpicEng is doing. Bear in
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> Miranda v. Arizona was decided over 50 years ago. How relevant is the behavior of SCOTUS 50 years ago to predicting their present-day behavior? The membership is completely different, and there have been countless other changes in law
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> It's misleading if you omit facts which run contrary to your narrative. I have no idea if this is the case in the China episode, but he has done this previously Even though I don't know you, I'm sure at some point you&#x
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You seem to be arguing exclusively from simple textual definitions of the term "propaganda" from the dictionary and Wikipedia. I don't think that's a fruitful approach because it fails to account for the nuances in mean
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> Oliver is biased and he has never pretended to be a journalist. He presents stories he cares about from a specific viewpoint. The definition of propaganda is: >> information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to p
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>>>> but you can't completely conceal metadata. > For example, you and I could have a rule of exchanging exactly 1 MB of data per day, at a specified time, every day. Depending on the size and popularity of the relay net
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> Using USB-to-parallel-adapters does not work, and finding motherboards with parallel ports has become rather difficult. :-| These won't work either? https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681515
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Facebook's been doing this kind of thing for awhile, but I think it will ultimately damage them in the long term, regardless of whatever short term effectiveness their metrics show. With these emails, Facebook is acting like a despera
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> If your communication is encrypted it shouldn't matter if it passes AT&T networks. IIRC, the signals intelligence agencies like the NSA learn almost as much from traffic analysis (e.g. who's talking to who and when) and m
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> I think you misinterpreted the question. It's about cryptocurrencies, not about cryptographic algorithms. I knew that. I was just having fun with the misappropriation of the term "crypto."
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> The USSR came from far behind and beat us to space. Authoritarian regimes may struggle to allocate food efficiently but they're fine at allocating scientists. I would say that's debatable. The USSR did beat the US to orbit (
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> Introduced by State Assembly member Ed Chau and state senator Robert Hertzberg, the bill would allow California residents to find out what information businesses and data brokers collect about them, where that information comes from, a
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> Which crypto should I buy? RSA and AES are good choices, but you shouldn't have to buy and implementation, as there are several good open source ones available for free. > How do you spot a crypto scam? One important clue: is t
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> Sorta like how increasing surgical strikes in Vietnam will end the war faster and save thousands of lives? Maybe not the former, but certainly the latter if it meant a reduction in alternatives like carpet bombing, etc. In World War II
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> The US occupied Iraq for over a decade, and installed a new government. The US spent a little time in the Balkans and Somalia and then gave up. There's a difference. A similar difference to the one that motivated its even longer o
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> Maven believe that building software that enables one government to enact (more) drone strikes against civilians in other countries is contrary to the mission of making people's lives better. I think that's a mischaracterizat
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> Apple's goal may be to remove all ports entirely. > Apple may be working towards an iPhone that is devoid of all buttons and ports, and is completely wireless. Seems like an attempt at a foolish purity to me, and user-hostile t
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> On the one hand, it's hard to scale a system without making it distributed at some point and consistency in distributed systems is really difficult Banks have scaled systems like this with mainframes and COBOL for decades. It&#x2
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This the problem with automated business processes. It seems easy, until you think about all the exception paths. Human organizations can adapt and handle them organically, but a system needs them all specified up front. Either you spe
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> Central to the work of Americans for Prosperity is i360, the Kochs’ data operation, which profiles Americans based on their voter registration information, consumer data and social media activities What do we know about the data source
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> but that it is impossible for normal people to get any information about anything! .... Psychologically that's just really, really bad, the worst way to treat someone. Which raises the issue to another level: How arrogant as well

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