Aqueous

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by Aqueous 7y ago
It wasn't just agreement. By his own statements he indicated that he tried to crack it.
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by Aqueous 7y ago
Merely attempting to assist the break-in is a crime. He attempted. Same metaphor applies. I try to help someone pick the lock as they try to break-in to a house. This is illegal. It's also illegal for a computer intrusion. Julian Assan
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by Aqueous 7y ago
Is it legal for a journalist to assist another person in invading someone's home, for the purpose of obtaining information that could be published? It is not. It's very illegal, for good reason. It's also illegal to do the sa
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by Aqueous 8y ago
Experian's entire business model is built around collecting data about people who have never interacted directly with Experian. In fact, our entire system of credit would break down unless there were ways for lenders to know the credit
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by Aqueous 8y ago
Don't think it's unrealistic at all from within a single company. The point about 3rd party libraries is taken but I also think if you are using a 3rd-party endpoint that publishes a specification that it then doesn't live up
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by Aqueous 8y ago
not sure why you're being modded down. i find this comment hilarious and it reminds me of individuals i've encountered.
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by Aqueous 8y ago
I've worked for very large companies whose massive codebases are littered with defensive checks that have piled up over many years. Invariably, I find that this is because, when the initial wave of defensive checks inevitably broke dow
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by Aqueous 8y ago
In many companies, there's also option C - fix it yourself. Any way you slice it, the bug is in the system that's reporting the wrong condition, and adding a defensive check merely papers over an issue with additional code complex
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by Aqueous 8y ago
Correct - but in the case I described above, you (and your program) are the user.
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by Aqueous 8y ago
One where a program that reports that it is successful (200 OK) but was not, in fact, successful, has a bug in it and should be fixed. Whether or not it gets fixed is another issue entirely. If it doesn't get fixed, switch endpoints or
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by Aqueous 8y ago
Not sure what this author is saying here. Types have nothing to do with being able to trust other systems and everything to do with the internal formal consistency of the code that you write. It's about being consistent with yourself
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by Aqueous 8y ago
According to the finance industry and finance media, the cryptocurrency industry, and cryptocurrencies in particular, have been on the brink of collapse since 2008, when Bitcoin first surfaced and was worth $0. I guess they're going al
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by Aqueous 8y ago
millions in blood money, too.
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by Aqueous 8y ago
Exactly - and the same is true with regard to special vs. general relativity. Special relativity is another special case of general relativity for inertial reference frames. And special relativity itself is a necessary consequence of the
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by Aqueous 8y ago
I can come up with no better summation of the damage Snowden has done to liberal democracies and the rule of law than his quote near the end: "...Politics will take us only so far and if history is any guide, they are the least reliabl
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by Aqueous 8y ago
Can someone give me a concrete example of a situation in which a private blockchain makes sense for a company or industry instead of a shared, permissioned database?
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by Aqueous 8y ago
This seems to contradict your assertion: http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-autopilot-cuts-crash-ra...
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by Aqueous 9y ago
I'm also a software engineer, and I never turned philosophy into a job - it was just a major for me in college. Nevertheless it's interesting that we are both drawn to Kant, as his seemed to be the only suitable reply to the radic
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by Aqueous 9y ago
actually a lot of people are saying that, mostly non-technical who have very little analogue for understanding why distributed consensus algorithms could have merit. I've been presented that analogy by several friends and my father, f
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by Aqueous 9y ago
It baffles me that both Munger and Buffett, two people known for avoiding investments they don't understand, see the need to continually undercut Bitcoin despite clearly not understanding it. Buffett has admitted he doesn't unders
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by Aqueous 9y ago
Do you have to trust that the exchanges are telling your price oracle correct averages? Is this a source of trust leakage?
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As Bitcoin Scrapes $10,000, an Investment Boom Like No Other(nytimes.com)
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by Aqueous 9y ago
> There is significant empirical evidence that shows that > policies such as long paid maternity leave harms women's wages and career progression. Let's be clear here and not mis-assign causality. The workplace's react
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by Aqueous 9y ago
Yep - some lefty engaged in violence at some point and therefore the moral differences between these movements are completely erased. Sounds good to me - what about, what about. Here are the concrete facts: The President failed to condemn o
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by Aqueous 9y ago
"They've been marching for years without violence." And then, when they felt they had a government sympathetic to their aims, they stopped being non-violent, and stopped covering their faces to hide their identities. And some
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by Aqueous 9y ago
I don't think Cloudflare is preventing DailyStormer from engaging in peaceful expression. They are just not going to help them do it. And based on events in Charlottesville, white supremacy is inherently a violent movement & don&#x
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by Aqueous 9y ago
There's a single standard. You are free to engage in business with whomever you choose. This applies to everyone. But this freedom doesn't liberate you from the social consequences of your actions. Cloudflare will probably endure
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by Aqueous 9y ago
Interesting - I use both those services in us-east-1 and have not experienced issues. https://status.aws.amazon.com/ also shows a sea of green, although I'm not sure this page is even functional, because even when I kn
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by Aqueous 9y ago
Oddly enough, Thom Yorke insists the album wasn't about the tedium of the modern world, or the perils of advanced technology, but actually how much he hates traveling [1] [1] http://www.rollingstone.com/music/featu
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by Aqueous 9y ago
Merely using the word "central" to describe Bitcoin betrays that he hasn't even the faintest clue what it is or how it works.

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