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by B-Con 9y ago
It would seem not. You got 4 points on the other one.
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by B-Con 9y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-17/how-a-22-...
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by B-Con 9y ago
Right. But how long did that take? The problem had been around for years.
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by B-Con 9y ago
Linux proper, ie the kernel, allows things like modules and has a powerful userspace. Most purposes are met by taking vanilla Linux and dropping some modules and userspace applications on it. You don't have to do a hard fork of the cod
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by B-Con 9y ago
The problem is less about openness itself and more about quality of auditing. Open isn't a magic bullet. As I understand, these latest CPU vulnerabilities were in the spec themselves. You could've found them by reading the manual.
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by B-Con 9y ago
> Notably, “potential” is nowhere on the scale. Many posts talk about hiring entry level engineers on their “potential,” but the term is seldom defined. Most people use “potential” to describe a sense that, even though a candidate curren
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by B-Con 9y ago
Counterpoint: You can already simulate the way bad Internet connections work. You don't want that introducing noise on top of the site's metrics. Measure the site itself, then apply a variety of scenarios for what practical fetche
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by B-Con 9y ago
> The article with the best insight isn't likely to be the one with the perfecly optimized website. That isn't what search is ranking. It's ranking what users want. And users very most definitely want, on average, among ot
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by B-Con 9y ago
There's no cryptographic use in finding a largest prime. It's far larger than any prime used in a practical system and doesn't contribute any mathematical knowledge about primes. It's mostly just running an algorithm for
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by B-Con 9y ago
Opera blog post: https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2017/12/opera-50-beta-rc-cry... > After we recently updated the rules for our built-in ad blocker mechanism, we eliminated cryptocurrency mining scripts tha
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by B-Con 9y ago
> Perception is everything. I say this as someone who dreamt of working at the NSA for most of my high school years, but would now never even consider it. One of the first three technical books I read was Bruce Schneier's "Appl
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by B-Con 9y ago
> One thing to avoid in publicly exposed numbers is sequential order. It allows people to probe for resources (/videos/1.mpeg, /videos/2.mpeg etc) and also leaks cardinality information. Add a Feistel cipher on top of
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by B-Con 9y ago
The Prime Video for Android app is really young, it released literally 3 months ago.
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by B-Con 9y ago
It isn't specialized hardware, it's generalized hardware with a specialized software stack. Nothing prevents you from accessing the content except for business-level decisions. The point was that we want to avoid tangling business
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by B-Con 9y ago
There is an officially recognized gender imbalance[0]; there is more incentive to prefer a male as a sole child. But the problem is slightly dampened by the fact that female children are under-reported[1]. [0]: http://www.cnn.com
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by B-Con 9y ago
> Only branching out into innovation when its under their own terms and they have a solid plan. I think there's a lot to this. The young are more free with their energy and are more willing to throw it around haphazardly, everything
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by B-Con 9y ago
Or it's an experiment. They're giving it a lower importance job during the pilot program. Hard to imagine the initial deployment being on a mission critical path for the store's operation.
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by B-Con 9y ago
That and the abomination of the technology stack that we use for said process. HTML/CSS/JS is absolutely not the answer for "I want to make a UI", never mind the fact that many UI designers have no clue how the stack wor
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by B-Con 9y ago
They kind of do. They are very different organizations, they just happen (not by coincidence, of course) to serve different genders. But it's the organizational structure and goals that's of primary interest. That really can'
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by B-Con 9y ago
I don't follow the examples. The Iran example is due to political trade embargos, which apply not only unilaterally to all companies but are also often a part of international trade agreements via NATO, the UN, and the EU. It's a
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by B-Con 10y ago
The best part is not having to taste their chocolate. Their US chocolate is easily the worst excuse for chocolate I've ever eaten. (I'm not exaggerating.)
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by B-Con 10y ago
Agreed. The problem is the users, not the platform. If users propagate misinformation, the users propagate misinformation. The easy solution people often jump to is fighting negatives with negatives, assuming it yields a positive. But oft
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by B-Con 10y ago
But most people don't repaint their house (in my experience, at least). If the paint colors don't offend them, they're OK with it.
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by B-Con 10y ago
Parenting is a 24/7 job. Parents make thousands of decisions balancing many ideal and pragmatic factors. Seeing one parenting decision is not sufficient for assessing their entire parental lifestyle. Putting aside the specifics of this
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by B-Con 10y ago
His point is that there are actors trying to influence the process by compromising technology, details of the DNC incident aside. In and of itself that is a very concerning threat to have and in general we have to take that into considerati
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by B-Con 10y ago
My POV has been that most of most of our conscious analysis boils down to utilizing a smaller set of basic cognitive tools. (Much like complex software runs on top of hardware with relatively simple interfaces.) If you can isolate and train
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by B-Con 10y ago
This has been my approach to following the news as well. Bias can be subtle and poor reporting isn't always easy to spot until you see another piece. But if I follow a couple specific people, though, I know how to place what they say i
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by B-Con 10y ago
> I am sorry but there is no reason to believe how a particular trait which troubles almost everyone can be based on a certain personality type. Not everyone struggles with this, though. Given that it isn't an evenly-distributed pro
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by B-Con 10y ago
There do seem to be patterns in personality, and I have found MB to be very helpful in getting a high-level overview of another person's general approach to the world. Reading the descriptions and discussing it with people led to a l
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by B-Con 11y ago
Schneier has tended toward more high-level and pragmatic assessments over time. Maybe because of his "security evangelism" efforts he's trained to think more like the pragmatic layperson. Obviously all phones technically have

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