ColanR

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by ColanR 7y ago
I wasn't serious either, more sarcastic than anything else. I don't think that we should leave it to the pros - especially when the prevailing 'realpolitik' political theory explicitly eschews moral guidelines in favor o
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by ColanR 7y ago
This article might be worth reading. http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by ColanR 7y ago
We should just leave politics to the professionals.
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by ColanR 7y ago
From the introduction: > Today, most independent researchers believe that the 1979 [Vela Incident] flash was caused by a nuclear explosion — perhaps an undeclared nuclear test carried out by South Africa and Israel.
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by ColanR 7y ago
> because that way lies tin foil hats I wonder why we're so collectively afraid of being labeled 'conspiracy theorists'. What is so wrong with supposing that bad things are being done intentionally?
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by ColanR 7y ago
Of the two of you, Dan, you're the one who hasn't posted any source data.
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NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for at Least Two Years (2014)(bloomberg.com)
285 points by ColanR 7y ago|133 comments
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by ColanR 7y ago
> What would it take to make this stop? Probably, vote with your time and focus. Use better distributions and port software to those distributions.
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by ColanR 7y ago
> I hope he gets the mental help he needs to get better. It does sound weird, but on what basis can you or I claim to be better informed about that situation than he is?
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by ColanR 7y ago
> I'm curious what language you would consider optimal for writing a parser in? I've been researching that question, and was hoping someone would reply and point me in a useful direction.
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by ColanR 7y ago
Is python the optimal language for writing a C parser? It seems like text manipulation is not one of python's strong points (not that that is a strong point of that many langugages anyway).
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Milutin Milankovitch (2000)(earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
1 points by ColanR 7y ago|0 comments
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by ColanR 7y ago
Deepin has been around for a while now, and the questions about its origins have been around since the beginning. I'd say those questions have as much legitimacy as the similar questions surrounding Huawei. You really don't need
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by ColanR 7y ago
That is the best explanation I've ever seen.
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by ColanR 7y ago
> If such a method existed then the system would indeed be broken Yes, I think that is the fundamental problem with depending on 'mixers' against state-level actors. We both agreed earlier that the tech is theoretically possib
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by ColanR 7y ago
Maybe this is where we diverge. > or the prosecutor looking to use the results of such an investigation as evidence in a trial I'm inclined to believe in the possibility of parallel constructions being used to cover up the best sour
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Political Diversity in Social and Personality Psychology (2012)(papers.ssrn.com)
2 points by ColanR 7y ago|0 comments
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by ColanR 7y ago
Why does anyone end up represented by any imperfect person? That question is just as applicable on both sides of the political spectrum. If you're American, why did you let yourself be represented by President Trump?
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by ColanR 7y ago
> And whatever it is in the culture that uses liberty to zealously oppose regulation of fire arms and corporations but lets this stand for almost a generation. I think if you talked to the people who opposed firearm regulation (not their
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by ColanR 7y ago
Who would have published such an example? When we deal with opsec, we have to consider what is possible, rather than what has been done in the past. We have to do better than merely "locking the house after the thief has gone".
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by ColanR 7y ago
> It's still not immune to tracing, obviously, but it's a much harder problem than just looking for symmetric transactions. "And with the proper graph theory tools, much more complex interactions could be tracked." &g
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by ColanR 7y ago
> A counterparty that is willing to swap anonymously acquired and sent altcoins for Bitcoin can provide a privacy conscious individual with anonymous Bitcoins. Not if amounts are tracked, rather than addresses. "oh look, this gal X
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by ColanR 7y ago
I think it should be, when the tax reporting requirements are so granular; and in such cases, the effect is analogous to a timing attack.
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by ColanR 7y ago
I haven't heard of PirateChain. However, the state-level threat model includes things like taxes, where (e.g.) people in the US have to report every transaction they make. If most people report their PirateChain transactions, amount in
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by ColanR 7y ago
From what I understand, that penny pinching is often why the rich are rich (excluding those born into more wealth than they can spend). Edit: I'm getting the impression that a large subset of people replying ignored my parenthetical co
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by ColanR 7y ago
> It's meant to be anonymous Unfortunately, Bitcoin (BTC) is not anonymous, as you pointed out. It never was; and with tax laws requiring copious transaction information, it is particularly easily traceable. That's the idea be
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by ColanR 7y ago
Thanks. :) That's what I found when I searched, but the spelling difference threw me off.
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by ColanR 7y ago
If protonmail keeps changing their story like that, it seems pretty damning for their credibility.
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by ColanR 7y ago
> I also think this kind of thing exists in society today, but probably bought and sold on exclusive markets to modern lords and ladies. Can you elaborate? I don't know what you're referring to.
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by ColanR 7y ago
What about potatoes? Seems like those are a fairly good staple crop.

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