Dracophoenix

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by Dracophoenix 2y ago
Sounds like a BBS accessed over encrypted channels.
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by Dracophoenix 2y ago
In what way?
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by Dracophoenix 2y ago
As per your own source: > For the first 15 years, OpenSSL membership was mostly a small collection of individuals working on a part time basis and the membership fluctuated and changed through those years. I never claimed OpenSSL was th
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by Dracophoenix 2y ago
> but great teams makes great software, not great individuals. For a long time, OpenSSL, the standard encryption library used in everything from global banking systems to embedded devices, was built and maintained by two full-time engine
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by Dracophoenix 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law And more generally, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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by Dracophoenix 2y ago
> éminence grease Was this an intentional pun or a spelling error?
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by Dracophoenix 2y ago
> Are people just very shortsighted and don't see how these changes are potentially going to cause upheaval? > Do they think the upheaval is simply going to be worth it? All technology causes upheaval. We've benefited from m
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by Dracophoenix 2y ago
> Dating apps commodify meeting people. Romantic relationship are commodified and transactional in nature. Brideprices and dowries preceded the dating app by millennia. In China, it's not uncommon to see literal marriage markets whe
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by Dracophoenix 2y ago
> The secret is how did they get popular with young kids? Well they offered a free service obviously, just like Google, just like Facebook. In 2015, when they first got started, they marketed towards gamers (i.e. boys and men in their te
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by Dracophoenix 2y ago
Strictly speaking anarchy just means "without rule". Not all anarchists explicitly rejected hierarchies of ability or markets that exploited such differences. Henry David Thoreau, Lysander Spooner, Benjamin Tucker, and Herbert Spe
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by Dracophoenix 2y ago
> The left side of the political spectrum has for a very long time advocated for an interpretation of 1A that is "free as in liberty" while the right prefers a "free as in anarchy" approach. You may have it backwards,
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by Dracophoenix 2y ago
> If you took 1,000 people like my wife and put them on an island, you'd recreate America--including the parts of America I find perplexing and frustrating. I'm not persuaded that if you took 1,000 people like me and put them o
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by Dracophoenix 2y ago
> Not a single absentee father I've ever met has accused their baby mommas of sexual assault When did anyone say anything about sexual assault? Sexual assault isn't the only way to violate an individual's agency in matters
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> One very easy example of this is the high rate of deadbeat dads in comparison to rates of single dads. Unlike women, men don't have a say in the birthing process but are nonetheless saddled with the consequences. Unlike women, the
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by Dracophoenix 2y ago
Past a certain point, age has little to do with prudence. There are rational and knowledgable teenagers just as there are middle-aged dullards. One must also keep in mind that the man of the 18th century achieved the necessary milestones to
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by Dracophoenix 2y ago
Does your recommendation also include the 2014 reboot?
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> The bleakness of both Half Life 2 and Dishonored's really resonated with me. You'll really resonate with Remedy's Control and the Metro series if you haven't already played them.
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Which one? Hobbes's, Rousseau's, Locke's, or Spencer's? Generally, these so-called contracts are morally fashionable bandwagons attempting to appeal to some vague authority. They lack at least two elements that make a co
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by Dracophoenix 2y ago
> what they really wish for is to expand their country's borders If they're leaving, then this is precisely the opposite of what they wish for. They will as matter of course carry with them the habits and preferences of their p
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> A programming language is not a religion. It is not a way of life. It is a tool. It's not like it's a text editor or something. I really hope that last sentence was a joke.
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>The academics I know are all focused on achieve specific goals, they rarely talk about the papers in the way the Canadian Acedemics I know did back home. Think "I want to automate boar trap monitoring so that farmers do not need to
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by Dracophoenix 2y ago
Dimensional analysis is the term you're looking for.
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by Dracophoenix 2y ago
>It's a fascist salute, always has been. Say what one will about Musk, but the salute itself has existed long before Fascism and Nazism. Look up the Bellamy Salute. Much like the swastika and the fasces, the so-called Roman salute d
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by Dracophoenix 2y ago
Often, the most despotic legal institutions have what are among the largest and most centralized legal structures for their time. One does not carry out a Soviet-style purge on little more sheer whim. It takes quite a bit of organization to
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by Dracophoenix 2y ago
> A group of smart folks who worked on Pixel & Android can take voluntary redundancy together and start a company with the tech and their experience How did that work out for Andy Rubin and the Essential Phone? It takes more than mon
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by Dracophoenix 2y ago
For a certain definition of complicated, I would say atomic clocks.
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Ask HN: Given enough expertise and resources, what project(s) would you work on?
5 points by Dracophoenix 2y ago|2 comments
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How to Invent a Musical Instrument (2016)(thelongandshort.org)
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Ask HN: If you weren't in tech, what profession would you likely have today?
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by Dracophoenix 2y ago
With respect to this particular topic, one may consider The Hitler Myth: Image and Reality in the Third Reich by Ian Kershaw to be a worthwhile read.

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