EthanHeilman

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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
From the impractical ideas dept: Could make a magnet strong enough that it would pull apart virtual particles, i.e. Vacuum polarization [0], and based on some asymmetry in the magnetic field created the particles would pull/push you fo
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
> Imagine asking a prospective medical resident "did you treat any diseases in high school?" or "how much surgery do you do in your spare time?" I think software engineering is more like writing than medicine. Most wr
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
I agree that once you start adding features like images and videos that it tips the balance more toward centralization. > Or only allow sending text when the other person is offline? I think that is an excellent idea. Also I'd propo
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
How much replication do you need? 10x? 20x? If these are text messages that's probably less than 10KB per person per week of being offline. Delete the messages if the recipient hasn't come online in a week. I believe you could bui
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
You could cache encrypted messages on a P2P network until the offline party comes online. There is no money in that, but from a technical PoV it is very doable. Systems like the lightning network on Bitcoin or Raiden on Ethereum are working
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
I'm not a historian, but from what I can tell: 1. The Poles won a decisive victory in the Polish–Soviet War (1921) a war in which the Soviet's had a clear advantage because the Polish forces were able to intercept and read Soviet
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
My personal experience is that the Socratic method is still used in academia and that classes are rarely "students passively learning through an authority figure." However I recognize my experiences are a very small sample size (I
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
Bruno was killed for freely inquiring into the nature of our universe. In a time such as it was that included religious and philosophical speculation as religious and philosophical ideas formed much of the foundation of how people understoo
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
That happens rather frequently. I think RPKI will be adopted but it will be a slow process like IPv6 adoption.
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
Depending on how good that data is, this might be a data play where the data collected in a single repository is extremely valuable. Sell it to the military for operating when GPS is jammed. Sell it to mining companies, insurance companies
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
>"hacking" Whatever gets you access. >"with a smartphone" The smartphone was both used to talk to the agent and also, once authorized, to unlock and turn on the car. See below: "The person allegedly responsibl
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
My first point was that you were saying the US is working to bring about regime change in Vietnam, Egypt and Ukraine. I suspect this is not the case for the reasons I gave, but I'd be willing to look at any evidence you have for this.
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
>You just need to accept that the US Government's agenda of regime change in Vietnam, China, Iran, Cuba, Egypt, Venezuela, North Korea, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, and Turkey is the correct course of action I would like to see some ci
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
Dystopia's are often a form of Utopia. Thomas More's original Utopia is not necessary a perfect society, but a designed society. I would classify BNW as a Utopia even though it is a cautionary tale.
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
I don't think he was intending to denigrate particular racial groups. For instance he isn't arguing that any particular racial or cultural group is superior and he views the weaknesses that bring about the destruction of the &quot
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
I'm rereading the first few chapters and I can't find it. After the fall of the world state it it is said that the next civilization comes from the indigenous Peruvian. Pretty much every group but Peruvians is excluded. "It h
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
I've read it twice and I didn't remember any of that, however I looked it up and you are correct the book does use antisemitic tropes. >And in the long run both groups didn't make it into the next round, the next mankinds.
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
Olaf Stapledon is amazing but he isn't writing adventures or even narrative in the traditional sense. He is very well known among science fiction authors because they use his material heavily [0]. I often wonder if there is some secret
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
How do you define success?
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
Living in Massachusetts and working in the tech scene from about 2005 to present I've noticed changes. It used to be when someone graduated from a university in the area and wanted to work at a big tech company or startup it was a fore
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
I think you got downvoted for saying that full-disclosure is irresponsible. Many people I've talked are in favor of full-disclosure and think that coordinated disclosure is long term dangerous as large companies with the resources to a
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
Finding exploits and performing a security audit are often very different tasks. A person that can do one is not always able to do the other. Companies, such as companies that sell surveillance software to governments, do hire people to jus
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
>Steve McBroom, a Spyfone representative, told Motherboard on Monday that the company is investigating the leak, and expressed relief that the person who found it had good intentions. Unlike spyfone whose intentions appeared to be profit
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
... and they gain deniability if the sources do anything unethical which in turns gives them more leverage over the source.
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
Intelligence isn't just about human intelligence sources. Historically the US has been terrible at human intelligence and peerless at technical intelligence such as spy satellites, bugs, signals intercept, etc...
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
You have a real gift at this.
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
Really appreciate your answers. I've wondered about this stuff for a while but never had the time to read through the Git source code. >No, because a hash of some commit data is what’s signed and the parent is part of that. How does
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
>It's a feature that depends on trust and goodwill Such features can be a vulnerability, a vulnerability does not have to be an accident >the fact that trust can be abused isn't interesting As a security researcher it is int
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
>It's not a "problem," To me it is a problem and I'm glad they are pointing it out. I suspected this was possible but wasn't sure, now I know for sure.
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by EthanHeilman 8y ago
Is Git cryptographically secure? Linus certainly doesn't see this as a goal of Git. Against what threats does the cryptography protect? Has anyone published the threat model of Git? Things I worry about: 1. Can I reorder commits withou

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