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by FabHK 3y ago
SVB became worthless by virtue of real changes in the real economy. Of course it can happen that a company goes bankrupt, and then its fundamental value is zero or negative. But the point is that there is a fundamental value that is realise
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by FabHK 3y ago
Shares give you rights and have a fundamental value. If the market undervalues them, you can buy the company and make lots of money when proven right (by virtue of the cash the real business makes and pays out in dividends). That’s fundame
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by FabHK 3y ago
> For depositors, this is safer than a typical bank subject to bank runs - AS LONG AS the issuer actually holds the backing treasuries. And duration is really short, and rates don't shoot up too much. (You have no credit risk (as lo
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by FabHK 3y ago
> No depositor has ever lost a penny of insured deposits since the FDIC was created in 1933. https://www.fdic.gov/consumers/banking/facts/
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by FabHK 3y ago
Rates are high. Offering any dollar account, you can just collect 5% p.a. and pass none of it on to the consumer.
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Apple’s Two-Pronged Annual iPhone Strategy(daringfireball.net)
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by FabHK 3y ago
You need the SIM to receive SMS ("possession"), not just a password ("knowledge"). For email, you just need knowledge.
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by FabHK 3y ago
NIST recommends against email or VoIP "phones" for the second factor, because then it's not what you know and what you have , but just two things you know , so no 2FA. As far as I understand, it does not recommend against
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by FabHK 3y ago
Insofar as one of the factors should be something the user knows , and one factor something the user has , that makes perfect sense. You know your password (or the master password to your password manager), and you have your phone with th
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by FabHK 3y ago
FLOP = FLoating point OPeration, akin to the work that needs to be done (which could be measured in Joule) FLOPS = FLoating point Operations Per Second, akin to the power of a given machine (which could be measured in Watt = Joule per secon
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by FabHK 3y ago
> Deeply profitable companies will fight tooth and nail against these regulations even if they are full aware of the damage they are causing. There was an article recently about health labels on food in Mexico. The food manufacturers wer
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by FabHK 3y ago
It's still e2ee, it's just that the government is recipient of every message (in addition to the recipients you specify).
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by FabHK 3y ago
> For example, WhatsApp sells itself as fully encrypted, etc. but if you’re in a group chat thars not true anymore. That information is available to WhatsApp and they almost certainly make it available to several governments (hopefully i
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by FabHK 3y ago
So, you're saying that understanding cryptocurrencies well enough to be able to teach a course about it (at MIT, no less) will bias one against it? Sounds reasonable to me.
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by FabHK 3y ago
Interesting. I don't know about Thai, but for Mandarin, the issue is similar - g/k, d/t, b/p in English all are (voiced and unaspirated) or (unvoiced and aspirated), while what's in Pinyin denoted g/k, d/t
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by FabHK 3y ago
Can second Greyhound. Hungry now...
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by FabHK 3y ago
You say the currency was tightly controlled? So, presumably, the fact that it was hard to obtain foreign exchange or pay for things abroad was a deliberate choice by your government, and not a technical problem? The use case of crypto is th
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by FabHK 3y ago
As @patdennis famously tweeted: > Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are pump and dump schemes, while others are pyramid schemes. Others are just standard issue fraud. Others are just middlem
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by FabHK 3y ago
The website specifies its criteria for accepting an answer. Just use that threshold instead of whatever you in your mind deem “useful”.
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by FabHK 3y ago
1. What you’re asking for (“The option … where the device encrypts files before uploading them to iCloud, iCloud may scan the encrypted bits anyway to do their legal duty, and that's the end of the story.”) is impossible. 2. The divisi
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by FabHK 3y ago
No. A small thumbnail “visual derivative” is included with the neural hash, which is unlocked (only for matches) only once the number of matches exceeds a threshold. This was all outlined in the first two pages of the white paper, and expla
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by FabHK 3y ago
So how come there is no public backlash against Microsoft and Google who scan your cloud pictures in the cloud, enabling political and religious persecution, dystopian cases of false positives, and future government escalation?
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by FabHK 3y ago
It was called a “visual derivative”. https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
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by FabHK 3y ago
Bit, yes. Though on a moderately large file it would be easy to brute force all one-bit modifications, and then the effort grows exponentially (basically) in the number of bits flipped, so you’ll want to do more than a few.
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by FabHK 3y ago
That’s not what’s commonly understood to be a modern cipher. It would be trivial for a government to make a list of undesired messages/images and find everyone that has forwarded it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C
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by FabHK 3y ago
The CSAM scanning Apple abandoned, ie the topic at hand, was for the cloud, like the one operated by Google or Microsoft. You switched the topic to secure messaging platforms, which are irrelevant for the discussion at hand.
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by FabHK 3y ago
Wrong Sinclair: the quote was Upton Sinclair (who, according to Wikipedia, is “not to be confused with his contemporary, Sinclair Lewis”).
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by FabHK 3y ago
Dynomight was fairly critical of Wirecutter’s coverage of air purifiers as well (specifically their negative review of the inexpensive and decent IKEA air purifier). I used to love Wirecutter, but it seems to have fallen prey to the inexora
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by FabHK 3y ago
I’d love to have my short compuserve.com email back. I’d even be prepared to pay a modest amount for it. Nothing embarrassing about it, if you wanted to be online (particularly on the road internationally) that was the way. Compuserve had d
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by FabHK 3y ago
Good intuition. The answer is, indeed, (2-p)/(4-p), where p is the probability that the kid in question is born in the time period in question, ie 1/7 or 1/365, as the case may be. So, you’re correct. One can pump the intuiti

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