Kalium

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by Kalium 3y ago
For a long time, payment processors in the US would charge more to offer tokenization services. Cost-conscious companies with an eye on their unit economics reacted in predictable ways.
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by Kalium 3y ago
Pockets are one of those niches where expressed and revealed preferences collide in ways that defy memeification. The popular imagination holds the idea that basically any garment can have good, functional, high-quality pockets added to it
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by Kalium 3y ago
I suspect this is why "post-scarcity" is generally used to describe a state of affairs that does not currently exist, such as the idyllic Federation in Star Trek. In this context it was used to describe a society fundamentally dif
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by Kalium 3y ago
I believe you may be using a vernacular definition where others are using a technical definition from economics. In this context "scarcity" does not mean "There is not enough stuff", though that can be implied. It means
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by Kalium 3y ago
That's an excellent description of a basic diffing tool.
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by Kalium 3y ago
High security development practices will, as you wisely say, go a very long way. That is not quite the same as some kind of zero-vulnerability "secure" system, however. No system involving humans is, or ever can be, perfectly secu
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by Kalium 3y ago
It's a good idea! I like where your head is at. Apollo and other historic moonshot programs were fundamentally striving to match some set of fixed natural forces with human ingenuity. The conditions to be met and overcome were measurab
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by Kalium 3y ago
One of the counterintuitive things I've learned is that "security is everyone's job" is one of the worst possible scenarios. First, the vast majority of people are not equipped to find or address major security issues we
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by Kalium 3y ago
This has the overall feeling of something developed by a team where leadership sincerely believes that security is everyone's job. Because it's everyone's job and they hire good people, they don't need specialists. When
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by Kalium 3y ago
One key question is if the teams are being effective referees or just people titled "referee". If it's the latter, then getting rid of them does not seem like a loss.
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by Kalium 3y ago
Counter-notice and it goes to court, I believe.
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by Kalium 3y ago
The issue here is that these people aren't providing value. Further, engaging with them as serious and sincere costs in time and energy. That's expensive when there's no payoff. From my own experiences, beg bounties reliabl
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by Kalium 3y ago
It's been my experience that spending a lot of time with cautionary tales spun mostly out of imagination teaches people that the consequences of things can be predicted in the same way one might predict the course of a story. This is d
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by Kalium 3y ago
On the contrary, they generally teach people to be an entirely different kind of cringe.
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by Kalium 3y ago
One thing to bear in mind is that any technical lawful intercept capability is also a technical intercept capability for a hostile intelligence agency. Note that "hostile" and "foreign" are not always the same thing. Wit
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by Kalium 3y ago
Are we sure it's complex? Or is it portrayed as complex for political reasons? So far we've seen a lot of assertions that encryption is a major hazard to public safety, mostly from groups with a long history of abusing access to w
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by Kalium 3y ago
Basically, I need law enforcement to prove they're not full of shit. Law enforcement and intelligence systems have a long and ugly history of abusing easy access to private information. They also have a long history of working around t
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by Kalium 3y ago
At the risk of being very directly contrarian: is it? Is it actually getting harder for law enforcement? Do we have evidence of E2EE harming cases, hurting conviction rates, or similar? At this point in time law enforcement has been routine
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by Kalium 3y ago
Trial and error takes time. Potentially a great deal of time. A motivated fraudster will likely get caught and stopped several times along the way if they're attacking a particular bank. It's worth bearing in mind that most financ
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by Kalium 3y ago
Pick any two small businesses in the same niche. Grow them for three or four decades. How identical do you think their evolved business practices will be? My very very naive take is that they will have had to solve similar problems over tim
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by Kalium 3y ago
All the bank knows is that they tried to get to know someone as required and that person gave them bad info. This is either intentional or unintentional. Now, they could go in for a high-touch customer care process, but that has drawbacks
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by Kalium 3y ago
> “And in this scenario, you can’t really negotiate,” he said. “You aren’t talking with a person who has the power to tell you what went wrong and what didn’t go wrong.” I find this one of the most telling bits of this entire article. It
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by Kalium 3y ago
This project wasn't undertaken for artistic reasons. It was done so that the US government had records and depictions of domestic produce that could be used in efforts to promote trade. Watercolors were almost certainly the best availa
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by Kalium 3y ago
I don't know if you're aware of this, but the United States Postal Service is self-funding. My understanding is that they are required to be. They do not receive a yearly budget from Congress. This means questions like "How w
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by Kalium 3y ago
Isn't that Fossil? https://fossil-scm.org/home SCM, bug tracker, wiki...
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by Kalium 3y ago
It cost money to run and the customer base pulled its funds in favor of better choices. The goal of a postal bank is often framed in terms of a source of revenue for the USPS. Examples include in this very thread. If there's no expecta
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by Kalium 3y ago
Example 3: The USA. It was subsequently shut down because it couldn't compete with private banks.
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by Kalium 3y ago
Can you help me understand how distributed financial systems enable people in dire need of housing and supportive social services, who often with poor to zero access to legal infrastructure, get back on their feet when they are often strugg
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by Kalium 3y ago
Yes. You are correct. Thankfully kitchen sodium is in compound form, and thus not likely to react violently with water. In this context, the properties of pure metallic sodium are relevant because it would need to be handled in manufacturin
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by Kalium 3y ago
Speaking only for myself, it's very hard to find people who treat community, sharing, and collective action as things to engage with regularly rather than as a way to get access to tools for cheap. It can be exceptionally stressful and

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