Phlarp

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by Phlarp 13y ago
Thats the point. Play ball now (Comcast) because you might not like what they (Netflix) do next.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
Just because the mechanism for censorship is well meaning, excellently engineered and transparently implemented does not change the end effect.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
On a side note, isn't it a bit Orwellian to know for a fact that your government is participating in mass spying, but the largest tech forum on the internet isn't talking about it at all and now you've come to find out that k
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by Phlarp 13y ago
This is utopian fantasy and will remain utopian fantasy until you can teach my mother how PKI works. For 99% of the population, excel formulas are the pinnacle of their technical prowess.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
>There are no gatekeepers, who decide what gets published and what doesn't, anymore. Except Apple.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
>when shopping for a new car and instantly got spammy, sleazy emails and phone calls from dealers As a dev who works for company in the same vertical, this is the modus operandi of every dealership in the country. Their online strategy i
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by Phlarp 13y ago
DelightfulScone: you are shadowbanned.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
As exciting as all this appears, you're looking at a 2016 release date a the absolute soonest; which essentially puts this project in the "vaporware until proven otherwise" category.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
Yea, all those early BFL investors are really rolling in their unregulated equity crowd funding cash these days.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
Facebook IDE incoming?
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by Phlarp 13y ago
It's not just that; transportation and production would be affected as well. The trucks that move food and the tractors that plant it would stop working just the same as the freezers and microwaves. In addition, payment networks would
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by Phlarp 13y ago
>They're concerned about the top talent going to silicon valley, because the salaries are still high there High demand >banks don't need many programmers, they just need good ones... Low supply
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by Phlarp 13y ago
regardless of absolute terms of high pay within the industry, if they are concerned about a shortage then it can't possibly be high enough.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
"We will do anything to recruit tech talent, except pay more!"
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by Phlarp 13y ago
For something so obviously well known you seem to have difficulty providing evidence of your specific allegation (microsoft giving NSA advance notice of unpatched zero days.) I don't doubt it happens, so much as I expect extraordinary
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by Phlarp 13y ago
I love seeing Tptacek being proven wrong as much as the rest of us; but this is just weak.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
Perhaps not in the "worst person that have lived" category; but many have said Obama was awarded the prize almost entirely on the merit of campaign promises he has since failed to enact.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
Their staffs don't have the necessary clearance level to administer such a network.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
The whole point was that the Senate staff could only look at these (classified) documents in a secure room / network provided by the CIA. Why this procedure is flawed is left as an exercise for the reader
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by Phlarp 13y ago
I disagree with Tptacek in this particular instance; but to allege a conflict of interest like this is petty. AFAIK his security firm specifically does not do defense contracting.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
If what you say is true and this data is sufficient to recreate and de-anonymize the trades on gox against withdrawals from their addresses shouldn't we be able to see if coins were actually stolen through tx malleability?
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by Phlarp 13y ago
I'd rather have all the facts open and on the table. For better or worse the amount of information asymmetry in the bitcoin market is staggering.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
There are ports of this for IOS and android. On Android it's called "easyeyez".
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by Phlarp 13y ago
To clarify; I wasn't saying the first actually gives journalists the right to trespass or harass individuals. Just that some poorly trained journalists and misguided internet armchair pundits choose to interpret it that way.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
Some of those links show him speaking in broken english with obvious misspellings, others are well structured and make him seem very obviously technically adept and attentive to at least hobbyist standards. "Hi Nilayam, 1. Which wheels
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by Phlarp 13y ago
>Why do the press feel entitled to literally show up on someone's doorstep in mass? Mostly? The first amendment...
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by Phlarp 13y ago
Well they need a lesson in proper internet hype cycles then. step 1. Find a scoop that can actually be verified. step 2. Don't give it away for free on the internet the day before.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
If that's really the case; the unmasking of Satoshi should (would?) be the final nail in it's coffin.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
>And yet... this is where the majority of the next generation of developers (and the current gen, and the one before) come from. To say nothing of the innumerable medium sized businesses that use these kind of "throw away" tech
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by Phlarp 13y ago
I see smartphones, solid state drives and TVs. Perhaps it's targeting based on cookies?

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