SheinhardtWigCo

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   by SheinhardtWigCo 9y ago

   Your talk was excellent, kudos to you for being willing to present a controversial idea to an audience that is instinctively hostile to any intentional weakening of crypto. It was certainly a hot topic at lunch. My primary concern and other
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   by SheinhardtWigCo 9y ago

   I agree that “unlimited” vacation is often a trap so I appreciate the concept of a minimum vacation policy, but isn’t it a security/privacy issue to publicly disclose the exact dates that employees are on vacation? Is everyone on the t
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   by SheinhardtWigCo 9y ago

   I’m aware what speed of traffic means. The actual reason for the phenomenon I described is that there are a lot of hyper-aggressive low-skilled drivers out there. Note that “skill” in this context means driving in a way that optimizes for k
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   by SheinhardtWigCo 9y ago

   Just driving on Autopilot at the speed of traffic but at a safe stopping distance is enough to prompt a minority of assholes to aggressively tailgate and then pass and insert themselves into that empty space in front. Happens most days.
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   by SheinhardtWigCo 9y ago

   What do you think human drivers should do differently when driving near a car that is under computer control?
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   by SheinhardtWigCo 9y ago

   If you want to go down this particular rabbit hole, then let me say that I think it's more likely this was "us" than "them". Now the whole country is talking and thinking about the effects of a real ballistic missil
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   by SheinhardtWigCo 9y ago

   Thanks for the reminder. I edited my comment.
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   by SheinhardtWigCo 9y ago

   Is this the United States of America or Nazi Germany circa 1930? Anyone with malicious or criminal intent can simply not carry data that implicates them over the border, so just what is the point of this?
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   by SheinhardtWigCo 9y ago

   Good intentions? Strip away the blue sky projects and the stuff they do for optics/PR, and you’re left with a machine that is designed to collect deeply personal insights about every economic participant on Earth and use that intellige
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    by SheinhardtWigCo 9y ago

    It's odd to publicly state that they didn't know about it, because now if they don't do the same after the next big flaw comes out, the implication will be that they indeed knew and were quietly exploiting it. I thought that
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    by SheinhardtWigCo 9y ago

    OP was talking about a "neutral" speed index. You're talking about solving for every possible combination of user, ISP, and website. There's probably a reasonable middle ground in there somewhere.
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    by SheinhardtWigCo 9y ago

    The poster was arguing that negative network conditions can be simulated. If the problem is a lack of information about global network conditions, then you can deploy canary machines around the world to gather that information.