SomeStupidPoint

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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
It's not even about being thick skinned: it might not bother me at a personal level, but I'm not letting a team malfunction as baseline where some members make a habit of abusing other members and will absolutely make an issue of
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
You're projecting your biases on what it takes to be a "professional athlete" versus a "professional gamer" -- both require serious amounts of on-going training to stay in top condition. You can afford a football, b
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
I largely agree with the argument out of doing it for assimilation and soft power reasons, however -- In general, poor people don't pay private schools the full amount, and private schools even set their budgets such that they expect t
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
> There needs to be some crowd sourced way of doing this, so if you delete an element and I visit the site, the element is gone. This is how adblockers work (sort of). We could probably leverage the same tech used for adblockers to make
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
> Some veteran intelligence officials believe a lopsided focus on offensive cyberweapons and hacking tools has, for years, left American cyberdefense dangerously porous. > “We have had a train wreck coming,” said Mike McConnell, the f
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
> I know you're out there and you know something we don't. Record it. Share it. Teach us. Interview the people who are involved in it. You might not get another chance. I don't do this on purpose. Some things should only e
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
What took me a long time -- and is still a skill I'm developing -- is to both verify and "read" the math at the same time, to see the proof and the story at the same time. At one level, you're observing a technical const
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
At a technical level, that supposes the file you want to decrypt still exists in X years. My actual thought was to have the secure enclave emit an encrypted copy of the key with a targeted key strength when presented with a request signed b
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
You may have rate monitoring on the decryption requests, watching the traffic flow to the servers fronting your encrypted store. An attacker is forced to either exfiltrate the data slowly (so the surge isn't noticed) or alert ops monit
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
I don't like it either. But as a practical matter, I think we will do more to protect privacy and security by engaging with the process and honestly addressing their concerns so we can strike a balance between conflicting societal ne
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Sincere question: how do you define "how secure it is" except "how long it will remain secure (under attack)"? Edit: You're also completely eliding that security is probabilistic -- they might just guess our key on
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
We can also require that the hardware issuer (eg, Apple) stores an encrypted copy of the key (throwing away the key used to encrypt the original key), such that it costs $1M (or other amount) to break the encryption and reveal the key. Ther
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
> Key strength changes because we predict when a key will /cease being secure/. Yes, we use keys up the gradient of security that key size represents as attacks become more powerful. The reason we don't use the more secure
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
That's... just not true. And that kind of misrepresentation just weakens the arguments for strong encryption, because intelligent people will see them as pretty transparent misrepresentations. Have you considered that's why the ar
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
We don't have even the moderate height cube walls between people -- you're just staring at them all day over screens. I get pretty much constantly distracted if I'm looking at another desk instead of the wall: I have a very h
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
I see Wikileaks is still publishing "leaks" about US agencies in the week following major news on the Russian investigation, as they have more-or-less consistently since February. I'm sure this time is just coincidence, too.
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
You're wrong in your broad, abstract argument in a really obvious and shallow way: It doesn't explain why the predominant strategy of life at all scales is mutualism and synergy between scales and kinds of life. In no particular o
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Americans are direct only about a certain set of things. My Thai friends are much more direct discussing appearance, for instance. As an American, that was actually quite a shock visiting Thailand -- but you get used to it and adjust, and n
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
I think primates are innately fairer than modern society is, though they're not totally fair. I don't think we even want things to be totally fair (I don't for instance)... Just fair er . If you poll people, almost everyone t
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Do you argue that hospitals shouldn't provide emergency treatment to people with heart attacks on the same grounds? I'm also going to call bullshit on your entropy argument: the accumulations of wealth we see are unnatural, and a
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
I mostly just want to thank you for a detailed reply -- you clearly know more about this than I do and I've learned a bit. In the interest of science, do you have some $35 bottles you'd recommend as better? It seems more productiv
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
I'll cop to it: I mostly drink OOLA for the gin and only occasionally buy the whiskey.
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
OOLA is the only one that springs to mind -- but I could be mistaken, I'm partly relying on their marketing. (Which I mention in hopes you will correct me if I am.) Edit: Dry Fly used to be smaller and ship some of their stuff from t
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Consistently, my experience with market consolidation has been lower quality products for more money so I can susidize the wealth of merger consultants. If consolidation has such a prior, why would I expect beer consolidation to end differe
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Well, in a sample size of 1, it doesn't make a huge amount of sense to discuss correlation -- the two facts both happened, and so have 100% correlation on that sample size. (But this is a basically useless statistic for making any infe
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
> because the only thing people measure or care about as a meaningful indicator of improvement is increased profits. This hasn't been my experience of large corporations, at all. Tons of things are measured besides profit, tons
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
> They absolutely do have a single, coherent plan, just as all businesses do: make money Do you mind if I quote you on this? My team has had a stressful time on our project and I think our manager could use a good laugh. There isn't
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
I think it's perfectly possible to compete with Facebook business to business (if you have SNAP levels of funding, at least). You just can't beat them at being Facebook.
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
This assume Disney has a single, coherent plan. This sounds like a VP did something stupid and probably spent all of today getting reamed by CEO + SVPs.
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Ecuador is about 66th percentile by economy size, with a GDP of about $100bil. So Ecuador is producing $100bil in value, which is similar to the total volume of transactions on the Bitcoin network. So using less energy, Ecuador produces mor

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