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by _jal 5y ago
You know they're possible, because we're discussing them. Do you pay your debts?
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by _jal 5y ago
That's the thing that kills it for me. Always look for the chump at the table. If you can't spot them, you're the chump.
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by _jal 5y ago
Yeah, but you still have to defend it in court, and that's an expensive distraction. There is currently a bit of a rash of high-profile, low-probability-of-success libels suits going on. It wouldn't surprise me a bit if publishers
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by _jal 5y ago
Not at key sizes considered safe today, but 384 bit RSA was considered secure for some uses around then. The RSA-155 Challenge (512 bits) was not beaten until 1999.
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by _jal 5y ago
The tech stack matters far less than the trustworthiness and competence of the operators running it. And the hard part with VPN services is that it is very difficult to prove those things to others.
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by _jal 5y ago
I seriously doubt governments emerging from ecological collapse will be as pleasant as one of the 20th century eastern-euro communist governments you're probably thinking of. Surveillance today is already more all-encompassing in demo
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by _jal 5y ago
We did the same thing a couple weeks ago. Predictions are hard, especially about the future, but I'd bet money that will slip, too. If you're waiting for 'normal', I think you're already soaking in it. At least for
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by _jal 5y ago
Not POTS, but cell phones could have been E2E at least since cellular switched to digital.
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by _jal 5y ago
> which you have to abide by using google.com or any other Google web property When did my web site become a Google property?
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by _jal 5y ago
Yeah, I will never be asking "Google, May I" to make HTML work. Contrary to Mountain View opinion, the web is not their walled garden. Although it might be time to bring back those stupid "Best viewed in" banners, becau
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by _jal 5y ago
That's a fine opinion. I happen to agree that some what you imply is true. But you can claim that about a lot of things that we choose to treat differently. Property crime is inevitable, and yet we devote significant resources to fight
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by _jal 5y ago
Honestly, what's missing is a GUI builder for Postgres that non-programmers can use. Others have mentioned Filemaker and Access, and I think that's exactly right - non-programmers can understand datatypes, that's not the issu
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by _jal 5y ago
> it implicitly denies that women Nonsense on stilts. You might as well claim that anti-smoking activists are wrong because nonsmokers sometimes get lung cancer. I'd highly suggest some reading on the topic if you want to address i
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by _jal 5y ago
Money and connections open other options for applying pressure. For instance, see the alleged behavior of Harvey Weinstein towards Rose McGowan involving spooks for hire. (I'm not talking about Damon at all here, I don't know much
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by _jal 5y ago
I don't think there's as much survivorship bias as you're suggesting - we do, in fact, have the airplane wreckage to inspect, it is just that frequently after-action forensices doesn't happen. But the point is valid. I t
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by _jal 5y ago
Kinda. It still tend to encourage frequent posting, which weighs against long form investigative journalism - monthly or yearly subscriptions don't work well when you might work on a piece for over a year. That, combined with risk, mea
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by _jal 5y ago
They're working on it. If you don't read TD regularly, you're probably not aware of how long this has been going on. They're trying to survive independently without selling users out, and that is not easy. > So, count
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by _jal 5y ago
> Point is, condescending remarks only push people away from your cause. Thanks for the honesty. Here's some more. Some of us don't care about your feelings at this point. It is past time for talking. There are always people wi
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by _jal 5y ago
For a long time it was, "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”[1] Now it is, "Every program attempts to expand until it can read Twitter. Th
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by _jal 5y ago
That's why I said 'sell' instead of 'provide'.
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by _jal 5y ago
Network Solutions will sell you service for 100 years. Edit: CSC, Markmonitor and similar shops will contract to keep your name available for long periods, too, but that's a bit different.
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by _jal 5y ago
That's more Texas-marketing than anything else. It has a lot of things that smell a lot like zoning, they just don't call it that. Deed restrictions to a lot of the work. There are also density restrictions.The city steers where i
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by _jal 5y ago
That is pretty great. I wonder how often that has happened. “It’s a scientific fairy-tale. First your friend tracks a meteorite, then finds it and then gifts a bit of this extra-terrestrial material to you to analyse."
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by _jal 5y ago
I'm trying to take what you're saying seriously, and think through how it would work in the real world. You're just repeating that you think some things "should" be the case. If they were, how would that work, how c
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by _jal 5y ago
> a right to know if a given company wants > right to know if you are going to block/evade tracking I don't get how looking at this as rights and intent does any good. - Getting legalistic about intent immediately makes for
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by _jal 5y ago
> "Gentlemen do not read each others' mail." Lovely thought, but there are no gentlemen in positions to stop it. Stimson's quote is notable because he may be the only person in history who was. > Privacy laws are g
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by _jal 5y ago
Interesting that you believe the government's job is to coerce people into taking jobs they otherwise wouldn't. Or did I miss the post where you were complaining about aid to other tax brackets and businesses?
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by _jal 5y ago
It is embarrassing. It also highlights a growing pet peeve of mine: the uselessness of status dashboards, if not done very well. They're much harder than they look for complex systems. Most companies want to put a human in the loop for
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by _jal 5y ago
They pay for bullshit research all the time. It comes from the advertising budget instead of the development budget.
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by _jal 5y ago
...Another good reason to call it the bean.

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