ajamesm

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by ajamesm 10y ago
It's an interesting parallel you draw. In one case, Canadian students played pranks on an out-of-touch professor, and in the other, the incoming presidential administration in America is taking actions that have historically preceded
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I guess we could have a long conversation about whether it's Clinton or Trump who would have ultimately been worse in terms of national infosec implications, but that conclusion is far away from "Trump is not bad for infosec, actu
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by ajamesm 10y ago
> But of course we know that there are all kinds of configurations of matter, like a motorcycle, that are faster than a cheetah and even look a little bit cooler. yet more inflammatory rhetoric from the Pinboard guy
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by ajamesm 10y ago
conflating the specific binary instantiation with the general cryptosystem. Regardless, depending on your threat model, you can take increasingly { reasonable | paranoid } precautions like manually compiling and loading Signal, as it'
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by ajamesm 10y ago
The most prominent example would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa and then the long, storied history of American strike-breaking &c.
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by ajamesm 10y ago
I'm not a fan of opaque baseband firmwares either, don't get me wrong, but what's the alternative? Not for the DoD, I mean for union organizers making $50k a year -- people who aren't going to get murdered by Mossad, bu
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by ajamesm 10y ago
"We have to open it" means "we have to make apple turn over decrypted communication." The next point in this argument involves a sentence diagram and a dictionary. Do we have to go there?
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Sorry, am I missing something? It's my understanding that Signal is ETE encrypted. All an NSL would get you is ciphertext and metadata.
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by ajamesm 10y ago
oh no, I'm sure this particular Great Thesis of Logic and Ethics and Objectivity will enlighten us all. What business organizations have been missing is 40 pages of this schlub aimlessly restating the Golden Rule. > You must be cal
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Federation concerns availability, not security. "unplug the ethernet and write plaintext to /dev/null" is extraordinarily secure and 100% decentralized, though badly unavailable.
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the "Apple should unlock the phone" part
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by ajamesm 10y ago
> Similarly, to rotate vectors you have to create matrices, which don't exist in ℝ2, and apply them to vectors through matrix multiplication. You don't "need" matrices, they're just one way to represent linear fu
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by ajamesm 10y ago
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/think-donald-trump-blasts-appl... > "To think that Apple won't allow us to get into her cellphone? Who do they think they are? No, we have to open it," Trump said during
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Vim never needed async, it Just Wo ESC j j j j jjj ESC rks(TM):q :wq
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by ajamesm 10y ago
FYI, I was able to dodge the paywall and read the article by copying the URL into Google to get their referral, then clicking the top link.
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by ajamesm 10y ago
He guessed correctly because he was shallow-minded enough to buy in, not because he had some special insight into the American psyche. Regardless, American media makes for an abysmal benchmark.
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Scott Adams is a washed-up cartoonist turned reactionary collaborationist pundit whose only recent accomplishment is getting owned on Twitter all day. What does he know about persuading people?
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by ajamesm 10y ago
if that kind of information had any value whatsoever, Reddit would be worth billions
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by ajamesm 10y ago
This vividly reminded me of PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN
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https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/VOL7/Sloane/sloane15.pd... I get that lin alg maybe isn't your picture of elegance, but you can't say that proof is laborious or esoteric. Any intro-level
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by ajamesm 10y ago
I didn't find the post itself to be snobbish. I liked the tone and pacing, I think that your algebra makes for an interesting topic, and it was laudable for you to write about it. What I dislike is the bait-and-switch, wherein the led
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Like what?
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Oh, yes, we should definitely draw lessons from academic mathematicians about what is accessible and convenient to understand. THAT's a field that's never had a problem connecting to laymen.
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Yes, this is matrix addition in a cumbersome disguise. Haskell is a fine language, it's the authors I can't stand. I'm anti-snobbery because snobbery keeps people from understanding stuff. Programming languages are about bu
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by ajamesm 10y ago
It's not really 'extending the dimensions of the matrices' -- we live in a universe with an infinite number of distinct vertices, so the matrices are necessarily of infinite degree. It's only the sake of notation that w
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Leave it to a Haskell coder to make an incomprehensible mess of matrices under addition.
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> For one week, political stories are off-topic. Please flag them. Please also flag political threads on non-political stories. For our part, we'll kill such stories and threads when we see them. Then we'll watch together to se
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by ajamesm 10y ago
Imagine HN banning crypto-related discussion for a week after the Snowden revelations, because it was too hard to deal with.
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How is it "assumption and hyperbole" to take statements at face value? The incoming administration is on the record with their intents.
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If you're not spam, how do you prohibit bulk unsolicited SMS?

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