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by ajross 1y ago
I'm all for a good spy story, but this seems like a big shrug to me. Interference-sensitive satellite communication is done with directional dishes, who cares what some other satellite is transmitting? That's the kind of nonsens
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by ajross 1y ago
> Yes this is largely because lower income deciles tend to hold more cash than assets That's true, but it's important to point out that this is because the bottom of the income curve simply doesn't have meaningful assets a
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by ajross 1y ago
They don't have a new process to launch on, so one wouldn't expect a power metric to improve at all.
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by ajross 1y ago
I do, yes. A quick google shows 65% of US households are occupant-owned (with most of those being mortgaged, though I'm too lazy to do a full accounting). I think the point about "regular" people and inflation is apt and I
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by ajross 1y ago
> Side channel attack is not a novel idea Yes, but "side channel attack" isn't much of a description, is it? You can't just declare "I make a side channel attack!"[1], you need to invent one. In this case i
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by ajross 1y ago
Yeah, that's not the sense of "embargo" used in the text you quoted. I think you're arguing about something else. AOSP not getting prompt security patches is indeed a problem, but it's not relevant here. Per the
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by ajross 1y ago
Dying from smoking is age related! How many lung cancer deaths are there in 20-something chain smokers? Honestly I think you're interpreting "age related" differently than the upthread discussion. The point is to renormal
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by ajross 1y ago
Does person A have a home? Then A, 100%. Regular citizens can get non-inflation-indexed, heavily-government-subsidized loans at leverage ratios[1] institutional investors could never dream of. And that's a better inflation hedge tha
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by ajross 1y ago
> The graph shows only that cars are getting more expensive over time just not as mush as gas. Gas isn't on the chart. It's showing the ratio between the auto segment of CPI (how expensive "a car" is) to the broader
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by ajross 1y ago
> All it takes to negate thousands of people with one opinion ... thousands? You haven't cited even one! Which, as I eagerly point out, is exactly one fewer example than I provided. So even accepting your dismissal as framed, I w
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by ajross 1y ago
Not sure where you're going with this. Obviously the immigrants who were speaking are the ones whose speech is being regulated by the government. If you want to argue that immigrants don't have protection under the first amendmen
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by ajross 1y ago
> driving is getting considerably more expensive driven by more expensive cars and fuel I'm at a loss. I literally showed you a graph showing that cars were getting cheaper over time. Do you not believe it, or maybe misunderstan
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by ajross 1y ago
No one (at least no one of note) ever claimed that government coercion of social media was a "good thing". The controversy around the "Twitter Files" was (and remains) whether any such coercion[1] actually happened. Do
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by ajross 1y ago
Less than zero. Car prices are dropping relative to other goods, though they've been mostly flat (in the sense of "inflating at the general rate") since 2010 or so. As always, just go to FRED to ask these questions. This gr
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by ajross 1y ago
So, #2 is exactly what I said, just fancy. I agree, people bet on BTC's growth. That's what speculation is. But your causality is circular: people betting on BTC/USD because it's grown in the past is literally the d
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by ajross 1y ago
> heart disease is primarily not age-related Uh... it absolutely is? Not sure what you're trying to say here. All progressive diseases, including heart disease (cancer too) are going to be "age related" simply because the
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by ajross 1y ago
I'm confused. They're saying that the original patch was incomplete and that they believe they've re-broken it, but that they aren't publishing the updated attack because the report is embargoed (presumably to update th
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by ajross 1y ago
That's not what's happening here. The attack is exploiting a side channel of the rendering behavior, not reading the screen. There's no particular reason to believe that iOS is immune to something like this, though certainl
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by ajross 1y ago
This really needs to be the link. The article is phrased as if this was a zero day exploiting some kind of 2FA bug, but the actual meat is that it's a novel and really interesting new kind of attack vector (albeit not a particularly p
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by ajross 1y ago
To late to edit it in, but you'll note in my doomeration of downside risks I completely forgot that the government is shutdown! Things are messed up enough that I can't even remember why they're messed up!
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by ajross 1y ago
> At a logical level, Bitcoin should be decorrelated from stocks I don't see how you get to that logic. BTC is a speculative growth asset held by the same people who speculate on securities, and for the same reason. In fact by vir
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by ajross 1y ago
Gold's "intrinsic" value is limited to electronics contact plating and a comparatively small ("one tech company" worth of revenue) global jewelry market. Gold's perceived value may be higher, but that's on
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by ajross 1y ago
Holy confounded variables, Batman! You're measuring oil wealth, not government organization. And at least arguably, the causality goes the other way: restless populations in poorer nations are more likely to drive democratic reforms,
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by ajross 1y ago
All that said, my slightly informed mildly-hysterical opinion is that aggregate downside risk is absolutely out of control in the markets right now. Valuations of basically everything are at all time highs relative to production. Volatil
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by ajross 1y ago
My slightly informed cynical opinion is that if a consensus existed for what this meant for the general economy, plenty of experts would be telling you. So, we don't know. Feedback effects ("ripple effect" in your usage) are
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by ajross 1y ago
> self-parking needs at least electric steering You can control a hydraulic system automatically. That's literally what ABS braking is on the same cars already.
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by ajross 1y ago
9P is used everywhere in the VM ecosystem. It's clean and simple and well supported by almost all guests.
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by ajross 1y ago
> But if you pee on the strip and it changes color you lose weight faster than caloric restriction accounts for, if you eat too many peas and it stops changing color you don’t. And it's that logic exactly that I'm characteriz
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by ajross 1y ago
Once more, the kernel has never been responsible for managing userspace memory. If the userspace process directs the kernel to write to memory it didn't "intend" the kernel to write to, the kernel will happily do so. Think
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by ajross 1y ago
You (and the author) are misunderstanding. These are all userspace pointers. If the process passes the kernel a buffer and tells it to access it past the end, the kernel will happily do so. It applies all the standard memory protection r

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