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by andreyf 11y ago
If this works, can it be used as an example for better public schools? Even if it's more expensive, one can argue that the increased productivity of well educated kids outweighs the cost of their education.
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I do mean this to seem flippant; do you realize the NSA and CIA are not the same thing?
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Nice rant. The last two paragraphs threw me off, though... how exactly is the CIA Director involved in shaping the future landscape of massive data collection?
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Lavabit held an encryption key that could decrypt evidence of a crime. They received a subpoena for that key. They followed what was likely any lawyer's advice to comply with the lawful subpoena (ordered by a judge, not a TLA). This re
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by andreyf 11y ago
This is absolutely FUD, even if you don't intend it to be. By what mechanism do you suppose the TLA boogeymen could compel ISRG to give up their private keys, and how would a team of lawyers make one exempt from such mechanisms? Let&#x
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by andreyf 11y ago
What do you mean common stock is discounted to preferred? If all goes to plan, does liquidity preference matter?
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by andreyf 11y ago
Does anyone else get bothered by the lack of realism in flashy mockups like this? I get that it's 15 years in the future, but are fading ellipses over-imposed on a video of Mars really going to be what NASA looks at to visualize a traj
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by andreyf 11y ago
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
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by andreyf 11y ago
I would recommend adding a non-public way of talking about this. People might be more willing to give genuine advice about this in a non-public forum. There is a certain amount of legitimate paranoia which comes on anyone who is technically
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by andreyf 11y ago
Did you read the article? It claims internet.org is not limited internet: > Mark Zuckerberg had come out in defence of the programme, saying it did not block or throttle services and is not in conflict with net neutrality.
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by andreyf 11y ago
Because the spread of a network made and paid for by advertisers will hinder the spread of the network most of us have now, which is mostly paid for by the users. Internet.org is not mis-named, it's an intentional hijacking of the &quo
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by andreyf 11y ago
I think GCP's long term strategy is still to move all devops work into Google. They've stated this with GAE for awhile, and this is a logical extension move as part of that strategy for app devs who like to "SSH into their ma
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by andreyf 11y ago
She was Provost there from '93 to '99, which is a little more than teaching [1]. I think that while her willingness to go with the Bush administration's extremist positions (on torture and surveillance, especially) are a dark
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Could you expound on what the use of asymmetric crypto if not for authentication? https actually uses symmetric encryption for content and public/private for authentication, iirc. I don't think undersea fiber lines alone would sto
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by andreyf 11y ago
No, the definition of mis-issuing a cert is when you issue a Google cert to someone who isn't Google. Not doing due diligence on what people to whom you've issued a cert are doing with it is a little different. This is just semant
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That shouldn't be possible after OS X 10.11: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Integrity_Protection
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by andreyf 11y ago
So, the next Trojan version of Xcode also needs to replace or corrupt spctl. I think that's what SIP is for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Integrity_Protection
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by andreyf 11y ago
Well, routing everything through them via DNS obviously means less code in your application, so that's nice. Also, a CDN which routes all of your traffic via DNS can also take advantage of a private network to get the packets to your u
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by andreyf 11y ago
I'm no expert, but one hard sub-problem seems to be authentication, the thing that certificate authorities aim to solve. Which encrypted IP standard are you thinking of, and how does it provide authentication? Not everything needs encr
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by andreyf 11y ago
Why do people flip out? Could it be that there are hard sub-problems to implementing it that might not be worth the cost or increased risk? A lot of connections are encrypted with https now, why is that not enough? How do you imagine it bei
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by andreyf 11y ago
For emphasis there is italics , which you can make by adding asterisks around the word.
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Got it. Thank you for the thorough explanation!
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CNNIC did not mis-use or mis-issue certs, but issued a cert to an Egyptian company which mis-used it, iirc.
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Sorry for not expounding, that was indeed a bit opaque. I don't have first hand experience with the industry and so would appreciate any corrections to my understanding of it. When research is done via contract between two companies, i
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One option: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_research_organization
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It's hard to tell sarcasm over this medium, but are you suggesting that being asking someone questions about their travel plans and retaining notes derived from to the answers is not an appropriate power to give the TSA? Is there any c
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I think questions at a border don't really fall under the fifth, as you're submitting to them voluntarily because you want to get in the country. You can refuse to answer any question, of course, but then the border agents can ref
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Also, the somewhat more troubling genetic explanation for individual's achievements (e.g. von Neumann), based on anecdotes from "some guy who knew him" and "some guy who works at MIT". Genetics surely has a part to
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That's probably because the size of decimal digits written down on a piece of paper is in log.
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Good point. I wonder how useful that is in practice with the amount of traffic going through the Tor network. It seems to me that the more people use it, the harder it would be to get accurate correlations. That said, I wouldn't be sur

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