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1. 9271.▲
   by api 7y ago

   That is straight up abuse and you should absolutely look for another job.
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   by api 7y ago

   Once a group of students from nearby UCI were touring our co-working space as part of some kind of conference. One student asked me a question I'd never been asked before: what are the occupational hazards of the programming profession
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   by api 7y ago

   My favorite wild hypothesis about Oumuamua is that it was a spent deceleration stage from a multi-stage interstellar fusion rocket. Maybe another spent stage is headed our way. If it's at a lower velocity it would support that conjectu
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   by api 7y ago

   I've been talking about the prophecies of William Gibson for some time. He seems to have nailed the 21st century more than any other sci-fi writer.
5. 9275.▲
   by api 7y ago

   If things don't change there will be radical political shifts. Both hard left socialism and hard right fascism are on the table from what I can see. We are in for interesting times.
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   by api 7y ago

   I assume that virtually all mobile apps are sharing your data. That's the entire business model of mobile: offer a "free" service as a pretext to get an app onto the phone and then spy on the user as much as possible. It&#x27
7. 9277.▲
   by api 7y ago

   The problem is that this illustrates what's wrong with highly deflationary currencies. Who wants to spend a currency that could appreciate by over 10,000X if you just "hodl" it? That's why Bitcoin has actually been aband
8. 9278.▲
   by api 7y ago

   Evolution is learning, so this implies that learning in some form is intrinsic to matter and that the quantum->classical transition represents some kind of learning process, which is absolutely fascinating. I also think it has implicatio
9. 9279.▲
   by api 7y ago

   I spent about 10 bitcoins on a coffee. I've talked to loads of people with the same sort of story. Truth is that I never believed BTC could be worth what it is and in a way I still don't. I think its valuation is ludicrous given i
10. 9280.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I think no-hope talk might have a paradoxical motivating effect and in a way conveys how bad it could be if we get anything south of a median scenario.
11. 9281.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I am way off topic right now, but this is what chills me about some of the ideologies that I see people perpetuating online. Ultimately whether we get the future we are discussing or something much better will depend on ideas. Be very caref
12. 9282.▲
    by api 7y ago

    We seem to be failing to cooperate at scale to phase out carbon intensive energy sources and curtail the problem. The next test will be whether we will cooperate at scale to adapt to the change or descend into war and genocide. If a disastr
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    by api 7y ago

    I think a less extreme version of your scenario is a dark possibility in the future. After the explosion of neo-racism and fascism and similar ideologies in recent years I found myself wondering what would happen if liberalism did in fact f
14. 9284.▲
    by api 7y ago

    iOS with its total walled garden and curated App Store is great for non-computer-people. What we're seeing is the bifurcation of computing into devices and software for computer aficionados, programmers, hobbyists, and others who want
15. 9285.▲
    by api 7y ago

    This site isn't the only source for this information. I've been hearing about China's grey market organ trade and the government's refusal to do anything about it (or possible complicity) for at least a decade. It's
16. 9286.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Based on past performance there is a strong case for skepticism of <insert psychological theory, psychometric test, or treatment here>. The brain is perhaps the most complex structure in the known universe. In addition psychedelics ar
17. 9287.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Sure, but their GDP has gone up and they invest a lot and the Shenzhen tech scene is cool so nobody cares. Saudi Arabia is another such nation that gets the red carpet treatment in the West for the large amount of investment capital it toss
18. 9288.▲
    by api 7y ago

    When the money is flowing, people look the other way. It's how someone like Epstein (or Jimmy Saville in the UK for another example) can function for so long. They throw money around. A similar money induced blindness drives financial
19. 9289.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Your advice is good in most circumstances, and may end up being what we do. In any case the mode I cooked up has after a few minor tweaks essentially converged with AES-(CMAC|PMAC)-SIV but with GMAC in the MAC slot and with an extra AES-ECB
20. 9290.▲
    by api 7y ago

    If someone takes that as advice they shouldn't be writing crypto, which means they'll probably both ignore your better advice and screw it up in ways far worse than using a small IV. :)
21. 9291.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Wasn't the housing bubble driven in part by a form of passive investing, namely bundling mortgages (one of the "safest private investments")? Economic systems are feedback loops. If something is the best investment that cause
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    by api 7y ago

    > 3. NMR systems where the nonce isn't necessarily large enough to safely use randomly, but the system doesn't fail catastrophically on the rare occasions they collide. That's what I'm interested in, yes, though makin
23. 9293.▲
    by api 7y ago

    For now, but edge computing diminishes the role of the mainframe. This makes it easier to replace the mainframe. Eventually someone will do that. Previous PCs came from chips and designs that were originally built to power terminals for mai
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    by api 7y ago

    > the logic used here is alarming. Why? I agree that a larger nonce would be better and that's possible, but even with a larger nonce not having sudden total compromise of authentication on nonce duplication would be a good thing wo
25. 9295.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Professional cryptographers will definitely look at it. Doing design research first.
26. 9296.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I'm not 100% sure either and am looking into it. FIPS is a rats nest and it may "depend." At this point I was just looking for basic feedback as to whether anyone could see any obvious problems. One person did suggest using a
27. 9297.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I'd rather not waste a cryptographer's time with something that contains flaws that Guy On SO can spot. I do know enough about cryptography to generally tell if Guy On SO seems to know what they're talking about or not.
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    by api 7y ago

    SIV-type schemes use the message content to guard against accidental message IV duplication, which can occur for numerous reasons including bad random sources, loss of storage, or just a smaller IV. They use the message content and message
29. 9299.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Yes that would happen. Blogging and fishing for public comments is round one.
30. 9300.▲
    by api 7y ago

    FIPS is a double-edged sword in my experience. On one hand it does set a standard to keep total snake oil crypto out of government. On the other hand it often has the side effect of mandating worse and older crypto and slowing update cycles