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1. 10351.▲
   by api 8y ago

   Putting malicious code before the signature doesn't work because gpg chops it out. It only outputs the verified part. It is definitely a kludge though.
2. 10352.▲
   by api 8y ago

   Apple doesn't seem to care about that market. The iPhone ate the company, and its plans for the Mac seem unclear. This just helps cement Microsoft's relative monopoly on the business pro market outside software development.
3. 10353.▲
   by api 8y ago

   We came up with a way to do gpg verified curl | bash for ZeroTier. It still works without gpg too. Scroll down to Linux. https://zerotier.com/download.shtml
4. 10354.▲
   by api 8y ago

   Decentralization smears the cost over time and space as constant cost to everyone and constant small failures everywhere. Centralization concentrates it into smaller spaces and larger but rarer failures.
5. 10355.▲
   by api 8y ago

   If I were at Intel management I might explore with engineering resurrecting the Itanium (rebranded and modernized of course). Today with so much open source there is less instruction set lock in, and with all these vulnerabilities you might
6. 10356.▲
   by api 8y ago

   How do unions work so well in Germany? I've heard the whole system is different from American unions and less adversarial but I don't know the details.
7. 10357.▲
   by api 8y ago

   Skepticism is always warranted around speculations like this, but I've wondered for many years if there isn't a deliberate campaign to keep people in a state of fear. There's a fairly decent BBC piece that explores this idea:
8. 10358.▲
   by api 8y ago

   The thing that doesn't work with that argument is that our crime rates really were substantially higher back when we let our kids roam free. We aren't as safe as some countries but we're a lot safer than we were in, say, 1980
9. 10359.▲
   by api 8y ago

   I did those kinds of things too and a lot more. Crime rates were much higher back then and there were no cell phones or other easy communication devices that would allow the kid themselves or a random pedestrian or motorist to rapidly notif
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    by api 8y ago

    Here's a dumb idea: Could you drill a tunnel that's basically a chord (line between two points on a circle) that runs through the Earth between two surface locations, put a fully evacuated Hyperloop type system into it, and fire o
11. 10361.▲
    by api 8y ago

    Complex compilers seem better than complex chips because the former is software and can be fixed. I'm wondering these days if Intel was onto something with EPIC/Itanium and just failed in the execution.
12. 10362.▲
    by api 8y ago

    This can pretty much all be laid at the feet of overly complex CPU designs and instruction sets. Looks like complexity is as evil for security in hardware as it is in software. On the plus side part of why you see more of these kinds of att
13. 10363.▲
    by api 8y ago

    With the exception of college towns it's an almost perfect map of population density.
14. 10364.▲
    by api 8y ago

    With things like HFT what proportion of stock market transactions have economic value?
15. 10365.▲
    by api 8y ago

    The web long ago became not only a document store but also a thin client platform for distributing full client applications to end users. That cat is out of the bag and is not going to be stuffed back in. WASM is really just a cleaner, fast
16. 10366.▲
    by api 8y ago

    If done right fixing the jobs problem should be a net positive for the economy. I don't think it's malice. I think it's that most political leadership (of both parties) lives in coastal cities that haven't felt the pai
17. 10367.▲
    by api 8y ago

    Criminal drug prohibition belongs to a whole category of policy ideas that don't work and cause tremendous harm and yet are tried over and over and over again for ideological reasons. Others include things like (to be equal opportunity
18. 10368.▲
    by api 8y ago

    The ACA helped a bit but it did not affect the root cause: loss of solid well paying jobs with upward mobility.
19. 10369.▲
    by api 8y ago

    Think of it this way. Had wages continued to track productivity gains and the black white wage gap closed black workers would be making twice as much. If the trends hollowing out the middle class continue social justice won't matter. I
20. 10370.▲
    by api 8y ago

    An important point that I made above is that the time to do something about these issues was in the early 2000s. At this point the issue has been ignored for so long that people have lost all trust in the current establishment. They assume
21. 10371.▲
    by api 8y ago

    I think some of them know that. Would it really be any better if they'd not rioted in the voting booth? If anything the trends that are destroying the American working and middle class are accelerating. They have nothing to lose that
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    by api 8y ago

    Prediction: if Trump doesn't help, actively harms the situation, or gets chased out in scandal (all very likely) then the next Trump will make this Trump look like a moderate. Whether it's a far-right demagogue or a far-left demag
23. 10373.▲
    by api 8y ago

    I see what you're saying, but I think you're underestimating the effect of job loss, wage reduction, and general economic hollowing out. The thing that makes it impoverishment is that our economic system is inflationary. It's
24. 10374.▲
    by api 8y ago

    I've spoken to people who are cheering for these kinds of effects. An actual quote: "I hope Trump does as much damage as possible." The Trump and Brexit elections were for some people a kind of Luddite revolt -- not against t
25. 10375.▲
    by api 8y ago

    Those are very good points. I haven't stated my own personal views. I think I'd call myself a kind of disaffected libertarian. I don't use the L-word much anymore because it's been twisted and debased just like every oth
26. 10376.▲
    by api 8y ago

    Yes, that's what I mean, but here's the thing. Elon (for example) is nuevo riche . People who are brought up in elite families are usually taught noblesse oblige as part of their upbringing.
27. 10377.▲
    by api 8y ago

    I'm referring to his association with a certain milieu of people who are important figures in the development and promotion of what is today termed the alt-right. Association with movements like that (or the others I mentioned) is sort
28. 10378.▲
    by api 8y ago

    I think you're succumbing to a distortion brought about by Thiel's wealth and status. Ordinary people make blanket oversimplified statements all the time but because these people don't have such elevated status those statemen
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    by api 8y ago

    This is a very good interview. The click bait title doesn't do it justice. I find myself agreeing with a huge fraction of what Thiel says, but I also find myself unable to actually agree with him. The block for me is admittedly his p
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    by api 8y ago

    > To be fair, I feel the same way every time I see an article saying that some other city has it just as bad if not worse than Flint. It's indicative of a race to the bottom mentality. "Yeah, we're terrible, but we're