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10531.
by api 8y ago
Perhaps I wasn't nuanced enough. I think Elon is better than average at the art of defying Nash equilibria -- both in the raising of funds to "disrupt" industries and in the execution of disruption. This is not necessarily th
10532.
by api 8y ago
I have a new personal hypothesis on Elon and his companies. Elon's companies are not necessarily better run than other companies, and in some cases are worse run. Their success and Elon's cult status as an innovator is a result no
10533.
by api 8y ago
Gogs is another great foss git alternative, and easier to run for small sites. We use it at ZeroTier.
10534.
by api 8y ago
He gets among other things its power as a rhetorical force multiplier and how it will be used to end democracy and any form of large scale public discourse. Think "individualized con artistry at scale." One person or small group c
10535.
by api 8y ago
If I were to place a bet I'd bet that Speck in particular is fine. It's so damn simple there is just no place to put a lever. But... it would not be a very large bet. :)
10536.
by api 8y ago
Wasn't that a past NSA under different leadership? Today's NSA may behave differently.
10537.
by api 8y ago
Possible but unlikely. Bureaucracies generally aren't that subtile. It is a good idea to be paranoid in crypto though. If I thought my adversary would be a nation state or anything else so powerful I would take a defense in depth appro
10538.
by api 8y ago
Why is this a debate? Seriously. There probably wouldn't be a debate if malaria were a big problem here.
10539.
by api 8y ago
These days I would not use any cipher pushed by any government unless the entire design process itself was done in the open. Chinese and Russian ciphers inspire even less confidence.
10540.
by api 8y ago
They are not. These ciphers were rejected. AES is fine and we have great alternatives like Salsa/ChaCha too.
10541.
by api 8y ago
There is also no real need. Reduced round Salsa/ChaCha (12 rounds) is tiny and likely fast enough for the quantities of data any microcontroller would need to push over a network. Those ciphers were designed in the open and have been h
10542.
by api 8y ago
That was what I observed too. Never been a big user of the site but I used to stop by from time to time. A year or two ago it was brigaded by fascists and now it's dead. Can't stand it for more than 10 seconds.
10543.
by api 8y ago
How is asset forfeiture not precisely the system of police bribery and police corruption that we routinely criticize "third world" countries for having?
10544.
by api 8y ago
Flat Earth is kind of an interesting thought experiment if treated as such. It reveals just how much of our basic knowledge comes through intermediaries and how being able to trust other people is epistemologically extremely important. The
10545.
by api 8y ago
4chan is smaller and tighter. It's a different beast. Reddit is massive and those boards account for a small percentage of its activity.
10546.
by api 8y ago
People (both individuals and as groups such as corporations) have freely decided that they do not want to donate their resources to providing a platform for people to advocate genocide or to systematically denigrate 50% or more of the popul
10547.
by api 8y ago
From what I can see /pol/ in particular is extremely popular and massively influential in the promotion of shockingly vile politics of a sort that until recently I've never encountered anywhere even close to the mainstream. I
10548.
by api 8y ago
... and people wonder why web apps are conquering the world. This is how painful it is to ship software for major platforms. Windows is by far the worst. Apple and Android are a bit better but not really great.
10549.
by api 8y ago
Three reasons I think: (1) The closer you get to the front end (especially GUIs), the further you get from algorithms and other mathematical certainties and the closer you get to something that's more a matter of design and fashion. Pe
10550.
by api 8y ago
People are only now realizing this?
10551.
by api 8y ago
It needs to be as good as an average human. Do we have enough stats to compare yet?
10552.
by api 8y ago
Self driving strikes me as a technology with a hard boolean quality threshold. Either it is as good as a human or it just doesn't work. This is a lot like rocketry. A rocket that meets 95% of its design requirements explodes, crashes,
10553.
by api 8y ago
This demonstrates nicely that the "we need the cloud to do good voice analytics" argument is baloney. Local voice recognition is perfectly do-able, especially on today's hardware with today's cheap storage. They need the
10554.
by api 8y ago
Decentralized DNS and distributed CAs are possibilities, but those are quite close to a distributed trustless currency in that they apportion a finite resource or assign trust.
10555.
by api 8y ago
How to determine if you need a block chain: (1) Are you building a fully decentralized global ledger for use by multiple parties that do not share a common basis of trust? If YES: Congratulations! You might need a block chain. If NO: You do
10556.
by api 8y ago
I was not arguing otherwise. Whenever I bring up issues like this I get a lot of "shoot the messenger." My point was not that environmental concerns are wrong but that they do tend to decrease the economic well being of poor and m
10557.
by api 8y ago
The poor and especially the middle class account for the vast majority of consumption and pollution in aggregate. Per capita the rich consume more, but not as much more as you might think. The typical multi-millionaire or even billionaire
10558.
by api 8y ago
That can work to a point, but if environmental policies permanently increase the cost of things like energy then poverty reduction programs must pay that cost. That in turn inflates the cost of poverty reduction programs, making them requir
10559.
by api 8y ago
Environmental policy is probably the main factor that has driven a wedge between progressives/liberals and the working class. Nearly all environmental regulations are regressive when considered as taxes. The rich can afford to pay more
10560.
by api 8y ago
> In the 90s we called this feature "mobile code" and thought it might be the future of distributed computing. Today we call it a "code injection attack" and recognize how enormously dangerous it is. This sentence nea

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