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12691.
by api 11y ago
The main reason this cites is correct: Bernstein's algorithms are simpler and easier to implement correctly than RSA, DSA, or even AES. They're smaller in code, easier to port, and easier to understand. Barring major problems with
12692.
by api 11y ago
New York is larger than LA and has very good transit.
12693.
by api 11y ago
Tangent but: I live in SoCal, and I can't get my head around the car culture mentality. Of all the places that should be walkable, one that is 80 degrees and sunny 90% of the entire year should rank very high on the list. But nooo....
12694.
by api 11y ago
Path-dependence from the initial starting position. Life on Earth has a certain type of biochemistry, and that biology (DNA+RNA pathways, a certain set of nucleic acids, etc.) may be only one data point in a huge array of potential biologie
12695.
by api 11y ago
If we discovered other aliens we'd have a sample size of two at least, which would enable us to say something a little more meaningful about the distribution of life in the universe. As far as discovering species on Earth: we have many
12696.
by api 11y ago
The simple fact is that we have one example of a biosphere: Earth. You can't say much of anything meaningful from a sample size of one. We have no idea what aliens could be like, how many there might be, etc. until we either go find so
12697.
by api 11y ago
It's not on the coast.
12698.
by api 11y ago
I figured it was fiction by the end, but I couldn't really tell. I can't tell the difference between fiction/satire and reality anymore. The world is too strange.
12699.
Silicon: C++14 web framework(siliconframework.org)
29 points by api 11y ago|14 comments
12700.
by api 11y ago
So far it looks like the choice is between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. I like some of what Sanders stands for in the abstract but as a candidate I don't find him terribly compelling for multiple reasons. There's just nobody
12701.
by api 11y ago
I've seen crazier. :)
12702.
by api 11y ago
That's the tip of the iceberg of the things you can't do on iOS. There's also little stuff like (easily) install your own software, develop anything non-trivial, etc.
12703.
by api 11y ago
There's also a steep difference in the tolerances you can permit. A rocket -- especially one with any hope of reusability -- is something that can't be built without getting very very close to the maximum tolerances possible withi
12704.
by api 11y ago
It could work until they have an accident, at which point the double meaning will kick in hard-core... especially since the traditional airline industry will PR flak them. (Flak pun intended.)
12705.
by api 11y ago
Given SpaceX's well documented experience, I would not trust any cost estimates from the legacy aerospace industry. It's a deeply moribund field as a result of decades of stagnation and dependence on government/military fundi
12706.
by api 11y ago
CueCat was funded under one of the late 90s trendy buzz-concepts: media bridging. The idea was that there would emerge ways of linking new and old media. Of course the obvious way was to print a hyperlink, but evidently investors thought pe
12707.
by api 11y ago
Wow, yes that would end it. Doubtful but not unimaginable. Coastal and white collar America simply do not understand that rural, interior, and blue collar America have been stuck in a depression since 2000. The downhill slide actually start
12708.
by api 11y ago
This is the entire reason for Trump being a viable candidate at all, let alone winning.
12709.
by api 11y ago
Does that mean the rest of the digits of pi are not "real," at least according to a realist rather than a Platonic philosophical position on the meaning and nature of mathematics? Seems like you could argue that digits beyond what
12710.
by api 11y ago
Did anything ever come of YC's "one million jobs" RFP?
12711.
by api 11y ago
Eugenics means curing the disease by killing the patient-- sometimes literally. That's the opposite of improving the human condition. It's also terribly totalitarian, and posits that some committee has the ability (let alone t
12712.
by api 11y ago
That's pretty blunt, but you are pointing out something real: all traits including intelligence are normally distributed, and the average IQ is 100. Nobody wants to talk about this for the same reason that the abused wife and children
12713.
by api 11y ago
Unchecked arrogance vs... Wall St.? DC? Do those power centers help people build wealth? I see a bit of East side West side rivalry in this stuff. Silicon Valley didn't implement regressive taxation and unfair trade policies in the 197
12714.
by api 11y ago
This suggests -- and this is supported by brain mass studies -- that if the brain is not subjected to strong selection for power/efficiency/ability then you get a kind of "fatty brain" that takes up space but doesn'
12715.
by api 11y ago
How does that help security? IPv6 has usability problems (I've written on this), but these are unrelated to security in any direct way. The reason I call it toxic is that the idea that NAT helps security is a harmful superstition that
12716.
by api 11y ago
That's unbelievably mysterious, since one would assume there to be some minimum amount of absolute processing power needed for this stuff. It's like saying CPU to overall device size determines processing power, so a 12-core Xeo
12717.
by api 11y ago
I just realized the biggest irony about San Francisco: by working to block development to prevent San Francisco from physically changing, the NIMBYs are driving real estate hyperinflation that is destroying its culture. A pro-development
12718.
by api 11y ago
NAT is not a security feature. Please stop repeating this toxic drivel. NAT is not the same as firewalls, and firewalls do not require NAT. NAT is just an ugly hack to stretch IPV4's inadequate address space, and it's one that b
12719.
by api 11y ago
What people (including these yahoos) fail to understand is that every attack against Donald Trump increases his popularity. If they want to help him get elected, this is the best way. He's a troll. Running for President of the United S
12720.
by api 11y ago
IRC lacks message persistence across devices and sessions, which is a hard requirement today. It could be implemented but would require distributed storage, queueing, etc. between servers.

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