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   by api 11y ago

   Maybe they backdoored P-256 and they think the backdoor may have leaked. That would inspire panic, especially since quite a few financial networks and military systems are protected by it.
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   by api 11y ago

   Is NIST P-256 the same curve that Bitcoin uses? https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Secp256k1 Edit: NO, but it's a relative and has a similar background. Bitcoin is an interesting player here because it's in effect th
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   by api 11y ago

   Yes, I've seen this too, and in Orange County (SoCal) there are houses being bought like this and then nothing is done with them at all. They just sit there. I guess you can get away with it in a climate that never freezes so no issues
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   by api 11y ago

   This is too bad... I would be very interested in something like this. I'd be curious about more details as to why it failed as a business. Were its costs too high? I wonder if it was more or less a victim of the insanely high real esta
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   by api 11y ago

   So basically we're paying feudal land dues to Russian oligarchs?
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   by api 11y ago

   I don't understand how present housing prices are possible. Don't markets require buyers? Look at prices in most cities vs. the average family income and it's beyond insane. Who is actually able to buy at these prices and whe
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   by api 11y ago

   I hate lazy heuristics like Betteridge's Law. The only thing it accomplishes is to make writers think 'hmm... if I'm going to explore this topic I should restate my title in some form other than a question so idiots won'
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   by api 11y ago

   I wrote some code for this beast once: http://adam.ierymenko.name/files/MersenneTwister32_spe.cpp Was working on genetic algorithms at the time and managed to port one to run on the Cell. It's a good "embarra
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   by api 11y ago

   So on one hand we're carrying around little location-aware sensors that upload all kinds of tracking data to who-knows-where, enabling unprecedented tracking of human beings and their movements at incredibly high resolution. We also vo
10. 13300.▲
    by api 11y ago

    Empirically, very few people lose races due to broken legs.
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    by api 11y ago

    With the opening of seed investment to the general public, I unfortunately think you're going to see a huge increase in professional investor scams. I fully expect organized crime to get involved. Of course anyone can go blow their mon
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    by api 11y ago

    "even some high-profile investors that include [Mark Cuban] have not seen the uBeam working." I don't understand how people can raise money like this. Investors usually like to actually see evidence that you are actually doin
13. 13303.▲
    by api 11y ago

    This is one of the things I like about Go: it's "done." In exchange for passing on extensions that might make certain use cases easier, we'll avoid the bloat and have decades of backward compatibility. We just came out o
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    by api 11y ago

    Then do you believe that alcohol should be illegal and that alcohol sellers and users should go to jail? If not you are a hypocrite. I have alcoholics in my family and I've also known users of other "hard" drugs, and alcohol
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    by api 11y ago

    Different people seem to have different propensity for addiction, and it is likely genetic. There's also such thing as psychological dependence, which is different from physical addiction but can be just as powerful. I don't think
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    by api 11y ago

    I've known heroin users, and I also know chronic alcoholics. Heavy consumption of alcohol is at least as bad as a heroin habit and can be as hard or harder to quit. Both are fairly dangerous drugs. One is legal.
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    Search for intelligent aliens near bizarre dimming star has begun(space.com)

    1 points by api 11y ago|0 comments
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    by api 11y ago

    He also lost me when he attacked React. React makes developing web UIs sane. It's a web UI framework written by grownups who took a CS class. UI is a pure function of state. Why is that so hard? The fact of the matter is this: the web
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    by api 11y ago

    This issue is intimately bound up with the workaholic culture issue. Older people often have families and lives and aren't interested in 80 hour work weeks, and they've also kind of wised up to the fact that someone demanding an 8
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    by api 11y ago

    In many cases failure to helicopter parent is a crime. If a minor under, say, 14 or 15 is caught without an adult their parents can be cited for neglect.
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    by api 11y ago

    I wonder if this is why fasting may be healthy: it flushes marginal cells.
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    by api 11y ago

    Every 5 or 10 years there is a big study that gives rise to a health fad: antioxidants, low fat, high fat, low carb, no carb, complex carbs, red wine, ... These are then almost predictably found to either be bunk or gross oversimplification
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    by api 11y ago

    I heard once about someone setting up a ghetto CMS by hosting a static site on Amazon S3 and then having it pull dynamic content from the Google Docs "Sheets" API somehow. Then you could edit Google spreadsheets to fill it in. Ghe
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    by api 11y ago

    It sounds like what really happened was that Pakistan (or elements therein) was protecting him, sold him out (or someone did for money), and the US just went in and mopped him up... and then sexed up the story to help re-elect Obama and pro
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    by api 11y ago

    Interestingly, I recall reading once (forget where) that Gibson didn't see his world as that pessimistic. It was no utopia, but it was also not a radioactive post-WWIII or post-ecological-collapse wasteland. Keep in mind he was writi
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    by api 11y ago

    I re-read Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive a while back, and was absolutely struck by how accurate his view of the future was. I mean obviously many nit-picky details were wrong, but the general feel of what the 21st century
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    by api 11y ago

    So Curve25519 is pretty much rock solid unless (a) someone discovers genuinely new math or (b) we get a practical quantum computer with enough coherent qubits to actually run the ECC variant of Shor's algorithm. Note the qualifications
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    by api 11y ago

    Question I don't know the answer to: Is there any chance that ECC is vulnerable to similar issues with static universally agreed upon constants. In ECC these are curves, and is it feasible to "pre-crack" a curve? Or is the sp
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    by api 11y ago

    https://www.digitalocean.com/ https://www.softlayer.com/ https://www.vultr.com/ https://www.linode.com/ https://www.arpnetworks.com/ https://www
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    by api 11y ago

    Google Compute doesn't even support IPv6 and Google is a big pro-IPv6 company. I suspect that somewhere under the hood these services are using some expensive enterprise SDN stuff that still doesn't support IPv6.