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14011.
by api 12y ago
Outbreeding is one possibility. There are now more people migrating than ever before, and over long distances. In the past most people stayed very close to where they were born, which greatly increased the odds of inbreeding especially amon
14012.
by api 12y ago
For the most part if you're using modern software you can ignore it and it'll just happen automatically. Your software probably already supports it, so if you just turn it on it will just work. The main user-facing and developer-f
14013.
by api 12y ago
Or alternately: the best way to raise is to develop your product/business. While "if you build it they will come" does not work well for (most) products, I have seen it sort of work for investors. If you have traction and som
14014.
by api 12y ago
ZeroTier - Orange County, CA - No Remote https://angel.co/zerotier/jobs/51250-zerotier-one-employee-o... The post says contingent on funding, but that is pretty much a done deal at this point. Time frame is about
14015.
by api 12y ago
Interesting bit of possible artistic prescience: wasn't San Francisco the global capital in Star Trek?
14016.
by api 12y ago
A lot of people forget about small and embedded devices.
14017.
by api 12y ago
AMD's problem for a long time has been power consumption. They have had the performance per dollar crown, but their stuff runs hot. Only place I ever see them is gamer market and some servers.
14018.
by api 12y ago
Because the "conspiracy theory" charge is used to successfully lump all investigative journalism in with people who think the queen of england is a reptile.
14019.
by api 12y ago
Lol. Yeah, those were fun times. Old school IRC was basically a non stop CTF tournament. I wrote TextBox on a Linux 486 with kernel 0.99.15 I think, or maybe 1.0.x, and a shell account on a Sun SparcStation via a local ISP. http:/&#x2
14020.
by api 12y ago
I wrote an Irc script called TextBox as a teenager. Among other things it was one of the first that could implement Irc bots via DCC RAW tcp connections from the script itself, allowing you to martial armies of channel takeover bots. Seemed
14021.
by api 12y ago
Our society accepts violence and gore over sexuality in most circumstances. It's an attribute of a culture whose roots are fundamentally puritan and warlike.
14022.
by api 12y ago
Replace "use ActiveX" with "drive smashed-arse drunk" or "commit premeditated murder." Same answer.
14023.
by api 12y ago
"Disallow: /sr/extra-small-teen-porn" Yeah someone got pwned, or had a serious HR incident.
14024.
by api 12y ago
Microsoft has already announced that they will do their own 'spin' on WebRTC. Chrome and Mozilla WebRTC are not perfectly compatible in the field from what I hear. I predict failure.
14025.
by api 12y ago
It's always important to keep in mind that these things can be double-edged swords. There may be a tradeoff between plasticity and things like depth of focus on single subjects or the wide-ranging associations that characterize "w
14026.
by api 12y ago
"All malware, no matter the details of its code, authorship, or execution, must consume power. And, as PFP has found, the signature of malware’s power usage looks very different from the baseline power draw of a chip’s standard operati
14027.
by api 12y ago
It's entirely possible. I have some folks I'm working with right now who are not super-technical. I need to send them some bank account digits. This is surprisingly challenging. I mean all I want to do is to encrypt a set of very
14028.
by api 12y ago
NAT-t is a common technique. It's used by among other things SIP phones, and is a part of the WebRTC standard. It's basically a security vulnerability that became a de-facto standard because NAT was concocted by demons who gargle
14029.
by api 12y ago
Just a random simile. Google the Paris subway system. I'm sure the power grid is even scribblier.
14030.
by api 12y ago
TCP/IP is perfectly fine. It's the security of endpoints (OSes, language runtimes, etc.) that sucks and is largely responsible for our perpetual security disaster. Why do we still have buffer overflows in 2015? OSI would not save
14031.
by api 12y ago
IPv6 has a bit of this disease. From what I can tell the core of IPv6 is fine, but it has too many extensions and many are half baked or over-engineered. IMHO the core of IPv6 will get adopted and will work just fine and the rest will get l
14032.
by api 12y ago
OSI sounds "enterprise." :)
14033.
by api 12y ago
TL;DR: TCP/IP shipped. (Edit: first . Some OSI stuff did ship, as another poster pointed out, but much later and by then it didn't matter.) I also must point out that the history of spec-ahead-of-time massive bureaucratic network
14034.
by api 12y ago
True -- if you take this too far you get into the flimsier parts of evolutionary psychology. On irrational confidence I've long wondered about whether Dunning-Krueger type effects are adaptive. If we had a rational image of our level o
14035.
by api 12y ago
I'm considering the idea that the thinking subject in this case is best conceptualized as a vehicle for genes. In that case survival/prosperity has a completely different and even alien meaning from what we typically imagine. To g
14036.
by api 12y ago
Ahh, the TCP version of keep alive a.k.a. killing kittens. This elaborates on the more general problem. :) https://www.zerotier.com/blog/?p=226
14037.
by api 12y ago
Maybe some group of aliens distributed oil and other valuable minerals unevenly across the Earth, and now they're watching and laughing and running betting pools.
14038.
by api 12y ago
I often wonder if it's truly as irrational as we think, or if the fallacy is assuming that all our behavior should be viewed exclusively as centered upon the individual. A lot of weirdness looks logical from the perspective of what I c
14039.
by api 12y ago
This is America, where infrastructure is communism. I mean if we provide good infrastructure, pretty soon we'll be sending people to gulags or something like they do in Europe and Canada.
14040.
by api 12y ago
Even if such a thing were included, it is utterly unenforceable without breaking encryption and rendering all e-commerce and other secure uses of the Internet compromised.

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