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by api 13y ago
I wonder about the practical effect of this in the Real World(tm). When cryptographers talk about a "break," they mean anything faster than brute force search. So a break of a 128-bit algorithm that allows key recovery in 2^115 is
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by api 13y ago
But be careful when compressing. Never compress something secret together with something that an attacker can repeatedly influence, or you're possibly vulnerable to compressed length oracle attacks similar to CRIME.
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Internet centralization is not a conspiracy(blog.zerotier.com)
2 points by api 13y ago|1 comments
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by api 13y ago
I've been saying this forever. This is a political problem. Tech hacks aren't necessarily bad, but they can only go so far and all have major problems. There tends to be a trade-off between security and usability, which turns mo
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by api 13y ago
That requires transparency. If there is no transparency, we'll never know... and the administrators of these programs have every careerist incentive to put the best possible shine on them.
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by api 13y ago
"Calling all code coyboys! Come ride with us into the Ruby sunset!" I lol'd, but I did not respond.
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Rima Marius - A Manned Lunar Expedition to the Marius Hills(rimamarius.com)
2 points by api 13y ago|0 comments
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by api 13y ago
Combine this with the DEA / NSA data sharing and you have a recipe for the devastating financial harassment of dissidents. At this point the USA is not far from Putin's Russia in terms of totalitarianism and corruption.
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by api 13y ago
Almost certainly, provided you're running a recent-enough version. A snooper at the line level would be able to see that you were SSH'ing to a given system and the amount of data transferred, but nothing more. SSH has had very few
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by api 13y ago
I seriously doubt it would take us thousands of years to figure out how to store power at grid scale, especially if we got more serious about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_energy_storage The other solution is l
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by api 13y ago
That's a non sequitur. The tsunami was a natural disaster, and was probably unavoidable. The Japanese now have a 20-year radiation-spewing money pit, which was avoidable. My post was mostly about the future. Why build more potential mu
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by api 13y ago
In a free market I doubt we'd have nuclear either. All energy sources other than fossil fuels are the product of huge government R&D investments and huge subsidies.
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by api 13y ago
True-- for now. The question is: is it better to spend billions researching new generations of nuclear reactors or to spend billions working on energy storage? The former will lead to a switch from older, less concentrated fossil fuels to a
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by api 13y ago
This is simply unrelated. Fossil fuels are worth a lot of money and are frequently located in areas controlled by unstable regimes, hence wars. There are also wars over water, diamonds, gold, arable land, and any other high-value commodity
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by api 13y ago
We've never had a free market. Perhaps we should, but so far it's never existed.
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by api 13y ago
I don't see the actions of a huge, lumbering bureaucracy as a good predictor of the future.
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by api 13y ago
One thought: the use of a browser exploit to target Tor is perhaps an admission that onion routing itself is not easily cracked.
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by api 13y ago
Perhaps so, but at this point I'm starting to wonder if the point is moot. Solar is experience Moore's Law type effects in terms of cost per kW of installed capacity, and there is now immense R&D muscle behind energy storage d
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by api 13y ago
Fukushima converted me away from being a supporter of nuclear, or at least conventional nuclear. Maybe something like LFTR or WAMSR could re-open the debate in my mind, but the debate for conventional solid-phase reactor cores is pretty m
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by api 13y ago
Perhaps they wanted it to be noticed, to frighten people away from networks like Tor. In this case it's a double-hit: compromise a large number of Tor users and discourage more people from using it.
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by api 13y ago
Isn't there a massive stigma against solo founders? I get that impression from most of what I read.
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by api 13y ago
If you don't want to go full-vegan, whey protein isn't bad. But you shouldn't rely on any one source exclusively. Full-vegan options include quinoa, beans, lentils, and nuts. But I agree it's hard. You have to eat a lot
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by api 13y ago
While stuff like this is funny, it's trivial to filter out extreme "orgy of evidence" or "Christmas tree hits" from data sets. This would be far more effective if it only picked a couple for each visitor, maybe grou
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by api 13y ago
In other news: it's 2013 and people are still not using query builders.
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by api 13y ago
I can't wait to see the cognitive dissonance from the "natural" people. On one hand, it could quite possibly replace factory farming and eliminate a huge amount of waste, pollution, and animal cruelty. On the other hand, it&#
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by api 13y ago
One of the principal mechanisms used in the USA to maintain its system of oligarchy / tyranny is distraction of the population via "culture war" issues and identity politics. As long as people vote based on who they'd ra
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by api 13y ago
I think his point is that in the past, most musicians never got paid. Now no musicians ever get paid. We've traded a horrible, unequal, corrupt system for compensating artists for no system for compensating artists.
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by api 13y ago
That's actually incredibly optimistic... it means if someone has to struggle really really hard to get something, they're quite possibly better to teach it to others. The struggle itself imparts a unique skill that those that get
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by api 13y ago
Given that "rich" is relative, this could apply to the entire Western world vs the developing world. I'm a middle class American, but to a poor Chinese farmer I am filthy stinking rich and incredibly entitled.
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by api 13y ago
Worth a repost here: http://thetrichordist.com/2012/04/15/meet-the-new-boss-worse... So far I haven't heard a good answer as to how artists, musicians, and other creators will get paid in this new world.

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