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by blintz 6y ago
It's funny how prescient "Eternal War in Memory" feels: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dawnsong/papers/Oakland13-... Of course, it's slightly dated, but a lot of the points feel truly '
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by blintz 7y ago
TA'd this class! It's a great intro, if a little dated. The best assignment, in my opinion, is the last (code generation). It's also the easiest to do independently, since you can just see if your compiled programs produce th
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by blintz 7y ago
Agreed, but still radically simpler than the convoluted means testing that we do now. If welfare critics care about the efficiency of the public dollar, this seems like a simple measure to get more benefit at lower cost.
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by blintz 7y ago
Three weeks is very long to lock down 6.7 million people. I assume that enforcement will be assisted by someone like the National Guard. Wonder if there will be a large fleeing out of the area (since people are not forbidden from leaving).
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by blintz 7y ago
I hope we can move to a world with ubiquitous two-factor and hardware roots of trust (FIDO2, U2F, etc) across enterprises. That is the only way I see things like this ending.
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by blintz 7y ago
This is actually against the WebAuthn spec ( https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn-1/#credential-loss-key-mobili... ). Hope they fix it soon.
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by blintz 7y ago
Even if the malware hijacks your session tokens, using something like WebAuthn prevents silent theft of a password, which is much more powerful (allows creation of new sessions).
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by blintz 7y ago
I think “microagressions” is a bit of an understatement. Also not sure that being stereotyped as “socially awkward” is comparable to experiencing or even just witnessing sexual harassment. Women in tech report more mistreatment than in many
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by blintz 7y ago
So the ‘additional stage’ works exactly like a branch then, right?
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by blintz 7y ago
In principle, I think that all or almost all CSRF could be prevented with just ‘samesite’ cookies and careful engineering. In practice, the same origin policy is a very good ‘safe default’ for the long tail of sited that for whatever reason
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by blintz 7y ago
How do people feel about the research ethics of this? Many academic studies involve the use of MTurk participants, but it seems as though they are not being paid close to a living or even fair wage ($2 an hour is abysmal!). Should universit
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by blintz 8y ago
Surely the law should apply no matter how “innovative” your company is. Yes, the SEC should also be held responsible for its failure to go after banks, but this is not mutually exclusive with action against Tesla.
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by blintz 9y ago
"Things that are actually health promoting, like having a full-time parent to care for the kids and primary breadwinner" Are families with two working parents actually less healthy? Do you have a source for that?
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by blintz 9y ago
Uh, mind sharing where you got those numbers? The budget for TfL I see here says a total operational cost of 10.2 billion pounds ( http://content.tfl.gov.uk/transport-for-london-budget-2017-1... )
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by blintz 9y ago
Not quite true. More auto accident deaths than opioid overdose deaths. From your own link: "According to the Center for Disease Control, in 2015 52,404 people died from drug overdoses in the United States. 33,091 of those deaths involv
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by blintz 9y ago
Republican House member Lamar Smith: "The E.P.A. routinely stacks this board with friendly scientists who receive millions of dollars in grants from the federal government. The conflict of interest here is clear." Yes, how dare th
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by blintz 10y ago
I'm really curious how this all-in-one concept will compare to the Slack approach of chat as the central functionality augmented by a bunch of integrations with external services.
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by blintz 10y ago
> More importantly, travelers are not legally required to unlock their devices, although agents can detain them for significant periods of time if they do not. What kind of ridiculous technicality is that? Detainment isn't supposed
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by blintz 10y ago
No word on switching back to open source. Their YubiKey NEO was open source; not sure why insist on proprietary code for the YubiKey 4. I'm frankly not comfortable with this kind of "security by obscurity". https:/&#x2F
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Nokia Sues Apple Over Alleged Patent Infringement(bloomberg.com)
2 points by blintz 10y ago|0 comments
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by blintz 10y ago
Depends on how you count. If you look at the metropolitan area, it's the 7th densest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
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by blintz 10y ago
> Inevitably they want to use public transit as an instrument for various social policies. Yes, "social policies" like transit that's accessible to the disabled, elderly, and poor. Would you prefer planning that tells thos
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by blintz 10y ago
So then what's your alternative? Would you prefer a system without politicians? What kind of system is that? We must elect trustworthy politicians, we must make it harder for big money to interfere, and we must have faith in our govern
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by blintz 10y ago
Term limits won't do a damn thing to curtail lobbying. Lobbyists love having lots of fresh blood just looking to make a quick buck flooding the legislature. The limits create a constantly revolving legislature that is easier to manipul
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by blintz 10y ago
"PR agency" is quite the stretch. If you read the actual email ( https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/10634 ) instead of the poor secondhand accounts you linked, you'll see that there's a sta
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by blintz 10y ago
> "we did use the WordPress open source library for a minor part of the application" Well, now you must release the source code of that whole application, immediately. There's no argument to be had, no "I did not even
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by blintz 10y ago
I'd strongly recommend The Little Schemer (Friedman and Felleisen). It's written without the expectation that you have access to a computer. It's also written in a very approachable way - it assumes no prior familiarity with
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by blintz 10y ago
After trying the last puzzle for a while, I think I've concluded it's a torus - is that right?
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by blintz 10y ago
This is a straw-man - it seems like the author is just telling founders to classify critics as "haters", and ignore them. He has a parenthetical 'well, not all criticism is bad', but that seems there mostly to save face.
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What the modern world has forgotten about children and learning(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by blintz 10y ago|0 comments

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