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by brians 4y ago
Or we could just burn it. In what way is bitcoin more valuable than smoke?
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by brians 4y ago
Is it Asian? I'd assumed—with no real support whatsoever—that it was descended from Roman garum, a fermented fish sauce that's a lot closer .
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by brians 4y ago
This is very true. Whereas the USSR was run by one man who controlled the state security apparatus, and so controlled the country as an autocrat, Russia is run by a man who controls the country as an autocrat, having controlled the state s
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by brians 4y ago
That’s a good start! But it doesn’t always help; I have plenty of physical copies of games that won’t work without Ubisoft servers.
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by brians 4y ago
Could you point me towards parts of the crypto industry that aren’t scammers, unwise risk-takers, or shady operators?
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by brians 4y ago
There aren’t that many places doing planetary-scale distributed computing, with an opportunity to influence total human welfare, so I applied to all of them—and got in touch place whose people, overall, demonstrated the closest values match
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by brians 4y ago
Yes, but it’s specifically using data you published to harm you. Compare Blind, which is engineered to not be attributable in this way.
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by brians 4y ago
The Georgist land tax taxed the unimproved value of the land. The tax remains the same whatever you build on it. Sale price already nudges you to preserve, improve, or augment the value of the land. So I think your concern either already
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by brians 5y ago
“all the binary formats of the 1990s can be opened today” Oh, sweet summer child. Scribe/mss. Koalapad. A bunch of Apple 2GS, Apple 3, and Lisa formats. Lotus Improv. The points about semantics and authenticity are wonderful, but I
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by brians 5y ago
Yes. Exactly. Dyneema bags are light, strong (i.e., hold a heavy load), flexible, can have good water resistance and attractive colors—and will wear a hole through in one drag through an airport.
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by brians 5y ago
It has happened. Repeatedly. Sometimes at the FBI’s instigation: look at the E911 memo stuff, where FBI pushed AT&T to count the cash value of any computer accessed as damage!
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by brians 5y ago
The server has to do an encryption and a decryption. A legit client has to do the pre-SYN dance. In your protocol, I don’t spam pre-SYNs; I spam SYNs with fake tokens. Thus I send only the same number of packets as before, but the server
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by brians 5y ago
That’s actually been an issue for some non-GPL Smalltalk systems. What does it mean to distribute the “preferred form for modification” when that’s an image file for a closed-source interpreter? Same deal with GPL’d Mathematica code.
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by brians 5y ago
Can you describe a system that is effective when your phone has malware? I have a little experience with this, designing systems that use TPMs and remote attestation to shut down communication rather than allow forgery or leaks. It’s very d
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by brians 5y ago
That can work. Or you can have A use TCP to B, C use TCP to D, and B and C are connected by a very short one-way cable, maybe something optical. The US government term of art for this pattern is a “guard”, often with a regex or manual filte
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by brians 5y ago
Please don’t spread this sort of FUD. I’ve had cleared colleagues who had nuanced opinions on which pot or acid to use, or who were draft dodgers from their home countries, or who were flamingly out with any kink you could care to name. The
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by brians 5y ago
The point is not light or no-light, push the button or don’t push the button. The point is to sculpt the life of the practitioner—so that we remember God and His creative presence in our lives in all that we do. Extra work beforehand, movi
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by brians 5y ago
The storefront was SSL2. It needed major software overhaul that wasn’t justified without being the star revenue source.
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by brians 5y ago
Heinlein’s Waldo might be a good thing to read, then. It’s the origin of the word “Waldo” in English.
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by brians 6y ago
I suppose it matters why you have rate limits. Just to have them? As a soft failure case before hitting some harder boundary, like memory or fd exhaustion?
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by brians 6y ago
Sure, a Kenwood TH-D74A can send messages over APRS. The older ‘72’ could too. So can a Yaesu FT-1DR. Plenty of cheaper devices can too. Now if you look at those, you’ll find some odd ideas—features like a built in 320x240 camera. They
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by brians 6y ago
They had two fuses, so they had a 2:1 safety margin! Just like the NASA managers who decided that 30% erosion in an O-ring designed for no erosion meant a 3:1 safety margin.
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by brians 6y ago
And if it shoots back, that’s briefly interesting too.
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by brians 6y ago
My model 3 has an enclosed trunk. Why would you call it a hatchback?
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by brians 6y ago
This is the class that made my career. The idea that humanities sorts of skills – critical reading, analysis, discussion — could contribute to the work of systems engineering was a revelation. That I had the knack for it, and that it turns
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by brians 6y ago
I found it fun. There’s more opportunity for sweetness as you get to know the characters. The arc of the QA engineers is excellent.
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by brians 6y ago
How do you put them into the set in O(n), exactly?
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by brians 6y ago
Rsync has surprised me a few times by needing to read everything on the target side. When that includes a few TB of nonlocal disk—whoops!
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by brians 6y ago
If you like Feynman, you might like You're Stepping On My Cloak and Dagger . The CIA's basically given up trying to suppress its publication by now, and it's hysterical.
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by brians 6y ago
I'm told the camera port is not there; you have to use USB.

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