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by byuu 10y ago
I'm definitely a cynic, but that post was based entirely in fact. A presidential appointment is very important. They nominate Supreme Court justices (although the new rule for the senate is apparently refusing to vote on/approve o
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> Campaign promises are more difficult to implement than candidates imagine. Oh, the candidates know it damn well. But they know the electorate doesn't know it. So they lie their asses off because it's how you win when all the
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by byuu 10y ago
> By definition, browser extensions need to be able to access things such as page content. What would stop someone from writing a extension that captures your bank credentials? Nothing. Completely agreed. This is why it's so frustra
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> It's also unfortunate to note that, at least in g++ and clang, there is still significant advantage to using lambdas over std::function and std::bind. I have to say, std::bind is just a travesty. It's so difficult to bind a m
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by byuu 10y ago
Yes. If everyone had the same amount of money, then we wouldn't have needed campaign finance laws. (We effectively don't have them now.) I'm not even advocating for everyone to have an exactly equal amount of money. Hard work
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This pattern seems to come up a lot; I just had the same discussion around the Citizens United ruling here. There is always going to be an uncomfortable point where you draw a line that isn't quite fair, where up to that line is fine a
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by byuu 10y ago
I understand that, I just don't agree with it. How many of us would want to have everything we've ever said or done in private aired out in public, under the guise that "the public is smart enough to not editorialize anything
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While I am certain there are some troubling revelations in there, I fail to see how Neera Tanden shit-talking about Lawrence Lessig is in any way relevant to the public interest. It's simply an unethical violation of privacy. Had he fi
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Context always matters. I use lambdas sparingly in my applications, except for one major area: user interfaces. I can't begin to stress what a huge timesaver it is being able to bind a button's callback to a quick lambda instead
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by byuu 10y ago
Right, but how do we get the US to move to a system of proportional voting and power? We're never going to get a president+congress that is controlled by one party to vote and pass new laws / ratify new amendments that change the
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by byuu 10y ago
Correct. That was what I was getting at with one vote, one person and buying more raffle tickets than another for a drawing. Money = votes, otherwise there wouldn't be so much money in play. It's not a true democracy when the rich
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by byuu 10y ago
Before this goes on too long, I'd like to stress that I don't have all the perfect answers in life. I don't think my views are perfect, but they are what I believe. I know that often, how things 'should' be require
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by byuu 10y ago
> If I earn money, should I be able to spend it how I like? You already can't spend it to buy grenades, chemical weapons, illegal drugs, etc. You should not be able to spend it to influence elections either. I just explained why. It
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by byuu 10y ago
Citizens United and McCutcheon were such disasters for our democracy. Hopelessly partisan 5-4 votes from the USSC as well. No surprise given the way big money usually leans. Corporations aren't people, and money isn't speech, no m
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by byuu 10y ago
It's an inevitable result of winner-take-all, first-past-the-post voting. This video explains the situation very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo Short of revolution, we aren't ever going to see a
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by byuu 10y ago
Very interesting! I've been working on implementing (Ed,Curve)25519 recently. It's been really fascinating to learn how to use hyperelliptic.org/EFD and turn the pure optimized voodoo of DJB's C implementations into mini
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by byuu 10y ago
> GitLab is a (bad) copy and paste of GitHub, even the name is similar. Yeah, the part of the name they copied is so shameless. That's just going to end up causing user confusion -- thinking that both sites are related to Git in som
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by byuu 10y ago
> People have been talking about automation for generations. Sure. But there's some truly devastating automations coming up unlike any before it. Self-driving vehicles are going to kill four million decent paying jobs driving semis.
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by byuu 10y ago
> I wouldn't expect a wholesale move to 60 hour work weeks if the overtime pay requirement were raised or eliminated. Certainly not. But for every two people that do, that's one more 40-hour-a-week job eliminated from the marke
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by byuu 10y ago
If workers move from 40 hours a week to 60 hours a week, that's going to result in up to a 50% reduction in available jobs. Realistically the number will be lower, as not everyone is going to want to work that much. But that's sti
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by byuu 10y ago
... wow, I thought you were saying that would be a good way of implementing it. Didn't realize that actually worked o_O Thanks, that's certainly superior to the command-line flag! A touch patronizing, but I guess it could be wor
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by byuu 10y ago
But that's just it, I'd have to download the source to Chromium, find where this error is thrown, and add a UI element to allow me to bypass the error. That's ... a whole lot more than just inconveniencing me. Flipping a swit
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by byuu 10y ago
Did the issue directly affect your AlphaSSL site? So far mine's continued to work. May have dodged a bullet by using OCSP stapling, though.
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Since this may take days to resolve completely, here's a temporary workaround for Chrome users -- launch your browser with this flag: chrome --ignore-certificate-errors You'll still know when sites have bad certificates d
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by byuu 10y ago
I've been hoping for a C/C++ compiler with no/limited undefined behavior for years. Sadly, the people writing compilers have lost touch with the people using them, so this is very unlikely to happen. But I have to say, if one
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by byuu 10y ago
Oh okay, in that case my apologies for the misunderstanding ;) Firefox is said to support it in the nightly releases, but not yet in the official releases. This is the last time I checked about a month ago (I no longer use Firefox.)
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by byuu 10y ago
> OpenSSL supports ECC X25519 since august this year. "The former landed in OpenSSL 1.1.0" > X25519 Is also supported in Chrome "only the most recent Firefox nightlies and Chrome support it" > Apple uses 25519 f
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by byuu 10y ago
And yet unfortunately, LibreSSL still doesn't support any safe curves ( https://safecurves.cr.yp.to ) like Curve25519. Nor the ability to choose between multiple curves for the 99% of browsers that only support the NIST cur
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by byuu 10y ago
The problem is both , and it's really tiring seeing each side deride the other without getting the hypocrisy. You have Iran saying they have to wear the Hijab, and France saying they can't wear the Burqa/Niqab. How about
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by byuu 10y ago
Programming practically requires a willingness to continue learning. But his statements are deeply troubling: > I’m not annoyed by the way statements are formed, or even by the precedence order (which I readily admit to not knowing or un

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