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by crpatino 11y ago
This is not how life works. It is how you wish life would work. Humans are social animals. The power to cause (or prevent) change in organizations is political in nature. The power to affect operations through technology is at best instrume
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I don't know when , but it certainly seems to abide by the diminishing returns rule: "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to pro
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> Every additional person you add to a watchlist is one more piece of hay for the haystack. That's only valid under the assumption that the people doing the adding do care about the haystack problem. If their managers set quotas, th
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This technique has been publicly known for well over a decade. See: http://www.amazon.com/Information-Techniques-Steganography-D... It's been a long time since I read it, but if I recall correctly, the UK government ha
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Extremely weak under an active attack: 'sed s/\([^ ]\) */\1 /g' What you want is something that cannot be easily removed from the message without also affecting the meaning of the cover message. I am thinking of som
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The outside gangs still have to face of the local gang in order to get to you. I agree that will probably not stop some random meth head from grabbing your tip jar and running, but the more organized criminals will at least think for 60 sec
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That's the kissing cousin of Confirmation Bias. If you think "random good luck" every time you find a piece of evidence that dos not match what you already believe (aka your preconceptions), you will never learn a single thin
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In my experience, going to a prestigious university gives you a head start. In 10 years, it will matter most what you have done after you graduate than where you graduated from. Of course, you still have a network of connections... but aga
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That's just stupid. What good will an Stanford education be for someone who puts a bullet through their heads within one year of being thrown in an hyper competitive corporate environment where there is no safety net to ensure that you
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I agree we are running in bubble-like dynamics now. Personally I believe this is driven not by dumb money but more by the fact that the rest of the economy has been under-performing since '08, and therefore smart money is looking for a
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It's a pretty safe bet that everyone here - a forum called "hacker news" which discusses, among other things, the several aspects of online security - is already on a watch list. The idea is to not promote yourself even furth
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If you have any means of "unlimited computational power", why haven't you already taken over the world through financial speculation. The trade floors are already opening in Asia, I think. You have got 24 hours. Go!!!
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Crowdfunding works because you already know you are helping bring on a cool product that would not exist otherwise (and are aware of the risk that it might not pan out anyways). Being asked politely and in an upfront way makes all the diffe
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outside view: How much does other companies pay for similar positions? inside view: How much am I willing to take without expecting to feel disatisfied less than 12 months from now?
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It is surreal to see this mentioned here. HN mindset is progressive, after all. But to qualify this comment, I'd say that what is specifically tied to the Myth of Progress in US Military Doctrine is the bias against thinking that an
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I am sure the officers of the Third Reich were equally protected by their country's law. It mattered little at Nuremberg.
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> any manager worth her salt should be able to cut 10% of her staff, so do it. And that's how every manager worth their salt learns to keep a bunch of dead weight around, so they will in due time be able to offer a victim to the dra
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But you are conceding the point, aren't you? It does not matter if you do the wrong thing because you are an incompetent hack or because you are a low status pawn that got cornered by management into choosing the least worse of a bunch
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There's the opportunity cost to the attacker as well. Sure, they could walk around your barriers and scam your relative... or they could shrug it off, carry on with their list, and scam another five or ten people in the same time frame
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Lions rarely go after the strongest, sharpest, healthiest gazelle. Why it should be any different in the human realm? What we need is not stop denying there are populations at risk from the overwhelming disclosure of private information int
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> I don't think the people that got cured from metastatic cancer would agree that they would be better of without Merck and their PD-L1 antibodies. Of course they wouldn't; its the relatives of all those who could not afford t
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I don't understand. Why would software guys fear the results of some chemistry-based process? They don't seem to have any control over that. The ones fired would have been the mechanical engineers that designed the engine, aren&#x
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Agreed but on the communism based dictatorship point. Elites seem equally business friendly in China, Latin America, and to a lesser degree Russia. Maybe stateism would be more appropriate? >> "You are free to pursue your pig-cap
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It seems to suggest so, but you have to take also into account all the violations that never occur because some honorable human soldier choose to disobey direct orders from their not so honorable superiors. Or the much more extensive and sy
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While there are possibilities for more humane warfare using drone armies, the downsides are way, way worse. By example, there is a long and well documented history of human rights violations against civilian population from human armies, an
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Fogcreek is a deviant, if progressive, company. You will find the norm is to pay lip service to the "happiness and productivity of the engineering team" but when push comes to shove, it is Death-march time all over again.
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Let's assume life insurance would cost half of my salary, and pay merely 5 years of my current salary in the case of my untimely demise. I feel healthy enough and confident enough to find a cheaper plan an put the difference in governm
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This is not on the same league. Your unit-test coverage example is closer to the Toyota incident. Surely, it was a catastrophe, and lives were indeed lost, but no one actively inserted a "speed up when driver hits the breaks" feat
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Did you seriously said the word "renegade"? Even if their superiors did honestly not know that they were loading fraud-ware in the vehicles, this is most likely the result of systemic social dynamics and perverse incentives. Mutua
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While I won't deny this point, I think the industry at large would benefit quite a lot if we were able to agree on how to write probably bug-free code, even if empirically. Reality is that within a group of 10, you might as well get 12

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