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by cvwright 11y ago
What do you think Sanders' Justice Department will look like? My guess: exactly like Obama's.
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by cvwright 11y ago
Not sure why you are being downvoted. It is a serious question, if a bit gross. At the Evergreen Air & Space museum (home of the Spruce Goose), they have an old SR-71 on display. Part of the exhibit has a TV playing a video loop with
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by cvwright 11y ago
That's great! I always thought of SAC as "cyberpunk Law and Order". It's fun to hear that that was actually the intention.
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by cvwright 11y ago
Sure, NIST ran the competition, but AES was designed by Daemen and Rijmen in Belgium, and vetted by a whole host of other academic cryptographers in an open process. There's enough to be paranoid about already. No need to looking for
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by cvwright 11y ago
> Ask yourself, when was the last time you heard a politician or business leader mention the problems of European American "white" communities? Hillary Clinton, in one of the early Democratic primary debates. It was an amazing
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by cvwright 11y ago
Sorry, I had to go look up what ANFO is. > Do you think ANFO fits into the category? Why or why not? It's a very interesting question. This is a great example, thanks for bringing it up. I guess I'm OK with restrictions on AN
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by cvwright 11y ago
> Your argument is that cypto and guns should be viewed as equivalent Whoa there, I never said they were equivalent. I said that they have some similarities. > ANFO possession and use should be as unrestricted as gun or crypto posses
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by cvwright 11y ago
It's surprising to me that so many pro-crypto people are so stridently anti-gun. The arguments in favor of restricting or banning the two technologies appear (to me) very similar. There exists a technology that, in the hands of a law-
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by cvwright 11y ago
> Yet for someone reason no one thumbs their nose at them. You should come to Portland sometime. :)
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by cvwright 11y ago
Interesting interpretation. I hadn't thought about it that way. Instead, I got a very different impression from the article -- more that this is the next big scare for the global economic system. Like the US subprime mortgage crisis
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by cvwright 11y ago
I see this as a failure of our educational system. Speaking as an academic in CS, it's our job to teach people skills that they need for dealing with computers in the course of their career. The Math department does this for basic cal
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by cvwright 11y ago
Thank you! It's amazing how painful they make this, when they could just release the &*^%$ text files. It's almost a wonder they don't send the docs to you in hardcopy, printed in 4-point font like Lavabit.
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by cvwright 11y ago
> Sotomayer, Alito, Ginsburg, Breyer and Kagan One of these things is not like the others. Did Alito take the same position as the others listed here?
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by cvwright 11y ago
Don't bother, it only gets worse. The level of misogyny and sexism in this thread is way beyond what I expect from HN. What happened to professionalism and treating others with respect, guys? When our female colleagues complain abou
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by cvwright 11y ago
> They removed it because it's slow and because they feel that today page authors use large enough text. This boggles the mind. Have they never actually used Firefox on a normal-sized phone?
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by cvwright 11y ago
The bitter irony is that Chicago already tries very hard to ban guns.
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Frank McSherry Responds to Differential Privacy Critics(github.com)
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by cvwright 11y ago
And for those who didn't read the link, the punchline at the end of that post is: "When people ask us why we charge for WhatsApp, we say 'Have you considered the alternative?'" The (implied) alternative here is adve
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by cvwright 11y ago
Interestingly, at least according to The Atlantic, the political power of these billionaires seems to be failing. This article [1] frames the rise of Donald Trump (!) in the 2016 presidential race as an effect of the growing disconnect bet
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by cvwright 11y ago
Excellent! Thank you for your work on this. I'll be very excited to see where it goes.
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by cvwright 11y ago
Wouldn't that be cool? Another neat idea would be to build on an existing microkernel like seL4, but write the userspace -- all the drivers, memory manager, filesystems, etc -- in Rust. The NICTA team already has proofs of correctness
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by cvwright 11y ago
You're right that early microkernels (Mach) were pretty awfully slow. But that was really more the early 90's. Even before 2000 there were new systems that were already much, much faster than Mach. If you read the article, you
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by cvwright 11y ago
> I also object to the presupposition that there is secure software and non-secure software. I'm with you 100% here. Especially without a more precise definition of what we mean by "secure". > In most practical cases,
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by cvwright 11y ago
I think you're conflating two different things. The first quote is impolite but affirming, while the second one is polite but extremely negative, maybe even hateful. It's true that a simple keyword filter won't work very wel
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by cvwright 11y ago
I feel a lot of the same things. But, on the bright side: 1. It's early days yet -- let's give them some time to work out the bugs and build out more diverse platform support. 2. The code is open source. If we (or anybody else)
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by cvwright 11y ago
TextSecure (the predecessor to Signal) used to support encrypted SMS. You could send all the encrypted messages you want without using their centralized service. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, they dropped that capability a few month
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by cvwright 11y ago
Isn't Rand Paul also making similar promises on the Republican side?
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by cvwright 11y ago
Yeah, this is why I was confused. I can understand wanting the screen to tint reddish when it's 9 or 10 pm, because I should be going to bed soon. I don't necessarily want it changing colors at 4pm when it starts getting dark here
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by cvwright 11y ago
Thank you, that makes sense.
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by cvwright 11y ago
A&M alum here. This is kind of a cynical take, but I think some of the things you mentioned are done for more than one reason, and they're not all obvious at first glance. For example, if lots of students walk on the grass around

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