cyphunk

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by cyphunk 9y ago
you imply that when someone that is not a programmer, and say works in the rare stones industry, goes to google to search for ruby gems, that they are not shown a bunch of programmer garbage?
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by cyphunk 9y ago
parents do not worry... hip hop killed the evils of rock and roll, and the internet killed the evils of TV. I'm sure something is waiting around the corner to resolve the evils you fear in the internet. in the meantime, take the attack
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by cyphunk 9y ago
could someone explain, is the reveal here only that a state bank chose to invest its capital in american companies? should a bank not do that? I mean, Putin can lick my tiny gonads but I also think Al Franken and much of the media are chann
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by cyphunk 9y ago
Stop referencing Cambridge Analytica. They grossly overstated their results with intent. Everyone seems to have taken the headlines produced from their first post-US-election presentation as truth, without even bothering to watch that prese
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by cyphunk 9y ago
Oh my, if it is valid to compare crypto forks to biological evolution, then I'm left to wonder how awesome humans would have been today if all the great forks didnt get killed off by lousy first-network effects.
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by cyphunk 9y ago
> Aren't we putting too much trust that social media ads can really sway the election that much? In anticipation of many using Cambridge Analytica hype as a response, a search on HN of previous articles about Cambridge Analytica sho
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by cyphunk 9y ago
> People generally do love Silicon Valley and what it creates. It’s the media that doesn’t. Befuddled by the Pinocchio Press again!
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by cyphunk 9y ago
The "never create your own crypto" meme is a destructive one. There are many cases where existing algo's will not fit the purpose and one needs to create a new one. Most often this is required in mediums where resources are c
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by cyphunk 9y ago
all data is important, indeed. contacts are just an easy to access example. I'm worried about countries creating laws, secret and public, that force Apple to hand over my data. Specifically those governments that I spend time in and th
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by cyphunk 9y ago
from their language and they said that they could give FBI access to all cloud content during FBI vs Apple San Berdino Terrorist debate. This implies they have root keys to decrypt and view any service that transverses their servers, excepp
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by cyphunk 9y ago
The language Apple uses indicates that your personal data that apple recieves is at least at some point in clear unencrypted form, and that they then choose to encrypt it for cloud storage. The language indicates they could decrypt it if th
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by cyphunk 9y ago
Anyone that says > "we do not give your info to 3rd parties" instead of > "we have designed it so it is impossible for us to give your info to 3rd parties" is simply selling you privacy-cool-aid
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by cyphunk 9y ago
comparison of using DDG vs Google over tor is enlightening (GIF): https://twitter.com/cyphunk/status/849615910545620992
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by cyphunk 9y ago
do the barcodes in the authors examples, which they did not bother to fuzz and anonymize, do they also convey the details they did anonymize? I'm curious
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by cyphunk 9y ago
Wake me up when they let one sync contacts without giving icloud cleartext access in the process
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by cyphunk 9y ago
The cookie law didn't kill cookies but it did inform people about them. It's responsibility for bring the discussion about tracking and cookies into popular discourse was greater than zero. This law and the new checkbox may have a
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by cyphunk 9y ago
Oh my, NL tomatos taste like water sponges. This fact depresses me more than it should :/ They are the predominate tomato sold in DE, UK and others. Really, try a tomato from southern europe or some places in eastern europe, preferabl
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by cyphunk 9y ago
huh? I swear I just looked at the team page 5 minutes ago and still saw Zack listed as "Tech Lead", where now it shows Joel Reymont as CTO
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by cyphunk 9y ago
New industry comes along and their tycoons take the seats from the older. That seems to be a truism as old as capitalism. So this one half of the basis of the article I feel is obvious. About the other half, Mozorov is right, everyone has t
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Silicon Valley has been humbled. But its schemes are as dangerous as ever(theguardian.com)
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by cyphunk 9y ago
I'm playing on the fantasy that Bitcoin or similar could ever be a predominant means of value exchange or storage. It's a fantasy many hold.
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by cyphunk 9y ago
the first time you ever pay anyone for anything the probability that this person can determine your entire net worth is much much higher than if you were to use any other means of value exchange (Cash, credit, check, etc).
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by cyphunk 9y ago
It still blows my mind that this isn't a bigger issue. Trying to retain any privacy with Bitcoin is an arduous process.
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by cyphunk 9y ago
the china essentialist argument was debunked once CN regulators forced CN exchanges to institute a know-your-customer policy. Result, the bots they used to fluff their order books had to go. You can see this difference from that day onward
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by cyphunk 9y ago
heh, anarchist? In the course of perhaps 2 or 3 years Bitcoin has turned more anarchists I know into greedy capitalists than anything else over my entire lifetime. HN is certainly "on board" as ycombinator and affiliates invests i
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by cyphunk 9y ago
People ask what I think of my host country everywhere I lived. I think we all can't help but to ask. When I'm asked by locals in EU countries I lived most ask with so much humility and uncertainty I'm worried of my answer. Bu
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by cyphunk 9y ago
Is the API dependent on popularity of songs you listen to? Because I find I dont hit limit until a whole day of use (4 to 6 hours) but guessing this could be because I don't have much popular music in my queue. I ask because I notice t
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by cyphunk 9y ago
the OP was wondering if after a year they would be able to write an objectionable article about their experience... definitely another year might help. Regardless I'm still happy they shared their experiences. The comments on HN are mo
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by cyphunk 9y ago
People that sour about their host country I find sometimes have something relevant in their past missing from the story. Such as externalities that force them to move to or live in current host for longer than they wanted. Still, there is a
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by cyphunk 9y ago
> but this is simply not a topic for foreigners to discuss. For any "outsiders" lurking here... discuss it! You'll take a social hit from certain types of people but future generations will thank you. Having lived in vario

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