danielweber

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by danielweber 10y ago
> if true, this is one of the dumbest long term business strategies in the history of high finance. You speak of the first dot-com crash, but there was a lot of stupidness back then. One of my favorites is furniture.com http:/&#x2F
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by danielweber 10y ago
Without saying whether I think such a thing is likely, Uber compensates significantly with stock, and they cannot retain talent if the trust in the cashout goes away.
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by danielweber 10y ago
The politicians likely remember the scandal from the 1980s of Regular Joes being torn apart by aggressive IRS agents. Saying "hiring more IRS agents brings in more money than they cost" is incredibly gauche to anyone who remembers
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by danielweber 10y ago
Muphry's Law.
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by danielweber 10y ago
What form does the answer to 3.3 look like? Would it break apart the case for abs(r-s) > 1, which is 0?
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by danielweber 10y ago
I took this whole post as very tongue-in-cheek. No one should really be using this to predict the future. Instead, it was a fun data-analysis exercise.
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by danielweber 10y ago
Isn't that what happened to the DSL market? No one will bother laying new infrastructure because anyone can use it.
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by danielweber 10y ago
Only in extreme situations, like when it was very clear that your case had no merit, or when explicitly called for by statute, which is a small number of situations (like SLAPP suits).
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by danielweber 10y ago
Agree. My experience in pricing was that we were locked in to the initial price we set. (And the CEO did it by accident. Oops.) No one could stomach raising it. Then again, we didn't actually try raising it and face backlash. It's
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by danielweber 10y ago
"This is unusual" is "the 25% drop." Over the past year, it's been pretty boring.
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by danielweber 10y ago
> It seems obvious to me that your modern "papers" are what is on your hard drive. And they are protected in your possession. If you turn over all your papers to a third-party, though, that changes things. eta We may need mor
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by danielweber 10y ago
Eehhh, I've been skeptical of Bitcoin in the past because of its volatility, but this is very unusual. It's been rather stable on a week-to-week basis for a long time.
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by danielweber 10y ago
It seems to be the market clearing price. Lots of companies think "hey, we offer peanuts and people do all this expensive work for us." This guy did it to land a job. Hopefully he's done with spec-work like this and his new e
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by danielweber 10y ago
Sure, they want to be a monopoly. But they're not. Seriously, how do they get lock-in of riders or drivers? Installing a second app is a really really low bar. You can't do predatory pricing forever.
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by danielweber 10y ago
It would be pretty stupid to make your very first use of a service an escape from a dangerous situation. Lots of people are scared to use Uber/Lyft at first and need to be convinced to ride.
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by danielweber 10y ago
If you want a company to cooperate, you give them a subpoena, and order them to keep quiet until arrests have been made. When you try to play things on the sly, it's your fault if some third party thinks you're a rat.
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by danielweber 10y ago
I simply don't see how Uber can be a monopoly. You need a critical mass of drivers, but nothing stops drivers from being on multiple networks. This isn't Microsoft doing per-CPU licensing.
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by danielweber 10y ago
Uber isn't a monopoly. For all the scummy things that Uber has done, they have avoided the most scummy thing they could do to become a monopoly: driver lock-in, making their drivers commit to only drive for them and not for Lyft. Susan
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by danielweber 10y ago
There's a legal requirement to comply to emissions laws. Is there a legal requirement to make it easy for cops to use your service? Are they a protected class? If I didn't want to sell donuts to the cops, I sure wouldn't tell
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by danielweber 10y ago
It's not using the command line that sucks about installing software. It's that there are so many different standards for installing software, overlapping in sometimes conflicting ways.
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by danielweber 10y ago
I now use the cube as a meditative practice Holy cow, you've put into words what I've been thinking and practicing. Thank you.
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by danielweber 10y ago
Shouldn't there be a big lump of dark matter at the center of every planet, moon, and star? If we were to hollow out an asteroid, would there still be a blob of intangible dark matter inside of it?
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by danielweber 10y ago
If you got two different messages to get into the same internal state with SHA-3, the same thing would apply, wouldn't it? Would that be a length extension attack on SHA-3? This is really a terminology question. I had a clear understan
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by danielweber 10y ago
Damn, right, you have to get them with the same internal state .
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by danielweber 10y ago
Yep. With any hash function that takes input as blocks, if you were to ever get two messages to generate the same EDIT internal state, you could add the same arbitrary data to both and get those new messages to have the same hash.
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by danielweber 10y ago
If you were to somehow get two messages with the same SHA-3 hash, you could keep on appending the same data to both and they would keep the same SHA-3. But SHA-3 is explicitly not vulnerable to length extension attacks.
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by danielweber 10y ago
How do you length extension when both outputs are the same length?
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by danielweber 10y ago
No. The messages differ in their internals. The length extension attack leverages the weakness that people think HASH(secret + message) is a signature only they can create as long as only they know "secret".
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by danielweber 10y ago
If by "secured by SHA1" you mean "someone generated a hash using SHA-1 and we use the validity of that hash to guarantee we have the right document," that's still okay. We're a long way from being able to make
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by danielweber 10y ago
It was known for a while to move away from SHA-1. Any TLS certificates using SHA-1 were supposed to become invalid on January 1st. But I wasn't expecting that google's 110 GPU-year work meant that we could create colliding PDFs on

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