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> ve has lots of vis personas Are those typos? You touched on the cyperpunk fantasy: using multiple online identities, all kept carefully separate from each other and from your real identity. (There's an excellent short story called
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Axolotl was recently renamed to "Signal Protocol". At the time I thought that was lame because it's used in other products as well and because the name sounds generic. I guess they made it a pun, because now we have a Noise P
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For those who don't know, Trevor Perrin is an applied crypto legend. Before writing this, he helped design the Axolotl protocol that powers Signal and WhatsApp.
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lol no
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> Didn’t shut the company down after 2, 3, 4, or 10 years just because they weren’t on track to be a billion dollar company in the next few quarters Who has ever shut down a company for that reason? Typically startups die when they run o
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Not every time a library changes, only every time one has a security bug.
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> over-represented in lower SES population segments Just say "disproportionately poor". Euphimisms suck.
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This is so motivational. These guys could be anyone. Stay humble, build something someone needs, and don't take yourself too seriously.
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Google TGIF All-Hands Meeting (1999)(youtube.com)
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> My wife filled one out a few weeks ago where both the questions and answers were selected from popup menus United Airlines does this. Their reason is incredibly depressing. https://mobile.twitter.com/evacide/status
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Agree. Banks, credit agencies, and the whole sell side, selling bad debt in bad faith to organizations like pension funds, carry the brunt of the responsibility. At the same time, the millions of poor and lower middle class people who took
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by dcposch 11y ago
What does "submarine" mean here? It must be a pretty unusual term because even Googling "submarine sponsored content" doesnt work
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Congress has a 11% approval rating. Nearly 90% of Americans agree that it's performing inadequately Given that all 535 members won an election to get there, that is pretty surprising. Widespread dislike of the entire political class is
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He said he moved into an apartment complex, so he probably didnt have his own yard here, either. Also, which of these has the better yard? Houses in Nevada: http://www.newhomeselko.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/
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This law is toxic to every part of California that works with technology. Can we primary her?
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You mixed some straw-man objections ("Facebook is evil") with one that's important and legitimate. People are right to be cautious with closed source crypto. It has a long and sordid history of turning out to be snake oil, te
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uTorrent shows banner ads and recently shipped with bitcoin mining malware. It's also a lot more work--and requires a second program, like VLC--to do streaming. I'm optimistic about WebTorrent Desktop adoption. You're right t
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One more: * It's surprisingly fun and liberating working on a completely noncommercial project. I have no problem at all with commercial software -- especially if it's free of ads and "microtransactions" and is simply so
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Yes. All torrent clients I know, including WebTorrent Desktop, seed while downloading. WebTorrent Desktop keeps seeding after you've finished downloading a file, and keeps running in the system tray after you close the window unless yo
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Glad you like it. It's still very beta. We're going to try to make the app more efficient. (I think it feels pretty snappy even now, though.) You might have run into this Chrome bug. WebTorrent Desktop is an Electron app, which us
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* It only download sequentially when you're streaming. If you're just downloading a torrent, it will use rarest-first. * We plan to switch to a hybrid strategy: it will download the blocks it needs, but once enough video is buffer
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This is what Feross and I have been working on the past few weeks. It's been a lot of fun. Here are a few of the things I learned: * Electron is surprisingly nice to work with. It is simple, pragmatic, and thorough. System tray integ
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> Weather it's Delaware corps (sic) What? Delaware corporations are completely standard. The state bureaucracy is fairly efficient, the laws are reasonable, lawyers well versed in Delaware corporate law are readily available in all
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Like most moral questions, It's Complicated. Even straight personal theft has a range, from the obviously amoral (snatching an old lady's purse) to the morally ambiguous (Robin Hood stealing from aristocrats to feed starving peasa
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> Lawshae says the attacks, which can open every door in a building, are possible because of a command injection vulnerability in a LED blinking lights service. > "A command injection vulnerability exists in this function due to
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'Devastating' bug pops secure doors at airports, hospitals(theregister.co.uk)
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That's really interesting. I care a lot about email encryption -- I want to make something better and easier to use than current PGP programs. One major hurdle is apathy. Talking to potential users, even if we could wave a magic wand a
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> The reported vote count is usually very close to the predicted vote count, and always very close to exit polling results. Not always. In the 2004 election, Kerry won in exit polls but lost in the official count. The discrepancy was esp
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> This is an innate aspect of society. See: murder, sexual assault, etc No, those rules are about protecting me from my neighbor. They're perfectly reasonable, both as timeless moral norms and as law. The problems begin when I want
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> US infrastructure construction is routinely 3 - 10x more expensive on a like-for-like basis compared to other developed nations. > The primary cause appears to be the way the US solicits and manages infrastructure projects which lea

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