dcposch

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by dcposch 9y ago
IP is best effort. Packets get lost all the time. Higher protocols, like TCP and QUIC, all handle packet loss--typically by trying again. Losing a packet is better than losing all open connections.
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by dcposch 9y ago
A few hours later, it's been completely removed from the main HN page (even a few pages in), despite 1600+ votes. It's a shame that the administrators of this site feel the need to shut down discussion on important issues like thi
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by dcposch 9y ago
> I think there should have been an uprising (violent, if necessary) in 1996, but the ship has sailed. Lol you want a popular revolution over the Rechtschriebereform? Strong contender for First World Problem hall of fame here.
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by dcposch 10y ago
I think your criticism of startups overselling themselves to college grads is fair. However, I don't know if Addepar is more guilty of this than any other local tech venture. It's an industry wide issue. Just curious, did you prev
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by dcposch 10y ago
that is true, but running a martingale-ish strategy will often just set a new high water mark every year... until it doesn't. hedge funds often make a lot more from the 2% than from the 20%. if you grow your AUM into the billions, char
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by dcposch 10y ago
i worked at a startup called addepar for several years, making software for asset managers. addepar's a cool place, and i learned a ton there and made some good friends. -- that said, my overwhelming impression of asset managers is tha
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by dcposch 10y ago
In any case, the basic income is big enough to give people a lot more freedom and security than they had before. It's empowering. Young people and whole villages can use it to bootstrap: things like proper cell service, internet, and h
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by dcposch 10y ago
Google Project Zero has two standard disclosure deadlines: 90 days for normal 0days, and 7 days for vulnerabilities that are actively being exploited or otherwise already victimizing people. There are very good reasons to enforce clear rule
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by dcposch 10y ago
You might not know the history here. Tavis works at Google and discovered the bug. He was extremely helpful and has gone out of his way to help Cloudflare do disaster mitigation, working long hours throughout last weekend and this week. He
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by dcposch 10y ago
> The planets also are very close to each other. If a person was standing on one of the planet’s surface, they could gaze up and potentially see geological features or clouds of neighboring worlds, which would sometimes appear larger tha
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by dcposch 10y ago
Completely agree. I have near unlimited respect for Linus. He has an allergy to bullshit. He does not mince words when preventing any kind bad code or needless complexity from entering the kernel. The same things that make some people consi
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by dcposch 10y ago
> Brilliant jerks are often to be found at the beating heart of successful software. Exhibit 0: Linus Torvalds
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by dcposch 10y ago
> If they want to keep it empty or a small 1 family house, let them, and don't let their neighbors or city government bully them into building larger i really like this alternate universe where you have to fight govt in order to bui
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by dcposch 10y ago
I MAY NOT BE DALE EARNHARDT...
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by dcposch 10y ago
> Left good Right bad is one of the most infuriating assertions to see casually chucked into a sentence. i didnt say that. it just happens that in American politics, admitting that our foreign policy has been amoral is something done alm
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by dcposch 10y ago
He's not making a humble, leftish point about our moral failures in foreign policy! He was shrugging off the use of murder as a political tool. America may be in a bad place right now, and we've done a lot of awful things in other
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by dcposch 10y ago
Best part of the article: explaining how privacy is a public good. TLDR: privacy isn't just about "keeping secrets" or having "something to hide". Privacy for a whole population is power. Once a population has lost
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by dcposch 10y ago
The problem is both. Obviously prime responsibility lies with the decision makers--but that doesn't absolve the many people who are making a lot of money building these systems. Systems which they know will be used to kill people ext
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by dcposch 10y ago
That's fair. It's not that it's gone completely unreported--but often the coverage is uncritical. The NYTimes in particular, which also played a tremendous role in justifying the Iraq War to the public, has been downright jin
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by dcposch 10y ago
i'm disappointed that hardly any members of the media or Democratic party establishment talk about Obama's expansion of the drone program. we have a long list of names. the executive branch of our government curates the list unila
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by dcposch 10y ago
hah. you, sir, are either an optimist or a satirist. FOIA responses are routinely denied or heavily redacted even for much more mundane requests than asking for details of unacknowledged drone kills.
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by dcposch 10y ago
What are one or two concrete things you'd actually use this for?
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by dcposch 10y ago
First, who? Evidence please. Second: > The new administration looks likely to be even worse
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by dcposch 10y ago
Like it or not, computer illiteracy has had a major effect on recent political events.
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by dcposch 10y ago
Good. I'd rather have an infosec-competent government than one that's an open book to foreign adversaries. The last few months have been embarrassing. We had one top official run their own email server out of a private basement in
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by dcposch 10y ago
Also @foggyeyes69, do you have a Github? Putting together a list of technologists who care about Yimby stuff.
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by dcposch 10y ago
@who_is_firing what's your Github?
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by dcposch 10y ago
> Face to face meetings sounds preposterous for someone who would risk prosecution under the espionage act for instance Snowden met face to face with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras. Things are improving. Lots of journalists have Signa
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by dcposch 10y ago
> We need to reform housing, allowing increased density and by-right permit approvals, and then the little guy has a chance to build affordable housing. There's a group working hard to do this every day. Consider joining SF Yimby:
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by dcposch 10y ago
sfyimby.org ! there are meetings every month, next one should be posted soon. https://facebook.com/pg/sfyimbyparty/events/

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