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by dcposch 10y ago
Yeah. I think many people have no idea how many hours they actually spend on those sites.
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by dcposch 10y ago
Of course they did, but there's still a big difference between a society where child death is a rare tragedy and one where child death is unavoidable and common.
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by dcposch 10y ago
No, he's saying you compress CBR, then encrypt. Not compress CBR -> gzip -> encrypt or something silly like that. CBR audio codec, then encrypt gives you a constant-bitrate stream indistinguishable from randomness. That's pr
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by dcposch 10y ago
The point stands though. US of E would be a beautiful thing. > Its dream, while noble, does not speak to ordinary people. Maybe not ordinary old guya. Many young people have a cosmopolitan attitude. They see themselves as Europeans first
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by dcposch 10y ago
@dang that seems reasonable, but can you detatch it starting with the parent post? This thread is about tptacek's claim that I "attempted to whip up an Internet pitchfork mob". I think his accusation and my response should be
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by dcposch 10y ago
Yep. Here's the full conversation again, it starts with this tweet: https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/705825790529662976 That was rude, unkind and you shouldn't have posted it. Happy to have people read bo
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by dcposch 10y ago
Just wanted to give some context. Here, I'll link directly to the thread you're talking about, so people can judge for themselves. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11726188
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by dcposch 10y ago
> when it casually calls for things like tossing due process and burden of proof out the window This is so important. Preface: I am not defending Jacob Appelbaum at all here---the evidence of wrongdoing in his case looks solid. Encouragi
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by dcposch 10y ago
I think nontraditional research organizations like YC Research and Google's Project Zero can solve this problem. -- Open source basic infrastructure -- everything from Sage to OpenSSL -- suffers from a market failure. We rely on these
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by dcposch 10y ago
Joanna is a hero. Also, I would give anything for a clean slate design that prioritized simplicity and transparency. We've been layering complicated crap under and on top of older complicated crap for so long that even professional eng
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by dcposch 10y ago
Sadly async/await, like so many ES6/ES7 features, adds needless complexity. You can already achieve the exact same thing with generators. Check out the popular `co` module. Before: function getLikes () { getUsers((err, use
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by dcposch 10y ago
Unfortunately it's not a Universal Basic Income at all. UBI and related proposals like Negative Income Tax minimize economic distortion. As you make more money, there's a smooth transition from receiving money from the gov't
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by dcposch 10y ago
No, that's different. Julie Hovarth and Zach were partners at one point. Later they broke up, and after the big story of her exit from Github, she told journalists that Zach: > "was complicit in the actions of both Tom and Ther
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by dcposch 10y ago
I think the new outrage culture is toxic. It's a really tight knit subculture with its own rules and a vicious ingroup/outgroup attitude. Like goths or old school hippies, they have a distinct way of dressing and signalling to eac
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by dcposch 10y ago
> Are there any people not in favor of pardoning Snowden here? Tptacek says that if he were president, he'd "see Snowden prosecuted for overtly and recklessly breaking the law, but would commute his sentence" ( https:&#x2
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by dcposch 10y ago
this is easily the most riveting and stomach churning "incident postmortem" that i've seen. the story has a lot of layers to unpack. if you care about infosec, read it. if you're running an organization and have employee
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by dcposch 10y ago
That's fair. Here on HN, tptacek writes negatively about Nadim surprisingly often. I do think it's bullying, though you're right that it's more subtle than his behavior on Twitter. dang is great. I just wish we had a bit
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by dcposch 10y ago
Nadim had a legitimate and reasonable question. For those who don't know, here was Thomas Ptacek recently joking about Nadim's penis: https://mobile.twitter.com/tqbf/status/705825790529662976 Here he is
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by dcposch 10y ago
> he was hanging around my coffee area What? Are they allowed to just enter hospitals as neither doctor, patient, nor visitor, and hang around promoting their companies' drugs? If so, why??
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by dcposch 10y ago
Yes, it is a serious issue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
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by dcposch 10y ago
He's not oversimplifying. He's not saying that all Hep C patients are IV drug users. He's just staying that a lot of Hep C care is taxpayer funded, and that Gilead is therefore price gouging the American taxpayer. That your
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by dcposch 10y ago
Some of those sites have good information that you'll miss out on. I think there's an even simpler and more realistic solution: someone needs to make a Chrome extension that is like uBlock Origin, but unblockable. It should be:
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by dcposch 10y ago
Yes, it's consulting. Palantir has done an amazing job branding itself as a product company even tho it's mostly not, and for a long time, up to ~1000 employees in 2012, branding itself as a startup. A surprising number of my fr
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by dcposch 10y ago
> For all the loathing this idea gets, it's the only way to tell the market to "not be stupid". No, the market will be just fine. IoT is a fad. Much of it is just taking things that were simple and reliable and making them
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by dcposch 10y ago
If you want no government control whatsoever, move to northern Somalia. If you want good governance that respects individual freedom, you have to work for it. "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." --- And re: crypto making
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by dcposch 10y ago
No, we need both politics and technology. First, we need an organized and determined political movement to defend civil liberties in general and our right to privacy in particular. To an extent the EFF and ACLU fill that role, but I think
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by dcposch 10y ago
> my next secret project > I am also working on a new hardware device called the Turn Touch Mac Remote. It controls custom built apps on your Mac. lol. good luck!
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by dcposch 10y ago
Great writing. It definitely hits on some truth and calls out hypocrisies and absurdities that deserve to be called out. Overall, though, I think this is unnecessarily negative. I think you've got to keep some perspective. There are a
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by dcposch 10y ago
I miss this as well! Stanford still has this and calls it the open door policy I really hope something like Campus Housing works out. They had a great idea but didnt execute. With the right group of people I'd be super down to live in
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by dcposch 10y ago
That's why it's so important that the judges and officers charged with keeping order are part of the communities they serve. There has to be trust and empathy between the people and the police. I think we have lots of cities and n

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