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by dimino 11y ago
A group of folks were ordered hanged in the most recent episode.
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by dimino 11y ago
I've spoiled nothing! For those who've seen it, they know precisely the content to which I refer, and to those who haven't, I am in no way spoiling because of how vague I remained.
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by dimino 11y ago
I wonder if this being posted here is in any way related to the events which took place on the latest episode of Game of Thrones...
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by dimino 11y ago
I'm getting tired of this conversation, so I'll just leave you with the idea that words carry different definitions in different contexts. There is no scientific context by which "race" is currently known. You can choo
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by dimino 11y ago
I'm just saying that there are lots of people here already doing the 'kind' thing, so maybe it's about time to do the 'nice' thing for the folks who haven't been burdened by this yet.
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by dimino 11y ago
> Given the prevalence of anxiety and depression in the industry That's not true, I don't think, and your dispassionate "grow some balls" comment at the end is pretty ironic and certainly hurtful. :( I hope I'm
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by dimino 11y ago
Life is very rigorously defined, however it's not unequivocal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life#Definitions A word not having a rigorous definition means it cannot be discussed scientifically. Hence the actual p
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by dimino 11y ago
> This wiki page is the reflection of the general opinions of the scientific community. It isn't. The concept of "race" is not rigorously defined.
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by dimino 11y ago
Really ought to delink this one; not sure it's appropriate for HN, and there are plenty of people already here who will keep the conversation going if OP wants to talk. I know I don't come to HN to have to think about mortality, a
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by dimino 11y ago
I do not accept the given definition of race from this page, as it presumes the term "race" is in any way scientific or rigorously defined when in actuality it is not. What we "tend to call" race is not defined, despit
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by dimino 11y ago
That's a great point I hadn't thought about. The UX for Apple products is generally fantastic. On a site where everyone's concerned with the Hz and the MBs, the UX regularly gets left behind.
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by dimino 11y ago
I'm sorry, you misunderstand -- the people we label as "Chinese" do not share similar physical/genetic traits. Common misconception that they do, but there is very little genetic consistency across cultural boundaries,
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by dimino 11y ago
> If genetics influences physical traits from height, skin color, facial features, and even athleticism, what black magic in this world makes it so that genetics doesn't even touch behavior or intelligence? Because we have no eviden
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by dimino 11y ago
You don't buy an Apple product for the hardware performance, you buy it for the OS.
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by dimino 11y ago
> Chinese people are fully aware of what's right and wrong and we choose to deliberately cheat. Whether that's cultural tendency or genetic one is another story. What?! Genetic?! There is very little, if any evidence to s
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by dimino 11y ago
> "American dies after eating 400 hotdogs in eating competition" = "unhealthy fastfood is pretty entrenched in American culture". Not for nothing, but I'd actually agree with that conclusion, based on your exampl
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by dimino 11y ago
Professionally? Completely unacceptable. Talk to your employees about the importance of timeliness, and act if they don't respond to suggestion. Personally? Chill the fuck out. There are a great many things in life more important t
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by dimino 11y ago
I've always assumed that a browser plugin would be the only way to establish even a semblance of integrity with regards to any security model attempting to encrypt/decrypt in a browser. Is that not true?
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by dimino 11y ago
There's just no technicality you can get away with here, because judges and juries are people too, and will know you're just trying to find a way to break the spirit of the law.
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by dimino 11y ago
What if Google validated PGP signatures for you from trusted, popular certs? They'd have Facebook's pubkey on file, and -- transparent to you -- would create something analogous to my browser's lock icon in their email browse
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by dimino 11y ago
The solution to "my key is easily factorable" is not "hide the key", it's "get a new key". Factually you haven't said anything I know to be wrong.
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by dimino 11y ago
> Unless you're assuming they don't have it via other means. Never, ever assume this of your public key. The solution to the Debian bug is to use a keypair not generated by the bugged Debian build, not "continue to use the
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by dimino 11y ago
> But in real-world terms, some users are less likely to be compromised if GitHub hadn't published them. This is not true.
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by dimino 11y ago
They're insecure whether or not GitHub makes them viewable. All you get by not publishing your public key is a false sense of security. This is textbook security through obscurity, and is considered ill-advised by the security com
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by dimino 11y ago
> Users can still have other perfectly reasonable security reasons to request that people not publish them in particular circumstances! I feel your argument relies on these actually existing -- so what are these reasons?
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by dimino 11y ago
It's about building a comprehensive security model -- the author of what you quoted would be wrong if he suggests public keys should be considered, at any time, by anyone, to be anything less than public. Any security model that relies
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by dimino 11y ago
> Specifically because, at least theoretically, it could be used to derive your private key. What theory? I'm unaware of a current working theory that could be used to derive a private key from a public key of sufficient complexity
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by dimino 11y ago
To be wildly pedantic, GitHub wouldn't charge him with anything, the DoJ would, regardless of what GitHub does/doesn't do.
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by dimino 11y ago
GitHub actually won't let you use the same pubkey in two places, but I get what you're trying to say. I'll reiterate - you should assume your public key (and any comment on your public key) is already public information, ev
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by dimino 11y ago
GitHub also won't allow you to do that.

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