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by dsacco 9y ago
> Ed25519 looks nice and there is experimental support for it in gnupg but it's not post quantum unfortunately. That's not a problem of NIST recommendations. There aren't any post-quantum secure elliptic curve public-k
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by dsacco 9y ago
If you're going to leave the debate like you said you would, just do so. But don't reply to my comment with nothing but an irrelevant Wikipedia link - that's extremely dismissive. It's also intellectually insulting, beca
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by dsacco 9y ago
> In case anyone that doesn't follow the development of the library closely missed it, the main improvement in this version is the introduction of ECC support. Wow...I'm sort of shocked that wasn't a v1.0 consideration.
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by dsacco 9y ago
For art, exchange "natural" for "authentic."
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by dsacco 9y ago
No, many people are predisposed to like luxury items due to instilled cultural values, not because of an innate utility. But that was part of my point: to honestly criticize the diamond industry, we should criticize the entire market of veb
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by dsacco 9y ago
> I'm done with this debate. Your style of discussion is basically building up a giant Rube Goldberg machine of words for something that is extremely simple at the core, which is turning it into an endurance run of who can keep up
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by dsacco 9y ago
I disagree. Gold is clearly a luxury item despite being natural. More importantly, diamonds are luxury goods, for better or worse, which means they wouldn’t adhere to the price dynamics of water.
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by dsacco 9y ago
“Productive” here means that there is no distinguishing feature of the diamond industry in particular with respect to the luxury industry. In other words, the criticism of the diamond industry is not productively precise. Of course, you c
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by dsacco 9y ago
Assuming they talk about how they prefer “real” diamonds, the latter. Similarly, people on the other side signal their association by talking about how they’d never buy “real” diamonds.
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by dsacco 9y ago
Could we maybe adjust the title to say something like, “A Career Cold Start Algorithm For Managers ”? It’s somewhat applicable to individual contributors, but it’s intended more for managers, which I didn’t realize until halfway through it
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by dsacco 9y ago
It’s only manipulative to take advantage of people’s desires for “real” diamonds insofar as it is manipulative to take advantage of people’s desires for “real” luxury items of any sort that can be faked. In other words: calling it manipulat
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by dsacco 9y ago
The internally consistent argument is that these items are, like many other luxury goods, designed to signal status (or, more rarely, to elicit a response of much more fundamental appreciation, the sort a fellow watchmaker might have for a
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by dsacco 9y ago
That’s an interesting analogy, I’m not really sure how to answer that. I suppose I would respond by saying that water isn’t exactly analogous because it’s not a luxury good. A better example might be a “fake” Rolex or a “fake” Hermes handba
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by dsacco 9y ago
In fairness, that massive marketing campaign only worked because people are very susceptible to preferring “natural” things over “artificial” things, especially with art and luxury items. Diamonds are not unusual in this regard.
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by dsacco 9y ago
You’re taking away a lot of agency from people who prefer natural diamonds. Yes, of course their marketing campaign set off the industry, but the reason it worked is because many people are already predisposed to prefer natural things over
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by dsacco 9y ago
It took me 10 minutes to setup Let’s Encrypt on my web server. It was the first and only time I’ve had to do it. I’m pretty sure I spent more time setting up Apache’s configuration than I did Let’s Encrypt’s.
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by dsacco 9y ago
I’m well aware of all of that, I was just commenting on the legitimacy of peoples’ preferences with regard to natural versus artificial items.
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by dsacco 9y ago
They’re called fake because they’re artificial, not because they have more flaws. The diamond industry might have once thought it could rely on artificial diamonds being less perfect, but it’s under no such illusion now. I think it’s fair t
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by dsacco 9y ago
> And not only that, but useds aren't expected... > ...try to coddle to useds desires... > I don't see this ending well for the useds with cognitive dissonance. Using Stallman-esque terminology like "useds&quot
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by dsacco 9y ago
> This is a conversation I have occasionally had with non tech friends. I'm sorry, you are the one being hyperbolic. It's like you haven't even noticed what's been happening the last 10 years or so. In my opinion, y
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by dsacco 9y ago
I think the parent commenter has a pretty straightforward point: the services are "free" in the common sense of the word, meaning you need not directly pay for them. You can reason about abstract value transfer relationships invol
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by dsacco 9y ago
Sure. Netflix's Chief Product Officer, Neil Hunt, has provided the 15% statistic directly in interviews. There are a few places you can find him saying this, but the first one I found by searching was this: https://www.linke
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Netflix is famous for this (and has high retention) Netflix has high turnover, about 15-20% depending on source.
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Physicists Find a Way to See the “Grin” of Quantum Gravity(quantamagazine.org)
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by dsacco 9y ago
> I don't hire 4.0 students because I like to have a good social atmosphere. That seems both judgemental and poorly considered as a hiring heuristic. I could flip this on you to make an equally invalid assessment of people: I don’
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by dsacco 9y ago
Can someone clarify this for me? > A few days before Robinson’s appointment as institute director, the University also announced that two scholars, an associate professor at Columbia University and an assistant professor at New York Uni
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by dsacco 9y ago
> There's absolutely no evidence that additional equity would motivate him more. Yes there is. Presumably, if Musk proposed a compensation package, it’s because he wants that compensation, and if the compensation is tied to uncert
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by dsacco 9y ago
Thanks for that insight, now I’ve got some more reading material to work through!
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by dsacco 9y ago
Fun fact: Wiles’ proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem took him six years to complete in isolation, during which time he essentially told no one in the mathematical community that he was working on it. To prove it, he had to utilize results from n
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by dsacco 9y ago
Sure, I don’t see why not. How involved is the process of putting the data onto IPFS?

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