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931.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
The level of fanboyism in the comments is saddening. Many other fast and productive languages have async since a while.
932.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
...which would significantly decreasing inequality - immediacy disproving the belief that inequality is some sort of inevitable natural phenomenon.
933.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
The problem is still there.
934.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
It is not fitting the requirement widely agreed for defining software Open Source: it creates a restriction on usage.
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
> I find the distinction between libraries and applications to be rather self serving It is. It turns libraries into a free commodity and this turns the efforts of developer into unpaid labor for companies selling software or services.
936.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Not fully but 99%. Most "SaaS" companies would avoid running it or pay a license for a special approval.
937.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
On the contrary, it adds a good handful of bits of information.
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
> it doesn't take a genius to recognize that you shouldn't have sensitive conversations around a microphone Stop this. You are putting blame on the end user for failing to understand complex security and privacy issues. Also, t
939.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Most of the security and privacy concerns come from not bothering to press few buttons on a smartphone. A smartphone that would be in your hands or pockets anyways.
940.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
The hardware can be much cheaper. Furthermore, stealing very expensive cars would pay off the cost very quickly.
941.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Modulating a laser at audio frequencies is pretty trivial. You can probably inject the signal straight from the headphone output of a smartphone into the right pad in the laser pointer with a decoupling resistor and inline capacitor. ...if
942.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Importantly, there are fully open source implementations of U2F hardware tokens. On top of that, U2F tokens have no memory. This makes them more durable and make the chipset even smaller.
943.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
"wildly overrated"
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
> best universities and most sought after students on the planet All available data shows otherwise.
945.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
> access is restricted behind rigorous entrance exams In some countries there is no exam at all.
946.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Shusshh, don't wake HN.
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Yes, but the basic Internet from 1990 is still there . E.g. small websites, self-hosted email, IRC servers.
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
And yet Churchill saw how Turing's work on Enigma was promising and gave him a lot of support. There are many other examples. Politicians are perfectly capable of understanding the social impact of technology... when they need to.
949.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Employees cannot choose who to take advice from when decisions are imposed by management - to benefit management.
950.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Yes to all the questions.
951.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
I'm surprised that nobody else pointed out this. In US breath analyzer, lie detectors, police officer's sworn statement have proven many times to be very unreliable. And yet they are trusted again and again.
952.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
You, and few more billions of people in the worlds decided that is "not considered cool, necessary or culturally appropriate for anyone to carry around lethal weapons". Let's not forget it.
953.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Complexity is the n.1 enemy of security and IPsec is horribly complex. Wireguard is very lean and simple.
954.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
A fancy webapp is not the best for a security critical thing like generating VPN confs! I'd rather have a simple script and push updates to a "read-only" webapp.
955.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
While this might sound like a joke or an exaggeration, this kind of authoritarianism is spreading like wildfire in the US.
956.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
...which is how the majority of software in the world is deployed, outside of the HN bubble. There are many statistics on this.
957.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Not really.
958.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
No, you only package what you need.
959.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Feeling burnt out is not a luxury and not a choice. Not even a bit.
960.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
GDP is completely unrelated to how much effort people put into work, or on how good they are.

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