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by ef4 13y ago
Most likely hrrsn was referring to code-signing keys. Even if you can successfully MITM a software update connection, iOS won't run your trojan unless it's got a valid signature. Of course the jailbreaking community knows well tha
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by ef4 13y ago
Why the hell would Apple publish the vulnerability & fix for iOS without a concurrent update to OS X?!
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by ef4 13y ago
I think you just eloquently argued for abolishing one-size-fits-all mass schooling, which I would wholeheartedly support.
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by ef4 13y ago
Quarks were proposed in 1964 and observed in the lab pretty unequivocally by 1977. By 1998 they weren't some weird new theory. Which is to say, your (depressingly typical) English teacher shouldn't be given the benefit of the doub
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by ef4 13y ago
I have been building up a quote file for many years. :-) And I'm a homeschooling parent too, though my son is still quite young and we will play it by ear. For me, it was Scouting more than sports that gave me something meaningful to s
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by ef4 13y ago
That's pretty hard to generalize. I worked at the biggest CDN for many years. They definitely get free traffic in many places. They had a whole team who's job was talking to network owners and saying "look, you paid for X ter
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by ef4 13y ago
One of the ironies here is that it's actually much easier for the smartest kids to excel in school if they have a healthy level of disrespect for it. Intrinsic motivation is the dominant factor. A student that's actually driven by
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by ef4 13y ago
You may think it sounds better after a few more rounds of banking crises. TANSTAFL.
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by ef4 13y ago
Not true. Big CDNs have been cutting deals like this for a long time. It's often in a network owner's financial interest to host a node for free, because it saves them so much upstream bandwidth which they would otherwise pay for.
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by ef4 13y ago
Sigh. It's a fallacy that making loans implies fractional reserves as normally understood. Banks can still make loans simply by offering certificates of deposit. This is the above-board way of loaning out people's money -- you mak
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by ef4 13y ago
Ha. That's a Silicon-Valley-centric problem. There's plenty of programming work in great walkable places in San Francisco proper, New York, Boston, etc.
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by ef4 13y ago
> And the space elevator is not something that would be developed by interplanetary travelers but by people who just want to get into Earth orbit. That's not true at all. The vast majority of the energy cost of going to another plan
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by ef4 13y ago
That's kinda missing that the whole point of researching space elevators is to dramatically change the value proposition. Space will be economically uninteresting until somebody manages to drop the price-per-pound by a few orders of ma
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by ef4 13y ago
Robert Zubrin's space elevator book analyzes this situation and concludes that most of the mass would either escape or burn up in the atmosphere. Only the bottom-most section would hit the ground. His design contemplates anchoring to a
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by ef4 13y ago
But a compass points south equally well.
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by ef4 13y ago
That's actually one of the main things that's addressed by this v3 protocol: > Both fragmented and unfragmented messages contain sender and recipient instance tags. This avoids an issue on IM networks that always relay all mess
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by ef4 13y ago
> But people often imagine that when you read a result like "men are more X than women, with p < 0.05", the result is two disjoint bell curves, rather than two nearly-coincident bell curves. Which just means people are bad a
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by ef4 13y ago
Here's the thing: you're talking about someone's name. If a woman always choose to go by "Mrs", that's her choice, even if you don't like it and even if you believe she was unfairly brainwashed into it. Ma
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by ef4 13y ago
No, that's not the assumption at all. The assumption is that any business that's not deserving of trust is very easy to detect and kill in the internet era, solely through the distributed actions of consumers with good access to i
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by ef4 13y ago
There is lots of evidence, of several different kinds. At the biochemical level, we actually know a lot about some of the pathways that allow food and body fat composition to govern appetite. See, for example, leptin signaling. At the anthr
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by ef4 13y ago
> Yet being ignorant of the low-level details is still a curse, a disability, if you will. That very much depends on how leaky the abstractions are. The things you consider "low-level" are themselves quite high level and abstra
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by ef4 13y ago
> Again, it all comes back to calories in vs calories out. Which is both true and irrelevant, because the system that governs calories in and calories out is a complex control loop. When it's working correctly, weight is effortlessl
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by ef4 13y ago
> When the NSA demands your data, you're not really entering a business partnership. True, but I saw the original comment as relating more to recruiting. The NSA works just as hard as any tech company to compete for skilled employee
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by ef4 13y ago
The author is frustrated by a real and frustrating problem, but he's missing why things are this way. The "triumvirate of HTML/CSS/Javascript" isn't just a technology. It's a social consensus . It's
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by ef4 13y ago
That's how I used to think of Newegg too, but they've branched out way beyond computer parts. It's a very similar evolution to Amazon itself, which of course used to be a book store.
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by ef4 13y ago
I think the ISPs are going to eventually regret this. Once you get a reputation for having a crappy product, it's hard to lose it. And they will get that reputation. Their own advertising has often touted how well their service can s
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by ef4 13y ago
This post seems to be ignoring the most obvious outcome: "yes, you own 1/3, but I'm not interested or able to buy your share right now." This is why owners of small ventures think about "liquidity" events: unti
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by ef4 13y ago
I seriously considered going through a CPS transforming compiler for my major production Javascript application, but it's a risky step to take, relative to using a less invasive transformation like coffeescript. It comes down to lack o
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by ef4 13y ago
> Commented-out code should behave the same way as deleted code. But it did, that's not the problem the author encountered. The issue wasn't that commented code caused a behavior change, it's that uncommented-but-assumed-u
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by ef4 13y ago
I was just commiserating and sharing my own experience. The problems posted in the article are really hard to judge because the author doesn't actually explain what happened. In the first example, he doesn't try. Fair enough, it&#

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