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by egwynn 9y ago
I'm not sure it's possible for a movement to be both "grassroots" and also "funded by billionaires".
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by egwynn 9y ago
I’m not sure I follow you. Unless I’ve read it totally wrong, this thing is basically just xdialog for macOS with some fancy dress-up. I don’t see how it exposes a novel attack vector.
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by egwynn 9y ago
Which (IIRC) is like xdialog for gtk, which is like dialog for X11.
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by egwynn 9y ago
You can do of the above. Indeed, you personally did some of the above! Thanks! But many just came in and posted about it being wasteful and impractical, apparently unaware that the source material had already readily admitted as much about
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by egwynn 9y ago
I agree 100%. So glad someone's finally bucking the prevailing hipster trends these days.
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by egwynn 9y ago
Judging by the readily quantifiable responses on HN expressing disapproval, I definitely don't believe it's "just you". As far as "cognitive validity" is concerned, the closest you'll get to an answer from
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by egwynn 9y ago
I'm not sure I know what you mean by "usefulness". I know that sounds weird, but they say they're not aiming to meet "standard principles of progress, universality and efficiency". So it sounds to me like the e
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by egwynn 9y ago
I'm seeing tons of comments about this thing being wasteful or impractical, as if these weren't specifically discussed in the source material. They were. They know. Here's their statement from the "Why" page:
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by egwynn 9y ago
I don't disagree with you, it is impractical. But the whole point of the project is to challenge the exact tech conventions that lead one to conclude that it's impractical. So while I agree with you, saying "it's impra
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by egwynn 9y ago
What would be inside the VR headsets if not more screens?
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by egwynn 9y ago
I sense a you didn’t read the post / don’t know what Luddites were. Put less flippantly: The Luddites hated technology because they feared it would take their jobs. While this project calls a lot of strong technological conventions int
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by egwynn 9y ago
“Correct” is a tricky thing in language. There’s basically no difference between “widely used” and “correct”. My guess is that the tech community will generally resist using “crypto” to mean “cryptocurrency” while the general public might (
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by egwynn 9y ago
I think you're right, but I'm not sure I'm wrong... yet. First, I think I misinterpreted paragraph C w.r.t. how it applies to the ads themselves. I think you're right here, that the ads aren't illegal, since they do
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by egwynn 9y ago
... objectively (in no bad way whatsoever) acknowledge trait differences ... This is like the "frictionless surface" of sociology. It sure sounds like a great thing to shoot for, but our laws carry centuries (if not
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by egwynn 9y ago
The text of the law[0] is surprisingly clear that FB's acceptance of these ads is illegal (unless I'm missing something big). As made applicable by section 3603 of this title and except as exempted by sections 3603(b) an
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by egwynn 9y ago
If life is a formal system, then it needs postulates. Obviously humans can’t agree on postulates. Do you have a useful scheme of postulates that you’re sure all humans will agree on? If so, please share. You’ll be able to clear up tens of t
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by egwynn 9y ago
Yes, accusations were what I had in mind when I framed it as “threat model” in the question. it is cheaper to just get rid of you even if you are innocent Is it? One clearly has some value to their employer. Replacing an empl
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by egwynn 9y ago
It’s just a rough intuition/guess of mine. I tried to think about anyone I’ve heard of (in/near my social network) who’d lost a job due to any accusations at all. Two came to mind, both with smoking-gun evidence. Even if I knew fi
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by egwynn 9y ago
Public disclosures of these kinds of actions are meticulously calculated Are they? All we have is a FB post from one of their entrepreneurs. She probably (sensibly) thinks there’s a better authority for dealing with the situat
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by egwynn 9y ago
I was gonna reply to your first draft (the one which started “reeks of troll”), but then it was already changed by the time I clicked the “reply” button. You’ve made at least five edits since then. Stop, think, write, post.
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by egwynn 9y ago
I dunno if I’d say that makes you a jerk, but it strikes me as maybe a little overcautious. As with any security/safety issue, I think it comes down to the threat model you’re using. What’s the attack vector you’re protecting against?
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by egwynn 9y ago
many others will make a fear-driven overreaction. This. The actual risk involved here (job loss due to fraudulent accusations) must be so tiny as to be negligible.
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by egwynn 9y ago
I’m not convinced that "career death due to fraudulent sexual misconduct allegations” is a ramptant problem in tech. Based on nearly 100% of women I’ve ever known in tech, the vast majority of sexual misconduct either goes unreported o
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by egwynn 9y ago
My favorite unsung readline default is ctrl-o, for "operate-and-get-next”. If you’ve gone back and found a command from your history, ctrl-o will run it and then tee up the next command. And, if you hit the end of your history, it will
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by egwynn 9y ago
previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15652702 EDIT: and also previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15642856
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by egwynn 9y ago
Cool! Reminds me of GStreamer ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GStreamer ). It’s definitely like AWK insofar as it’s pipeline-based. But to me the big thing about AWK is that the program doing the transformation is usuall
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by egwynn 9y ago
Man 3B1B is fantastic. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much great math explained so clearly and beautifully as in his videos. Keep up the good work!
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by egwynn 9y ago
The way I’ve heard it explained is that poor people will base their grocery purchases based on price, and that gets to GP’s point about not subsidizing corn. The reasoning goes: cheap corn leads to low-end food being filled with corn syrup,
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by egwynn 9y ago
I can’t imagine why they would be. If I were them I’d be happy to have such a comprehensive pentesting resource to test against.
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by egwynn 9y ago
I’m not sure what threat model you’re proposing. If an attacker has control of your computer or the keybase app, then yes, it’s game over. But encryption removes the hosting entity as what would otherwise be a single point of failure. If yo

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