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by ekiru 9y ago
> You're skirting around the key basis of almost all systems of justice: you do have a right to autonomy as long as you don't violate other's equal right to the same. This is basically the Non Aggression Principle, and it
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by ekiru 9y ago
First, the person above you didn't say anything about caring about the underlying ideology; they said that they cared that the project seemed to them to be an art project designed for ideological purposes and unlikely to succeed as a
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by ekiru 9y ago
Making the decision seems a lot easier to me when the monitoring software explicitly markets itself to and supports domestic abusers.
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by ekiru 9y ago
The government of Russia in the 1920s was not composed of peasants; it did not even consider peasants as its allies. It largely considered them to be class enemies of the proletariat and counter-revolutionary. During the 1920s, it began its
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by ekiru 9y ago
The problem isn't that multiple time zones give the same local time at a particular time; the problem is that a person may experience the same local time multiple times during a day due to traveling or summer time. Suppose I'm com
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by ekiru 9y ago
It's also possible to experience a particular local time zero times on the date for either of those reasons.
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by ekiru 10y ago
There is an approach (called Supersingular isogeny Diffie-Hellman or SIDH) using certain types of mappings between elliptic curves being researched that _may_ be secure in a quantum setting. (edit to add:) I think this may be what the grand
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by ekiru 10y ago
It can inline library functions, since, at latest, 1.4.2 (this is just what I happened to have handy on this computer). It's pretty easy to test by writing a package containing a simple function like "func Square(x int) int { retu
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by ekiru 10y ago
> but it's not impossible for hitting a pedestrian to be a non-crime because of the absence of the mental state required for any applicable crime. Out of curiosity, under what conditions would this be the case?
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by ekiru 10y ago
Two more splits: In my hometown (in Tennessee), the split was originally K-3/4-8/9-12, but around 2000 they completed the construction of a new high school, so the old high school became the new junior high and grades 4-8 got redi
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by ekiru 10y ago
'hannob is referring to the reliance of QKD protocols on "an ordinary public communications channel, assumed to be susceptible to eavesdropping but not to the injection or alteration of messages." [0] This means that, unless
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by ekiru 10y ago
> The affected party (in this case Cloudflare) has incentive to handle the situation in a way that's limit the damage to their customers and their customers customers (which are the ones affected). Cloudflare has a much stronger inc
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by ekiru 10y ago
If you consider the establishment clause and the concept of judicial review of the actions of Congress and the President to be nonsense, you can expect to be consistently disappointed in the sensibility of the functioning of government in t
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by ekiru 10y ago
Recognizing when people are lying is an important part of CBP's job. They're trained specifically to do it. It's unlikely that you're better at lying than they are at noticing that you're lie. Lying to them will end
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by ekiru 10y ago
> Even if WhatsApp's crytpo is as flawless in implementation as we'd like FB still has access to all that metadata. Note that this argument is even more problematic for OpenPGP-encrypted email, as such email sends all metadata
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by ekiru 10y ago
That would directly contradict Musk's claim that the UAW paid the employee to join Tesla.
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by ekiru 10y ago
> you must necessarily provide justification so that another audience, which would want to make sure that you're not selling snake oil, could verify your why Much of the audience that has the expertise to effectively verify the wisd
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by ekiru 10y ago
It may be true that "shame only works inasmuch as you believe folks have a point" (I'm unsure), but it's certainly not true that shame only works when the folks doing the shaming have a point. People often feel shame whe
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by ekiru 10y ago
That's fair.
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by ekiru 10y ago
Why should the taxi union's decision to strike impose an obligation to strike on others who are not part of the union and had no input in the decision to strike?
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by ekiru 10y ago
> We also agree that Signal is a more secure alternative. Signal is only a more secure alternative in _some_ threat models. The most obvious counterexample is that, in some contexts, using WhatsApp marks you as a person who owns a smartp
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by ekiru 10y ago
I think most startups, particularly the ones taking investment, rather hope that 10% of the company will not be cheap.
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by ekiru 10y ago
I think that could mostly work. The placeholder message would have to be of identical length to the original and the resent message would have to use later sequence numbers/message ids (or whatever is used to identify individual messag
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by ekiru 10y ago
If resending undelivered messages to new keys waited for confirmation of the new key when safety number change notifications are enabled, then users without those notifications enabled would continue to immediately resend undelivered messag
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by ekiru 10y ago
The reason tptacek looked at the illumos source code is because I mentioned to them that a blog post you've previously linked to about the Solaris random devices [1] appeared [2] to suggest that the entropy provided by KCF randomness
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by ekiru 10y ago
This is indeed trivial to implement for Go in the sense of "implement" which allows for just calling out to guru ( https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/guru ).
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by ekiru 10y ago
I think you're right that that is not the point of HN, but I think HN attempts to automatically (and the HN moderators attempt to non-automatically in some cases) detect various kinds of voting abuse, including that kind. It's pos
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by ekiru 10y ago
> That being said, I see a lot of people pointing to "incivility" as a problem in political threads. That is incredibly wrong. The problem in political threads is twofold: (a) people civilly arguing without actually acknowledgi
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by ekiru 10y ago
It doesn't have to be, but it may be that it still should be the solution to that problem. It makes sense for, for example, news sites to disable comments on some stories because the comments aren't the most valuable portion of th
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by ekiru 10y ago
I think that "Don't run several pieces of years-old third-party software with multiple publicly-known code execution vulnerabilities as root/SYSTEM on possibly malicious input" is a bare minimum requirement to demand of

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