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by elipsey 7y ago
Really good points -- this kind of cheered me up.
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by elipsey 7y ago
What is the mechanism that actually prevents entry of the ship into Venezuela? The article makes it sound like the shipping company halted delivery on advice from their insurer: "In a subsequent tweet, the Venezuelan senior official ex
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by elipsey 7y ago
TIL "patch" and "loop" didn't used to be metaphorical -- they did it physically with punch card tape! Also, that has to be the classiest enclosure ever made. Check out some of the designer's other work: https:
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by elipsey 7y ago
I think it's hard to explain to non-lawyers in a way that is at once clear and complete. FSF states that the act would make patents "more easily claimed and enforceable." If you'd rather hear it from lawyers: "A con
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by elipsey 7y ago
I think you're missing my point. If we wish to be taken seriously when attributing claims or beliefs to people, we need to substantiate those with evidence like a cited quote, not just hearsay. The author is PHD candidate so they shoul
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by elipsey 7y ago
This article is making a lot of unattributed claims on behalf “Silicon Valley entrepreneurs”: “the promise of technological fixes peddled by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs that seem to allow us to continue with business as usual.” “But if we
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by elipsey 7y ago
>> poor people waste their whole paychecks on lottery tickets and such all the time. All of them, all the time? More than other people? Evidence?
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by elipsey 7y ago
think this is an instance of the general problem where everyone wants to outsource and/or automate identity verification because it’s a cost center and they aren’t liable for failure. In some cases it’s simply impossible to validate y
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by elipsey 7y ago
Respectfully, did you read the article? The thesis is that dragnet surveillance is stifling to political change and may result in an ossified society. There are trade-offs other then security vs safety.
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by elipsey 7y ago
They might prevent fishing expeditions though. I would encourage readers to see Moxie Marlinspike's essay on this subject. The thesis is that the ability to capriciously and selective prosecute anyone is stiffing to dissent, and preven
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by elipsey 7y ago
Life hack: don't store anything you don't want to explain in front of a judge. For practical purposes, "store" includes "put in a computer". Consider that: --Saying you committed a crime is definitely incrimina
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by elipsey 7y ago
Problem: mussels can bio-accumulate lethal naturally occurring toxins, and it is difficult to evaluate their safety.[1] I grew up around commercial fisherman in Alaska. All sorts of wild food was commonly hunted or gathered, but eating wild
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by elipsey 7y ago
You could say the same thing about any externality.
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by elipsey 7y ago
You have obviously worked for that state. :)
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by elipsey 7y ago
Thanks, that's an interesting story, and a cool idea. My experience was before I got to SF, so there was really not a lot of local talent around. I was an intern back then, and I liked my boss and my team, and what we were working on.
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by elipsey 7y ago
How many $40K ransoms would an org have to pay before it was cheaper to have a security team? The demands might be small to make it cheaper in the short term to pay instead of try to fix the problem. Obviously there are large costs external
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by elipsey 7y ago
> start trading amongst themselves, and eventually get a financial crisis that destroys all that "wealth" when there are no more buyers > how every other major period of rising inequality has ended This is an interesting ide
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by elipsey 7y ago
It's where the beer is.
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by elipsey 7y ago
The phrase "America First" has some... historical baggage. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dr+suess+america+first+comic&iax=i... If you're aware of this and comfortable with it, more power to you, but sometimes
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by elipsey 7y ago
It's hard to actually read the article, but the gist of it seems to be that firms are using regulatory arbitrage to sell hacking services to foreigners. It seems inevitable that some jurisdictions will allow this sort of thing. I'
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by elipsey 7y ago
No, it would be monopsony; there would be lots of providers but just one payer. If someone suggested that we have "VA for all" I would think that was dumb, but it's not what we're talking about. What you are describing i
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by elipsey 7y ago
That tax penalty no longer exists. I'd also like to point out that when it did exist, it was less than one month of my current un-subsidized insurance premium.
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by elipsey 7y ago
I didn't think it was that hard. I cut myself exactly once, and then I learned to pay more attention to the knife I was dragging across my throat :p
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by elipsey 7y ago
Reduced it by %10? I think you might un-xaggerating! I agree with the sentiment however.
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by elipsey 7y ago
This is exactly what I started writing before I saw your post. :) (Does that make this a discouraged “me too” post…?) TFA correlates _more_ sleep with increased mortality, but barely speculates on cause, and lumps too much, and not enough s
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by elipsey 7y ago
Super. My whole family is using old thinkpads with third party batteries. The batteries all pass DRM, perform well, and cost something that seemed sane to me, like 35-50 USD. Are there any warning signs for bad cells?
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by elipsey 7y ago
>> a single critique of e-scooters that couldn't be more accurately applied to cars Operating at high speed on narrow sidewalks. I have been clipped while walking in physically confined sidewalk areas, by a scooter moving at a da
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by elipsey 8y ago
Thank you (all!) very much. I'm excited about these.
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by elipsey 8y ago
Is anyone aware of other online or gamified security related programming (or other) excercises? I would be grateful for suggestions, ty.
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by elipsey 8y ago
How do you identify the caller? All of the robo calls are I get are clearly from spoofed numbers; they spoof my area code from a previous location, but are clearly targeting people in SF, e.g. tax scams on foreign workers, stuff I can'

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