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by er4hn 3y ago
It worked well for WeChat because they were able to launch a feature at a point when there were not very strict AML requirements in China and it was much easier to get consumers and merchants onboarded compared to credit cards. I don't
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by er4hn 3y ago
Assuming the best intentions of those running this, there may not be enough money in the budget for it to be free for everyone.
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by er4hn 3y ago
What does it catch under Rust? Unsafe code? I'm under the impression the borrow checker would prevent the class of problems valgrind is made for.
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by er4hn 3y ago
Zeyi Yang from China Report at MIT Tech Review had a story on how well it's going in China: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/23/1073500/drone-fo... . The BLUF is it still requires a fair amou
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by er4hn 3y ago
One of the co-founders, Brian Acton, has funded most of Signal (~100M USD) in his post WhapsApp life. It is a very hacker mindset solution. Instead of turning to the law to enforce nebulous claims against a megacorp, make a better product w
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by er4hn 3y ago
https://er4hn.info
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by er4hn 3y ago
How would you feel about a trip to India? Speaking as someone who has been to both India and China, China has a stronger rule of law and feels safer than India. (For context: I am saying this as a white American male)
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by er4hn 3y ago
Hilariously enough netizens in China are saying that Chinese tourists that were attacked during the Paris riots deserved it for leaving China and should be forced to live in Paris. Nationalism is a disease.
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by er4hn 3y ago
It's not as bad as the internet may lead you to believe. I'm a white man visiting in laws in Nanjing right now. People have been pleasant, the food is a delight, the subway trains arrive every 4 mins and cover the city. The two bi
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by er4hn 3y ago
The full quote is much more impactful and is something I come back to when I think about more mundane things like moving up in roles in a company: > “Henry, there’s something I would like to tell you, for what it’s worth, something I wis
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by er4hn 3y ago
Scams, and scammers, evolve. There will always be members of society that are lonely, desperate for money, or have some other situation that causes them to ignore red flags in a Nigerian 419 scam. Technology also enables new scams as time g
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by er4hn 3y ago
Who should write crypto code? People with PhDs in Cryptography and deep experience with the language they are using! What does OpenSSL do? Not that! If this was measured like a startup they have been wildly successful by ignoring best pract
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by er4hn 3y ago
Warhammer is a historic gaming institution which has had ripple effects throughout so many places: Starcraft having the Zerg based on Tyranniads, the lore text and novels leading to "grimdark" sci-fi as a genre, even other games l
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by er4hn 3y ago
Adding onto my own experience as well. It's a huge pain in the neck that I've been working on for 4 months. Nearly all of this has been back and forths with various state government agencies on how I have not filed paperwork corre
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by er4hn 3y ago
Illegal where? This is a "show up to your hotel room" service you can get in Las Vegas.
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by er4hn 3y ago
patio11 covers this a bit in a series of blog posts in his newsletter: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/money-laundering-and-... . Quoting a relevant paragraph from the AML post above: Much like KYC, AML policies
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by er4hn 3y ago
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educate
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by er4hn 3y ago
It's very much not over. It tends to focus on novel algorithms and dedicated hardware equipment so it's not as "in your face" as it once was.
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by er4hn 3y ago
Richard Stallman is a classic example of this. Brilliant man who produced many valuable things while having a strong philosophical basis underpinning them. As a person he has also engaged in concerning behavior that was hard to separate fro
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by er4hn 3y ago
A dead assembly language sounds like a Hilfinger thing. Taking 61B with him was an experience. He started by asking us to look to our left and to our right. He told us that one of us would not make it to the end of the class, with pride in
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by er4hn 3y ago
Would this make it a TLS quine?
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by er4hn 3y ago
Thanks for sharing this. When I saw the link, I wanted to see if there was something similar for Mandarin. Looking at the PDF sample I don't see anything around how to pronounce the characters, i.e. there's nothing along the top o
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by er4hn 3y ago
Same thing with Samsung and their key leak. Part of the blame, imo, lies with how clunky tools are at the lower levels. I've seen plenty of hardware based signing protocols that don't allow for key hierarchies. Higher level tools
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by er4hn 3y ago
It's a tradeoff between how you route requests. If they all come from the same host, using the same source port, they are all probably related and it's not a bad idea to have them all go to the same server node to process. In gene
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by er4hn 3y ago
There's a couple things that I think are worth digging into with this post and the grandparent: - If a LB is a place where all traffic is going through, it does become a higher value target. Saying that they are not hacked feels very a
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by er4hn 3y ago
Discoverability. It's a lot easier to search one repo then it is to search a set of repos. For the latter you need to have all the repos listed somewhere, and have them be accessible.
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by er4hn 3y ago
I'd like to think they write the agency a pleasant letter each time. "Well hey, awkward, but we caught you again. Next time make sure not to name your files after US baseball teams :)" And the agency in turn sends them a cake
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by er4hn 3y ago
Wired has their own take on it ( https://www.wired.com/story/hacker-naming-schemes-spandex-te... ) where they actually interview the team that made this change. The overall scheme was driven by wanting more searchable na
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by er4hn 3y ago
Another interesting exploration of this is The Fabric of Civilization by Virginia Postrel ( https://vpostrel.com/the-fabric-of-civilization ). Her first chapter talks about how one of the overlooked innovations of the Stone A
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by er4hn 4y ago
Beautiful animations! I love how they make understanding this more intuitive and can be adjusted to play with different settings. One thing that I generally felt is missing in these discussions is how TLS messes up load balancing strategies

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