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> Studio Ghibli famously managed to prevent Disney from destroying it's films when released in the US by pulling a power play (they sent a samurai sword to Harvey Weinstein... yes that Harvey with a note that just said "No cuts
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FWIW, they look nice, but not $3000 nice: https://keycap-archivist.com/maker/kbk-kwk/mummy-ii . Feels like the equivalent of a "if you know, you know" luxury clothes brand.
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I remember Robert Moore in the epilogue. Where was Paul Graham?
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“When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and ye
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if anyone would have a sense of the number of operations required, you'd hope it was a mathematician.
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The description of the businesses feels like someone took the Laprophiag online membership gift of a "plot of land", which clearly a joke, and tried to commercialize it. I wonder which plot of land fake happened first? Also glad t
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Because we've been dealing with these issues for a long time and they have failed to create the dystopia's predicted. I will acknowledge that life has gotten worse for some people, but overall things have gotten better. The dream
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I believe that we are building a future which will attempt to be more efficient, at the cost of personalization. Back in ye olde days a tailor would make a coat for you, designed to fit you, at a wage that would be great for the tailor. It
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I can understand not trusting NIST's approach to crypto standards, given their history with the NSA. However what in this set of documents do you find untrustworthy?
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This was a really great episode. I'm glad you took the time to get someone from the gov to talk about this on the podcast.
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> The same people tend to have trouble grasping that most of the vulnerabilities exploited and encouraged by NSA are also exploitable by the Chinese government. These people start with the assumption that Americans are the best at everyt
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The tax will be based on the amount of CO2 you emit. High cardio jobs such as construction, delivery and politiciking will get tax credits to cover the cost. CrossFit practitioners will pay full cost, possibly even an excessive penalty. The
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FTA: Unfortunately, scaling technology can have a significant environmental impact. Across the globe, most semiconductor manufacturing use electricity that is generated from coal and natural gas. So the problem is the power plants in manufa
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As a counterpoint, the us post office is expected to make money as well. There's a number of onerous rules around that in fact.. During the Trump administration the head of education was a big fan of charter schools, which is a way of
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They give you just enough to tempt you into ordering the full book. FTA: Thévoz’s book is at its best when it covers the “eccentricities” of this world. Clubland is, after all, a place where a sign can read “members are asked not to
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Wouldn't that require the ABI, or at least the API, to be the same across versions of the affected library? That feels like it may be possible with enough tooling, but still very hard to enforce.
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Sorry you must be thinking of classical AWS
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Before the government SBOM standard that kicked all this off was finalized, I'd asked about this and related items such as reproducible builds. The response I got is that getting honest information out of vendors would be a huge step f
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The idea is that users of software or products containing software can understand the components in it and make informed decisions on what to do. The classic example is an MRI machine at a hospital. You hear about a bug in the Java Spring l
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if you gave him 2 torches and strapped the binos to his head you'd have full duplex.
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I killed 67 people, but 5 deaths were due to pressing the wrong button on the painting level. Do I start over and pull more levers to lower my score or do nothing?
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Why do they even have tickets if they can look up when you entered?
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This sounds very similar to ipfs. How does it differ?
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When trying it out to see if there is any automated sentiment analysis, I noticed that my line of "a" just stretches endlessly out and breaks the text box. Anyways, does HN want to offer feedback on the first game involving explai
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Just to nit on your portion of signing: wouldn't you need to rehash all prior commits as well so that they used the better hash function? Otherwise someone could find a collision for a prior commit hashed with sha-1, slip that in, and
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I'd argue the opposite actually. Device owners pay a much higher cost in maintaining multiple, incompatible, devices that each require their own procedure to upgrade, means of notification, etc. In addition a lot of security when thing
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We will rush so quickly to make UML in 3D that we will never stop to think... Should we?
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I would love to see a fuzzer applied to business logic. It should take design requests from PMs and execucritters and ask pointed questions about edge cases.
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That is one thing that RFC8959 is intended to solve. If you see "secret-token:" in any logs after running tests you flag that as a problem and fail the test.
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Let's say that I place a vending machine in a public space, such as a street or a park. The public is able to interact with it by inserting FIAT coins to purchase DRNK. Someone clever figures out a way to interact with the vending mach

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