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by fab13n 13y ago
> "inverted totalitarianism" describes this phenomenon. I believe it doesn't. Inverted totalitarianism supposes that a master class keeps the plebeian one controlled through apathy and deception, rather than open brute for
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It's stronger than a Nash equilibrium. It's not even an equilibrium actually, because we keep improving humans' productivity, and bureaucracies keep eating the freed workforce. It's really easier to make sense out of it
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by fab13n 13y ago
(wanted to post this on the website, but the comments system is off) I've found this article both entertaining and insightful; there's one big hypothesis in it which I find unnecessary, though: the conspiracy theory, making it a
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by fab13n 13y ago
If you believe that politicians control the bureaucracy rather than the other way around, then I respectfully disagree. Bureaucrats have expertize, inertia, the ability to sabotage many things, long term stable positions, and care about how
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by fab13n 13y ago
> a well-thought-out weakness can easily be worth [a lot] Indeed, but my point is, in addition to be worth a lot, it's difficult to implement, and it's very fragile. Every time they use it, they gamble its secrecy, hence its
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by fab13n 13y ago
Encryption can be circumvented. It's hard, but doable for a state, when it targets one high-value suspect. But if everything is encrypted, they can't go "big data" on it and collect everything about everyone: if proper e
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by fab13n 13y ago
> being in a very touristic place, French people spend a lot of their vacation time in France. Also, many companies mandate that RTT days are taken regularly (to avoid having the company effectively closed for the whole summer, as well a
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by fab13n 13y ago
> [Inefficiencies] This is very true at big corp. Among inefficiencies in a big corp., vacation times are a _very_ secondary issue. For instance, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that you're spending more than 5% of your work t
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by fab13n 13y ago
This law allowed very positive changes, even if they aren't the officially intended ones. In exchange for a 10% work time reduction, largely compensated by years of near-zero salary rises, it lead unions to accept a lot of flexibility
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That's what we meant. IIRC you can't even use a self-signed certificate directly for authentication: you have to create your own self-signed root CA, then use it to sign you authentication certificate. The point is, if what you do
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by fab13n 13y ago
> it's probably a good idea to avoid operating systems that may be compromised by default. It is if you're targeted. But then, if the US government is after you, you're already screwed anyway. The point is to impede genera
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by fab13n 13y ago
OK, I should have written "everyone that matters"; the point is to have a critical mass of expensive-to-eavesdrop communications, so that the NSA cannot routinely exploit much more than teenager gossips traded through Facebook. Mo
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by fab13n 13y ago
What you say is true, but misses an important consideration: yesterday, only tinfoil hats believed they couldn't trust third-party companies with their privacy. Today, everyone knows that the only way to have privacy is to handle it pe
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by fab13n 13y ago
Coroutine are a powerful low-level tool to build higher level, user friendly environments. That's true of most of Lua's advanced features, BTW: they tend to be complex tools letting you build simple-to-use stuff (as opposed e.g. t
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by fab13n 13y ago
you also miss a couple of "local newObj" in constructors.
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by fab13n 13y ago
Re: #3; can you seriously imagine that they can't take control of an MS-Windows PC, with or without MS's knowledge? And you forgot a point: can they get an SSL root certificate signed for them, in order to perform MitM attacks on
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Once you're protected, there's no more need for denying.
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A question which is overlooked in this kind of answers is, how do you circumvent your mistrust of your own OS? It's a foregone conclusion that Microsoft OSes have backdoors for the NSA, and it's not unlikely that they also know so
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by fab13n 13y ago
That's the beauty of the metal bar 10m before the tunnel: they won't fail to notice when it acts as a can opener on their truck's cabin, and it only costs a metal bar in public infrastructure (plus towing a cabriolet truck out of the way)
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by fab13n 13y ago
That's a cute high-tech solution. A simpler one is to put a horizontal bar, the same height as the tunnel's ceiling, which will physically stop the truck before causing millions worth of damages. It's often done in France, sometimes with an
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by fab13n 13y ago
Only on _salaries_ of over a million. Except for soccer superstars, nobody makes more than a million _in salary_. He promised it for populist reasons, but never wanted to do it; so he does it in such a way that it affects virtually nobody.
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by fab13n 13y ago
> Simplifying capital gains tax is awesome. It _would_ be, but that's the part I'm the least confident about. Simplifying goes against the DNA of both France and bureaucracy, so I don't expect much of French bureaucracy about this; I ex
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by fab13n 14y ago
> so apparently guys are still good enough to hire. Interesting. I re-read the parent, and nowhere does it say nor imply that the CTO nor the people he hired were male. For all that we know, the site might be built by bimbos scratching
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by fab13n 14y ago
How do they prevent men from creating fake female accounts and see what's told about them? Do they take steps to anonymize the evaluators? Even if they do, timing the changes in the evaluations will allow to guess who said what, except for
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by fab13n 14y ago
> If this helps steer the superficial airheads in another direction That's only true if you don't have what gossip girls like; but attraction is definitely not a symmetrical relationship.
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by fab13n 14y ago
BS: wireless will be fixed when operators will accept to be dumb pipes, with flat prices, and without almost mandatory bandwidth+device bundles. That's exactly what they don't want, and doesn't seem to be what T-Mobile offers. In France, fr
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by fab13n 14y ago
Again this deflation misunderstanding... Deflation is (might be) a problem with money as a wealth-storage facility; it's not a problem for a wealth-transfer technology. People get confused about this because government-issued currencies ser
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by fab13n 14y ago
> In North America, we have money in companies, hedge funds, etc. In Europe, banks are the major depository. But then, banks put those deposits to work in companies, hedge funds etc., so it amounts to the same, with an intermediate whic
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by fab13n 14y ago
Epitech has all the incentives to be a scam (or higher education as usual, as it's called in the US). Here, since it's free, the only incentive I see for Niel is to have first pick, as an employer, in a pool of young recruits. He's certainl
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by fab13n 14y ago
Given Niel's [nee-ell] outstanding track record, in terms of turning upside-down old markets paralyzed by established fat cats; given how firmly education belongs to this category; and given how badly it needs to be reinvented, this experim

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