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931.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
I don't see how that argument is justified. Maybe the Marshall Plan and the European Community saved Europe from war. Maybe Maybe globalization and general civilization-wide wealth creation made it so the elite's and xommonners bu
932.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Parent poster had a mildly healthy distinction between theory and practice. Unfortunately it overlooks the reality that people in power will misuse it, even if the law requires 100% certainty as proposed.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Kristioff wrote aabout this last year too, name-dropping Kamala Harris as one of the officials refusing to pursue justice, a name people have been mentioning as a Democratic Presidential contender in 2020: https://www.nytimes.com
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
That's simply not true.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
As the old saying goes, "if you could have invented a secure open source desktop chat app, you would have developed a secure open source desktop chat app." In practice, empirict results win over theoretically optimal designs.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
I hope Moxie learned that programming his people/team is as programming his software. This tarnishes Signal, regardless of how good the Android app is.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Then JavaScript is a huge problem, only made safe when wrapped in a professionally built and battle tested bubble. OpenBSD is a famously secure unix(alike) distro. That doesn't mean that every piece of software in OpenBSD is safe to u
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Yes the only problem is that the text markup language happens to include by default a Turing complete network-enabled live-interpreted programming language because 25 years ago someone wanted to write a funny message in the Netscape status
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Has Theo de Raadt ever endorsed the security of anything except the default install of OpenBSD?
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
It's essentially a party line vote, so no recording is needed.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
The Senate has 51 Republicans but 3 of them are rather independent/centrist and sometimes vote with Democrats.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
It's a fiction either way. There's no way to decide whether the vetoed action was in or out of scope of the original delegated authority. Maybe one chamber just changed their mind.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
That's not how peering works, economically. When Netflix's ISP sends a movie to my ISP, is my ISP doing Netflix a favor? No, it's doing me a favor, or both of us a favor. So who should pay? Backbones who aren't either
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Working more is important than living well?
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
The 2013 "Bullshit jobs" essay got lots of submissions and discussion on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=bullshit%20jobs&sort=byPopular...
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
It's been decades since "writing a 1000 line script" was best done in shell, if there ever was a time. Someone with that much experience ought to be a very senior engineer.
947.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
It shows that Ashur is no Nimrod.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Considering the nature of comms that happen on line these days, it might make you a septic.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Hiding in plain sight.
950.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
In other words the NSA had a great reputation up until anyone knew it existed? They aren't NIST, they are a spy agency.
951.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
The way it's supposed to work is that they try to have the best code cracking, and then they want everyone to use the second best codes so no one else can crack code. If they aren't the best the plan can't work and you get ju
952.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
We can do without the casual sexualization of professional career hunting.
953.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Why? Building software requires preparation.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Algorithms and coding are a lot more relevant than Chinese poetry. Yes, you might need to prep two weeks in order to get a job that pays very well for 2-15 years. And since this test is so common, you don't have to dedicate 2 weeks to
955.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Normal human beings put 0 effort and attention into walking. They stumble about until it works. A toddler learns to walk before they have most of their conscious brain development.
956.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
On a scooter your choices are hunched over, or sitting up straight going under 25mph or getting knocked over by wind.
957.
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
What is air for but to breathe? Still don't want to breathe it faster than you can make it.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
You're in good company. Linus Torvalds wrote https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsurface_(software)
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Isn't there something about how general aviation pilots mostly die flying if they don't retire from it young?
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Great money but assuming that's not a 250+ day/yr billable utilization it's not substantially better than working for a major webtech company, and a lot more grueling and dangerous.

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