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by flatline 8y ago
I have yet to see things like key revocation protocols on the blockchain. Mistakes will inevitably be made somewhere along the line. You can bolster the fragility of being unable to cope with these mistakes with external processes, but that
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by flatline 8y ago
I bet they have a lot of “conversions” because a significant portion of their user base don’t log in and use the site to interact with others, they just browse the front page of some particular sub or thread they ran across. Not something y
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by flatline 8y ago
Boy, if you think getting people to use encrypted email is hard, I can only imagine trying to convince reddit users. Why would you even use reddit to send an actual, private communique? If you know the person through some other channel, why
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by flatline 8y ago
> Perhaps anecdotes, in large enough numbers, are data. This was actually the original gist of that famous quote! http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2011/04/the-plural-of-an...
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by flatline 8y ago
I do think the government has a certain prerogative to prevent leaks. Leakers need to realize the seriousness of the game they are playing and act accordingly. The Times and Post in particular make at least superficial efforts to ensure the
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by flatline 8y ago
I also spent years working with Microsoft’s proprietary technologies. The reality of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish was still alive and well as late as 2011 when I mostly stopped dealing with them. Since that time they have definitely taken a
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by flatline 8y ago
I basically agree with the last points. As to the drone strikes, I believe there is potential there for decent things. Who is to say these would not grant the power to stop a war by executing key individuals in a scenario where a manned str
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by flatline 8y ago
Or accept the reality that we live in a world that feels the need to kill people. I think it would be swell to not need a military but the reality is that we do. If you have qualms about working for Google as a defense contractor, consider
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by flatline 8y ago
This is true, but if you get enough people doing it, the anomalies no longer stand out and you start struggling to pick out the signals above the noise floor.
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by flatline 8y ago
Or to borrow from Doctorow, a pebble in the shoe.
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by flatline 8y ago
How would you feel about Bible.io being a company page for a crypto project promoting the Bible protocol? You have to admit it sounds a little confusing, no?
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by flatline 8y ago
The main things that give me pause are (a) unadorned use of the word out of context and (b) the general level of scamminess I associate with crypto projects.
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by flatline 8y ago
> A value system is necessary for emotion I think a value system is mostly a post hoc justification of our emotional states. I view emotions as primarily a tight biochemical feedback loop. Think more of the four “f”s than, say, platonic
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by flatline 8y ago
The encrypted messages will not be signed, unless the trusted sender is also the attacker or their key is compromised.
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by flatline 8y ago
I always give props to people who give a solution like this because sometimes that is the right thing to do and it acknowledges that we are dealing with a toy problem with a ready solution. And I think that’s what the interviewer in this po
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by flatline 8y ago
Are they saying that their simulations of quantum computers with classical computing aim to break new ground in terms of computation?
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by flatline 8y ago
That was the one, and come to think of it we still had a baby that wasn’t sleeping too regularly right around that time.
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by flatline 8y ago
If the text is just too mystifying to “get into”, I highly recommend Red Pine’s (non-free) translation. It is not the most authoritative but he includes translations of commentary from centuries of Chinese scholars that shed a lot more ligh
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by flatline 8y ago
Interesting. I had a pre-diabetes marker read high on an annual blood test a few years ago. It has not reappeared since. I wonder if I just hadn’t slept much the week beforehand.
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by flatline 8y ago
This is a starting point regarding alcoholism and impaired judgment: https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/overview-alcohol-co... There are genetic components to many people’s drinking disorders, but of course every
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by flatline 8y ago
It is not a cognitive liberty issue equally for everyone. Many alcoholics are born that way. They do not have the same liberty with regard to alcohol as others do. Their agency is impaired when confronted with decisions about alcohol. Alcoh
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by flatline 8y ago
It really depends on the place and the type of position. If you have a solid track of web development experience, people looking for a well-rounded engineer will not care if you know the latest JS framework. People just looking for someone
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by flatline 9y ago
When asked question 2 before the US Congress, he repeatedly said that it's for security reasons, something about identifying attackers. It sounded to me like a corporate version of crying "national defense!" They really need
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by flatline 9y ago
Sure enough: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9845038
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by flatline 9y ago
Right, it’s not that hard, but there are some gotchas. The most common problem I see is the local submodule being out of sync with the remote superproject. Pushes across submodules are not atomic. Accidentally working from a detached head
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by flatline 9y ago
Start working in a repo with submodules and you suddenly have to understand a lot more and can get into trouble with no idea how you did it.
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by flatline 9y ago
This was my initial reaction as well, but am not 100% certain after thinking about it some more. Take this for example: https://i.imgur.com/AlO4h7p.gifv I figured that light in front of the car was mostly just messing with
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by flatline 9y ago
I’ve read technical books like this for fun. Math is a little tricky because a lot of time you need to really spend time working out the algebra to get the concept, but sometimes you can still just sit down and read. And if it’s not a progr
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by flatline 9y ago
It seems like the ultrasonic emissions were more likely a byproduct of whatever caused the physical symptoms, though the article makes a hand-wavey reference to people getting ill from such emissions.
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by flatline 9y ago
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