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901.
by giaour 5y ago
Nobody tell the gov how savagely he’s being raked over the coals in these comments, or tomorrow’s headline will be about a RICO case launched against the hacker collective known as “Hacker News.”
902.
by giaour 5y ago
Nitpicky, but shouldn’t this pattern be called “supply-response” (as in, appliances programmed to respond to a supply glut) “Demand-response” sounds like it should be used for power sources that only spin up when demand exceeds the producti
903.
by giaour 5y ago
Why assume “social media bad” is a moral panic and not a legitimate assessment? The “cigarettes unhealthy” trend has had many of the same moralizing overtones as baseless panics (like over heavy metal music, dungeons and dragons, or satanis
904.
by giaour 5y ago
One target audience for this document that can’t ignore it (at least not as easily) is the federal government and the contractors they hire. In 2020, the chief information security officer of a federal agency told me they didn’t buy into th
905.
by giaour 5y ago
Martha Wells' Murderbot series is a fun holiday read. It's about an autonomous humanoid bot that does security work for expeditions on distant worlds in a corporate-dystopian future and is going through an adolescent emotional cri
906.
by giaour 5y ago
Any insurance that can only pay out in proportion to the premiums already paid in seems like a red flag. That's a savings account and not a genuine transfer of risk. Unless the bug that triggers a payout is extremely circumstantial, it
907.
by giaour 5y ago
Yes! You can seek out ethical work (and I do), but our industry does tend to treat moral scruples as a luxury that gets priced into your compensation. I.e., if you're not willing to work on certain kinds of projects or at certain kinds
908.
by giaour 5y ago
Would something like cloud.gov fit the bill? That was put together by 18F and USDS and is run by GSA
909.
by giaour 5y ago
There could be some kind of Crypto Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC) to insure deposit accounts in case everyone does try to withdraw at the same time. You might want an entity with deep pockets and serious longevity (like maybe a sovere
910.
by giaour 5y ago
Interesting! I am a bit struck by how low the early ransoms seemed to be (looks like they were around $200 or less) even when they gained access to anonymous remote payment methods in ~2005 (e.g. eGold and Liberty Reserve). It’s also intere
911.
by giaour 5y ago
Collecting a ransom in physical cash is extremely risky for criminals! Law enforcement knows where you are at a specific time. I have never heard of ransomware that predated cryptocurrency; could you share a link to an article?
912.
by giaour 5y ago
Isn’t it already extremely difficult to know whether you’re committing a felony by paying a ransom? You’re sending millions of dollars in bitcoins to an unidentified group of known felons; if they are (or are affiliated with) a group dedica
913.
by giaour 5y ago
> If I sell my house for more than I paid for it, it's zero sum since someone simply provided me that money. I think the point the author was trying to make is that you can participate in the housing market by building and selling h
914.
by giaour 5y ago
Autocomplete for Terraform/HCL is available, too, though you do have to use specific tooling (e.g., VS Code with the Terraform extension) rather than the same tools you use to work on JS.
915.
by giaour 5y ago
I am impressed that your weapon scale goes all the way to biscuit! I guess a stale one could serve as a projectile
916.
by giaour 5y ago
I found myself in a similar position a few years ago and had to deliberately choose to read more books. I had gone from someone who read multiple academic books a week (when I was in a humanities grad school program) to someone who struggle
917.
by giaour 5y ago
The initial flier advertised a fake talk by US politicians on the subject of violent insurrection, so there was no invitation to actual violence. The listed date and time of the fake talk was 19 days prior to the flier's release, so th
918.
by giaour 5y ago
What regulated exchange existed in 2013?
919.
by giaour 5y ago
> we could do (very similar) analysis on "normal" bank accounts - on a much larger scale but still. Would this be (more or less) forensic accounting applied proactively to all accounts? I know techniques similar to 'chain
920.
by giaour 5y ago
Ok, that sounds extremely similar to the history function in QLDB. In the examples shown in the AWS docs, the results of a historical query are not changes made to the document, but the fully resolved state of a document at the requested ti
921.
by giaour 5y ago
QLDB is a document DB, so you are limited to a single point or range per query. Also keep in mind `history` in QLDB is a function, not just a store of previous values; given a table "foo" and a key "bar", getting its imm
922.
by giaour 5y ago
QLDB provides time travel features, too (if by "time travel" you mean being able to query the state of a record at an arbitrary point in the past): https://docs.aws.amazon.com/qldb/latest/developerguide&#
923.
by giaour 5y ago
I don't see how it's not true for a distributed blockchain. People have forked the Ethereum and Bitcoin blockchains, and individuals chose whether to follow the fork or what they believed to be the original, uncorrupted version. T
924.
by giaour 5y ago
The real world problem in real estate titling today is the pervasive need for title insurance. In a typical real estate transaction, both the buyer and the seller will have an insurance policy to cover losses stemming from a sale based on a
925.
by giaour 5y ago
The central authority (here, Github or the repo owner) can rewrite history by rebasing and then force pushing. The only way you can detect that as a third party is by cloning the repo and periodically pulling to make sure the history of the
926.
by giaour 5y ago
This is more a social convention than a technical limitation. Both Git and blockchains use Merkle trees to describe a linear history, and both allow rewriting history (via "git rebase" for the former and forking + the manual equiv
927.
by giaour 5y ago
The last sentence comes off as a rhetorical sleight of hand. You can be against censorship of books and music and still believe that the government has a role to play in regulating dangerous goods like plutonium. The trade of goods with an
928.
by giaour 5y ago
H-Mart is a bit upmarket from Ranch 99, but I think they both have similar welcoming-to-everyone vibes.
929.
by giaour 5y ago
You can push a list of revoked tokens to each server (similar to how certificate revocation lists work with (m)TLS).
930.
by giaour 5y ago
Don’t dealerships make a good percentage of their profits from finance charges? The last time I bought a car, it took an hour of cajoling to get the cash price of a three year lease

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