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by hangonhn 6y ago
No. Because China is working on that too. This is what their Made in China 2025 initiative is all about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_China_2025 "The plan aims to upgrade the manufacturing capabilities of
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by hangonhn 6y ago
Alexis De Tocqueville in his book "Democracy in America" identified one of the foundations of American democracy is our social mores. A lot of the reasons why the judiciaries appointed by him didn't go along with his blatant
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by hangonhn 6y ago
It's fine to want to preserve that but I don't think the browser is the right place for it. Flash is actually quite independent of the browser. So to preserve the ability to run what is by now historical applications, would simply
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by hangonhn 6y ago
What would be the point of that? Flash is not an open standard and has been abandoned by Adobe. If you're talking about a sandbox in general, isn't that already the case with Javascript? The environment Javascript executes under i
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by hangonhn 6y ago
> I often heard YouTube comments claim that one got crappy Chinese products because of they paid cheap price. I don't have much experience in buying items directly from China (I bought a drill and impact drive from AliExpress, have
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by hangonhn 6y ago
In case anyone else loves mechanical watches and want to see the latest advances in escapement design: https://youtu.be/VdoorKat1e0 I find it very interesting that the industry seems to be adopting a lot of techniques borro
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by hangonhn 6y ago
I have the exact same attitude. Reading WaPo, Bloomberg, and even NYT (though I think NYT has a slight edge here) report on technical issues make me cringe. You can tell they're trying to hardest to understand and to explain it in a co
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by hangonhn 6y ago
Isn't it Silicon Hills ?
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by hangonhn 6y ago
Until recently, I would have said Java because it has so many guard rails and good frameworks. But then I've recently encountered bugs caused by code that basically disabled all those guard rails. Had any one of them been left in place
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by hangonhn 6y ago
+1 on that. I've learned Clojure in the past and keep wanting to go back to it but Clojure has been the hardest language for me to become fairly comfortable with. I think it may have to do with its dynamic-ness. There's basically
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by hangonhn 6y ago
I mean email is a vector too. And remember that 0 day no touch iOS exploit that was discovered by project zero? Surely that could have been vector too. After that use a compromised iOS device to do something similar by exploiting some bluet
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by hangonhn 6y ago
Air gap is not the final word in security. Stuxnet got into the Iranian centrifuges despite an air gap.
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by hangonhn 6y ago
I grew up in the Florida Keys where the water table is very close to the surface so it's impossible to bury anything. When I was a young teenager, we would lose electricity all the time from tree branches brushing up against the power
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by hangonhn 6y ago
Palo Alto has its own municipal fiber program: https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/utl/business/progra... Wonder if someone should take them up on it.
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by hangonhn 6y ago
I'm on Sonic.net fiber and they're a reseller of AT&T and I've experienced this exact scenario.
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by hangonhn 6y ago
I guess that may depend a lot on where you started from. I've lived in Hong Kong and then grew up in Florida, went to school in New England, and then lived in Texas for a while before moving to the Bay Area. The Bay Area weather is ins
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by hangonhn 6y ago
I think it's one of those convenient lies we tell ourselves so we can all feel better but doesn't survive real scrutiny. Saying 500k crabs will be drained with most of them surviving sounds better than 175k dies for sure... and we
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by hangonhn 6y ago
The Germans had this really clever scheme where they tied the price they pay for solar power to the price from fossil fueled power. That really incentivized people to create more efficient solar and thus increase their profit margins.
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by hangonhn 6y ago
In my home state of Florida, it's pretty nefarious because they often advertise that the proceeds are used to support education. While that is true, they also removed other sources of funds such as taxes. So in the end the funding lev
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by hangonhn 6y ago
I think your sort of thinking requires a certain level of maturity and experience. I see the opposite with with some engineers who always have this illusion that the first or even second version of their project will be the final one for al
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by hangonhn 6y ago
I know this is highly improbable but I would love, love, love to see a Raspberry Pi with an M1 in it.
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by hangonhn 6y ago
It depends heavily on where in the city you are. There are parts of SF that definitely makes me very uncomfortable (I've lived in Hong Kong and know my way around NYC) but SF is kind of interesting in it almost feels like a collection
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by hangonhn 6y ago
The Technology Connections YouTube channel did a really good video on this and the mechanical TV: https://youtu.be/v5OANXk-6-w
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by hangonhn 6y ago
> Education is the other big item, Australian universities attract a lot of foreign students and that sector is a big money earner. On the radio this morning there was talk about standardizing qualifications making more Australian degree
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by hangonhn 6y ago
Totally agree. I'm not passing any judgments on what they did. It's just that in other areas of policy, they've been apprehensive about China so I'm shocked to see this. They must have had good reasons for doing this so
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by hangonhn 6y ago
I was shocked by that. Does anyone who knows more about this or foreign policy in general want to enlighten us? What motivated Australia, Japan, and SK to sign on to this? Do they not fear alienating the US? I suppose once we scuttled the T
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by hangonhn 6y ago
Gotta love the completely superfluous dig at Cloudflare. As if providing the client IP is what enabled the attack. That was probably the least interesting part of the attack. Cheap shot Akamai.
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by hangonhn 6y ago
No. Why would that matter? My issue isn't who wrote it but rather its lack of any good arguments. It presents a narrative that the author tries to tie in with a Biblical story, which seems really superfluous and makes the whole piece f
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by hangonhn 6y ago
I had the same reaction. It's nicely written but I don't know why I should believe its narrative anymore than any other ones. While the quote you cited sounds impactful, I don't understand the point of comparing those two num
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by hangonhn 6y ago
I wonder if one can create a browser plugin that judges the similarity of a domain to a set of well-known domains and warns the user when the URL they clicked on has a domain that is very similar but not the same? Maybe use levenshtein dist

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