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by hyko 6y ago
some of the places with the strictest lockdowns have the largest numbers of deaths That doesn’t really tell you much about the short term efficacy of lockdowns, as they were enacted in response to an alarming rise in deaths.
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by hyko 6y ago
you only want to guarantee that the image didn’t change But if the algorithm allows you to find hash collisions, you can’t guarantee that the image didn’t change based on the MD5 hash value? e.g. https://natmchugh.blogspot.com&
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by hyko 6y ago
I thought a second preimage attach implied a collision attack?
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by hyko 6y ago
Yes, I agree with you that given the choice between some random company and a FAANG for cloud storage, choose the FAANG.
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by hyko 6y ago
Yes and no. Backups that you control (physically, technically, and legally) are the only complete mitigation against someone else losing your digital memories. That applies to a FAANG as well as a startup, although startups are far more lik
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by hyko 6y ago
Yikes. Surely in forensics you’d want the most collision resistant hashing tool available? Doesn’t the uniqueness guarantee the consistency?
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by hyko 6y ago
Sounds like if I bought this company I’d only want the trademark.
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by hyko 6y ago
we do fight colds already, it just wouldn't be news anymore. In recent history we haven’t bothered fighting colds at all and this attitude has not served us well. Up until March 2020 it was socially acceptable to roll into your offic
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by hyko 6y ago
Lockdowns absolutely not: the costs outweigh the benefits, and there’s no potential vaccine on the horizon. Quarantines, maybe. The vulnerable already have to shield themselves as protection, and the economic losses are pretty steep before
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by hyko 6y ago
We got lucky because MERS candidates were in the pipeline, and the best candidate was ready to start because CEPI had already invested in getting an RNA vaccine platform up and running: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C
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by hyko 6y ago
There are no coronavirus vaccines; prior to the year 2002 that’s because coronaviruses were relatively harmless in humans and thus not deemed a threat. Post 2002 it is because we didn’t heed the warning of SARS and invest seriously in creat
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by hyko 6y ago
The people who want to borrow lots of money and not pay it back don’t care about monetary policy, they just borrow lots of money and then default on it. One can do that in fiat currency, gold, Bitcoin, or cigarettes. The intractable problem
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by hyko 6y ago
the church of central bankers That's not a HN thing, that's the mainstream view. The last time hard/sound money was in vogue was long ago, and even when it was based on physics and not software it came with a host of ultima
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by hyko 6y ago
Why stop fighting when it becomes just a cold? The common cold costs billions (not to mention making people miserable).
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by hyko 6y ago
Oh, do tell me what it would be like to live my life from inside a system with no control over it.
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by hyko 6y ago
Apple’s defence is IANAG (I am not a government). That’s fine, but it works both ways: we must remember when observing their marketing campaigns that buying nice things will not and cannot create a democratic and liberal world order.
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by hyko 6y ago
Wow, amazing! The same approach Nintendo has taken with Super Mario 3D All-Stars.
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by hyko 6y ago
You can’t have a complete BBC Micro Games Archive without Granny’s Garden!
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by hyko 6y ago
I Hate Not Having Enough Traffic to My Blog Bluetooth · It’s lame Yep, bluetooth is lame. The ecosystem could actually be considered defamation against Harald Bluetooth at this point. If he wasn't long dead. The place this is killin
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by hyko 6y ago
massively overpriced mediocre Linux distribution I don't understand? Are you saying macOS is Linux?
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by hyko 6y ago
Writing software for a closed source OS.
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by hyko 6y ago
Reading on an iDevice in 2012 was light years ahead of almost everything else, owing to their displays.
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by hyko 6y ago
Due to the way the production line was set up, sometimes empty boxes were shipped without the tube inside. Fix the root cause of the issue and you won’t need duck tape and bailing wire everywhere to fix all the proximate problems. Lord kn
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by hyko 6y ago
Sure, in a timeline that includes energy becoming matter and biogenesis and complex life evolving , our era is going to turn out to be uniquely influential. I don’t think the word hubris does justice to this line of thinking. Edited
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by hyko 6y ago
Headline: Stop Asking Me to “Sign Up” Above headline: A banner asking me to sign up for a newsletter.
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by hyko 6y ago
At nearly 7,000 words, you probably don’t want to try reading this on an iDevice Wait, what? For most people, their iDevice will be the best reading experience they have access to.
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by hyko 6y ago
Be Skeptical of Ring
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by hyko 6y ago
...because your company wants you to work two jobs for the price of one?
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by hyko 6y ago
It could do, but there are other known effects at work (such as temperature and humidity) that are known to contribute, and that would also be correlated with vitamin D levels. You’d need to do a study to tease out the causality and the rel
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by hyko 6y ago
Such a weird analogy/anecdote/humblebrag, because it basically admits that the public roads are technically inferior, and to want to drive on them you have to make up a story about how you’re making the world a better place while

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