jackgavigan

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by jackgavigan 3y ago
I would argue that there's a fourth kind of ‘no’, when tech decides that enough is enough, and says "No, fuck you." We've reached that point in the UK, where the government has proposed draconian legislation[1] that woul
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by jackgavigan 6y ago
Zcash Foundation | Remote | Full-time | Core Engineer (Rust) The Zcash Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that builds and supports privacy infrastructure for the public good. We work on strengthening financial privacy with technology, foc
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by jackgavigan 6y ago
The same thing could have been said about information in the pre-Internet era.
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by jackgavigan 6y ago
I haven't read through the paper in detail (so I could be entirely wrong) but the proposed solution appears to be based on decades-old technology (David Chaum's ecash, which dates back to the mid-90s), which is completely centrali
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DOJ’s Crypto Framework Is ‘A Complete Disaster’ for Digital Privacy Rights(coindesk.com)
1 points by jackgavigan 6y ago|0 comments
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by jackgavigan 6y ago
Use a sticky piece of Post-It note instead.
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The Elon Musk dilemma: When big thinkers think badly(hcn.org)
7 points by jackgavigan 7y ago|0 comments
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Oxford college provost faces backlash after trying to abolish formal traditions(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by jackgavigan 7y ago|1 comments
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by jackgavigan 7y ago
I highly recommend Chouinard's book Let My People Go Surfing . It's part autobiography, part a history of Patagonia, part an explanation of his business and management philosophy.
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by jackgavigan 7y ago
You left out the best bit! "An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just one, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop." Shades of Douglas
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by jackgavigan 7y ago
The practice of purging the ranks of "difficult" subordinates - people who question the wisdom of conventional thinking, who challenge their superiors, who do not automatically salute and say "yes sir, yes, sir, six bags full
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by jackgavigan 7y ago
> ..probably because he was never truly invested in/familiar with/cared that much about new technology and what people promise it can do. Where's the technology in WeWork?
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A fifty-year history of Facebook's Libra(jpkoning.blogspot.com)
1 points by jackgavigan 7y ago|0 comments
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by jackgavigan 7y ago
Someone has created a Rust crate called libra, which claims to be a "Simple fantasty Adventure MUD" (sic). It's currently just a "Hello, world!" program. What are the chances it's a placeholder for malicious&#x
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Nasa says space junk from India's anti-satellite test threatens ISS(businessinsider.com)
4 points by jackgavigan 8y ago|0 comments
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by jackgavigan 8y ago
They may have been high. The Taliban is known to have given suicide bombers drugs before sending them to their deaths.
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by jackgavigan 8y ago
IANAL, but 35 U.S. Code § 115 requires that "each individual who is the inventor or a joint inventor of a claimed invention in an application for patent shall execute an oath or declaration" that they believe "himself or h
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by jackgavigan 8y ago
Every time I read about gene editing, I think of the short story Sisters by Greg Bear: https://www.baen.com/Chapters/ERBAEN0036/ERBAEN0036___1.htm
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by jackgavigan 8y ago
Against the Gods by Peter L Bernstein, Chaos by James Gleick, and The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets by Benoit B Mandelbrot and Richard L Hudson.
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Snarky: A high-level language for verifiable computation(o1labs.org)
3 points by jackgavigan 9y ago|0 comments
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by jackgavigan 9y ago
> Frances Frei is a former Harvard Business School professor and arranged for several HBX classes from Harvard professors on business strategy that were very interesting and helpful. Which classes?
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I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant on TripAdvisor(vice.com)
6 points by jackgavigan 9y ago|1 comments
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by jackgavigan 9y ago
> Who takes responsibility when a customer loses money because of bank's poor security? The bank.
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by jackgavigan 9y ago
Look at technologies that are either at the Peak of Inflated Expectations (on the Gartner hype cycle) or in the process of plunging into the Trough of Disillusionment, and figure out what needs to happen for them to climb the Slope of Enlig
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by jackgavigan 9y ago
Anyone who finds this story interesting should read Zodiac by Neal Stephenson.
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Cyanogen pivots from trying to be an 'Android killer' to self-driving tech(bizjournals.com)
1 points by jackgavigan 9y ago|0 comments
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by jackgavigan 9y ago
Am I the only one irritated by the writer's use of "millenniums"?
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Computer virus hits US Predator and Reaper drone fleet(arstechnica.com)
29 points by jackgavigan 9y ago|7 comments
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by jackgavigan 9y ago
Direct quote from the article: "..it's just a mathematical simulation..."
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Netflix’s Price Increase Signals Original Content Isn’t Enough(newconstructs.com)
3 points by jackgavigan 9y ago|0 comments

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