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by jlebar 12y ago
> What is the point in finding every possible flaw with security here? Because security is only as good as its weakest link, and an adversary who wants your sensitive data won't choose not to break in because your security is "
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by jlebar 12y ago
> why does the compensation need to be tied to the difficulty rather than the assets under management? you haven't actually made a case for that, just assumed it was naturally correct. Because in a competitive market, the price of a
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by jlebar 12y ago
> It would be nice if there was a single, easy to use site for mere mortals to enter bug reports (and others can comment on them, vote on them, process them, etc) Having worked for Mozilla for 5 years (Zack also is a former Mozillian), I
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by jlebar 12y ago
I went to Stanford as an undergrad just a few years after this bidding war between top universities began. The additional financial aid I received saved my family and me more than $100k -- that figure would be much higher if we factor in t
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by jlebar 12y ago
Here's the story of real people that were cut off from the outside world for 40 years: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-russ... > “What amazed him most of all,” Peskov recorded, “was a tr
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by jlebar 12y ago
> Although I guess that would only be a partial solution at best. If an attacker could monitor many runs of the same "real" workload, some simple statistical analysis would still tell you some things. Yes, exactly. If you&#x27
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by jlebar 12y ago
> The fact that xor eax,eax is just a register operation doesn't mean it can leak sensitive information. AIUI tfa's point is that you can't assume that xor eax,eax and xor eax,ebx take the same amount of time, because &quo
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by jlebar 12y ago
>> nobody innovates because, without IP, you pay for the cost of R&D but "copycats" can steal the idea without paying. > > This just isn't true. It's human nature to innovate, just as it is human nature t
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by jlebar 12y ago
Obligatory plug for titanium / non-precious rings. My Ti band was $20 on Amazon, and on the other side of the spectrum, my wife had a beautiful Ti ring, including a tension-set lab-grown sapphire, milled to her specifications for <
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by jlebar 12y ago
It's also basically the same idea as used by the people flying trick kites on the beach. Once an aero-astro friend of mine explained that, this whole thing made so much more sense.
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by jlebar 12y ago
> What if they start digging to find there's no depth behind this surface? Then the investors stand to lose money. Investing is a bet, right? If making money here were a sure thing -- e.g. if they already had the money in hand -- t
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by jlebar 12y ago
Acute price controls -- lasting for ~days -- are a totally different thing than rent control lasting for tens of years.
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by jlebar 12y ago
Indeed, just that it's ridiculous to say that supply and demand "don't work" for inelastic goods. But I feel like people are focusing on the weaker argument, about gas and food, and ignoring the far stronger argument, th
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by jlebar 12y ago
> not to mention supply/demand doesn't work for something with fairly inelastic demand lolwut? The free market works pretty OK for gasoline and food (taken as a whole; obviously specific foods are elastic). When was the last t
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by jlebar 12y ago
> The few of us who still remain in San Francisco have no choice but to live in sub-par conditions like mold, windows that don't shut, rodents and countless other issues because there is no other choice, because the rents are so hig
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by jlebar 12y ago
FWIW it's nominally 4MB/s/TB: > You should expect 4 MB/s of throughput per TB of data stored as Nearline Storage. But still, you are correct in that it will take about 1TB / 4MB/s = 2.9d to retrieve all your
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by jlebar 12y ago
Then it sounds like you should wait for the proper release, as this beta test is not for you.
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by jlebar 12y ago
> But my valuable data? Surely the whole point of not having an SLA (and indeed the whole point of calling it a "beta") is so that you don't trust it with your valuable data. I'm sure it will have an SLA soon enoug
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by jlebar 12y ago
I think their idea is you should use a wireless mouse. Notice that the "Fully equipped for a wireless world" heading appears above the mention of USB-3. Indeed, putting only one port forces the issue, because I imagine a signifi
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by jlebar 12y ago
"We don’t want the state-run telcos in Saudi, Iran, Bahrain, Belarus, China, Egypt, Cuba, USA, etc… to have direct access to the metadata of TextSecure users in those countries or anywhere else." I <3 Moxie.
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by jlebar 12y ago
If you haven't read this before, I highly recommend: http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html
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by jlebar 12y ago
FWIW Haskell's unofficial motto is "avoid success at all costs" -- IOW, "stay small and keep experimenting".
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by jlebar 12y ago
> I guess Google could build apartments too but that's not ideal, I don't want to live at work. The cool thing about Google building housing is, it benefits you even if you don't want to live at work. Plenty of people (my
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by jlebar 12y ago
Such fail. Thanks.
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by jlebar 12y ago
For those without 10 minutes to spend watching the video, the architects are BIG and Thomas Heatherwick. <strike>I really wish they'd give them written credit -- they're the ones who did all the work!</strike> (
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by jlebar 12y ago
> The photographer standing on the corner of the building with no safety so he can take a selfie? Fuck him. Doing that on your own or with similarly risk-tolerant friends? OK, enjoy your dangerous hobby If he falls or drops any equipment
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by jlebar 12y ago
Not to focus on a question unrelated to this blog post's point, but * "auto main() -> int" could be just "int main()". * "auto v = vector<int>(20);" could be just "vector<int> v(20)&quo
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by jlebar 12y ago
Does Mercury offer any protection from the solar wind? I (naively) expect the solar wind intensity to go as the inverse-square of distance, and I know that surviving the solar wind on Mars is a big challenge, given the lack of a magnetosph
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by jlebar 12y ago
> A web browser should not include X functionality, but should allow a web page to implement X functionality. Exactly. Firefox doesn't include "Firefox Hello" anymore than it includes "Gmail". Instead, Firefox
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by jlebar 12y ago
I used to tell the students I TA'ed that their first task -- assuming they were physically able to do so -- was to be able to type at 60wpm with high accuracy, without looking at the keys. Many students, and indeed many professional p

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