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For the Motherboard: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám(3quarksdaily.com)
1 points by jordanpg 12y ago|0 comments
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What Binary-Based Money Would Look Like(motherboard.vice.com)
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I suppose this is true, but I'm talking about what these MBAs coming out of top-tier programs are all about. In my experience, they're not interested in technical challenges, they're interested in money and status. That is w
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Crayfis: Cosmic rays found in smartphones(crayfis.ps.uci.edu)
13 points by jordanpg 12y ago|2 comments
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"Say there are some alternatives to choose among. They could be policies, public projects, candidates in an election, distributions of income and labour requirements among the members of a society, or just about anything else. There ar
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by jordanpg 12y ago
A fascinating result. I am interested in understanding how this can apply to decisions about consuming news. Given some objective, like "stay informed" or "make the best possible choice when I vote", and given certain p
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by jordanpg 12y ago
To me, "business" in any generic sense just seems incredibly boring. It always has, it always will. I could care less about what the trends are or where I perceive the money is. In contrast, "technical challenges", hav
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by jordanpg 12y ago
"World News Daily Report is a news and political satire web publication, which may or may not use real names, often in semi-real or mostly fictitious ways. All news articles contained within worldnewsdailyreport.com are fiction, and pr
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I think a lot of people do this for infrequently visited sites, but: 1. It generates at least 3 new database transactions each time it happens, not to mention the associated crypto requirements and email. 2. This password recovery system
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This American Life Spin-off: Serial(serialpodcast.org)
8 points by jordanpg 12y ago|1 comments
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A lot of words here and on their site, with precious few details about what is actually going to be written about, who is going to be writing it, and how they will be reporting it. A bold move to be asking for money without even a small con
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I don't know if I'd call this "fantastic". It simply relocates the attack. Ostensibly, the thing that is improving security is having a stronger password elsewhere rather than those recycled ones that you mentioned, bu
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by jordanpg 12y ago
More technical details here from the post: https://chrisdecairos.ca/one-time-passwords-pt-2/ I'm not totally clear about what the different between a "login key" (short-lived, pronounceable) and whatever
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by jordanpg 12y ago
My assumption is that a "login key" is essentially a large piece of data that would be prohibitively inconvenient to use outside of an email account, text, etc. Analogous to a large session cookie without an expiration date. In c
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Assuming an email compromise is catastrophic, as pointed out earlier in this thread, one might as well use a password manager, which allows for maximal password strength, possibly 2FA, total control over the password database, etc. I didn&#
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by jordanpg 12y ago
The cynic in me observes that although this post is couched in the language of an improved UX, what it also does is absolves Mozilla from keeping any (hashed) passwords stored in their databases. Only tokens with a very short shelf-life. (H
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Yes. This just offloads the security burden from the Webmaker service to your email provider. It means one less password, but a compromise is still catastrophic. If the goal is to separate the need to remember complex passwords from the a
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Yes. Where are the downvotes? I'll chalk this up to Sunday afternoon.
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Charming, feel-good piece for all the devs in the room, I'm sure. But here are some other things to think about. The availability of this cheap, ubiquitous networking technology is intimately linked to the availability of extraordinar
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This American Life Spin-off: Serial(serialpodcast.org)
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Atlas Shrugged is many things, but it doesn't look or act like sci-fi by any measure. This choice stands out like sore thumb and compromises the integrity of the list for the obvious reasons.
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Argument analysis: What is work, anyway?(scotusblog.com)
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This prompted me to take a few minutes to finally try to see what Material Design is all about; my previous glances at posts resulted in little in the way of understanding. Now I understand why. I watched some of the Google I/O talk:
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Eric Cantor’s webpage now just has a picture of him that goes nowhere(vox.com)
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Maybe it's time to update this for the second decade of the 21st century: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
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by jordanpg 12y ago
In the broadest sense, no. Given that debt (aka. leverage) is the fuel that makes industrial-scale capitalism possible, we are in big trouble if defaulting on debt is somehow morally deficient. Defaulting on debt is built-in to the system.
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I think this is more or less the same story (by Jake Halpern) being double-dipped by NPR.
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I'm most familiar with Android, but I would say it's because there is too much infrastructure under the hood. Google seems interested in abstracting away almost everything about the framework and build process into the Gradle plug
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Isn't this just blossoming into the vi/emacs/IDE debate couched in different language? Can you -- in principle -- accomplish goal X with tool Y? Yes, almost always. Some people will be far, far more efficient with the CLI a
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The empathy problem is a symptom, not the disease. Or possibly the excuse. It has become fashionable to dismiss the humanities and arts not because of an inability to see outside of one's own bubble, but because it isn't directly

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