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by kijin 12y ago
As another commenter pointed out, hydroelectricity can compensate for fluctuations in other types of renewable energy. Pumped storage power plants (a form of hydro where you use gravity as a gigantic battery) can also help smooth out any re
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by kijin 12y ago
Chinese windows used to be covered with paper. Plenty of light gets through, although you'd have to open the windows or actually go outside to see what's outside. (Apparently, viewing the outside in the comfort of your bedroom is
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by kijin 12y ago
> Needing one IP address per unique domain name I'm tired of this bullshit. This has never been true, not even 10 years ago. You only need one IP:port combination per unique domain name. You can host tens of thousands of HTTPS w
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by kijin 12y ago
A related reminder: If you're active on GitHub, have contributed to any FOSS project, or have participated in any mailing list (including Google Groups), your email address is probably public already. So you can stop worrying about spa
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by kijin 12y ago
CNNIC is no longer trusted by Chrome due to recent incidents, and you can manually remove it from Firefox and IE. While you're at it, take a few minutes to browse the list and also remove anything that sounds Chinese. If any website yo
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by kijin 12y ago
Water is pretty good at blocking radiation [1]. Life could exist in a layer of the ocean where ionizing radiation is reduced to a survivable level but plenty of visible light gets through. Or the planet could be teeming with water bears. [1
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by kijin 12y ago
Symmetries and asymmetries of information don't exist in a vacuum. They are often caused by, and in turn cause, symmetries and asymmetries of power [1]. Greater symmetry of some types of information may lead to greater asymmetry of pow
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by kijin 12y ago
My thoughts exactly. The world is not a chess board. The rest of the pieces don't just stay where they are and watch passively while you make a move. It may take a while for the full effects to be felt, but sooner or later the board as
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by kijin 12y ago
The fireball radius and air blast radius are probably proportional to different multiples and/or powers of the bomb's total energy. For example, if A = 7x^2 and B = 2x^3, A will be larger than B when x is small, but B will overtak
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by kijin 12y ago
Heh, let the arms race begin! When every browser ships with verified fingerprints for a lot of important websites, it will be nearly impossible to use fraudulent SSL certificates on any significant scale without triggering a worldwide alarm
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by kijin 12y ago
Depends on which government we're talking about. Until a couple of hours ago when I manually went through my browser's CA list, there were a lot of national and even subnational government agencies in there. Japan, Taiwan, South K
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by kijin 12y ago
Their lawful rights and interests will not be affected because, in the opinion of the Chinese government, anyone who uses Chrome in China is doing so unlawfully! (Last time I checked, the GFW blocked Chrome downloads.)
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by kijin 12y ago
Who are the people and companies that use CNNIC-issued certificates? CNNIC is a relatively recent addition to most browsers' lists of trusted CAs. Moreover, given the popularity of pirated & never-updated Windows XP in China, it wo
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by kijin 12y ago
Yes, "name constraints" is what I was suggesting. (I vaguely remembered that there was something in the relevant standards that allow such constraints, but I couldn't remember the name and wasn't sure that it was actuall
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by kijin 12y ago
Nah, we'd still have plenty of CAs at any given time. After all, it's highly unlikely that all of them will fuck up at the same time. If you buy from a reputable CA, there's at least 90% chance that you won't have any is
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by kijin 12y ago
> My own peak use of social media arose during a period of painful isolation . . . recently heartbroken and thousands of miles from my family and friends. In many ways, the internet made me feel safe. I can relate to this. My peak use
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by kijin 12y ago
Good riddance. We really need a "zero tolerance" system for CAs: As soon as you fuck up, you're out. There has been too much forgiveness and too little enforcement so far. Browser vendors, especially those with deep pockets s
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by kijin 12y ago
This is brilliant. But since we are often told that composing cryptographic promitives can turn out to be unexpectedly dangerous, can you point me to some articles where this technique is studied in more detail? Preferably by experts such a
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by kijin 12y ago
Well, we already have Chrome OS and Firefox OS, so it's not inconceivable that one day, everything you see on a screen will just be a bunch of iframes nested inside one another.
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by kijin 12y ago
Fungi can purify pollutants, but they can also emit mycotoxins that are extremely harmful to us. So you may have to wear a hazmat suit while the purification is taking place... Yeah, that sounds just like Nausicaa. The manga it's based
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by kijin 12y ago
> From the start, Dropbox was almost magically simple: Install Dropbox’s folder on your desktop, and by simply dragging files into it you could suddenly access them from anywhere. That was simple in 2007, but this kind of synching mode
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by kijin 12y ago
So you basically increased the cracker's workload by six orders of magnitude, which is equivalent to increasing bcrypt's work factor by 20. Cool!
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by kijin 12y ago
Dual licensing is fine, I simply omitted it from my suggestion because it didn't occur to me at the time. As for third-party code included in a repo, I don't think their licenses should be shown prominently on any listing. It&#x27
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by kijin 12y ago
Of course nobody is entitled to a free license. But if somebody posts code on a website where most of the public content is under free licenses and the TOS explicitly dictates that you grant certain licenses to other users for free, I think
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by kijin 12y ago
The quibble about GitHub not correctly handling files named COPYING is spot on. I have some LGPLv3 projects, and whenever possible I put the license into two files named COPYING (a verbatim copy of GPLv3) and COPYING.LESSER (an addendum tha
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by kijin 12y ago
If this plant never emerges above the ground (even the flower remains underground unless disturbed by curious botanists), how does it spread its seeds? The seeds would be deposited right on top of the parent. The article briefly mentions ra
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by kijin 12y ago
Most ordinary people either don't understand the cycle, or even if they do, they're powerless to do anything about it. If what happened in Korea is any indication, the first generation of apartment buildings will be demolished aft
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by kijin 12y ago
I think China is going to suffer an epidemic of infrastructure failure in the near future, perhaps as early as the mid-2020s if the 20-30 years estimate is correct. For comparison, South Korea's extraordinary growth was followed by a s
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by kijin 12y ago
Would it be too difficult and/or costly to divert lava away from the town? Like digging a trench toward a nearby valley? Or is the volcano so unpredictable that another flow might begin to threaten the town from a different direction a
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by kijin 12y ago
> Mozilla decided to limit them to issuing certificates to: .fr, .gp, .gf, .mq, .re, .yt, .pm, .bl, .mf, .wf, .pf, .nc, .tf Is there any way to do the same, manually, for the other "national" CAs? I woudln't mind if CNNI

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