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by killjoywashere 10mo ago
I think something people should take a hard look at is Firefox's crypto libraries. Firefox's implementation of cryptography in NSS is fundamentally in the browser. Chrome works with the OS. One could argue which implementation is
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by killjoywashere 11mo ago
For the uninitiated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
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by killjoywashere 1y ago
Denmark is in a chronic baby shortage [1] and people in Western democracies are having less sex generally [2]. So, yay, less HPV. Go get vaccinated [3]. Unfortunately, there are some pretty significant (and sad, yes, sad) confounders. [1]
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by killjoywashere 1y ago
I have never worked for a company. I have always worked for the government, the taxpayers, quixotically according to a lot of people on the internet, even, dare I say, the citizenry. Most people think these are cush jobs. I spent decades wo
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by killjoywashere 1y ago
Chatroulette was on to something. But is it still full of men exposing themselves?
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by killjoywashere 1y ago
If you've ever used liquid nitrogen to snap-freeze tissue in gluteraldeyde for electron microscopy, the problem is readily apparent: you can't get the heat out of large chunks of meat fast enough. And by large, I mean 1 cm cubed.
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by killjoywashere 1y ago
A buddy from Bridgepoint made a point to me once: maybe we're not number one in every industry, but find me a sector where we're not in the top 10.
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by killjoywashere 1y ago
This. As someone who spends a lot of time thinking about national security problems, it's hard to convey how badly the 1980s MBA education failed us as a country. "Greed is good." Sure, Gordon. For who? Who's greed is go
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by killjoywashere 1y ago
In case anyone thinks assistants serving others can't have some incredibly dystopian consequences, The Star Chamber podcast has an incredible 2-part series, * With Friends Like These ...* describing a case that boggles the mind. Part 1
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by killjoywashere 1y ago
I happen to have a stereo microscope at my desk, so I put my Pixel 9 under there. At 100x mag (10x ocular x 10x objective) it looks like there are 3 layers: as I move my head around slightly (so the image is moving over my retinas), the blu
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by killjoywashere 1y ago
David Hilbert was one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. Many of the leaders of the Manhattan Project learned the mathematics of physics from him. But he was famous long before then. In 1900 he gave an invited lecture where he list
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by killjoywashere 1y ago
I look forward to the first LLM-designed massively multifamily dwellings. I'm sure no one will fall through any floors.
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by killjoywashere 1y ago
Bob?
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by killjoywashere 1y ago
IdenTrust participates in the US Federal PKI ecosystem, so they likely have strong incentives to charge exorbitantly. Those free certs are probably meant to facilitate development of gov-specific capabilities by random subcontractors long e
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by killjoywashere 1y ago
Fun fact: these laser pulses are so short they are no longer a single wavelength. They have a spectrum due to the uncertainty principle. And at this short of a time scale, it’s pretty broad.
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What analogy/metaphor do you use if you want to explain entropy to the C Suite?
1 points by killjoywashere 1y ago|1 comments
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by killjoywashere 1y ago
I've met Steve on a number of occasions, smart guy. I also work in this space and have definitely read a lot of the same books he has, along with many of his excellent articles. Alas, I'm pretty sure he would never read my article
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by killjoywashere 1y ago
Again, you're generalizing. To say that doesn't work in medieval Europe is probably itself a generalization. But if you read the book, I don't think this would be a point you'd be arguing.
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by killjoywashere 1y ago
1) target universities have to accept the students Yes! Which the US incentivizes by a) underfunding K-12 education, reducing the internal applicant pool, b) competing grants in a way that incentivizes PIs to grasp for cheap labor. Addition
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by killjoywashere 1y ago
The concept of freehold tenure is pretty central to the book. Not sure you could get any more on-point for the general reader looking for a book recommendation. But since you ask: the peasant's rights to land were exquisitely bespoke.
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by killjoywashere 1y ago
Someone kill that muppet that jumps out of the margin halfway down. Please.
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by killjoywashere 1y ago
Recommend James C. Scott's "Seeing like a State" to learn more about the evolution of property valuation and rights. The systems of land rights in up to the 1500s-1800s were quite complex. The modern state imposed a uniform s
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by killjoywashere 1y ago
Your source leans right-center, so probably good reason to suspect their reported top 1% AGI is low and their reported federal income tax estimate is high. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/tax-foundation/
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by killjoywashere 1y ago
No but their earnings are mainly in their companies, and those can hire fleets of tax attorneys and accountants to crush their tax burden. Once the money is in stocks, it doesn't get taxed unless you draw on it, but the billionaires ca
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by killjoywashere 1y ago
Einstein essentially gave up his professorship at the University of Berlin. How far into the future are you looking? https://www.nytimes.com/1932/10/18/archives/einstein-would-q...
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by killjoywashere 1y ago
Much like outbreaks that never turn into pandemics, no one remembers the efficiency measures that prevent price increases.
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by killjoywashere 1y ago
A major incentive for hiring work out to the private sector is the impossibility of firing GS-series employees. Ultimately, whomever the elites are who happen to be taking a lap through government today are interesting in maintaining a resp
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by killjoywashere 1y ago
I do think there's an interesting conversation to have here though about workforce management, as someone who lives in adjacent worlds. If you are long term greedy, like China, a great strategy to capture dominance of a discipline woul
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
We have been looking at Hamming distance vs time to signature for ambient note generation in medicine. Any other metrics? Lots of metrics in the ML papers, but a lot of them seem sus. They take a lot of work to reproduce or they are designe
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Ask HN: Is Washington Post correct in saying Signal is unsecure?
50 points by killjoywashere 2y ago|106 comments

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