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by kyboren 6y ago
> does it mean that if you sell something people actually want, literally nothing else matters about your intelligence, education, character, background, or anything at all. Yes, although I think more specifically s/want/are ad
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by kyboren 6y ago
I don't think that's exactly what eggsnbacon1 was saying. It may be true that all kinds of immigration greatly benefit host countries in the long term, but this is more debatable than that allowing wealthy, liberal, educated immig
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by kyboren 6y ago
Software source code is expressive. Yes, it is functional, but so much more than mere functionality is contained within: ideas about representing, abstracting, encoding, and solving problems (i.e. math); design patterns; pedagogical conten
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by kyboren 6y ago
> The end result is, from the point of view of the individual writing this, is that implementors have special powers over individuals moving forward. This may or may not be a bad deal. Historically, humans have victimized other humans at
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by kyboren 6y ago
The problem with this "97% feels oppressive when you are used to 100%" view is that it's zero-sum. If we treat the racial disparity issue as a zero-sum problem, we practically guarantee the perpetuation of racial inequality
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by kyboren 6y ago
This is really a fantastic, concise explanation of the pitfalls in OP's logic. Bravo. Still: The bandwidth of the side channel can be dramatically reduced with a combination of a limit on the number of fixed addresses that can be requ
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by kyboren 6y ago
What's more, virus scanners often run with SYSTEM privileges and consist of hundreds of thousands of often shitty LOC, presenting a huge attack surface. These days you might infected because you're running "anti-virus&quot
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by kyboren 6y ago
Absolutely pathetic and shortsighted. iCE40 is popular exclusively because of the reverse engineering work that this prohibits. I was actually thinking that Lattice might be an interesting place to work, considering the growing open source
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by kyboren 6y ago
This is because class actions are often little more than schemes to enrich attorneys. This is not such a case and ACLU are not such attorneys.
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by kyboren 6y ago
The rise in price is the result of the market thinking there will be future rise in organic demand. The price rises because the value rises. There's nothing artificial about it. That tug-on-your-heartstrings argument works the other
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by kyboren 6y ago
I totally get where you're coming from, but I follow people on GitHub exclusively because I want to see what code they're working on. I'm not following them because we have reciprocal social arrangement where we're &quot
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by kyboren 6y ago
Another reason this asinine: Which platform has a C compiler but doesn't have memcpy()?! I guess this is not an argument that the above code to check for memcpy() is illegal, per se, but it's at the very least totally superfluous.
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by kyboren 6y ago
If you think that's cool, you might be interested in S²E: http://s2e.systems/
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by kyboren 6y ago
> but I don't see how that's prudent or politically palatable. It is prudent because it prevents this moral hazard that reduces efficiency and increases systemic risks. Yes, there will be short term turmoil as companies and th
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by kyboren 6y ago
That makes Huawei's 5G chips much less commercially competitive, giving Qualcomm a leg up in the handset market and making it much harder for Huawei to win. However, for base stations, which are the real prize, Huawei already has a ~1y
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by kyboren 6y ago
If "Europe" stops sitting around with its dick in its hand and actually subsidizes/incentivizes development of a globally-competitive domestic semiconductor industry, I will be shocked. India, too, is hopelessly reliant on t
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by kyboren 6y ago
It causes harm to American expats because FATCA's terms are horrible for banks. Basically, they have a whole host of new reporting obligations for their US citizen customers, wherever they are in the world. If their compliance fails,
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by kyboren 6y ago
I suspect you're being downvoted by US citizens who have never lived abroad and are blind to the difficulties FATCA causes for non-"Fat Cat" American expats. Your comment is entirely on-point.
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by kyboren 6y ago
I think rather it is ultimately about fear; governments merely exploit fear to push their policies. To be clear, I nearly entirely agree with you. I just think that government narratives are not the ultimate source of this irrationali
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by kyboren 6y ago
I think it's more that they were hired on as typists and secretaries, basically the only office professions that women could have at that time.
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by kyboren 6y ago
It also does not say that they have not provided key material or RNG output, or that they have not deliberately weakened any aspect of their design other than "cryptographic backdoors" to accommodate law enforcement desires. These
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by kyboren 6y ago
> Perhaps 0.01% of the public knows that Keybase exists and has a bad opinion of Zoom security. Expert's opinion is important, but does not automatically become general perception. This is true, but perhaps a bit short-sighted. Exp
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by kyboren 6y ago
> Cyberspace ultimately isn't a space, any more than there was a "telephone-space" or a "telegraph-space" before that. Cyberspace is not a physical space, indeed, but that's missing the forest for the trees.
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by kyboren 6y ago
> Blockchain is an append-only database. It does not create sovereign citizens. Telecommunications push bits over a wire or the ether. They do not create "cyber spaces". My point is: There are some interesting applications of
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by kyboren 6y ago
That's not entirely true. Synthesis is a popular topic within the "formal verification" umbrella. I agree that proving the software satisfies some safety properties and is always consistent with some specification doesn&#x27
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by kyboren 7y ago
I have no hard evidence that they are actually actively seeking a buyout/IPO, but they did complete a Series E last year[0] led by Goldman Sachs and IONIQ Capital. Presumably their numerous investors will be looking for a solid return
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by kyboren 7y ago
I strongly agree with everything you wrote. I think there is an alternative solution, though: Rather than maintaining a gigantic stockpile large enough to last a multi-year pandemic, it might be more efficient to maintain a modest stockpile
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by kyboren 7y ago
I used GitLab for years. That changed a few months ago. I deleted my account and now use GitHub. I advocate everywhere I can to choose GitHub over GitLab, or to migrate away from GitLab if it's already in use. These changes just ma
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by kyboren 7y ago
That's not true. People relying on deliveries from Amazon's French logistics network will also be meaningfully hurt by this.
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by kyboren 7y ago
The ADA may not require it, but the compliance costs it imposes are a strong disincentive for publishing. The ADA in that case turned an unmitigated public good from "Sure, why not publish them online?" into "We can't pu

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