lazaroclapp

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by lazaroclapp 10y ago
Intelligence does not imply sentience. Sentience does not imply human needs, desires or morals. It is easy enough to imagine a mind capable of solving all those problems and unconcerned with such notions as the desire for freedom. Or, for t
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by lazaroclapp 10y ago
First of all, thanks for writing this, since I did find the technical details quite interesting. But I don't think this puts microcode rootkits beyond the reach of a state actor. It puts them beyond the reach of a normal criminal attac
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by lazaroclapp 10y ago
I am sure the numbers are way off, but not sure only the microcode one is. My suspicion is that against most non-intelligence targets, the DLL injection approach is quite unlikely to be found out either, at least once the initial intrusion
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by lazaroclapp 10y ago
The more likely it is that your target will discover someone compromised them, yes. But finding a DLL injection exploit only says "hacked by someone", whereas finding a microcode-level rootkit in the CPU pretty much says "hac
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You mean less violent within the U.S., right? Because believe me that keeping drug prohibition in the U.S. and the bilateral consensus of fighting drug trade militarily is causing quite a violent situation in Mexico, to the tune of 200,000+
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by lazaroclapp 10y ago
Do you know how many calls you can get in a year of scammers pretending to have kidnapped members of your family in some developing countries? The only real difference from that to this is the added tech-savyness of obtaining real recording
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I didn't realize Trump and Putin personally qualified as weapons of mass destruction, but I guess it makes sense in retrospect...
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I am in the U.S. on a legal visa, and I come from one of the countries often accused of having mostly undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Whatever I might think of the legal immigration process, I would never be able to put up with what an
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by lazaroclapp 10y ago
It is sad that we measure it terms of our material wealth. There is plenty positive to be said about creating material wealth over all. Not that it is the only possible objective either, of course.
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They are not exactly wrong with the first point, actually. I once worked on a DARPA malicious code detection challenge and even carefully inspecting the source of a library can often fail to uncover a carefully crafted implant, even if you
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No, but accepting the ride before seeing the passenger's face does reduce discrimination. Just like blind resume reading does (although, see sibling comment by cstejerean). "More or less fix racism" is a wild exaggeration, bu
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They agree when their interests agree, and they have plenty of treaties and rules between them when it comes to this sort of minutia. The question is, is any of them better served by a rotating Olympics than a fixed one? If the answer is ye
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Strong claim that the parties necessary to hold the Olympics, namely the participating nations, chiefly care about enriching the IOC. If the countries and companies involved cared enough about it, or the public did, the brand could be bough
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Can doesn't mean "necessarily will". It depends on how much attention the comment attracts a lot of times, even more than on its content. Things that anyone could say in anger on a bad day or as dark joke can come back to hau
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Well, what you need to know as a developer of either is pretty limited. Understanding the basic existence of the following will get you a long way: cache hierarchy, branch prediction, instruction reordering, syscalls, interrupts, virtual me
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Most of the ones I have been on the inside of (I am not currently inside of any of those) are fairly preachy internally and do discuss the ethics of what they are doing. Sure, that discussion is more "realist" than what their PR p
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by lazaroclapp 10y ago
Each of those companies has the potential to significantly impact the world. Whether that change is for better or worse depends on your values. But given that they will likely have a big impact on society, I'd rather have them thinking
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Arguably, Facebook has been very cautious on how it moves towards social engineering the world, though. Which is what has allowed things like Cambridge Analytica to do so instead. The whole point of this manifesto is not "lets take ove
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by lazaroclapp 10y ago
You assume the rest of the world will remain open to you as you slam the door in their faces. At best you might end up in a situation where you don't have to compete with Shenzhen in your local market, but where all other markets are c
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Not really. For the people I am talking about, helping with something like that would be absolutely expected from a very close friend (a "compadre" for example, which is a Spanish term for the godfather of your children, would b
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As a note, the later is very seldom considered childish in some cultures and some economic backgrounds. I have known people for which the request to their friends is not "will you help me move?" but "will you help me build my
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Businesses are concentrated in city centers because that's where the people (i.e. potential employees) are. Even better, there is a robust market for both employees and employers, meaning people are not stuck in an area where only one
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And not living in many countries certainly does not prevent them from affecting you. The world is deeply interconnected no matter how you structure it, from nuclear proliferation to pollution. You are also not immune from states you opt out
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Fair enough, but you really consider isolationism, trade barriers and anti-immigrant rhetoric either significantly more feasible than or preferable to trying to improve wealth and opportunity distribution? Do you think forcing companies to
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Their children's having better opportunities as wealth created by their countries participation in globalized trade creates chances for improved education, scientific advancement and new industries? Don't get me wrong, we are fail
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You honestly think that quitting Facebook is harder than changing countries? Opting out from your country is currently near impossible for most people, and the only reason it is possible for the few who can is globalism. The place where m
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As in, a threat to their wealth and earnings? Sure, that's an issue, but is not an issue with globalization in the abstract. In fact, the U.S. benefits enormously of globalization in total material terms (U.S. produced goods and U.S. b
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What are those "real reasons"? And are they against globalization in the abstract or against specific models of global institutions? I find being against globalization in the abstract very strange, because it takes arbitrary histo
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I do wonder if they were making fun in a mean way or just poking fun in good nature. Of course, the person experiencing it is the one who can better tell, but it is often not obvious when lacking cultural context. One of my closest friends
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Most foreign students are in the US for a two years masters program, which is not that long a time to assimilate to any culture. I am from a relatively similar western culture, I arrived here thinking to myself in English 50% of the time (n

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