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by lokar 6mo ago
I like to think that Eisenhower would punch Karp in the face if he met him today.
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by lokar 6mo ago
Exactly. Enforce the war powers of congress and require a non-delegatable per-war approval. Hell, require the approval of 3/4 of governors as well.
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by lokar 6mo ago
My experience in non-software orgs was they always want more then they can get, and in software/service companies customers always want more.
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by lokar 6mo ago
The main question is: what is demand elasticity for software? If it low, and lower prices won’t generate much new demand, we should expect AI to improve engineering productivity, and for companies to reduce staff. If it is high, then we sho
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by lokar 6mo ago
I really appreciated classes where there was rapidly demising returns to time spent :) Another example, lit classes where the grade is based on time limited, open book exams, hand written in "blue books" Read the book, pay attenti
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by lokar 6mo ago
"Give us a small efficient government, stay out of the market as much as possible with little to no interference"
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by lokar 6mo ago
Check out: https://freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/jessica-riedl/ and other work / appearances by Riedl
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by lokar 6mo ago
Can you outline how you would apply that to healthcare?
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by lokar 6mo ago
Large problems often require large groups of humans to address them. Large groups of humans are inefficient. That does not mean we should give up on addressing large problems, or doing the best we can to reduce the inefficiency. The benef
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by lokar 6mo ago
Right, all large human organizations have a base-line of inefficiency and corruption, with some amount of variance. I'm not arguing that is great, or that we should simply expect it. But, that it's somewhat dishonest to portray g
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by lokar 6mo ago
What is the primary role of the police? To protect life and property, right? Who owns most of the property they are protecting? The police are a welfare program for the wealthy.
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by lokar 6mo ago
Where have you seen that be effective at a large scale?
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by lokar 6mo ago
IME, what we see (when we see things we don't like), are things we don't understand. When you take the time to actually dig in and see what's going on, it makes more sense and is neither wasteful or ineffective. The governme
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by lokar 6mo ago
The non-college educated working class was greatly reduced (in size and wealth), but mostly by trade and automation. In its place we have a smaller white-collar (college educated) middle class.
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by lokar 6mo ago
AIUI, most EU nations (the ones with the great social benefits the left says it wants for America), have a flatter tax burden, where the middle class pays a higher percentage of the total.
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by lokar 6mo ago
I don't think that would stay true as soon as voters were faced with a detailed explanation of what a balanced budget (achieved by tax cuts alone) would look like. People say they don't like government. They say most of the spen
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by lokar 6mo ago
Yeah, getting flashbacks to Clinton era Democratic politics. Adopt the core of the Republican position so you can get into power and then do some stuff around the edges.
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by lokar 6mo ago
Not if you believe the (obviously wrong) laffer curve zealots
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by lokar 6mo ago
There are really 4 possible positions on deficit spending: - it does not matter at all, as long as inflation is under control (MMT) - it's fine, as long as the long run average is ~zero (a cyclic argument) - it's fine, as long as
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by lokar 6mo ago
I really want to see (good, competitive) candidates making the case for government, and taxes to support it. Most of what people value in public life is supported by taxes (in the sense it would be impossible without them). But the other s
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by lokar 7mo ago
I refused to refer to the whole vulnerability reporting / tracking effort as "security", always correcting people that it was compliance, not security.
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by lokar 7mo ago
I once ended up helping (a bit) editing a book (with chapters written by various co-workers). My main contribution was deleting whole chapters. And telling others to make it 50% as long.
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by lokar 7mo ago
As a senior engineer I spend a lot of time reviewing and approving technical designs, PRDs etc. Over the years the amount of basic copy editing I have to do has really grown. I sometimes feel like I’m removing 20%+ of the text. And that w
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by lokar 7mo ago
My favorite: a Linux kernel pcmcia bug. On EC2 VMs.
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by lokar 7mo ago
If you just need to authenticate a couple times, you would. For example, if you are just using the cert to get a couple oath tokens. But, if you are making a lot of x509 authenticated calls directly, then the speed and not needing to touch
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by lokar 7mo ago
You can probably combine the yubikey with a TPM: Keep a CA (constrained to your one identity) with a longish (90 day?) TTL on the TPM. Use it to sign a short lived (16h?) keys from your TPM, use that as your working key.
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by lokar 7mo ago
And (unlike on your computer or phone), the HSM/TPM has its own CPU/memory and firmware, it's in control from the start of boot.
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by lokar 7mo ago
In some cases there is a work-around for bearer tokens. If they allow key/cert login to generate the token (either directly, or via oath), and the token can be generated with a short lifetime, you can build something pretty safe (cert
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by lokar 7mo ago
To me, "read" means by a human. Humans read, computers process.
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by lokar 7mo ago
Even if they only have a 1 in a trillion chance of getting to AGI/Superintelligence first, the expected value of that (the total value of all goods an services on earth for the next 10,000 years / one trillion) is massive! They ar

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