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by mapgrep 10y ago
Perfect is the enemy of good. Mass adoption of PGP would made the work of hackers and spy agencies orders of magnitude harder. Moxie writes from a personal perspective and you'll notice he never claims to have something better in hand.
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by mapgrep 10y ago
Have you ever shopped for child care as one of two working parents? Have you priced day care centers vs nanny shares? You do realize that most people using a nanny would trade that arrangement for quality government child care in a heartbea
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by mapgrep 10y ago
> I don't need to worry about crap like whether some Python package will work with Apple's Python distribution This is exactly why I use Macports. Everything lives in a parallel universe of /opt. This means the first few p
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by mapgrep 10y ago
I completely nodded along with this — as advice for a normal, sustainable business. But this is not what startups do. The whole point of a "startup" as conceived in Silicon Valley and as desired by VCs is that risk is HIGH. Let&#x
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by mapgrep 10y ago
First off, this company makes a really big claim, "The credit card was broken. We fixed it." Super sweeping, no? Then they say "The next time you hear about a big credit card breach, you can relax." Both of those stateme
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by mapgrep 10y ago
I guess as a consumer I feel like I already have this option. Bank of America and Citi both offer disposable CC numbers for online purchases. I happen to be at BofA (not a fan of them, but I needed a national bank), and, Googling just now,
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by mapgrep 10y ago
Here's a list of the most common ways credit cards leak, from security journalist Brian Krebs: -Hacked main street merchant, restaurant... -Processor breach... -Hacked point-of-sale service company/vendor... -Hacked E-commerce Mer
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by mapgrep 10y ago
I grew up in San Diego before spending 20 years in the Bay Area. While I totally understand why a fresh graduate would want to head north to the bay, I think as a place to CREATE a startup, San Diego has tremendous potential. The weather is
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by mapgrep 10y ago
I feel like this point could have been made without referring to infants and developmentally disabled teenagers as "hijacker users." I hate to moralize, but this essay helped me realize that there is, in fact, a baseline level of
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by mapgrep 10y ago
That is an excellent counterexample. She seems to have been instrumental at Facebook in building up revenue and transitioning to mobile.
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by mapgrep 10y ago
Why is that? What would you recommend to those of us who use TAILS frequently?
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by mapgrep 10y ago
Fair distinction!
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by mapgrep 10y ago
This is not a small thing: Starve the beast is emphatically a right-wing tactic, and well known one at that. To call it ideologically neutral w/r/t government is blatantly wrong. Whether it's technically neoconservative or no
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by mapgrep 10y ago
He fleshes out the toxic waste metaphor most fully in this talk, which he gave, rather boldly, at a big data (Hadoop) event. It's text and images but there's a video link at the top to the actual talk if you prefer it that way: h
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by mapgrep 10y ago
Well there's the small answer and the big answer. The small answer is that rendering touches not just CPU but storage as well. Yes we have SSDs, which help, but writing to "disk" is still relatively slow. The big answer is: I
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by mapgrep 10y ago
No, this is a terrible idea that is being spread like a cancer by people who don't know their history. First of all, static rendering CMS-es are IN NO WAY missing as you say; in fact, as your own comment hints, such systems are incredi
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by mapgrep 10y ago
I'd be curious if OP has a partner or roommate at home. When sleeping next to my spouse, I would venture there is some small level of stress associated with not wanting to roll into them, impede their movement, etc. Even just having so
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by mapgrep 10y ago
Ah, you are correct, thank you: ..."a base32 encoding of a 10-octet hash of Bob's service's public key" https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/rend-spec.txt...
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by mapgrep 10y ago
Interestingly, since Onion addresses are derived from the public key of the host server, Facebook had to basically brute force this address. The process is described in "Part three" here: https://blog.torproject.org&#x2
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by mapgrep 10y ago
Tor does not only allow anonymity of identity, it also can provide anonymity of location and anonymity of destination. If you are in a country or organization that would prefer you not visit Facebook, this can be useful. If you would prefer
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by mapgrep 10y ago
Yes, I agree. It's also a fascinating window into what an achievement Windows NT was, and I say that as someone who does not use Windows anywhere. By mid 1993 Dave Cutler and his team released a multi-threaded, pre-emptive multi taskin
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by mapgrep 10y ago
Sure, but commenters are going to ask questions like "who is moderating me" and "why am I allowed to moderate sometimes but not other times." On Slashdot, the answers to these seemingly simple questions are quite complex
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by mapgrep 10y ago
You're very right that Slashdot developed an underappreciated system for community moderation. Too many people treat this like a new problem when it's one of the oldest out there (see, for example, http://www.shirky.com
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by mapgrep 10y ago
Important context for the hostility toward the interviewer: The founder and publisher of Rolling Stone, Jann Wenner, is also the chairman and founder of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which Miller was railing against. (Wenner didn't d
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Google to intentionally brick all Revolv home hubs May 15(medium.com)
65 points by mapgrep 11y ago|1 comments
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by mapgrep 11y ago
I'm not sure putting down JavaScript, web browsers, and the DOM, and saying the ideal future is completely free of apps built on this platform, is technically being "productive" in a conversation ABOUT those things, but setti
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by mapgrep 11y ago
This piece seems to miss a lot of basic info about Trader Joe's, starting with the supply chain. Trader Joe's is basically a direct discount operation, like Wal Mart but with two crucial differences: It deals in spoilable goods an
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by mapgrep 11y ago
Good point. My understanding is that both SSID and MAC address are typically used as inputs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_positioning_system
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by mapgrep 11y ago
My money is on a wifi SSID that matches the one used by thieves or a heavily-trafficked location the victims all pass through. My company moved ~5 blocks and it really screwed up the map on my phone (which I use to get around the city) for
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by mapgrep 11y ago
You have an /etc/ssh, or just an /etc? I have /etc, which is a symlink to /private/etc, but as I said it has no ssh dir. FWIW I am on 10.10.5 not 10.11. Maybe there's a change in 10.11. (The article the gr

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