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by md_ 6y ago
I do, but it’s in my “real name” GitHub and I’m not willing to out myself here. ;) Sorry. Google I guess?
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by md_ 6y ago
I have an Amazon Lambda that I can email links to and it downloads the text with Readability-like format simplification and sends to my Kindle. Use it all the time. Love it.
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by md_ 6y ago
Huh? In most usage I've seen, "return on capital" means on all capital, not just equity (and not just dividends on equity, which I think you are implying?). But I'm not an economist, so maybe I'm misunderstanding
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by md_ 6y ago
Hmm, but how do you know that rates of return on capital in general aren't declining simply because of reductions in productivity growth or decreased innovation? I'm not even clear on causality here—if return on capital goes down,
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by md_ 6y ago
I tend to agree with your second paragraph, but this is a blog post and is clearly speculative; it's not an econ paper. To your first paragraph: AFAICT this is a blog by the Progressive Policy Institute, which is a centrist Democratic
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by md_ 6y ago
The "stagnation" argument is probably specifically about productivity growth, which is best documented by Robert Gordon: https://www.nber.org/papers/w18315 https://www.nber.org/papers/w24
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by md_ 6y ago
This may sound like a troll, but how do we delineate what politics belong in the office and what do not? As I noted elsewhere in this thread, I think it's more ambiguous these days, not less. As a few concrete examples: * Say I refus
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by md_ 6y ago
I don't know offhand of any high quality opinion surveys asking about approval of _demonstrations_ vs _BLM_ in general, so I don't know if your hypothesis is born out. However, opinion polls _do_ show a _correlation_ between suppo
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by md_ 6y ago
Hmm, to your first part: maybe. Adam Serwer (in that same article) argues that exposure to tales of southern violence, after the Civil War, was instrumental in changing northern Republicans' willingness to push civil rights legislatio
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by md_ 6y ago
I don't know if I understand your point. Are you saying that the 74% unfavorable view of civil rights demonstrations suggests that Americans disfavored demonstrations but nonetheless were strongly supportive of MLK's speech at s
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by md_ 6y ago
Lobbying isn’t an inherently political act?
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by md_ 6y ago
For some historical context, contemporaneously, the Civil Rights movement was highly controversial and, among white Americans, fairly unpopular; it's exactly the kind of thing that would have been described as politics best left out
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by md_ 6y ago
Agreed. My point was more that there seems to be broad and increasing disagreement on what professionalism entails—both in terms of an obligation to speak up, as you say, and in terms of politely avoiding certain topics in the workplace.
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by md_ 6y ago
Yes, I think we're saying the same thing. :)
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by md_ 6y ago
Companies do not merely advertise or lobby for specific regulations that affect their industry: they spend money to elect specific politicians who take positions on laws that affect that company's employees, in and out of the workplace
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by md_ 6y ago
From some point of view, this might be viewed as management taking a harsh line against employees who make demands on their employers to do something other than maximize shareholder returns. One of the longstanding contradictions of Silicon
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by md_ 6y ago
Excellent reply, and it puts him in more context than I have. Thanks!
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by md_ 6y ago
I have mixed feelings about key export. :) That is indeed a fair criticism. FWIW, in terms of difficulty setting up, I suspect most developers use libraries from people like Okta and Firebase, so the underlying implementation may not be the
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by md_ 6y ago
High level point: the link https://www.grc.com/sqrl/phishing.htm acknowledges that phishing is out of scope of SQRL. More specifically: SQRL can prevent phishing if: - The remote server limits sign-ins to what Gibson
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by md_ 6y ago
Gibson has been hawking this for years. Skipping over some details, the biggest issue with it is that it's phishable, so it fails to address the single biggest threat most users face. In the five years this has been "under develop
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by md_ 6y ago
I understood your point, but assuming I don’t want my phone pwned regardless, installing more messaging apps strictly increases my attack surface.
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by md_ 6y ago
OK, I see a "Threat Model" section is added. I'd encourage the author to read about how to create a good formal threat model, like https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/tm-introducti...
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by md_ 6y ago
OTP is sent over one of the two channels (or m of n ). The lint is that the pad has effectively the same security as the message itself. In terms of explaining, try to describe specific threats (including what the attacker can and cann
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by md_ 6y ago
Right, you're spot on about the OTP. The pad is itself transmitted over the same channel(s) as the message, so there's no value in using an OTP per se. I think the author was just going for a way to split a message in a way that o
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by md_ 6y ago
A few points: * The 0day argument (that using multiple apps reduces exposure) is a poor one. If we're talking about 0days that allow message decryption from a MITM, this is true--but if we're talking about RCE with (on mobile OSes
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by md_ 6y ago
I'm not entirely sure I'm understanding the terminology you're using. Are you talking about OAuth2 tokens (i.e. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6819#section-5.2.2.3 ), or are you talking about browser cook
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by md_ 6y ago
The above WHYY segment suggests an alternative hypothesis of children nursing less and using bottle feeding more. This seems as credible as Mews’ hypothesis. Neither seems sufficiently validated to be the basis for clinical treatment, from
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by md_ 6y ago
I’m not convinced I can taste the difference. People think they can. ;) A better grinder may help avoid powder that can be a problem with some brew methods. And a nicer manual grinder will usually grind faster, which can be convenient in th
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by md_ 6y ago
Agreed, and a quick search on pubmed shows some research that backs the claim that these are modern conditions. https://whyy.org/segments/could-old-skulls-help-us-understan... describes a few hypotheses as to why, one
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by md_ 6y ago
Oh damn I'm going to be one of those guys. Apologies in advance. Burr grinders, especially manual ones, are fairly cheap. A $40 Hario Mini Mill does a fine job at a fine grind, and won't produce as much powder as the blade grinder

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