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by md_ 7y ago
In fairness, this is kind of how people expected great media dynasties (like the Bancrofts or Sulzbergers) to work. And this is also a bit weird, because while now the idea of publishers as having a critical democratic function—and being mo
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by md_ 7y ago
I think there may still be merit to the op’s case that we should distinguish between the risk of a nuclear attack and the risk of a nuclear exchange (or, “nuclear Armageddon”). Some of the scenarios I outlined—rogue non-state actors, region
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by md_ 7y ago
I haven't thought much about this, to be honest, but I want to argue the opposite. When considering the risks of nuclear war, there are (I would say) three principle risks: 1. An intentional first strike by an actor who is non-rational
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by md_ 7y ago
If the entire article had replaced “forensic hypnosis” with “divining rods” it would not have read any stranger.
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by md_ 7y ago
Switzerland has fairly high rates of car ownership per capita: 716/1000, vs 811/1000 for the US, according to Wikipedia. The Swiss rate of car ownership far exceeds that of Germany (561), France (478), or even an auto-oriented cou
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by md_ 8y ago
I'm actually confused here. Stonogo is using enough detail that they sound like someone who understands the domain, but what they're saying is, in many cases, simply factually incorrect. A few corrections: 1. MTA-STS does not spec
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by md_ 8y ago
But the question wasn't whether you can successfully land a small, single-engine land plane in VFR conditions after training for hundreds of hours on a simulator (though I am surprised and impressed that you were able to do this). It w
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by md_ 8y ago
The premise (of authentication) is that the identity of the policy host is the same as the identity of the @domain. That is, if mail is sent to you@example.com, the certificate presented by whatever host is serving the policy must be vali
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by md_ 8y ago
You mean they can see local history? Sure, but that’s true in most browsers. That’s nothing to do with your signed in state, right?
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by md_ 8y ago
FWIW, revolut appears to be aimed st selling different (probably lower overhead) services. Their premium accounts offer higher withdrawal limits, but they also sell cellphone insurance, etc. Still, as a skeptic, I can’t shake the thought th
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by md_ 8y ago
Hmm. At least with revolut, app only means they can do infrequent SMS auth (for setting up a new phone) and otherwise use the stable phone for auth. I suppose the key point here is that requiring their users to have a smartphone allows them
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by md_ 8y ago
I’m confused. Are you really claiming you can’t log into gmail in non google browsers? And this comment was upvoted? Sorry. I call BS.
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by md_ 8y ago
If I’m not mistaken, this also ensures that when you sign out of Gmail, you are signed out of Chrome (no?). That seems like a win for user privacy, insofar as it addresses the likely failure mode of mistakenly leaving the browser signed in
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by md_ 8y ago
Tucker Carlson is still shocked to learn that nonwhites are allowed to vote in the US. Things just haven’t been the same since Jim Crow retired.
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by md_ 8y ago
I know you’re being sarcastic, but if chrome could, with perfect accuracy, indicate if this was “the site you want”, why not do away with the url? Mind you, I’m not suggesting to do away with linking, as some rando suggested this implies.
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by md_ 8y ago
Don’t Firefox and Safari also have a single bar for searches? Yet neither company runs a search engine. I don’t suppose it’s possible this is just better for most users?
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Ask HN: What do you do to have more positive social impact?
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by md_ 8y ago
Oddly, this is a common trope in a lot of popular media, where heroes are often noble and strong, whereas their opponents are weak but cunning. (Various "Batman" movies have such plots, where Batman is almost brought low by the sc
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by md_ 8y ago
For sure. DM me your ICQ and we will chat.
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by md_ 8y ago
The one-word answer is "federation." What makes email (by which, here and below, I mean SMTP) universal is what makes it hard to retrofit (with new protocols or standards): it's federated, relying only on DNS for namespacing
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by md_ 9y ago
Don't. The issue in Michael's case is not politics, and I don't know how HN gets on this stupid tangent about the "political game." The issue--speaking as a Big Company engineer/manager--is quite obviously misa
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by md_ 9y ago
I am (I suspect) a little bit older than you and have been working at a FANG company for nearly seven years. (Before that I was at a company that may as well be included in the list.) What your comments about aerospace remind me of is somet
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by md_ 9y ago
> Imagine you build an AirBnb like solution limited to Switzerland market. AirBnb will eventually come and eat your lunch. I don't think this is born out by the evidence. There are many social reasons that smaller markets prefer a l
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by md_ 9y ago
Income taxes.
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by md_ 9y ago
I have wondered if it's not an increasingly difficult problem for Google Translate that, as it becomes more popular, it is likely to see more and more training data which it itself helped generate.
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by md_ 9y ago
The article appears to assert two things: 1. Chrome runs field trials. 2. At one point Chrome locked up the author's computer. Does it ever connect the two points, or are they unrelated?
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by md_ 9y ago
You're correct. DNS-over-TLS secures you<-->resolver; DNSSEC secures validating-resolver<-->authority, essentially. If your resolver is validating, then it secures you<-->authority. Point being DNSSEC can be used to s
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by md_ 9y ago
The t-shirts are a bit of jokey swag, not an access control mechanism. ;)
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by md_ 9y ago
Well, one might reasonably ask whether "reading your mail" (as in, running an algorithm on it to try to classify phishing vs non) is a security cost or benefit. Spearphishing is a huge source of compromise at the moment; antiphish
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by md_ 9y ago
Yes, that's what I meant by "duplicated." :) And yes, I see some value in the reduction of maintenance costs, but you're not doing this manually--you have a package manager of some sort and you're automatically trac

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