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by md_ 4y ago
I think they're referring to attestation ( https://fidoalliance.org/fido-technotes-the-truth-about-atte... .), which requires that attestation certificates be shared with a minimum of 100,000 other devices in order to en
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by md_ 4y ago
Hmm, what opportunities? Genuinely curious what you mean here.
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by md_ 4y ago
The biometrics don't authenticate you to the remote service. They authenticate you to the device that has the keys that authenticate you to the remote service. Biometrics are a convenient replacement for a screen lock pattern/PIN,
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by md_ 4y ago
This announcement is primarily not about hardware keys, right?
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by md_ 4y ago
I think their point is that they don't want to have the window of vulnerability (to loss) when they have added a new account but haven't yet rotated their off-site key? That said, the real answer is that FIDO keys can be synced by
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by md_ 4y ago
I like the analogy, but it strikes me as missing the upside (and other potential causes of problems the author may be seeing). Bisquick is a great solution if you have only one problem. I want more solutions like Bisquick: easy to map to th
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by md_ 4y ago
Right, but my point was that if you can't reliably estimate how long something will take, you can't estimate how long it ought to take, and, by extension, can't estimate if it's taking longer than it should. So, as a
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by md_ 4y ago
Makes sense. But it's well-known that software delivery estimates have huge error bars. I frankly would have limited insight if a skilled engineer reduced output by 30% in order to work a part-time job. Ultimately, the challenge here i
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by md_ 4y ago
Er, I’m confused. Is the point of this essay that endpoints might be compromised? I mean, yeah? I agree, I guess? But also, that’s not an interesting observation, is it?
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by md_ 5y ago
Agreed, but perhaps, even more constructively: "Great, you agree we need more of an ability to shine a light on--and hold people to account for--human rights abuses worldwide." The US has been deeply hypocritical by opposing the
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by md_ 5y ago
It seems pretty inhumane to see the victimization of minorities in China purely through the lens of US domestic politics, but ok, sure. It’s not about the human rights issues, it’s about…upvotes from American HN readers?
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by md_ 5y ago
As with everything, there's nuance. But, yes, it's politically a lot harder to argue for sanctions that will have a significant effect on consumers/voters than those that will not.
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by md_ 5y ago
I think a reference to https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/17/china-is-harve... .
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by md_ 5y ago
Where'd you get your law degree, Mr. Hutz?
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by md_ 5y ago
"If"? Like...forced sterilization and "re-education" camps for religious and ethnic minorities? https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/china-xin... Spying on Uighers abroad and hold
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by md_ 5y ago
This is probably more true for headhunters than for in-house recruiters. FAANG mostly (completely?) use in-house.
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by md_ 5y ago
I think that substantially underweights the role of luck. But, I will admit, these conversations often strike me with what I see as two clearly different mental models. The first is what I might call the Bayesian (or perhaps "Rawlsian&
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by md_ 5y ago
“Practical and repeatable” seems to omit the overwhelmingly high failure rate, no?
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by md_ 5y ago
Sure; Keynes coined the term "animal spirits." Yet the criticism (that economics is too modelling-based) is widely levied, e.g. see https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/19/its-ti..
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by md_ 5y ago
Yes, this was my point: that prior , economists had silly ideas about humans which make no sense.
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by md_ 5y ago
Can you give examples of this done well? Genuinely curious, as I’ve not seen it.
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by md_ 5y ago
Fair enough, but I don't think seniors who buy American Liberty Coins after watching Tucker Carlson were informed by Graeber's economic sins--whatever they may be--in "Debt". ;)
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by md_ 5y ago
https://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/86397 presents a reasonable argument for why you can't just compare debt-to-GDP between very different systems and expect it to make sense. (The US in particular
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by md_ 5y ago
"Debt" isn't about monetary policy, though. It's about the anthropology of money, trade, and debt. It seems to me that those aren't subjects exclusively, or even necessarily optimally, addressed by economists, who,
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by md_ 5y ago
I think your criticism of Graeber is somewhat fair. And it's a fair point that incorrect popular/lay theories don't mean experts don't know how things actually work. That said, I do think Graeber is right to emphasize th
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by md_ 5y ago
Yeah, but it’s not the norm. Don’t get me wrong. Windows did a lot of work on driver stability. But I think cletus is too narrowly focused, and misunderstanding the context around Android and Fuschia. Fuschia has been described as a replace
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by md_ 5y ago
Huh? Are you saying that in Windows, drivers don’t run in kernel space?
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by md_ 5y ago
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/19/one-day-googles-fuchsia-os... says, as of 2018, “about 100” people work on Fuschia. I find your “much higher than 1000” estimate a bit surprising.
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by md_ 5y ago
Huh? It’s widely said that microkernels trade performance for security. You seemed earlier to be saying that running core functionality in userspace implies a degradation in security. Typo?
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by md_ 5y ago
I'm far from an expert, but my understanding was that Weimar Germany did cause hyperinflation by printing Deutschmarks. But there's a really interesting point here: They printed Marks to buy foreign currency with which to pay of

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