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The code I’m still ashamed of(medium.freecodecamp.com)
7 points by michael_fine 10y ago|1 comments
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by michael_fine 10y ago
It seems few of those apply to Snowden -- he wouldn't need a public defender, he probably wants a trial rather than a plea bargain, I'm not sure if there's a systemic problem with outrageous bail but Snowden is a textbook cas
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by michael_fine 10y ago
Depending on the relative elasticity of supply v demand, yeah.
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by michael_fine 10y ago
But if a significant group of employees do it, that's called... a strike, which is absolutely a reasonable thing for an employer to acquiesce to.
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by michael_fine 10y ago
So you liked odd numerators? Or unreducible fractions?
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by michael_fine 10y ago
> There's nothing inherently wrong with the media paying for information. I'm tempted to agree, but almost every reputable media outlet does in fact claim that there's sometimes wrong with paying for stories, most in their
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by michael_fine 10y ago
Yeah, implied subject is a thing, implied predicate less so in common parlance.
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by michael_fine 10y ago
It certainly didn't mean that this time.
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by michael_fine 10y ago
That's entirely unprovable, given that we have no idea how many backdoors the NSA has, nor for the matter, are we even sure how many have been leaked.
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by michael_fine 10y ago
Typically (in the US) it's been the executive branch that has tried to subvert privacy (see COINTELPRO), and the judicial which has (sometimes) upheld it. However, because crypto would actively impede the ability of the judicial branch
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by michael_fine 10y ago
To be fair, the NSA did have a very high profile incided where they were considering legally mandating a physical backdoor, called the Clipper Chip, until it was proven that the chip had a gaping vulnerability. https://en.wikiped
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by michael_fine 10y ago
Which many members of conspiracies would be more than willing to do, hindering the investigation of organized crime, and (genuine) terrorist cells.
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by michael_fine 10y ago
Because most political jobs pay abysmally, have little job security, and require painful working hours. As such, there aren't many reasons to go into politics beyond wanting to make a change.
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How do we build encryption backdoors?(blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
82 points by michael_fine 10y ago|17 comments
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by michael_fine 10y ago
They're not claiming to verify them against a govt database which doesn't exist, there just claiming to be the smartphone equivalent of the id scanners that liquor stores have.
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by michael_fine 10y ago
Most quality fake IDs are designed to pass scanning checks like these -- it's only really a barrier to very low quality ones. Source: I went to high school
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by michael_fine 10y ago
Hmm, have those predictions of life changing uses been borne out in places like South Korea, with actual superfast internet? (Not sarcasm, genuinely wondering)
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by michael_fine 10y ago
Honest question -- I always see people argue the need for ultra-fast internet, but I'm not sure what the economic benefit of increasing speeds beyond their current rate of improvement, which in most parts of the country seems reasonabl
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Why Many Smart Contract Use Cases Are Simply Impossible(coindesk.com)
3 points by michael_fine 10y ago|0 comments
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by michael_fine 11y ago
I'm sure mathematicians would say the same thing about programmers and their verbosity.
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by michael_fine 11y ago
Not to pollute the thread, but I'm also really interested in this, I've worked at both the Clinton campaign and NGP VAN and it seems like a very worthwhile pursuit. If you're adding people, my email is in my profile.
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by michael_fine 11y ago
Genuine question -- how how is it been a revelation? It seems to be very similar to HipChat, which was just an iteration on previous chat systems.
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by michael_fine 11y ago
Well, pure self-interest would probably fall outside of morality, but one could make an argument that many conscriped ISIS fighters, US soldiers, and perhaps US leaders are acting out of self-interest.
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by michael_fine 11y ago
What would be the benefit of this over using something like dokku ( https://github.com/progrium/dokku ) with Digital Ocean?
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Ask HN: Fun DIY projects to do with a month free?
4 points by michael_fine 11y ago|4 comments
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by michael_fine 11y ago
The bigger issue to my mind is that Congress has, and routinely skirts the issue by implementing through regulatory agency rule-making that has the effective force of law but without requiring such a law to be actually made Why is this a
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by michael_fine 11y ago
It's Postman[1], a Chrome app for making HTTP requests/testing API's that has a ridiculously full featured free version. 1: https://www.getpostman.com/
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by michael_fine 11y ago
I was more addressing the implication that because it's racist, we shouldn't do it. And as to generalizing about entire continents, if your goal is to avoid getting mugged on a late night, and you know that on average black people
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by michael_fine 11y ago
But there are plenty of things that we only know anecdotally -- that one restaurant has bad service, or that line cooks smoke more than usual -- that no one gets up in arms about when we generalize in those cases. Formal studies are great w
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by michael_fine 11y ago
Even if it makes sense for a single company not to hire an old developer, we are losing so much values as an industry if we invest all this money into teaching valuable lessons to devs, then throwing them away and letting newer kids make th

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