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by mirimir 7y ago
I've never understood the point of privacy without anonymity. Or of plausible deniability. Both depend on rather idealistic assumptions about adversaries. https://xkcd.com/538/
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by mirimir 7y ago
They're just in it for the fame. Or the lulz.
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by mirimir 7y ago
It makes them at least careless, and that borders on stupid.
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by mirimir 7y ago
I've never hidden the fact that I've worked for IVPN and Restore Privacy. But they pay me by the word, so I gain nothing by promoting them. I haven't actually used Orchid, because there's no Linux app. But I did buy some
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by mirimir 7y ago
If EARN IT passes, and if Signal wimps out, something tougher will replace it.
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by mirimir 7y ago
So don't be discoverable!
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by mirimir 7y ago
That'd be easy to fix, if Apple wanted to.
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by mirimir 7y ago
> The state of respect from law and corporations upon consumers is already the single most depressing thing and now earnit. After five decades of the bloody War on Drugs, I have zero respect for the rule of law.
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by mirimir 7y ago
> Here's the kink: When you have low latency (video) calls, you can't route via Tor. Sure, but you can use VPNs. Or Orchid, which is a multi-hop VPN that routes through multiple VPN providers. Or you can just use VoIP, which ca
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by mirimir 7y ago
> I think its better to just admit that freedoms / tech will always be misused by criminal actors, and that's just a price we agree to pay for privacy, security, and liberty. Yes! Also, one sure way to know that we have "p
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by mirimir 7y ago
> I don't think Signal could legally operate in the US with this act in place. I could do that, because nobody knows who I am. But then, I'm not technical enough. And I couldn't do that as Mirimir, because that persona has
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by mirimir 7y ago
OK, instead of "dump US market", why don't they (or someone) create a clone that can't be fscked with? Maybe hybridize with Briar, or whatever. Take everything off clearnet, and have everything anonymous. I was thinking
523.
by mirimir 7y ago
Well, at least they just did nothing, and then an innocent rickroll ;) I mean, they could have maxed browser RAM usage. Or worse.
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by mirimir 7y ago
That was somewhat my experience. It was always the case where travel and lodging were required. Say, for attending depositions. But I did buy my own machines, and pay for electricity to run them. And I didn't invoice for maintaining st
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by mirimir 7y ago
Sure, it's anecdotal. But what's so special about me, who was just another old hippie? Also, from what colleagues said and seemed to imply, it was the norm.
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by mirimir 7y ago
That's very interesting. > First, we observed three types of antibody responses in COVID-19 patients, strong, weak and non-response. Second, we found that the earlier response, higher antibody titer and higher proportion of strong r
527.
by mirimir 7y ago
Huh. Back around 2000, I had ~affordable health insurance through SBWA, while consulting. As I recall, it cost ~$400 per month.
528.
by mirimir 7y ago
I consulted for over a decade, and my clients always reimbursed for travel and lodging. And they picked up the bill, when we went out for dinner.
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by mirimir 7y ago
> We (as a civilization) need to take care of the people who aren't the ones making the new fortunes. OK, outsider here. But it's my impression that people "making the new fortunes" are a much smaller subset of the st
530.
by mirimir 7y ago
Right, record keeping. But when it's not your data, things get complicated. Imagine trying to understand how another firm's data systems work. You can talk with managers, who know how the business uses data. But they have no clue
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by mirimir 7y ago
The hardest part of what I did was getting enough documentation to understand the data. Sometimes we got fixed width text files, with no in formation about column definitions. Or column names. Or what values in descriptive columns meant. St
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by mirimir 7y ago
I did "data science" for about a decade, consulting with plaintiffs firms and state AGs on antitrust and fraud cases. For each case, the work flow was roughly this: -- write discovery requests -- review production, and check out d
533.
by mirimir 7y ago
I think that it was basically that Microsoft was very slow to adapt to the existence of the Internet.
534.
by mirimir 7y ago
Yes, I was. But I know so little physics that the distinction between dark matter and extra terms in gravitation is unclear.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Thanks. > ... and at distances longer than [100 microns], it really follows the ISL But at cosmic distances, there's also evidence that gravity doesn't follow ISL, right? Are there any implications of this work for hypothesized
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by mirimir 7y ago
Yeah, if I wasn't already overwhelmed by stuff to be depressed about, this would be just the thing to push me over the edge. But as it is, this ship sailed a couple decades ago.
537.
by mirimir 7y ago
There is no generally workable way to pay, in that it'd cost at least $1000/year for all the popular sites.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Someone usually links to an archive, so hey. And if they don't, you can just ask for one.
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by mirimir 7y ago
There are, and they're called henges.
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by mirimir 7y ago
This seems like the key result: > We find that any gravitational-strength Yukawa interaction must have λ < 38.6 μm. This implies that the dilaton or heavy graviton mass and the radion unification mass must be greater than 5.1 meV and

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