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by mseebach 9y ago
The economic pressure to fix this, if it happens, will come from the enterprise side: Some large, cyber-security-conscious (that should be all of them, but alas) customer moving towards a policy that bans unauditable MEs with DMA.
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by mseebach 9y ago
I don't think you're anywhere near more likely to be killed in a house fire today. Fires are much less common, owing to much fewer naked flames (for heat and light) and much less fuel lying around to sustain them. And even when th
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by mseebach 9y ago
That's basically my rationale for trusting Google with my data: They have both the means (lots of well paid smart people) and the interest (a substantial leak/misuse of my data could well be a fatal event for Google) to take care
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by mseebach 9y ago
I suspect very few individual Google employees have the unsupervised access required to pull off something like this.
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by mseebach 9y ago
The top-GP didn't say "adventurous", they said chasing "adrenaline fix". You can be adventurous without exposing yourself to fatal danger (and you can be an adrenaline fix chaser and be a really, really dull person
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by mseebach 9y ago
IANAL, but I think they would possibly be in breach of their own privacy policy: > How we use information we collect > We use the information we collect from all of our services to provide, maintain, protect and improve them, to devel
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by mseebach 9y ago
I have actually, but I understand that it's rare. Please note that I do encourage doing "research" - it doesn't have to go all the way to an offer, but what I mean is to build confidence that you can indeed get one at th
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by mseebach 9y ago
> What else would they be motivated by? The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc Based on studies done at MIT and other universities, higher pay and bonuses resulted in b
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by mseebach 9y ago
Not bad advice, but be careful to calibrate "like" correctly, which can be difficult. In the land of the blind, a one-eyed man is king. It's easy to get comfortable in a group of nice people that just aren't very good de
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by mseebach 9y ago
> significant amount of selection bias possible here There's another one: I once heard the phenomenon described as "the difference between having ten years of experience versus having one year of experience ten times". The
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by mseebach 9y ago
There's something to be said for communication style. You can do essentially what top-GP suggests, but without the high-conflict ultimatum -- basically, communicate your worry about your salary in a series of low-drama conversations, i
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by mseebach 9y ago
I just love this meme that 26 year olds making 3-4x median salary, getting pestered daily by recruiters offering five-figure signing bonuses, are somehow being taken advantage of.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Is there any evidence that the Ross Anderson attack has happened in the wild? Someone using a stolen card and the bank just washing their hands of it because PIN?
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by mseebach 9y ago
It's email that gets to reinvent ~30 years of formal and informal specs and interoperability hacks because it controls all clients, and all servers in between. And yes, there's a lot wrong with email, it's just that it's
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by mseebach 9y ago
Seeing how China is throwing their weight around and very much testing the limits of international law in the region, it seems rather more prescient than idiotic of Britain to insist on a formal solution, rather than just letting the lease
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by mseebach 9y ago
(+ run the passport through a gamut of watch lists and risk profiles) The border agent, when handed an EU passport, does exactly the same (match the photo to the face) and nothing much more. What exactly is the problem with automating that?
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by mseebach 9y ago
> Though I do find it interesting that people on Hacker news, Slashdot, and reddit will generally follow the convention of responding inline Actually, they don't. Most posts don't quote their parent at all, it's a unitar
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by mseebach 9y ago
No? I think that pensions getting a haircut (to save the larger economy) is significantly less doom-y than the economy at large crashing due to e.g. a default.
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by mseebach 9y ago
If you do it quite as cynically as that, yeah, that's sounds a bit dodgy - but the more common pattern, I think, and frankly more problematic for Germany, is the one where you go to Silicon Valley for a few years and try your luck, and
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by mseebach 9y ago
> What other "doom" would there be? That what little you might have saved/your house is worthless because of inflation and/or punitive taxes. That the economy crashes so you can't take a job/stay on the labo
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by mseebach 9y ago
> With the strong social net, I feel people can do almost anything they want there, depending in some part on their social status and ambitions, but they will neither get extremely rich nor extremely poor I hear that in Denmark as well,
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by mseebach 9y ago
They're on to that one. All of the "interesting" liabilities are indexed to one (or more - in the UK three ) inflation measures.
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by mseebach 9y ago
It's difficult to say, but it's likely to be a factor that an official expressing a risk tolerance >0.00 would have a very short and unglamorous career ahead of him in the hostile climate surrounding anything nuclear, despite u
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by mseebach 9y ago
Partially, yes. The reactors currently under construction are third generation, as opposed to tested, proved and wildly successful second generation plants (plus tweaks and updates). There are of course many good (and even more really bad)
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by mseebach 9y ago
Because compared to the cost of climate change, really is was safe this time, even after Fukushima. And a substantial fraction of the cost is due to extreme, very likely unwarranted caution, motivated by an unreasonable level of, exactly,
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by mseebach 9y ago
More or less uncontroversially ;) Especially compared to the fate of nuclear in most other countries around Europe.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Despite those unique challenges, the French built 56 reactors in the 70s and 80s. GDP had quadrupled since then, while those unique challenges haven't gotten bigger -- but they have been amended with 40 years of rabid FUD. That is th
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by mseebach 9y ago
There's a chicken-and-egg situation here -- people are never going to get comfortable with nuclear while politicians are leading the FUD-charge.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Of course it's hard. But it's not like we've never done it before and that operating nuclear power plants is this weird theoretical endeavour. Or, put in another way: the hardness isn't why we're not doing it.
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by mseebach 9y ago
France, a rich, functional, liberal, western democracy, is more or less uncontroversially nuclear powered to a very high degree. There are no more practical difficulties than any other large, important project. The only problem is politics.

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