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by mundo 10y ago
Isn't "reduces spread sizes" a fancy way of saying that when a big pension fund decides to move a billion dollars from Coke to Pepsi, they pay slightly more to do so than they would if HFT didn't exist? That's what
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by mundo 10y ago
Using force to collect money from citizens and then spending it on their behalf is what governments do . The word for a big organization that works for the common good and gets its money voluntarily is "charity."
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by mundo 10y ago
This seems to be the cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:iP072ha... edit: Also this should probably have a (2015) on the title, it seems to be an introduction to secure computing for a non-technical
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by mundo 10y ago
^^^ Open incognito if you don't want to see jwz's NSFW salutations to HN readers...
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by mundo 10y ago
I believe Keybase (the identity and key management tool) stores signatures on the BTC blockchain, but KBFS (the encrypted shared filesystem built on Keybase) does not, it is just S3 storage that they're offering as a freebie (10GB&#x2F
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by mundo 10y ago
> Ah but did you witness it? Of course not. The comment I was replying to was saying (paraphrased) that this is typical, every company has these kinds of accusations, and I'm disagreeing and saying no, this isn't typical, eith
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by mundo 10y ago
> I've seen this type of complain at every single company I worked for Er, have you? Fowler's post said she was sexually propositioned over Slack, by her manager , on her first day , and that HR did not do anything about i
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by mundo 10y ago
I think KBFS is a sort of an add-on to Keybase, which is really quite different from this. Keybase's whole schtick is identity and key management. How do share a file with a stranger without exchanging emails? What happens when you
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by mundo 10y ago
huh? Per that link, the gun fatality rate in the US is about 175x that of Japan (10.54/100k vs 0.06). Are you calculating deaths-per-gun or something goofy like that?
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by mundo 10y ago
I think we're basically agreeing here, it's just a matter of perspective whether "it has a variety of features that are genuinely useful to a certain niche of users" is proof that Win10 is good or that it's bad. I
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by mundo 10y ago
Thousands of programmer years went in to Win10, and the most positive comment on it is "It's perfectly tolerable if you turn off all that stuff they added." This should be in the dictionary to illustrate the phrase "Damn
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by mundo 10y ago
Giving money to a politician's pet charity for the opportunity to have lunch with (and presumably lobby) that politician is not bribery. It's not even dishonest. If it seems like it is, remember that giving money directly to the
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by mundo 10y ago
> It's hilarious that you think [ridiculous exaggeration of what OP said] If you're going to restate someone's argument, do it in a way that they would agree with.
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by mundo 10y ago
> As it would stand America already has lower teen drunkenness than Iceland even after Icelands 'amazing social program'. Whoops! That would be a real zinger if I had said it wasn't. Look, I'm not sure what you&#x27
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by mundo 10y ago
How is this relevant to the results of the program described in the article? Iceland was still an island thirty years ago, yes? Also it's not clear how this is related to either parent comment. Seems like it was just tacked on here t
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by mundo 10y ago
Aside from the fact that this is 100% speculation on 0 data and sounds to me to be both wrong[1] and more than a little bit biased, why would this complaint even matter if it were true? "It won't work as well in a shitty poor nei
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by mundo 10y ago
All of the pessimism ("This only worked because Iceland is so small/white/etc, it would never work in the US") in this thread baffles me. Are there a lot of other wildly successful approaches we should try first? Did y
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by mundo 10y ago
You can tell a company has this policy when every monitor has a sticky note on it with the numbers 1 to N on it, where 1 to N-1 are crossed out.
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by mundo 10y ago
Thanks for clarifying that, you're right, I just assumed the "editing" the article mentioned was referring to a site feature.
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by mundo 10y ago
Hang on. The CEO and two board members were arrested and charged with pimping three months ago , and they're just now taking down the ads? That is some dedication to free speech, I guess... (The rationale was that, since the site ha
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by mundo 10y ago
Those are not highfalutin technical terms, just casual everyday language. Stop waffling and tell me what this theory is that I'm a brainwashed sheep for not believing!
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by mundo 10y ago
> But why is this so bad? Because it does not follow the intent laid out by the White House and confuses readers to think that this report is about attribution and not the intended purpose of helping network defenders. Looking at the com
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by mundo 10y ago
I repeat: > "Why are US intelligence agencies saying they have proof that Russia hacked the DNC?" The base hypothesis is "Because they do." The alternate hypothesis is what you're supplying.
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by mundo 10y ago
You're suggesting that a foreign country supplied the FBI with forged evidence, and the FBI said, "Well, this doesn't match our own investigation, but I guess we'll just assume it's true anyway, now let's annou
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by mundo 10y ago
Please stop accusing people of being 100% confident. It's such a weak, insulting tactic. What is the alternate hypothesis that's "marginally less likely"? (Please remember what question we're trying to answer. It
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by mundo 10y ago
No. I believe the official version (that the reason the intelligence agencies are accusing Russia of hacking the DNC is because believe it did) because the alternative is less plausible and there's no evidence for it. That's pur
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by mundo 10y ago
I'm referring to parent of this whole thread, which (briefly) is a press release that says, "Here are some ways you can protect yourself from the kind of attack the Russians did on the DNC" and then goes on to describe spear-
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by mundo 10y ago
It's not that I don't think they would lie about anything, it's that I don't think they would lie about something this trivial and small. The NSA lied about the multi-year global surveillance program which serves their
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by mundo 10y ago
That was from a month and a half ago. It seems more likely that he's changed his mind or seen new information than that the DHS and FBI are putting out joint press releases that contradict the beliefs of the DNI, but who knows, maybe
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by mundo 10y ago
Think this through. Multiple people in the FBI, CIA, DHS, and NSA all decided this? Together? Did they have meetings? And no one is spilling the beans, even though there are maybe dozens or hundreds of people in on it? Not one of them

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