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by oconnore 10y ago
If their sense is that -- after configuring 1 week self destruct, the people they're talking to likely won't be keeping months and months of chat logs on their phone anymore -- it's a very true sense of security.
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by oconnore 10y ago
The failure mode is not DoS, it's accurately determining "death". Certain users will always respond to their emails, and the site operator will never realize they've been compromised.
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by oconnore 10y ago
You're both missing the point. Knowing the rules is not the same thing as consistently applying the rules across code you wrote or didn't write (or wrote late at night). The first is easy for a human, the second is hard for a huma
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by oconnore 10y ago
> In the case of Yahoo, I still hold the hypothesis that they underestimated the (Negative feedback on a breakdown in security) Yahoo's stock is up (+53% since February, with a small dip in late June). Where is the miscalculation? V
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by oconnore 10y ago
If you've built an organization on numbers based decision making, you can no longer consider anything priceless, because an infinity (especially if there are two competing infinities) will cripple your ability to decide. Companies run
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by oconnore 10y ago
Probably like git but with every commit signed by n+1 / 2n participants.
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by oconnore 10y ago
When the "guage" is selected, you could play a series of audio ticks faster or slower as the measure changes?
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by oconnore 10y ago
Really? There is a program to batch download Netflix?
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by oconnore 10y ago
This would be cool. Netflix could offer an automatic daily batched download at 2:00am to get around peak times.
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by oconnore 10y ago
But capabilities do solve real application security problems, and this capability system is proven correct. You can get the same thing on Linux [1], but there is no guarantee that it can't be circumvented or broken. [1]: http:/&#
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by oconnore 10y ago
But he's probably right (and he's certainly the most qualified to comment on this incident). I'm pretty sure if I had walked up and said, "Is everything all right? I'm a medical doctor in case you need a hand with a
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by oconnore 10y ago
Yes and it's essentially impossible ($$$) to live with a short commute to where you work, even with one of the better transport systems. Also, I think it's very unlikely that NYC would be where it is had they restricted buildings
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by oconnore 10y ago
At some point you likely also need eminent domain (with a fair-ish system for compensating people whom it affects). Somehow we are really good at eminent domain for building highways, but not skyscrapers or trains.
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by oconnore 10y ago
A city limited to buildings 5-7 stories tall can get moderately bigger than a city with buildings 1-2 stories tall, but the model will fall down if it becomes too popular. Ultimately, NIMBYism and these sorts of height restrictions are a re
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by oconnore 10y ago
This could be extremely useful: "Alexa, if you hear my wife and the neighbor having sex, file divorce paperwork, and get me on the next flight to Barbados."
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by oconnore 10y ago
Yeah, I agree that the incentive structure is inverted, but 1) if the government simply buys whatever rate Mylan sets, there can be no "market rate", because the market can then bear anything at all, and 2) we have had a successfu
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by oconnore 10y ago
If there are any other roadblocks keeping you from using Nix in your infrastructure: keep in mind you can overlay Nix on top of another distribution. This way you can get a more mature base system and still have all the benefits of Nix avai
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by oconnore 10y ago
So, in case anyone else hadn't noticed, we have reached peak libertarian techie madness.
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by oconnore 10y ago
Just wait until you can buy one of their self driving cars.
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by oconnore 10y ago
Requiring that a markup language (that must be sent across the wire between multiple buggy parser implementations) be hand editable is a recipe for disaster, and will never be as flexible as building/modifying an appropriate AST in a s
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by oconnore 10y ago
Oh. You have a strange way of phrasing your critiques, but you're right, it's all in IO/IORef.
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by oconnore 10y ago
Contiguous memory structs: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/m_defs... Contiguous memory vectors (multi-dimensional arrays, too!): http://www.lispworks.com/documentation&#x
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by oconnore 10y ago
You seem to be very confused. This is referring to #'eq (which is why #'eql exists). What lack of compound values are you lamenting? Lisp has built in classes, structs, arrays, lists, and maps. What is missing? > An implementat
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by oconnore 10y ago
There is always a shortage of people willing to cut the grass with scissors for $0.05 an hour. There is always a shortage of people (for any price) capable of running a large corporation successfully. The former you don't need, so you
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by oconnore 10y ago
I think that increasing R&D allocation increases labor demand, both within those projects, and from capital investments that are derived from them. I think that investors are yet to demonstrate that they are capable of valuing the sorts
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by oconnore 10y ago
I think you are mis-attributing our current trajectory. Most of the scientific developments that are now powering the US knowledge economy came out of government (ARPA, etc.) funded labs. Allocating R&D funds based strictly on "whe
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by oconnore 10y ago
News at 11: winging it is less work than being careful! (Of course, the situation gets fuzzier when you must account for other factors: work/dollars/lives lost due to bugs in dependencies, the integral of maintenance costs over ti
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by oconnore 10y ago
"Value of the employee's work" is determined by the market. So either you can get someone cheaper or you can't. Either you can run your billion dollar banking operation without them or you can't.
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by oconnore 10y ago
Based on your reply, I'm sure I don't need to explain how markets work?
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by oconnore 10y ago
> This is the true opportunity of technology: it extends human capability. There is way too much handwringing about the possibility of technology eliminating human jobs, and way too little imagining new jobs that could only be done with

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