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by osteele 9y ago
A company gets to decide what business it's in (Facebook and Google have each explored several), what its ethics are, and how these ethics apply. For example, Google is in a substantially similar business, but it is interesting to cont
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The post repeats the myth “There is no promise that a company can make to its users that outweighs the fiduciary duty that obligates them to maximize profits by any means. The only defense of this is legislation and consumer choice.” As a c
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by osteele 9y ago
It looks[1] like you can use Cert Manager with CloudFront[2], but not directly with S3. CloudFront is very cheap[3], but it is not free. (For that matter, S3 itself is cheap but not free.) It's therefore a solution to “I'm employe
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by osteele 9y ago
The “threat model” approach from security is useful here too. (Or Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery, if you're familiar with that domain, or want to learn it.) What are the threats to your content availability — hosting prov
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by osteele 9y ago
Markdown is thirteen years old. This is older than HTML5, which introduced '<article>', '<section>', '<header>', '<footer>', '<figure>', and '<aside>
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by osteele 9y ago
I don't believe you can use HTTPS with a custom domain (a domain that doesn't end in github.io or amazonaws.com), with GitHub pages or S3. Two free choices I'm aware of, for hosting at a URL that both future-proofs your choic
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by osteele 9y ago
> Electric cars suck in the winter It depends. When I had a 160 mi round trip commute without a charger at work, that kind of sucked in the winter, when the range dropped to around 140 mi, although not so much that I ever wanted to take
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by osteele 9y ago
Stellar is more bank-friendly: it can handle fiat currencies and fiat exchanges, and it supports regulatory compliance (KYC and AML). Also — Lightning reduces fees and transaction times, but these costs still matter. The time and cost to
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by osteele 9y ago
Here's my understanding of how this works in a Poon-Dryja payment channel[1]. I haven't reviewed the Stellar proposal to see if it's substantially different. Let's assume an Alice-Bob channel funded with 1 BTC, and look
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Can handle fiat currencies; supports regulatory compliance (KYC, AML). Compared to Bitcoin: lower transaction fees, faster, lower energy costs. (Stellar without Lightning is magnitudes faster and cheaper than Bitcoin without Lightning. Stel
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by osteele 9y ago
> If you compare Finda to something like voidtool's Everything it's night and day. On my Mac, Finda appears to launch and run instantly. The voidtool's site doesn't specify which platform it's for, but it appears
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by osteele 9y ago
Many references itemize what properties one gives up with each successive application of the Cayley-Dickson construction: Complex numbers - lose self-conjugate identity, but satisfies the fundamental theorem of algebra (and can represent 2D
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example.amazon.co.uk and amazon.co.uk are not matching domains as defined in the RFC[1] (they are not congruent). The includeSubDomains directive[2] allows the HSTS policy set for amazon.co.uk to apply to its subdomain example.amazon.co.uk
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by osteele 9y ago
Documenting something you've just figured out, for other's benefit if not your own, is a pay-it-forward (or golden rule, or reciprocal altruism) approach: behave such that if other people behaved likewise, you would benefit.
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by osteele 9y ago
> what's up with the downvotes? Maybe because you provided a link without summarizing it? (Just guessing — I thought your comment was sufficient, and I upvoted it. Also — I know it's policy not to discuss votes, but I'm al
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by osteele 9y ago
> Iota is horrendous(they rolled their own crypto and its bad) Yeah, I probably didn't emphasize this enough. In addition to last year's curl fiasco[1], and this year's email dump[2], there's now this unlucky-13 explo
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> then there will be more demands to make the blocks bigger again, eventually leading to centralization Because having a bigger block size raises the barrier to being a miner. (CapEx and OpEx are both greater.) Imagine the other extreme:
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I believe this[1] is the article in which the author, Matt Levine, introduced the phrase “blood unicorn”. That article continues with a quote about Theranos's “bait and switch”; the author concludes the section with “‘There will be an
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by osteele 9y ago
As a series 0 owner, I'll be fine if Apple drops support from new watchOS releases, new apps don't support it, and existing apps never get another release that runs on it. In fact, I'll probably be fine if third-party apps st
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I’ve submitted bug reports about proprietary products because I want them to get better. How is this different? Or is that exploitative too?
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by osteele 9y ago
Good idea; a nit on terminology: NFAs and DFAs have equivalent expressive power[1]. For this application, you probably want a determinized DFA (one without epsilon transitions); that's constant time on the input string. (It's stil
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by osteele 9y ago
That’s an excellent point about consumer versus utility behaviors. The Tesla/SolarCity model, of basically renting out solar panel installation in exchange for a cut of the future energy value, is an interesting approach to incentivizi
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I’ve started to use Jupyter notebooks, with devop recipes as different sections, for this. You can keep the notebook in the repo if you do two (or three) things: 1. The scripts read passwords from a key store instead of the notebook source.
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With the 79% decrease, Li-Ion batteries are now cheaper per cycle than lead acid. They still have greater installation cost, but lower lifetime cost. This means any further reductions in Li-Ion cost make battery storage more competitive com
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> What makes the software market so fascinating from an economic perspective is that the marginal cost of software is $0. I see this claim a lot. The marginal cost of software is actually its support cost﹡. If some customers bought the p
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by osteele 9y ago
I read the GP, and some other comments, as equivalent to: * Keybase's plans will create an unofficial security bounty that is paid (1) out of users' wallets (2) to actors who haven't agreed to responsible disclosure practices
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I assume that the incentive already includes “the sorts of files people typically bother encrypting include wallets and private keys”, whether or not the file encryption service itself integrates cryptocurrency directly.
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The Wikipedia cryptocurrency list and the pages that it links to are not bad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptocurrencies
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Yesterday I ran across Nick Young’s visualization of 25 cryptocurrencies by creation date and use case https://imgur.com/YGwn9n9 Source: https://github.com/nickwb/cryptographic
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My sense, from the press and from personal acquaintances, is that a lot of early investors, and at least some later investors, were impact investors[1]. DBL Investors is a notable example of an early Tesla impact investor. The successor, DB

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