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by pcl 11y ago
From the abstract: Cryptography rearranges power: it configures who can do what, from what. I'd argue that the reverse is really the issue that needs more attention. Online systems that do not provide strong cryptography rearrange po
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by pcl 11y ago
about 80% more Correction: at least 5x more. Also: obviously I don't know the full context about this particular deal, but it always seems a little sleazy to me when still-involved founders sell in a secondary without making that dea
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by pcl 11y ago
They are also followed medically more closely than just about anyone on Earth: they don’t indulge in regular fast food I wonder what they mean by that. Are astronauts explicitly banned from eating fast food, and somehow monitored? Or are
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by pcl 11y ago
I would not be surprised if that is truly the most effective behavior change for a group of people to execute on. I'm sure that individuals among us may be in a position to help our planet in a more effective manner, but the old saying
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by pcl 11y ago
FWIW, I've got a pair of Patagonia ski pants that are about 12 years old, and they were a replacement for another pair that was maybe 15 years old by the time the ankles, knees and inseam were thoroughly trashed beyond further repair.
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by pcl 11y ago
Yeah... how's that for burying the lede? I almost didn't get that far through the post.
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by pcl 11y ago
For scale reference: towards the end of the first video [1], they show the drone landing on a pad next to a fence, and a few seconds later, a woman picks up the box and pad. I'd say it's about 6 feet on a side, and maybe 4 feet ta
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by pcl 11y ago
The "gravity well" of the hole is the same whether it's surrounded by vacuum or matter. The only difference is what can possibly fall in. That's exactly it -- if the gravity well is a vacuum, then by definition there i
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by pcl 11y ago
I had the same thought. If the black hole were formed lived long enough to fall to the floor of whatever lab it was created in, it'd presumably basically bore its way to the center of the Earth, aggregating matter (and thus mass) as it
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by pcl 11y ago
Last time I flew domestically in NZ (Wellington to Blenheim, 6 or 7 years ago), there weren't any security checkpoints at all for the domestic terminal. The only checkpoint was at the gate, when the flight staff checked that I had a bo
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by pcl 11y ago
In most states, you can get a state ID that's not valid for driving, but is useful for corroborating your identity and age (and presumably residence, for those states that comply with this new Real ID stuff).
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by pcl 11y ago
Yeah, that's always a bit of a weird one to me too, but I'm sufficiently used to it in a British English context at this point, I guess. I don't think I could pull it off in the US without some stares.
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Teardown and exploration of Apple's Magsafe connector(righto.com)
2 points by pcl 11y ago|0 comments
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by pcl 11y ago
A few of these companies are clearing the $1B valuation with surprisingly favorable disclosed valuations. For example, China Rapid Funding: $56M funding in three rounds for a $1B valuation Fanli: $20M funding in 3 rounds for a $1B valuation
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by pcl 11y ago
My favorite lines: The soldiers continue to battle Godzilla and the drivers motor across the bridge to safety, all oblivious to the physics errors that spared their lives. and the parenthetical: (I must note that the bridge featured in t
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by pcl 11y ago
In this context, FAA is a 2008 amendment to the FISA legislation, not the Federal Aviation Administration.
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by pcl 11y ago
protein (pulses) That's a new term for me -- Wikipedia says it's another name for the English definition of legume : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_(legume)
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by pcl 11y ago
I'm surprised that China eats more meat per capita (17%) than most of the rest of the world. Hong Kong is at the top (29%), followed by Argentina (19%), Vietnam (18%), and then China and Australia, both at 17%. China's lead even h
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Apache Commons: widespread Java object de-serialisation vulnerability(blogs.apache.org)
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In Memoriam: Gene Amdahl (1922-2015)(cacm.acm.org)
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by pcl 11y ago
No idea. But I assume that if a contract has an opt-out clause, then it should be possible to do so without voiding the rest of the contract.
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by pcl 11y ago
That's a great article! I suspect that I'd be able to write better docs and give better talks if I take it to heart.
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by pcl 11y ago
Upon defection of a click-through license (probably doable, given the formal language of legal contracts), examine the text for arbitration clause with opt-out text, and pop up a little dialog or sidebar that says "click here to opt ou
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by pcl 11y ago
When this was discussed a few years ago, I believe the conclusion was that yes, the battery would gain weight as it depleted in energy.
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by pcl 11y ago
No, but we don't walk around through a sea of graphite. I would expect that a properly filtered air intake would be likely, since a chunk of lithium (a solid at room temperatures, and this quite dense) would need vast volumes of air to
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by pcl 11y ago
Seems feasible to do as a Chrome plugin.
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by pcl 11y ago
The article mentions this towards the end, but dismisses their utility. I wonder when the opt-out period begins -- on acceptance of the contract, presumably. While many companies also include an opt-out provision on arbitration — typically
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by pcl 11y ago
Well, there's nothing keeping a well-defined tor scheme from including the protocol information in it, is there? For example, I could imagine specifying a tor URI in my git config: onion:ssh:pcl@aoeusnth or onion:http:aoeusnth
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by pcl 11y ago
I've always thought that these addresses should have a different scheme, not a different TLD. For example, onion://aoeusnth instead of http://aoeusnth.onion Is there any reason in particular why the TLD appro
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by pcl 11y ago
For those of us who are new to Ethereum: Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference. http

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