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by quesera 2y ago
You are exhibiting signs of California Derangement Syndrome. It's contagious, and although not fatal, can be super embarrassing in public. Get it checked out.
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by quesera 2y ago
Hm, that's an interesting idea. But why stop there? What about the foul line, key width, court size/half court line? I feel like the rim height is sacred, but what about backboard size/shape? Some of these dimensions are diff
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by quesera 2y ago
My path was cvs -> svn -> arch -> darcs -> hg -> git I liked arch. I loved darcs, but it blew up on me. I liked hg, but it was clear that git was going to win, so I capitulated. Honestly, the worst thing I can say about git i
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by quesera 2y ago
I miss darcs very much. Easily my favorite VCS ever. I did not love building the binary from Haskell sources. The ghc compiler was awkward and slow at the time. I did not love the exponential time explosion for complicated (in practice, jus
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by quesera 2y ago
Medium-sized US exchanges were being converted to ESS in the 1980s. I remember the day my busy signal changed from a buzz (350+440 Hz) to a tone (480+620 Hz).
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by quesera 2y ago
I'm not sure who "us" is here, but I would suspect that the US could occupy Canada, Greenland, or Mexico with only small regional skirmishes. No nukes (detonated) at all. I hope I'm very wrong -- or that if I'm righ
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by quesera 2y ago
I think any smart strategist would have to consider that value, yes. Also Arctic mineral rights / maritime boundaries. The current administration definitely has some smart strategists inside it. This is not new or unique of course, but
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by quesera 2y ago
"It's not happening" "OK maybe it's happening, but it's not a big deal" "OK maybe it's a big deal, but we didn't do it" "OK maybe we did some of it, but we can't fix it alone&
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by quesera 2y ago
That's shocking. And really too bad, because I could have imagined myself living in Colorado. From a distance, I appreciate what I know about their government. But compulsory fingerprinting is too authoritarian for my tastes. I can sti
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by quesera 2y ago
DnD works between tabs too, FWIW. At least on macOS and Gnome and KDE file browsers. But I agree, I like to see both source and destination if I'm GUIing it.
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by quesera 2y ago
Oh, I don't trust any of the actors. But I trust the encryption math. If the argument is that the encryption is compromised by weak factors or key escrow etc, then that is a really interesting conversation, on which I'd like to
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by quesera 2y ago
OK. I also promise not to tell you anything about Demodex folliculorum. :)
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by quesera 2y ago
I hear you. But the world is full of such statistically-nearly-impossible things. Don't swim in warm fresh water. Don't breathe in a dry building that might have mice. And if you really want to worry about million-times more likel
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by quesera 2y ago
> In 2017, there were 19 confirmed cases, but case totals in each of the years since have remained below 10. There are 1.4 million people who live in Hawaii and several hundred thousand who visit every month. So statistically, you&#x27
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by quesera 2y ago
FWIW, the US govt does not have a back door into the encrypted data held by US companies. A US company is not obligated to create a way to decrypt customer data to respond to a court order. So this is different, and worse. Not everything
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by quesera 2y ago
Yes, "get paid early" is a feature that US fintechs and banks offer, and have for years. So in the context of this subthread, it's all about ACH. The feature is based on the predictable pattern of payroll direct deposits, and
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by quesera 2y ago
This thread is "completely unrelated to this blog post" and your previous comment was responding to comments about the US ACH network.
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by quesera 2y ago
There's an ocean of historical data to predict reversal or settlement failure of ACH transactions. I would guess that payroll credits are the second most-reliable category in the ocean of ACH transactions, right after US Treasury payme
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by quesera 2y ago
Payment card networks have delegated authorization plans, where if a major processor goes down, they will still route transactions and use a simplified secondary network for making approval decisions. It's called "stand-in process
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by quesera 2y ago
Right, some banks will not post a deposit to your account until after a holding period. I deal with a lot of ACH payments, and despite a very strict schedule in the network, the retail customer-facing side is surprisingly unpredictable. So
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by quesera 2y ago
Tenuous. The UK did not need US approval to make all of its existing privacy-violating laws. Nor did Australia, or parts of the EU. Don't get me wrong. The only thing holding the US government back from growing all the more monstrous i
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by quesera 2y ago
Sorry, I should have been more explicit. Of course all US companies comply with US court orders. The controversial new revelation re: PRISM, via Snowden, was that NSA was also snarfing everything they could including unencrypted comms over
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by quesera 2y ago
But it is everything we know. The expectation was that FBI would lose in court. But that was not guaranteed, certainly. FBI had multiple reasons to abandon the effort, but one was that if legal precedent was established at that time, for th
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by quesera 2y ago
Apple is not in scope for CALEA requirements. But point taken.
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by quesera 2y ago
Yes, in this case: successfully used this argument to delay until the FBI gave up. If it had gone to court, the argument was considered strong, but of course no one knows until a verdict is reached and appeals are exhausted.
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by quesera 2y ago
Are you suggesting that the UK government isn't snoopy or creative enough to initiate this idea on their own??
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by quesera 2y ago
> very likely they also have a backdoor in Apple phone with a gag order, given Apple was part of PRISM People keep repeating this as if PRISM was a voluntary, or even secretly cooperative, program. PRISM was no such thing. PRISM was th
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by quesera 2y ago
Compelled speech, and compelled work, are both disallowed by the US constitution. Apple successfully used this argument several years ago when the FBI tried to demand that they break a phone for an investigation. If there is more recent new
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by quesera 2y ago
Everything has a story attached to it. And different people have different stories attached to the same things. Intentionally composing that story and getting it into the heads of other people, for whatever purpose, is storytelling. Marketi
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by quesera 2y ago
I don't know -- I remember that time and while I was not in the room, the rumors were flying for months in advance. I have to assume that most of the people who were in the room knew the rumors also, and were just waiting to see if t

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