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by random023987 9y ago
Government drone copies NSA malware onto a system with Kaspersky security software installed for the purpose of detecting malware. Brilliant
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by random023987 9y ago
> You wouldn't depend on technical know-how, you'd roll it into a card or something like that. Chip & pin cards already do all of this. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/how-a-crimin
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by random023987 9y ago
> Because private keys are a far greater tool of proving identity than a SSN, I would argue one should have much greater culpability in an "unauthorized" action. If you have the technical know-how to protect your private key, a
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by random023987 9y ago
Nice article, but the arrows are wrong on the push-pull diagram under gossip protocols.
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by random023987 9y ago
> Run JavaScript Service Workers at the Edge > We are exploring adding data storage at the edge. > I don’t see us going into hosting. You must have your eyes closed then, because that's clearly pushing the camel nose into the
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by random023987 9y ago
> The thing to look at isn't the after-the-fact windfall profits of successfully getting through community review, but the forward-looking expected profits of trying to get through community review. I'll concede that lower prof
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by random023987 9y ago
> we'll hit an equilibrium of fewer units at a higher price, with both less developer profits and less consumer surplus. No we won't, because the limit of zoning and land doesn't allow us to get anywhere near that equilib
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by random023987 9y ago
> It's truly Orwellian that regulations that make housing less affordable get called "affordable housing". To be fair, developers sell units at what the market will bear, rather than on a "cost-plus" basis. Raisi
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by random023987 9y ago
> The summer of 2015 BTC was around $200, it's now over $3,000- so up 15X in a bit over 2 years. This is failure? As a modern eTulip bubble, it's a "success" for anyone who has made money speculating. As a replacement
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by random023987 9y ago
Retirement savings is tax advantaged, however most people consider that a feature of the tax code, rather than a loophole. The traditional to Roth conversion will be of benefit only to those whose post-retirement income puts them in a highe
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by random023987 9y ago
Tax shelters are not made for people like you. The middle class is best served by collective bargaining to increase their wages and benefits, strong consumer protections, and access to affordable health care. Up to about your first 5-10 mil
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by random023987 9y ago
> You're scared because an average app hasn't considered a problem that's 21 years off? Seems like a premature worry 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'. --George Santayana
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by random023987 9y ago
As a happy customer, I came for the custom sieve script many many years ago, and I've stayed for many other reasons. Thank you.
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by random023987 9y ago
I think underlying many of these discussions is a fundamental question: "If not all cultures and values are equally successful in modern society, should we (as a society) encourage people to adopt a more successful values, or should we
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by random023987 9y ago
Just so I understand, this is a closed-source, cloud-hosted subset of the features of the closure compiler? https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/ (Edit: never mind, it looks like the closure compiler can
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by random023987 9y ago
> I worry that the us is going to have some kind of Pearl Harbor type event that our military is not going to be capable of defending against. That's going to be when $4 billion aircraft carriers are sunk by $250,000 sea-skimmer ant
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by random023987 9y ago
AWS lambda charges by the 1/10th of a GB/CPU/second. I'd bet they could have seen significant cost savings on AWS by migrating to lambda, and gotten continuous scaling to boot.
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by random023987 9y ago
Does anyone expect their information not to be monetized from any "free" application? (with the possible exception of an open-source application built and distributed by an open-source advocate, e.g. Firefox, K-9 mail, sipdroid, D
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by random023987 9y ago
> How much respect do you think the hard left has for the "American Dream"? I don't know what the "hard left" is, but I know that teachers, labor unions, and local political leaders are all about jobs and wages.
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by random023987 9y ago
> Antifa may not have the same explicit political program as the "mainstream" left but when street fighting happens, they defend the left, not the right. You mean they attack the right. It's right there in the name, An
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by random023987 9y ago
> The left is very much [...] anti-Israel. That's funny, someone should tell that to המחנה הציוני
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by random023987 9y ago
> They don't rant against immigrants, they rant against the bourgeois. In America, the "bourgeois" is usually called "The American Dream". Most Americans idealize the middle class income and middle-class lifestyl
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by random023987 9y ago
> anarchocommunists are emphatically leftists Perhaps I should have been more specific, and clarify that the antifa values, goals, and belief systems (thank you for the term) anarchocommunisism is completely incompatible with the democra
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by random023987 9y ago
> Maybe Berkeley? The Portland riots? That was frightening behavior. You mean Antifa? Those aren't leftists, those are anarchists. They believe that government is incapable of protecting against fascism, and are instead committing v
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by random023987 9y ago
> The red flag, pictures of Mao, Stalin Where do you live that you see people marching in the street waving flags of communist dictatorships and ranting against immigrants and... whatever the leftist version of anti-Semitism is... maybe.
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by random023987 9y ago
> Will they clean those up as people stop watching? Or did they 'do somethinrg' so now they're good? If companies were honest in their EULA (or employment agreements), they would simply say that you will be removed if you
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by random023987 9y ago
> I'm sure MS runs Analytics for these and would've killed it off if "no one" wants it. Microsoft users do not want it. Microsoft customers want it. In case it's not obvious, when Windows was given away for fre
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by random023987 9y ago
And how many of those searches are initiated by MS spyware that watches what you type in the start menu? (If you have a Windows computer with default privacy settings, press the Start key; type a few letters. You just "searched" B
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by random023987 9y ago
Isn't AMD leaving a lot of potential revenue on the table without a comparable amdgpu-docker? If I'm building an ML cluster, I'm going to go with the vendor that's easiest to containerize and deploy, and right now it loo
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by random023987 9y ago
> It's simple maths. In the worst year for suicides, Foxconn had 14 deaths out of 930,000 workers. Divide one by the other and you get a remarkably low suicide rate by any standard. You need to take it one step further; you should c

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