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541.
by rlt 5y ago
> Deng Xiaopeng set the country up for orderly succession, and it did work up through Xi Jinping. Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin both cycled through office without any of the things we associate with authoritarian rulers. There was no executi
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by rlt 5y ago
Millennials and especially Gen Z are thought to have higher rates of depression and anxiety than previous generations. I would be very surprised if social media weren’t a factor. Despite making a career in tech I believe some of what we’re
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by rlt 5y ago
Life expectancy isn’t the only metric we should care about. Life satisfaction is arguably more important. …as I sit here on my phone at 1 am, responding to comments on HN for no particular reason other than worthless internet points, I gues
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by rlt 5y ago
I don’t believe it’s possible to put every transaction on chain (or at least the main chain) while retaining the level of decentralization that makes cryptocurrencies interesting in the first place. Most people believe a layered approach is
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by rlt 5y ago
“Bitcoin is worth exactly 0” seems just as religious of a statement as “cryptocurrencies are the future of money”
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by rlt 5y ago
Modern “Bitcoin Maximalism” has similarities to religion, but I think it’s possible to independently arrive at the conclusions that there needs to be a single dominant cryptocurrency, and for various reasons Bitcoin has the best chance of b
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by rlt 5y ago
“we are also convening a national call with critical infrastructure stakeholders on Monday afternoon” Shouldn’t this be happening, like, yesterday?
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by rlt 5y ago
Grab bag of questions: Does an attacker only need to control the guard and exit nodes, or the middle relay node(s) as well? If the latter, can you configure Tor to use more than one middle relay node, depending on your threat model? Could T
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by rlt 5y ago
Give it a decade or two and we’ll have satellites beaming connectivity via lasers to the middle of territory controlled by authoritarian regimes. We’ll probably also have aircraft or satellites run by some of those regimes looking for trans
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by rlt 5y ago
> how NJ got into this predicament? Possibly due to attitudes like describing an average citizen beating a career politician as “a predicament”
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by rlt 5y ago
Larger IP address space. E2EE for all major protocols from the start (DNS, HTTP, SMTP, etc) Protocols for controlling unwanted email and analytics (a not disastrous version of EU’s cookie consent)
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by rlt 5y ago
Mostly agree except instead of “prohibiting” certain things the systems we build should disincentivize them. e.x. No need to prohibit NAT if there are more than enough IPs to go around.
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by rlt 5y ago
(This is not advice to seek out these things) In reality most people aren’t going to (or rather, shouldn’t try to) seek out drug dealers and prostitutes on the street. For the former it’s more likely someone will “know a guy who knows a g
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by rlt 5y ago
I mean it may not be explicitly required by law but if you can't identify which customers broke other laws then aren't you opening yourself up to liability?
555.
by rlt 5y ago
How does the performance of this (really the CM4) compare to say, a consumer NAS from Synology or QNAP?
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by rlt 5y ago
Tailscale tries a few things, from direct connection, to NAT traversal techniques, and as a last resort, relay servers run by Tailscale that both nodes can connect out to. The “magic” is just that it’s all automatic works pretty much no mat
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by rlt 5y ago
Maybe I’m paranoid, but I wouldn’t want to expose my NAS directly to the internet. At most via a VPN.
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by rlt 5y ago
Maybe a DMCA safeharbor thing?
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by rlt 5y ago
You might have gotten lucky with the static IP / subnet assigned to your machine. I set up a VPN on a Digital Ocean instance and got captchas all the time on various websites, especially ones using CloudFlare etc (I’m aware of Privacy
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by rlt 5y ago
FWIW I think all ISPs that employ CGNAT are required by law to retain “NAT binding records” that are essentially this.
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by rlt 5y ago
The point is someone will always store a complete history of the Bitcoin blockchain, even if most users/miners prune it.
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by rlt 5y ago
"No technical barrier" means nothing with respect to Bitcoin. You have to convince a large majority of Bitcoin users / miners / exchanges / services to switch to your new genesis block or other protocol modification
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by rlt 5y ago
Is there any standard for this, and a website (or websites) that publishes the data on the web? There are obvious problems with blindly republishing arbitrary data from a public blockchain, of course. Depending on how long you're willi
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by rlt 5y ago
The not-insignificant portion of the population that either doesn’t care about or sympathizes with such an employee’s politics? Maybe not in SFBA though.
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by rlt 5y ago
Next level conspiracy theory: Apple employs, knowingly or unknowingly, CIA/NSA agents who intentionally introduce these bugs.
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by rlt 5y ago
“Big companies should act more like startups!” “Wait no, big companies should have redundant employees!”
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by rlt 5y ago
On top of this, if Starship is successful ("fully and rapidly reusable") it could bring the launch cost down another order of magnitude. And because Starlink is building thousands of satellites it has economies of scale that no pr
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by rlt 5y ago
They would have the advantage of variable density based on demand, i.e. more of them over population centers and none over oceans, whereas LEO satellite constellations are pretty uniformly distributed because they're orbiting. It'
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by rlt 5y ago
Note that iCloud Private Relay only applies to Safari, not other browsers or apps. A VPN (ideally with “kill switch”) + encrypted DNS would do the same for all traffic from your machine.
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by rlt 5y ago
Musk has also said SpaceX will likely spin out and IPO Starlink. I think he also said he intends to use his wealth from Tesla, and therefore likely Starlink too, to fund his Mars ambitions. There’s also quite a lot of opportunity of Starshi

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