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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> I picked up an Edgerouter X SFP for $40 on FB Marketplace Be careful buying second-hand electronics, particularly networking kit! You should re-flash the device's firmware. The OpenWRT website should be able to guide you to stock
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Check out the CAs your browser trusts. It's a tire fire. People should be a lot more worried about corporate shenanigans than government. One of the more interesting things you can do with a network tap is take a look at the certific
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
I see what you're saying. I think the author meant the same thing as Feynman when he described the "Greek" and "Babylonian" approaches to mathematics. For all but a select few (pure mathematicians), the "Babylo
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> even Keep the Aspidistra Flying was basically mutilated by circumstance You think the British intelligentsia would react kindly to an honest portrayal of the class system?
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Another great book along the same lines is Polya's "How to Solve It" [1] with the brief summary [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It [2] https://math.berkeley.edu/~gmelv
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
The idea that antitrust law exists to improve "consumer welfare" is a modern one. Until the late 1970's, antitrust was about exercising democratic control over corporate power.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> It's entirely based around regulating 19th century monopolies, This isn't as problematic as you suggest. We don't need an act of Congress to deal with FAAMG. The way the laws are enforced and interpreted has changed in
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Still weird. The FBI and the rest of our national security apparatus exist to deal with those issues.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Strictly speaking, that is not in their budget. Comes from anonymous donors [1]. Nothing strange about that. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/nyregion/terrorism-nypd-i...
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> NYT is a reputable journal The people who lied us into Iraq?
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Or a sqli in the client portal?
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
The only remarkable fact about this leak is that us plebes get to see the other side of the one-way mirror.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
And more... “This is a partnership, not a contractual relationship.” [1] "Because of partner relations and legal authorities, SSO Corporate sites are often controlled by the partner, who filters the communications before sending to NSA
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
You literally cannot consume media without this feature [1,2]. There is nothing new under the sun. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessa
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Cool! But, what's the practical/applied angle here?
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> producing nothing of tangible economic value Just because something has a low/zero market price does not mean it has no economic value. It just means it is not valued by people with lots of money and their pals in government. Sim
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
I haven't read this paper, but... What separates a good paper from a blog post is the attention it devotes to second and third order consequences, its discussion and dismissal of likely counter-arguments, and the author's framing
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Telling people to handle their beef "in the market" is basically saying we aren't a self-governing people any more. The hubris and contempt for democracy emanating from tech bros is astounding. It's not going to be fash
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> The campaign to normalize this is so good I often here consumers repeating it. The campaign to normalize thinking of onesself as a consumer is so good, I often hear my fellow citizens replace the noun "people" with the noun &
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
I'm very much not a fan of this introduction. You use gradient descent, but do not introduce the normal equations. This is problematic for at least two reasons. Case 1: Design matrix has full rank Omitting the normal equations obfusc
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
The single number answer is going to be utterly dominated by the past 5 years, so it's not too difficult to answer. If you wanted a time-series that shows how this number evolves over time, you would end up with a very interesting hi
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
You should also link the HN thread where proton categorically denies the claims. In particular, the claim that tesonet controls protonvpn's release signing key. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17258203
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Link. Please.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Start with the 3 factors (market, size, value). Almost all the variance is in the market factor, which is just a cap-weighted average return for all US-listed stocks. The size factor should capture a lot of the difference between SPX (which
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
His research team publishes global equity index forecasts, monthly I believe. They also have a collection of mutual funds, whose track records you can check very easily. I recommend bench-marking against Ken French's factors [1]. [1]
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
His fund family actually publishes equity index forecasts in its research library [1]. That means you can evaluate the efficacy of his research team's forecasts over time. I happen to think he is correct, but process matters. How has
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Maybe they saw a benefit in having no logs? No logs, no congressional investigation. These are smart well-resourced people. They don't do things like this for no reason.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Why a dns request?
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
What's the deal with no signatures on OpenWRT firmware images.

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