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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Plenty of people stick up for individual aspects of the PGP architecture. Apple sticks up for non-ephemeral message keys by implementing that in iMessage. A lot of people stuck up for non-repudiation when Matthew Green asked Google to pub
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Anyone who has ever seen a deindustrialized American city like Detroit knows that there are rotting mansions, while working people live in cramped tenements. Imagine if Detroit had imposed a $5000/year non-occupancy tax on those forecl
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Unemployment rate in Japan is is 2.3% and stable. The entire nation of Japan (population 130m) has half the total number of homeless people as the city of San Francisco (population 1m). Essentially all Japanese people have health insuranc
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
The "prison profits" slogan isn't great, because it conceals the nature of the power structure that perpetuates the system. The US prison system is a patronage system, not a profit system. It provides stable, nontradable job
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
"Research suggests" is better. It's an appeal to process, not authority.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
It removes you from the list of people who get pwned with a rainbow table from leaked passwords, but that's not much security. English has only got ~1.2 bits of entropy per character. [1] [1] Table 1 in https://arxiv.org&#x2
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Yeah, the whole "backed by science" thing has a weird tinge of religiosity to it. I did notice that the article author has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual research.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
It's a good point. One thing that would have been nice to see is a graph with several lines. X-axis is bits of entropy, Y-axis is recall rate. The individual lines reflect a single combination of (a) formatting scheme (e.g. diceware)
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Do you think the "why" has anything to do with the blow-back DuPont experienced as a consequence of manufacturing napalm during the Vietnam War? DOD has extremely talented strategists, and an infinite simulation budget. Without c
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
The way GAAP tackles shams like that is "consolidation". [1] For example, you report wholly owned subsidiaries as if they are part of the parent organization. Clearly, accountants and lawyers can engage in fuckery as they did at
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> That case is complicated and takes several pages to explain Then we've reached a crisis point in our moral development, because that statement had been axiomatic since the founding of this country. "That the individual shall
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Carpenter v. United States was 5-4, with Ginsburg in the majority. The textualists stacked up firmly against it. I wouldn't expect any help from SCOTUS for the next... ever. The textualist theory on privacy is basically: "no tre
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
I wonder if they've done any polling to figure out the level of surveillance they can impose without triggering a brain drain. I expect there is a phase-change somewhere before "all my communications are monitored in real time&quo
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
After we get rid of warrant-proof window shades, we'll get to the real problem. We all know what it is: Thought Crime.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
"Changing Threats to Privacy" at Defcon 18.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
What if you had a serious business dispute with Apple or Google, and were (justifiably) uncomfortable walking around with a mobile bug running software of their choosing? [1] For most people on this site, this kind of threat is far more lik
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
I wouldn't be so confident. If you have something running in the BMC, you can do literally anything. In this case "anything" might mean transmitting a single bit of information that "this is an interesting box, come take
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
It's worth noting that Apple and Amazon can't lie about their business without opening themselves up to potential criminal liability under securities laws. [1] That means Apple and Amazon are more credible in this case, unless the
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Yup, that's my takeaway. You see the same thing when you use future Fed moves as well (which is one way of checking that this graph isn't missing out on some announcement effect, as assets lag announcements).
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Didn't even read the article, just the title.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Both are FRED series (CBBTCUSD and WALCL). Rolling one year correlations of one week deltas: 0.3 +-+----+------+------+------+------+-----+------+------+------+----+-+ + + + + + A + +
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
I grepped the article for "Amdahl" before reading, didn't see it and stopped reading. It's my version of not reading specifications for perpetual motion machines.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Here are two important facts about the world: 1. Poor people cannot miss a paycheck. Getting fired means not paying rent, not eating, or not repairing the car you depend on for your livelihood. 2. Bosses spy on employees. This country has
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
To my eye, it looks like there is a plausible argument that BTC price innovations have a positive loading on Fed balance sheet growth. Can you link raw data? At this point, the marginal buyer is a leveraged investment firm. So, the hypothe
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Allowing your identity to be defined by other people is not healthy. You mention cryptocurrency, so I have to ask. Do you think Satoshi is sitting on a yacht tweeting out photographs of their fancy trips?
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Books worth owning: https://nostarch.com/howlinuxworks2 https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Nemeth-U...
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
The #1 feature of Dell laptops is the repair manual which allows you to, among other things, physically remove the camera and microphone without damaging the hardware. Would be nice if they would release signed, flashable firmware images fo
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
I don't believe that, but would read any evidence you have that tends to substantiate your claim.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Scale. Your argument is intellectually dishonest. It's like saying that FAAMG aren't important to the S&P500 because they are only 1% of companies in the index, totally ignoring capitalization.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
So... you're OK with having an exploited underclass of marginally attached gig workers? Or you're not?

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