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by robcohen 3y ago
He's a uniformed military officer BECAUSE he also leads US CYBERCOM.
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by robcohen 3y ago
I mean, it solves the byzantine general's problem, which requires two thirds honest participants. I'm not aware of anyone who's ever claimed that bitcoin "mathematically protects" you even when everyone else is lyin
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by robcohen 4y ago
I really passionately hate that car companies get away with making their service manuals so incredibly expensive as to dissuade owners from performing their own maintenance. It should be criminal. Manuals and official documentation should n
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by robcohen 4y ago
The NSA cannot conduct acts of war, because they are not military personnel. You need uniformed personnel for certain actions.
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by robcohen 4y ago
Would be really nice if there was one central source for the current listing of registrars and whether they suck or not. Like wirecutter for registrars, evaluating based on privacy protection, dark patterns like this one, and security.
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by robcohen 4y ago
I’ve always felt that merely “being introverted” was just a way of saying “I’m not good at talking to people and I don’t want to get better at it”. Kind of like saying “I’m bad at math”. No, you aren’t, you’re just being lazy.
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Ask HN: Open-Source Operations for Organizations
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by robcohen 4y ago
Not an expert here, but I think one of the only reasons that nonproliferation works is because it’s generally difficult to make nukes without making it pretty obvious that you’re doing it. Even biological warfare is somewhat easy to identif
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by robcohen 4y ago
Could you give us a few examples of security research jobs? It seems pretty obvious that you’d need to go into a PhD program in cybersecurity to work on groundbreaking research. Perhaps you mean industry or implementation specific research?
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by robcohen 4y ago
I feel like ideas like this suffer from the same issue, namely when you have an event that’s generically for lonely people you end up with a bunch of lonely people with an odd vibe. It’s like the Meetup events that are for “meeting people i
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by robcohen 4y ago
Police typically have a 5 year period they want for zero drug involvement. The military is more dependent on the position and clearance level, but the max limit numbers are arbitrarily set. They set the numbers high enough to make recruitin
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by robcohen 4y ago
15 miles from downtown, anyone know where? Must be either near Manor, Bastrop or Dale.
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by robcohen 4y ago
As someone who's worked in cybersecurity in one capacity or another for my entire life: It's because people really don't care about security. They don't see it as something that needs effort like managing personal financ
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by robcohen 4y ago
I think the only solution is to write each person an email or letter telling them that you don't want material items from them for christmas, what you want is their commitment to spend time with you, or if not that then a donation to a
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by robcohen 4y ago
> nobody is using it 87M in liquidity on network, 15k active channels, mmmkay https://1ml.com/
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by robcohen 4y ago
Which decentralized system are you referring to which left people without their shirts? FTX was highly centralized, and not even purporting to be otherwise.
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by robcohen 4y ago
Overtraining is a concern, but I’ve previously done 7x per week heavy weightlifting and it’s fine so long as you cycle through different body parts and listen to your body. In the Marine Corps I’d usually work out 3x a day 5 days a week and
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by robcohen 4y ago
I thought that was only true if you included infant deaths. I haven’t researched it but that’s what I as a layman thought.
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by robcohen 4y ago
In my experience it’s really a balance. If you put someone in a job they really don’t want, they are likely to not do it well. So no, it’s really not in the military’s best interest to assign people to roles they really don’t want if people
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by robcohen 4y ago
Sorry, but in this case you’re wrong. While those jobs are honorable, if you sign up for SEALs you don’t expect to wash out and become a bulk fuel specialist. Same goes for any of the massively competitive jobs (cyber ops/spec ops come
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by robcohen 4y ago
Don’t hold your breath.
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by robcohen 4y ago
I really want to know who was ultimately responsible for the green light on the governments behalf. I don’t mean the head of the agency. I mean the person or committee who was responsible for putting out the requirements and choosing the bi
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by robcohen 4y ago
Unless you have mouths to feed, or someone who needs money for medical issues, who cares if you lose a dependable income? Why make decisions based in fear? Fear that you won’t be able to survive, that you won’t be able to make it. Have more
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by robcohen 4y ago
My advice is this: Become a different person. Take your life and incinerate it. Not literally of course. I mean completely change what and who you are. You’re an accomplished software engineer at 30? Great. You’re done doing that. Go buy a
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by robcohen 4y ago
You do know that hardware wallets come with instructions, right?
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by robcohen 4y ago
Yes, the space is making the same mistakes but that has more to do with the nature of humanity and its tendency toward corruption. It does feel like a missed opportunity, but intellectually I am pretty convinced the corruption was inevitabl
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by robcohen 4y ago
I'm not convinced that cryptocurrency is a ponzi scheme. Crypto is an asset, not a market. Decentralized digital assets cannot inherently be ponzi schemes. The level of transparency and trust in the market on which they trade is what d
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by robcohen 4y ago
Might be a bit US centric, but my recommendation is: 1. Read the reddit personal finance wiki https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/index/ 2. Read The Simple Path to Wealth by J L Collins 3. Read
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by robcohen 4y ago
Security is always valuable. OSCP training would be great. If not that then perhaps a GIAC training in a relevant course?
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by robcohen 4y ago
I’ve been thinking about this problem for a little while, and it blows my mind that this is still a largely unsolved problem. We could be doing so much better with contact management: - present it more beautifully, and easier to categorize

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