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Encryption Is the Second Amendment for the Internet(dailydot.com)
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by rqebmm 12y ago
Agreed. At the end of the day investors are doing the following formula: (Projected Revenue * %Risk of Ruin) = Valuation If you overestimate the projected revenues, or underestimate the risk , you're still arriving at the wrong valuati
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by rqebmm 12y ago
Where I land is that mercurial is a better tool, but git is a better platform. As a result, better tools have been built on top of git than mercurial (like github). As a result, git at some point became the standard.
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by rqebmm 12y ago
So this is cap-and-trade for IPv4?
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by rqebmm 12y ago
The remainder was in FB stock. Personally I think the amount of stock they paid points to FB's acknowledgement that they are overvalued, i.e. part of a bubble.
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by rqebmm 12y ago
He made a cold, rational decision to kill someone. Just because that person wasn't real doesn't change the decision that he made. I can see the entrapment argument as a reason not to charge him for a crime here, but it's abso
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by rqebmm 12y ago
> My solution? Take them to court, and establish clear oversights. This is what keeps getting said. I agree, but there's no proof that the Equations Group/TAO were conducting operations without oversight, so I fail to see why t
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by rqebmm 12y ago
The information on the Equations Group/TAO are coming from Kaspersky Labs via Ars Technica. They are unaffiliated with Snowden/Greewald/et al. The leaks from Snowden that I've read thus far they do not mention anything a
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by rqebmm 12y ago
Why, because the NSA was conducting targeted espionage operations? That's exactly I want the NSA to be doing! The reason Snowden blew the whistle was because they were: a.) conducting untargeted data collection on uninvolved civilians.
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If the NSA hadn't been systematically weakening encryption and security processes, maybe we wouldn't be quite so vulnerable!
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This is all assuming that the ultimate goal was merely to distract the world. IF (it's a big if) some group plotted and executed this elaborate, risky plan, then there must have been something bigger at stake.
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by rqebmm 12y ago
>we shouldn't rule out all data sharing as inherently evil. I agree. However, that's going to be the knee-jerk reaction for a while precisely because huge entities like Google, NSA, AT&T, Verizon, etc have been doing that d
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by rqebmm 12y ago
7:00 - turn off first alarm 7:30 - turn off second alarm 7:45 - turn off third alarm 8:00 - hit snooze 8:10 - hit snooze 8:20 - hit snooze 8:30 - stumble to shower 8:40 - get dressed 8:50 - take dog out 9:00 - leave for work 9:15 - arrive a
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by rqebmm 12y ago
I don't think they are saying that luring skilled workers _leads_ to lending to easily collateralizable businesses. Just positing that those two separate statements are true.
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`git log --follow $NAME_OF_FILE` will show you each commit that contains a change for the given file. It's very handy when doing the "when did this break?" dance if you've narrowed down the potential files!
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by rqebmm 12y ago
Snapchat doesn't have revenue, but it has a lot of _potential_ revenue in the form of users.
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I think you're overemphasizing Hickey's first thought. His second boils down to "be careful to recognize the actual game involved. Programming mastery has little to do with languages" To me it sounds like he's sayin
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by rqebmm 12y ago
> By the time the internet is destroyed by regulation There's a huge difference between "the internet" and "the internet delivery business". There is no free market in the ISP business as it hasn't been a co
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by rqebmm 12y ago
I first heard of "The Speed Up Loop" here: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Speedup-Loop
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True, but it is a LITTLE suspicious that they all charge exactly the same amount despite competition in the space.
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If it was all a marketing ploy they wouldn't have released private employee information that would open them up to lawsuits, or shut down their operations for several days. There's absolutely no way that Sony makes a profit on thi
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by rqebmm 12y ago
> North Korea may not have even been aware of the movie until the hack. North Korea was well aware of The Interview ahead of the hack. See this article from June: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jul/10
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There's no "design", there's merely a stable result of random fluctuations in a constrained space. The constraints (i.e. water, oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere, other life forms, etc) are what's key.
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by rqebmm 12y ago
The reason my company chose Mixpanel was their privacy policy. We are privacy-focused, so the idea that providers like Flurry or Google Analytics have access to our customer's data was not something we were comfortable with.
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by rqebmm 12y ago
It's kind of unfair to target lawyers in cases like this. The real problem is combination of a patchwork legal system and powerful people's willingness to exploit it for personal gain. Lawyers are just the _means_ by which those p
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except, "Officer Smith shot the assailant" is more manipulative of the listener's viewpoint than the actor-neutral phrasing "there was a shooting and Officer Smith was involved"
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This has also been stated by many interrogation professionals, so it's not like it's just uninformed civilians running around saying "torture doesn't work, so don't use it"
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Hanns Scharf would disagree. "Scharff was opposed to physically abusing prisoners to obtain information. Learning on the job, Scharff instead relied upon the Luftwaffe's approved list of techniques, which mostly involved making th
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Basically, the most effective means is to create a rapport with the subject, and if treated with compassion and respect, eventually some will come around to their captor's side and reveal whatever information they have. http:/&#x
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It's been shown that torture is among the least effective way of extracting information from unwilling informants. http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/an_fbi_interrogator_on_the_...

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