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by sbf501 4y ago
I've been subscribing to The Atlantic for years. It is entirely targeted at upperclass, liberal, college-educated whites. Which is exactly why I read it. Why would I read a magazine targeted at a culture I don't understand or am n
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by sbf501 4y ago
You are missing the point: it is endemic to the culture. It has nothing to do with personal choice. It's like blaming a sexual assault victim for what they wear: that's not the issue, it is toxic masculinity that is the problem, e
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by sbf501 4y ago
Why does that even matter? Or do you just assume everyone is a Javascript programmer? If I say "need" people will tell me it's my fault and to change jobs. If I say "want" people will tell me it's my fault and
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by sbf501 4y ago
8-to-5 is 45 hours a week. I'm still in the office, even for lunch. Considering travel, it bumps up to 50 hrs/week. I hate how this 10-hour "work tax" is always dismissed as part of 40 hour work week.
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by sbf501 4y ago
When will we know the bodycount? I swear, there is never a slow news-day with this jamoke.
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by sbf501 4y ago
How do you convert from Ed25519 to X25519 when certain bits have been masked off the MSB range? Do you mean X25519 -> Ed25519 or am I misunderstanding?
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by sbf501 4y ago
"There's a sucker born ever minute." So, no, not the end.
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by sbf501 4y ago
I pretty sure had a PEM cert in a private repo and was alerted. Is this in their TOS somewhere?
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by sbf501 4y ago
I was told by a friend who has ~$30k of ether sitting in there either as ether or GUSD, I don't know which, we haven't talked about it since the crash for obvious reasons. It is on their website, but you have enlightened me: it wo
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by sbf501 4y ago
For one thing, they are rather transparent: https://www.wolfssl.com/docs/security-vulnerabilities/ For another, I used them for an embedded project for 5 years and they were the most complete, competent, and up-to
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by sbf501 4y ago
GitHub always freaks out at me when I include text that even looks like a PEM cert. Too bad they can't scan for AWS key / secret variables too.
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by sbf501 4y ago
too bad, it's a great company name that inspires confidence... until you read a comment like this!
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by sbf501 4y ago
One downside is that you now have a much higher bar for hiring talent to do trivial things. If you don't understand FP at a fundemental level, you will have a hard time finding people to work on your systems. Junior/Senior enginee
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by sbf501 4y ago
Gemini is FDIC insured, but does that include if the value of their stablecoin (GUSD) plummets?
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by sbf501 4y ago
I expected farm-pest-control robots to look more like the ones in the film "Runaway" (1984) than a big laser turret you drag over a field.
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by sbf501 4y ago
It is not a crypto library, it is an Ed25519 EdDSA library. It has nothing else in it apparently. WolfCrypt is a better solution and is FIPS certified. EDIT: I didn't know what GIMLI was.
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by sbf501 4y ago
Every point you make is completely valid. The debate over file formats, and efforts to preserve file formats algorithmically (ON PAPER LOLOLOL) is a crisis historians are raising red flags about all over the place. To give you an example, a
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by sbf501 4y ago
Amazon's ebooks or the database that holds them? Two different things. I believe every book amazon has in their database will never be lost, at least until WW3. They won't rot. They won't be eaten by worms. Acidic ink won&#x2
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by sbf501 4y ago
Not if they are stored in the cloud, where the bits are constantly being shuffled around various media. It is never the case that a bit stays on the same sector of the same media indefinitely. A personal library is effed, tho, because some
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by sbf501 4y ago
Two methods: - duplicity for daily backups to the S3 cloud encrypted with PGP (about 1GB in the bucket, excl. most photos) - weekly Time Machine backups to two different alternating disks (one rotational, one SSD) I've been backing up
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by sbf501 4y ago
I know HN hates the NYT, but you are right! https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/business/dealbook/the-evo... I thought it was just a flash new term cryptobros use to sound smrt.
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by sbf501 4y ago
I love the convenience and have had zero problems in almost two decades. What's a good alternative?
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by sbf501 4y ago
I got screwed in 2002 on EBay using paypal: product never shipped but they kept the money. My CC company refunded me, but paypal wouldn't let me use it again until I paid the $500 that the CC company reversed. A few years later PayPal
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by sbf501 4y ago
> U.S. fintech Minor nit, but I don't think we need a neologism for 1,000 year-old institutions.
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by sbf501 4y ago
Sure it was suicidal of an employee to call out their boss in public, but even more destructive for a CEO to spout nonsense without researching first, because it makes him look like an incompetent ninny. EDIT: Steve Jobs wouldn't have
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by sbf501 4y ago
> It is surprising and discouraging that a forum that is meant to be about start-ups, disruption, innovation and new ideas is so blind to one so revolutionary as cryptocurrencies. This is what happens when you put beliefs above facts. J
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by sbf501 4y ago
I would welcome it! :P As an aside: I'm glad I've spent years getting used to roller-coasters, because I've found aging health issues are an entirely new comfort zone challenge that I don't have control over. I've h
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by sbf501 4y ago
> But if you get lazy and lounge around for too long, you may forget how to get off your ass and do something. I've had this conversation with my own therapist, and other therapists that I know over the years. It is a form of anxie
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by sbf501 4y ago
Ah, excellent question! Words are funny things, they have different meanings, and in the case of words with such broad opportunity it is my responsibility to clarify myself. That's why philosophy books always start out defining terms.
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by sbf501 4y ago
Start one level up: why do you want or need a "purpose"? Purpose/calling is meaningless IMHO. I opted for "pushing my comfort zone". Something I learned from a woman I was dating when I was 20 (she was 9 years older

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