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by schoen 5mo ago
We know about physical-layer attacks that break some of the abstractions that software relies on, allowing an attacker to use physical access or physical proximity to violate security guarantees that are enforced by software alone. (I worke
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by schoen 5mo ago
There is one part where you are invited to walk on a catwalk that's very high up (an outdoor staircase sort of like a fire escape). My recollection is that walking on it is not mandatory for the tour, but I'm not absolutely certai
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by schoen 5mo ago
I misparsed this headline as (Statue (of a man (blinded by a flag (put up by Banksy)))) in central London It is intended to be ((Statue (of a man (blinded by a flag))) (put up by Banksy)) in central London
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by schoen 5mo ago
I highly recommend the tour of the Itaipu Binacional hydroelectric dam in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil (well, it's also in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, but the tour starts from the Brazilian side). https://turismoitaipu.com.br/e
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by schoen 5mo ago
I'd like to think I'm about as car-skeptical as your average person with no driver license who just got back from taking three forms of transit home from an all-day recreational road cycling event. But I'm a bit nervous about
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by schoen 5mo ago
Yeah, I know people's intuitions are also different there, as almost everyone I've met from Europe speaks 2-4 languages fluently and doesn't consider this exceptional. That makes multilingualism feel very attainable, because
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by schoen 5mo ago
The official position of modern IAL advocates like Esperantists is that everyone should be bilingual in a local or family language as well as in the world language. There is someone on HN who has pointed out (I forgot exactly when) that thi
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by schoen 5mo ago
This reminds me of the interesting fact that > Linnaeus is designated as the type specimen for the human species, Homo sapiens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus
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by schoen 6mo ago
This was the explanation for why the scotch and soda diet doesn't work: https://www.futilitycloset.com/2008/11/16/the-mensa-diet/ (If the nutritional calories in the drink had been only the same num
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by schoen 6mo ago
I don't know the specific Schwalbe Marathon tires but they use a proprietary material called SmartGuard. Personally, I've used Armadillo (from Specialized) and GatorSkin (from Continental) tires, both of which I was told contain a
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by schoen 6mo ago
Acho que só se aceitam links e postagens em inglês aqui, não em outros idiomas.
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by schoen 6mo ago
The concern I hear the most (which I don't think is common among the general public) is the existential risk one (that an AI may be created that drastically exceeds human intelligence, and that it may accidentally be incentivized to ta
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by schoen 6mo ago
I guessed correctly what this was about, but then I thought it could also be the name for a group advocating for a formal pillarization of American society (in which different ethnic or religious groups have separate and parallel institutio
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by schoen 6mo ago
I had heard about that lecture, but I hadn't seen the video before. The Latin is quite easy for me to follow, but I'm still impressed by Luke Ranieri's fluency (really on par with some of the most skilled Latin speakers I&#x2
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by schoen 6mo ago
I had the same problem during my visit. It seems we can't build bridges, railroads, or Trojan horses nearly as fast as earlier generations could.
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by schoen 6mo ago
Yes, one way of referring to Latin is "lingua Latina" or just "Latina", but there's an old custom of using adverbs to refer to use of languages. So Latine is "in Latin" or "Latinly" (and there ar
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by schoen 6mo ago
Reginald Foster, a great Latin expert whom I once got to study with, emphasized that Latin isn't inherently difficult as a spoken language, as evidenced by the fact that it used to be lots of people's native language and used for
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by schoen 6mo ago
I wrote that text when I worked for EFF! Anyway, two things about this: * EFF definitely did not think that the regular printer tracking dots mechanism was appropriate. * You could probably argue this either as a modus ponens or a modus tol
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by schoen 6mo ago
I also heard the slogan "the answer to bad speech is more speech" frequently inside EFF in the first half of my time working there and almost never in the second half. It's actually a conceptually challenging question for me
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by schoen 6mo ago
It's obvious to me that EFF should sue every administration. I started working at EFF during the first George W. Bush administration, and I worked there throughout that administration, the Obama administration, and the first Trump admi
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by schoen 6mo ago
Note that EFF is a 501(c)(3) and is not allowed to endorse candidates, unlike other organizational structures. Some groups have multiple entities with different tax classifications, one of which can endorse candidates and one of which can&#
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by schoen 6mo ago
Too late to edit, but I realized that the correct dates for my time at EFF are actually 2001 to 2020 (I was thinking about how I left during the COVID-19 pandemic, but that was in 2020).
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by schoen 6mo ago
I'd say both of those. There is a conscious effort to focus more directly and consistently on helping groups that are seen as oppressed. There was an associated mission statement change sometime around 2015 > The Electronic Frontier
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by schoen 6mo ago
I mentioned that interpretation very briefly in my post. If EFF had continued to be better at political neutrality, I'm sure many observers would have been surprised at times that it declined to take positions on some of the hot issues
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by schoen 6mo ago
I worked at EFF from 2001 to 2019. When I started, EFF was a very effective coalition between (primarily) progressives and libertarians. This had largely been the case since EFF was founded in 1990 by both progressives and libertarians. Whe
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by schoen 6mo ago
> Holy shit are you for real? COULD be seen? Yes hacking into a bank would absolutely mean felony prosecution on multiple counts if you were caught. I meant to refer specifically to the trespass theory (advocated about 25-30 years ago by
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by schoen 6mo ago
Isn't your bank balance in a bank database also "just a number"? That number still exists if it goes up or down. I understand that the bank's ownership of its computer means that hacking into it could be seen as (for exa
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by schoen 6mo ago
As was alluded to in the comments, my colleagues at Blockstream Research are doing some work on this with mechanisms called SHRINCS and SHRIMPS. Of course, inventing and demonstrating a quantum-resistant signature mechanism isn't the s
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by schoen 6mo ago
I'm still confused about 2.7 because it says that we have to use WL so that "the bit line (BL) connects to the storage element for reading or writing". But the accepted solution connects to the storage element only for writin
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by schoen 7mo ago
Surely this indicates that HN readers are quite divided over this topic, right? Lots of people posting it, lots of people upvoting it, lots of people flagging it (or maybe more likely downvoting one another's takes in the comments?).

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