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by shrughes 17y ago
This is mostly because the monad abstraction is mostly useless in non-lazy languages. It's more useful in lazy languages because objects with monadic types can then be written self-referentially without trouble. It also hurts that Java an
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by shrughes 17y ago
If large numbers of investors made decisions based on reasons other than profitability, other investors would buy more so-called "evil" companies' stock until the prices are back to what they would have been.
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by shrughes 17y ago
Your post is disgusting and you are a disgusting person. I'm not sure if there's a purpose to your post, other than to call JWZ stupid. Do you feel better about yourself now? You say he's ignorant? Have you considered that you are the on
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by shrughes 17y ago
Can't Hushmail still send you a bad java applet, though? I think Hushmail is trustworthy -- in the sense that they're not going to deliberately deliver broken code except when forced to by law enforcement.
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by shrughes 17y ago
Hushmail? See http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai/
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by shrughes 17y ago
Farm equipment doesn't have any intrinsic value. The only reason farm equipment exists at all is to facilitate the allocation of natural resources towards the production of things that have real value.
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by shrughes 17y ago
The host can still mine data. It doesn't know the content of the data itself, but it knows who's looking at whose data, and what IPs they're coming from and what browser fingerprint they have. The only thing you're protecting against is t
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by shrughes 17y ago
Yes, you can. At least it works for me.
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by shrughes 17y ago
How is what you're designing any more secure than a typical website that communicates over HTTPS? The user can't prevent you from sending a broken Java applet or a webpage with broken encryption code, so the user still has to trust you. L
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by shrughes 17y ago
Well "[You] started Tarsnap" is the one that has benefited me the most, and I think that's bragable.
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by shrughes 17y ago
Yes, because people automatically solve x^2-x-1=0 in their heads when dividing up the page. Wait, my bad, it's just that people looking for that sort of thing take whatever ratio they see and round it to the nearest multiple of the golden
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by shrughes 17y ago
Have you looked at the code? When I started using WordPress on my personal site, people warned me not to look behind the curtains. It seems pretty notorious for being a mess.
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by shrughes 17y ago
That doesn't really make sense. Having a transition period is the same as changing the expiration date.
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by shrughes 17y ago
The hard part here is for computer A to be sure it's handing the information it thinks it's handing it to. No matter how you do it, computer A needs to be sure it's giving permission to computer B, and not somebody claiming to be computer
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by shrughes 17y ago
I'm being dumb in the previous posting. I know.
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by shrughes 17y ago
The problem I have with ZumoDrive's security claims is not that they're insecure -- they sort of have to be, given the feature set they have -- it's just that their claims are theatrical. They could make things so that data can only be acce
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by shrughes 17y ago
Since they'd want to deduplicate equal files across different users, to save bandwidth and storage costs, I imagine the keys they use won't be user-by-user. They'd be defined file-by-file, or block-by-block, with the keys being stored else
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by shrughes 17y ago
> But I think most of us can find some comfort in the words of Sibelius: "Pay no attention to what critics say. No statue has ever been put up to a critic." Well then, there must be some statue-based analogue of Rule 34, because... htt
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by shrughes 17y ago
It would be interesting to see what a comparison of the obfuscation techniques of Continuum, Kazaa, and Skype would look like.
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by shrughes 17y ago
No they shouldn't, simply because police shouldn't be able to enforce immoral laws. If there were a morality field generator that magically allowed only the enforcement of morally sound laws within their sphere of operation, it would be a g
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by shrughes 17y ago
It might just be me or Preview.app, but that pdf seems to have the wrong text color in many places. It's not consistent with what's in scribd.
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by shrughes 17y ago
And now look at http://cryptome.org/
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by shrughes 17y ago
This is why I prefix my password with several z's. It makes typing the password feel different than typing the username, and since this change, I've always managed to catch myself quickly enough.
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by shrughes 17y ago
Oh, I'm sorry, I was under the impression that there existed O(N log N) multiplication algorithms, but apparently that's just conjectured. Right now the best seems to be O(N log(N) 2^(log*(N))) ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fürers_algori
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by shrughes 17y ago
Only if you ignore the cost of multiplication or the size of the numbers involved. The length of the answer is proportional to N, so you end up with N log N time with the typical exponentiating algorithm, and there's no way you'll beat lin
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by shrughes 17y ago
You think the iPhone unlock button is "annoying" and call it a sacrifice? The only reaction I can have to that is to think you're neurotic.
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by shrughes 17y ago
I've never had to take off this when typing: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002HI5N5A/
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by shrughes 17y ago
Until middle school I ran toe-first and also walked toe-first, or at least definitely not heel-first -- that changed when I joined the marching band.
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by shrughes 17y ago
Well I generally don't disallow NUL bytes.

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