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by tedks 12y ago
>There is a whole literature in a particular brand of feminism (mostly associated with the radicals) that simply takes the association of hunting and interpersonal violence on faith This is a straw woman. I cannot think of any radical fe
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He will be instantly out-competed by people who actually understand capitalism and markets and will die poor, alone, unloved, and unwanted by the world. The people he tried to help will be struck down with him as they lose the jobs they&#x2
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Exactly. What has life ever offered but hard work with little chance of reward? Unless you're an oligarch you will probably have a shit life. There is no way this will ever change. Maturity is the process of getting used to this fact,
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* The massive fundraising drive for an audit did not contribute back to the project in any way. I think half, or at least 25%, of a fundraiser tangential to a project should go back to the project itself. If something is valuable enough to
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This is a really good point. I totally missed it when reading the article. Maybe TAILS should do something like this automatically.
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That's not necessarily true -- I think you could very convincingly argue that a secure Truecrypt is more valuable than some number of Watsi patients. What if Truecrypt allows a journalist to expose some corruption that saves or benefit
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Could you answer my question about how you would feel (what emotions you would experience) in a similar circumstance?
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>How do we motivate people to fix or continue development of open source projects? Is it possible at all? Hm. Maybe it is impossible to motivate people to continue development of open-source projects. There are very few long-lived open-s
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But why? What does it get you? An audit doesn't prove the absence of bugs. It doesn't change the fact that you should assume vulnerability and use defense in depth. It doesn't actually tell anyone that they're more or le
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I had a source for the devs leaving because it was no longer fun anymore that I can't find because of buggy HN features. Are you implying that "the devs lost interest" is mutually exclusive from "the devs were facing bur
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Based on the other comments you've made in this thread, it seems like you wouldn't have recommended anyone to use Truecrypt even when talk of auditing it started. Why fund an audit then? Why beat this particular dead horse? Can yo
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Truecrypt was always open-source, the source was at least always visible if it wasn't an OSS-approved license. Truecrypt's primary installation base was Windows. Where's the audit for that? I don't think the developer qu
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Be honest here. Would you have bet money that Truecrypt was backdoored? I don't think many people would have. Because they didn't really believe it. They thought an audit would be a "good assurance," but I really doubt m
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by tedks 12y ago
I think the interesting lesson from this is less about crypto, more about free-software projects and how to grow them. The Truecrypt developers supposedly left because it wasn't interesting/fun for them anymore. I believe that. Fu
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* It is free software, or rather, the client they recommend is Linphone, an existing open-source VoIP client. * Specifically, the value add is an introduction/routing layer over SIP. They recommend connecting via Tor. * The encryption
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Congrats, you caught a transposed character in an HN comment. Sometimes, I don't care enough about these comments to exhaustivley spell check them. I guess I don't have the time. Maybe you should chekc your privilege.
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Having copious free time has always been a privileged position. The extent to which you can waste time is a direct expressino of privilege.
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>I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you any different. Easy to say that, sitting on a Hugo award and the subsequent career of Kurt Vonnegut.
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If it's an April Fools', think it'll be announced as such in a month? Willing to take $200 of my money risking only $20 of your own to put a stake in that belief? If you won't even risk the price of four Starbucks coffee
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Are you willing to bet it's an April Fools' joke? If you're not willing to bet, you don't really believe in it. I'll wager $200 against your $20 that it's not an April Fool's joke. Before you give me your
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Nail on the head.
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wooooooooooooosh
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...this is still not my point. I was not addressing chemical imbalance theories at all. Rather, I was trying to argue that the absence of a blood test doesn't make depression ascientific.
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This is the project webpage, though I can't recall if it uses Z3 or not: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/slam/
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Yes, the point of my post was not to argue for the serotonin hypothesis of depression. If you think that, might I suggest that you missed my point, and you should perhaps reread with an eye towards absorbing novel information and viewpoints
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> That's not science. Science is sometimes harder than a single test. For example, there's no blood test for autism. There's no blood test for PTSD. But my best friend's brother took years to talk to me, and sometimes
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What total crap. Capitalism has never been about morality. Every single paradigm shift centers more and more value and wealth in the hands of increasingly elite few, while more people fall into poverty. Is this moral? Well, the author drive
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>qualitative and inherently unmeasurable. Qualitative doesn't imply unmeasurable. If something is unmeasurable , there is no way to tell if it's changed. If you can tell if something has changed, and you have no feelings about
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It's basically the same community working on both hardening and attacking Tor. Typically if you can find a vulnerability in Tor, you can patch it, and researchers usually work with the Tor developers to get the patches into Tor before
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Before Muslims were a target, and even now, the FBI did this with "eco-terrorists": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_McDavid I hope nobody here believes that these cases are instances of the FBI diligently

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