tempz

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Too many people become too capable without asking permission(morlockelloi.substack.com)
19 points by tempz 4mo ago|4 comments
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by tempz 8y ago
It's elementary, my dear Watson: 1. WL disclosed information to US population. 2. WL is accused of being "Non-state Hostile Intelligence Service". 3. Hostile intelligence services work for enemies. 4. US population is the ene
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SF is spending $40K/yr per homeless, and doubling it(reason.com)
9 points by tempz 8y ago|0 comments
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by tempz 8y ago
To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, "Fake News is the Last Refuge of the Scoundrel". The "fake news" meme itself is the last desperate attempt to preserve the fake news monopoly which giant publishers enjoyed for so long. Ther
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by tempz 8y ago
It is far from 'clear' or 'obvious' that the Directive is a bad deal for content producers. Read it yourself - especially Articles 11 and 13. The narrative funded through GOOGL (and its affiliate EFF) and other big platf
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by tempz 8y ago
Few weeks after installing really loud air horn, it became apparent that: - it's impossible to effectively use horn and brakes in emergencies; - one starts to rely on the horn clearing the way instead of slowing down, which is suicidal
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by tempz 8y ago
What is the most optimistic benefit of a driverless car? If we put aside creation of unemployment, putting limits on what human drivers will be able to do, and similar dystopian outlooks, what are the benefits for the masses? People who can
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by tempz 8y ago
No he is not. Do not confuse 'minority' with 'people comfortable expressing unpopular opinions'.
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by tempz 8y ago
It's becoming obvious that well-off 'progressives' strive to crown their status with the ultimate pet: human beings in need. Horses are not so in vogue any more. Like all pets, they are to be kept in the appropriate place, li
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by tempz 8y ago
I cannot begin to understand how is it better to reveal your DNS access patterns to the global company like Cloudflare, as opposed to revealing them to your local ISP? Who do you think can smoother monetize your data - your local ISP or Clo
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by tempz 8y ago
Better headline: "Google Workers Astonished: Found Out They Work In Capitalist System, Not Nerd Commune"
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by tempz 9y ago
The scariest part is un-adult emotional environment, where employees (people hired at-will to work) refer to other employees as "brothers and sisters". This looks more like _Lord of the Flies_ setup than like for-profit company wo
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by tempz 9y ago
These topics all have overwhelming support in local media, PR and marketing copy, in other words in the official ideology. The actual people are not much different than anywhere else in the US. But they quickly learn to provide lip service
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by tempz 9y ago
There is a linguistic sleight of hand at work here: 'libertarian' and 'left' is not what is happening in SV. These terms have been hijacked by the identity politics cartel. The SV political and ideological climate is all
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by tempz 9y ago
One of the few remaining forums with articulated content.
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by tempz 9y ago
There is a linguistic problem here - extending the term 'middle class' to hide prevailing poverty in the US. You are not middle class if: - you will lose home, car if you are out of job for 6-10 months; - you don't take 30
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by tempz 9y ago
Maybe a new startup with an app could help? "Post a selfie of feeding the hungry" "Leftover food spotted on the corner of 5th and Lincoln" Then sell user data to law enforcement.
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The total weight of all Bitcoins today: 3 kg
2 points by tempz 9y ago|2 comments
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by tempz 9y ago
There will likely be shift in the liability approach, and drivers will be made liable for accidents caused by inadequate technology. This approach worked well (for some parties) in many other areas, for example in education: now the teacher
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by tempz 9y ago
Sadly, exactly 50% of engineers are below average, so hiring the best all the time is unsustainable. Thinking that you hired the best, however, is sustainable. The art of managing relies on the capability to get work done by all kinds of en
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by tempz 10y ago
The event where one line of buggy code ('==' instead of '<=') creates global consequences, affecting millions, is great illustration of the perils of monoculture. And monoculture is the elephant in the room most pre
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by tempz 10y ago
Erlang is made for IoT. Tens of millions of concurrent unrelated clients, embarrassingly parallelizable, scales linearly with number of cores, as these share nothing.
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by tempz 10y ago
Not really. Experience after designing and deploying systems that run 100,000 transactions/sec per box: don't bother with engineers that cannot achieve proficiency in Erlang. Elixir is a crutch, and not something you want to show
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by tempz 10y ago
TLAs will love this. Only one stack to break and/or subvert.
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by tempz 10y ago
So, entertainment with role models. That is the best description of philosophy I ever heard.
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by tempz 10y ago
> it would be helpful to have good guidance for secure composition of cryptographic primitives Yes. An easy-to read program executing generic Feistel-net block cipher with exchangable/modular S-boxes and trapdoor functions would be
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by tempz 10y ago
Zero days, backdoors and unknown cryptanalytic capabilities have similar if not the same effect on centralized systems. I am skeptical about open source efforts being a match for (tens of) thousands well-paid professionals working for well-
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by tempz 10y ago
If the perceived importance of privacy is high enough, a fraction of people will spend days and weeks acquiring block cipher customization skills. The goal should not be all people, as that's doomed from the start. 15% is infinitely
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by tempz 10y ago
Well, if we agree that a moderate effort (comparable to dental checkups) would make a big and positive difference in the surveillance arena, and yet assume that 'people' cannot be induced to do it, perhaps we are dealing with ideo
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by tempz 10y ago
It depends how truly important the security is for someone. Literacy started in the similar way, and it's not easy for everyone to learn to read and write (functional illiteracy rarely goes below 10% or so.) I'll make a wild guess

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