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by virgilp 6y ago
> Given their track record I’d expect this timeline to repeat itself so after they release this E2E encryption feature, security researchers will discover that it’s not true E2E encryption again. I mean, you can already look at the desig
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by virgilp 6y ago
I also tend to stay a lot at a given job (e.g. slightly more than 10y at the last one) but still found the current job through LinkedIn. I do 2 things: 1. connect to all recruiters, politely decline with a standard message if obviously not
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by virgilp 6y ago
OK, but if we were to take this stance it than literally the whole thread is pointless debate, right? It started with this: > Zoom CEO Eric Yuan said in early June that the company has chosen not to encrypt free calls in order to coopera
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by virgilp 6y ago
This is addressed in the Alex Stamos twitter thread. It _is_ E2E encrypted. And from what I understand the "promise" is a technological promise, not a process promise; you can check the exact terms of the promise in the paper.
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by virgilp 6y ago
"working as expected" doesn't preclude defects. As expected by whom? There's always a range of expectations to consider... take the iPhone4 antenna, was it a bug or just people "holding it wrong"/ intentio
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by virgilp 6y ago
> That is also incompatible with the claim that an automation revolution is under way. “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
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by virgilp 6y ago
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/06/07/Minneapolis-City-...
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by virgilp 6y ago
Not in Germany, but I do have a dedicated parking space, I could totally afford an electric car, an yet it would not be practical to get one. Here are my reasons: - I need one car, not many (I'm lucky to get _one_ space, ain't gon
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by virgilp 6y ago
It's quite an extraordinary claim - among others, it implies these are all premeditated crimes (shot other person knowing that it would not have a gun - without that knowledge, crime wouldn't happen)
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by virgilp 6y ago
> It all indicates the problem isn't the gun, it's the person. Really? How did the persons become worse because of the gun control laws? Because that's what your message implies, that said rise in violent crimes is related
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by virgilp 6y ago
There's also the fact that school proliferation itself is a relatively recent (~80-100 years) phenomenon; and after that there was a world war, and after said war maybe not everybody could afford to/ had a priority to buy guns (&q
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by virgilp 6y ago
> You haven't armed the populace, you haven't set up civilian watches, you haven't done any of the things that would happen in a society actually set up to be sustainably police-free It's amazing how a population that
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by virgilp 6y ago
So, basically, Nokia 3310?
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by virgilp 6y ago
Nice try, NSA.
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by virgilp 6y ago
And my point is that's basically impossible to "set them appropriately", and one shouldn't throw around strong words such as "idiots or impotents" for those failing to do so. Did the board fail in its mission?
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by virgilp 6y ago
I've worked with a guy that didn't finish his studies (started working out of university/ during 1st year and completely neglected it until they expelled him). He was surprisingly good though as in he had a solid theoretical
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by virgilp 6y ago
> Unless the shareholders are idiots or impotent and the board set the wrong incentives. That's quite a big leap. Humans are exceptionally good at gaming objective metrics if that's all that matters... setting the right incenti
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by virgilp 6y ago
> c) Unsurprisingly, I find DDG's search results good enough. I rarely go to Google, and only when DDG fails me. I felt the same way for a while and even switched the default engine to DDG... but lately, I've stopped finding th
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by virgilp 6y ago
> Generally, happiness is a reward from doing what your genes want you to do. I disagree. Generally happiness comes from being happy/content/thankful for what you have (as opposed to "having a lot"). You can be happy
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by virgilp 6y ago
That's not "succeding" though. I like to give Trump as an example: everyone loves to blast him for being an idiot. Is he a good president? No. Is he good at the game, but most people totally miss what his game is? I claim, ye
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by virgilp 6y ago
Or a different way to look at it is that if you put two things together, the mathematical operation is not always "+"; it totally depends on the things (and how you put them together). You use plus if you put together fractions of
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by virgilp 6y ago
The problem is that if you know what you are doing (I.e. you configure MongoDB to be safe) you may lose all reason to use it (no longer has the same performance, of course)
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by virgilp 6y ago
Ugh, that sucks. I've changed banks for less.
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by virgilp 6y ago
Self driving cars don’t need to be 100% autonomous in all possible scenarios in order to be useful. Self-driving reliably on the highway? Hell yes I’d take that (just think of trucks - having a driver to the highway is so much cheaper than
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by virgilp 6y ago
Can you not call the bank to block the card on account of fraud and get a new one? The subsequent payments would surely be declined...
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by virgilp 6y ago
I actually did code hinting for PHP in a fairly popular commercial product, more than 10 years ago - and I disagree with you that it has to be less capable. You can use heuristics - people are forgiving because they understand you can'
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by virgilp 6y ago
> Pearl was cut from 18 apartments to 10 and its approval required an underground garage with 53 parking spots. How did it ever get here? Requiring more than 2 parking spots per apartment is insane.... especially for "affordable hou
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by virgilp 6y ago
> Wouldn't that be useful? Useful - for what? Do you want that link to be written & maintained by you, or to be automatically generated by the tools? Because we already have the latter... (e.g. in many IDEs, ctrl-/cmd-clic
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by virgilp 6y ago
> The requested URL /patio11/status/936629310785437696 was not found on this server. That’s all we know. Either use archive.is or the link to the tweet. google cache doesn't really work.
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by virgilp 6y ago
This gives a whole new meaning to the concept of "public key encryption".

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