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by voidmain 9y ago
This is limited to 30% of your income ("AGI"), however. (I am not your tax advisor. Please don't take tax advice from random internet people.)
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by voidmain 9y ago
"These days, we associate the Soviet era with bleak images of scarcity and repression: To continue reading this premium article, subscribe for unlimited access."
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by voidmain 9y ago
On the contrary, the distribution of incorrect values alone is fairly convincing. A "typical threading bug" does not actually flip a randomly selected bit. And the rate of memory errors in consumer machines in the wild is probabl
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by voidmain 9y ago
Sorry, I just don't agree. Strict liability is where it's at, because the reality is that standard practice in these matters is very risky, so you're never going to be able to pin negligence on anyone even in a civil case. Ma
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by voidmain 9y ago
Criminal law is a very blunt instrument, and for good reason is usually reserved for deliberate actions, not mistakes. If you want to make willfully concealing a data breach (to avoid liability or just bad publicity) a crime, that would b
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by voidmain 9y ago
I'm not sure I think it would be a bad thing if proprietary software licenses stopped disclaiming all liability, but there's no evidence that creating liability for data breaches (for the entity that collected and stored the data,
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by voidmain 9y ago
That won't solve the problem, because there are plenty of good reasons for people to share information with companies that they don't want to share with everyone. In the case of the Equifax breach, people shared personal informat
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by voidmain 9y ago
This is a bad idea; it just raises the cost of entry for startups unnecessarily. Liability should be in proportion to harm actually done, and harm actually done is in proportion to how much personal data is compromised.
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by voidmain 9y ago
> if the company is sued because of a bug you caused, we're suing you It's totally implausible that companies are going to start regularly suing their engineers personally for writing bugs. They'd recover very little money
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by voidmain 9y ago
I'm not a big fan of contracts of adhesion. I think that to give up important rights by contract should require a correspondingly conspicuous degree of solemnity, not a link at the bottom of a web page to terms of service that state th
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by voidmain 9y ago
You have the key points: Some significant (edit: strict, not negligence-based) liability for data breaches is the key. And regulation of security practices is the worst idea ever; it will ossify current architectural mistakes at best and tu
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by voidmain 9y ago
A useful way of looking at this, orthogonal to the issue of forced savings, is that you need a roof over your head, so you are born short housing. Buying a modest home covers this short and so is typically a risk mitigating thing to do. O
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by voidmain 9y ago
Something in this article has to be wrong. A bankruptcy shouldn't result in closing profitable stores, just in a change of ownership from the holders of shares to the holders of debt. If a bunch of stores are closing AND a bunch of ret
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by voidmain 9y ago
So if that risk is so scary, build an e-mail service that protects someone's access to their inbox by contractual or technical means, and try to convince them to switch. Any power that you take away from (comparatively weak, subject to
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by voidmain 9y ago
I wonder if better use of multiple cores by a single webpage (what they are calling "fine grained parallelism") is actually a good idea. It seems like web developers can and probably will eat up any improvement in performance by b
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by voidmain 9y ago
> Why shouldn't we hold corporations to the same standards as governments? Because one of these organizations can throw you into a cage to be raped and tortured for the rest of your life, and the other can deny you access to some fa
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by voidmain 9y ago
This article makes a case that the creation of new coins (or blockchains) is inherently 100% wasteful. This is to some extent talking past the actual advocates of proof of stake systems, who claim that PoS can provide security , not new co
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by voidmain 9y ago
> Flying is much less energy-efficient than driving on a solid surface Small aircraft get 10-20 mpg, and the world record is over 60 mpg. Energy efficiency might be a reason why ground transport would continue to exist, but I'm sk
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by voidmain 9y ago
I disagree with you, and grandparent, and the article :-) I've hired plenty of great engineers who didn't have side projects on github. I have never specifically been looking for people that don't have a life outside the fiel
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by voidmain 9y ago
Usually high taxi fares don't go to the drivers, they go to the owners of the licenses. I think a NYC medallion used to cost $1.3 million before Uber; I don't think most of the drivers were shelling that out.
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by voidmain 9y ago
> 5000 ppm > 15 ppb > if you're standing at home plate and her test kit is at first base, then the lead paint test kit would be over 5000 miles away Is there some way you could put this in terms of libraries of congress? Maybe
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by voidmain 9y ago
Right, my suggestion was that you would not give them a certificate for your domain example.com, you would just give them a certificate for staticresources.example.com, and you would never load anything from that subdomain without subresour
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by voidmain 9y ago
Ah, yes, a completely speculative "post-mortem" by someone who knew nothing about the technology, but wanted some free press for his own database out of the news, knowing that the FDB team wouldn't be able to respond. And I s
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by voidmain 9y ago
It's really not my area of expertise, but it seems to me that today you could use subresource integrity to serve everything static from a CDN without having to trust it a lot. The real problem is the other stuff they do, like defense a
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by voidmain 9y ago
Yeah, it's only been 6 months since https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbleed . I guess we have to hope that they got religion after that :-/ It's kind of funny that we have Google pushing to force everyth
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by voidmain 9y ago
Supply curves are a real phenomenon, even for us paperclip maximizers. For example: you built the first factory in the most convenient spot, out of the best possible materials. You have to ship materials farther, build more transportation
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by voidmain 9y ago
Because as explained in the article, elementary things like memory access a[i] are not constant time with respect to i? Because an arbitrary C program will have non-constant branches (so may become exponentially long in your proposed instru
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by voidmain 9y ago
Beware of taking impossibility proofs too seriously. They should always be interpreted to mean "you cannot achieve this goal in this model," rather than "you cannot achieve this goal." "As far as the laws of mathem
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by voidmain 9y ago
Once you have sufficiently advanced technology, unless you also have some kind of totalitarianism, it only takes a few groups of people who disagree about the allocation of resources (or, really, anything else) in this star system and want
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by voidmain 9y ago
I intended the program to clearly have a type error on the last line, where the string "foobar" is assigned to a variable that has been declared to be of integer type. (In hindsight, I guess it is ambiguous whether the imaginary

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