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by wepple 5y ago
This is the TL;DR for me. Perhaps a lot of this will evolve and we’ll end up with some fantastic technologies that are truly revolutionary. But, a lot of us are pretty jaded by “blockchain is a game changer” with no tangible evidence beyond
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by wepple 5y ago
>A protocol Running email protocols over TLS isn’t an improvement to the protocol, it’s tunneling. PGP isn’t an improvement to the protocol, it’s encapsulating data in another protocol/format. Your comment proves he point; email has
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by wepple 5y ago
Really hard to generalize. I think people get such varied offers, and depending on what year they’re on & how their vesting schedule works it could be higher or lower. Companies also change vesting schedules and such, and I assume level
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by wepple 5y ago
Levels.FYI is useful, but wildly inaccurate in my experience, especially as you get further up the levels
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by wepple 5y ago
If you just autosell it, why would you prefer straight salary? Is it concerns over stock fluctuations? I too always sell immediately as I prefer to be diversified (but I also don’t work at an extreme high growth company)
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by wepple 5y ago
This is great, I used to do a similar thing but all in my head (so obviously not as complex permutations) In practical use, how do you typically remember whether or not a site allows special characters or has a length requirement? Also do y
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by wepple 5y ago
Juicero!
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by wepple 5y ago
Can you elaborate on > they seem insistent on making the experience as terrible as possible lately
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by wepple 5y ago
I’m curious about this too. 1Password used to sync to a file that could be backed up to iCloud/Dropbox/drive and I wished they’d kept it that way, but it at least partially suggests they may have stuck with full client-side encryp
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by wepple 5y ago
> WhatsApp will never go anywhere, it's entrenched. They're big enough to copy novel new social media ideas quickly. Whilst it hasn’t yet exploded in user growth, I’d disagree with this. Signal and telegram and others have outm
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by wepple 5y ago
That doesn’t prevent them from being open & honest about what caused a security incident and what they’ve since done to ensure they’re highly secure. Furthermore, I’d argue that Firefox & chrome password managers probably have sever
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by wepple 5y ago
LastPass has had a history of security incidents (no company can completely avoid incidents, but if security is literally a primary part of your value, you shouldn’t be having so many). Even worse, they have a history of doing hand-wavy cor
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by wepple 5y ago
Fishing & Hunting licenses and excise taxes. The US has 640 million acres of public land, most of which is available for anybody to enjoy.
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by wepple 5y ago
> If huge tech companies like google, facebook, airbnb etc are unable to make fast websites... then why should we use their frameworks and tools? You don’t have to at all. Lots of folks do because “fast websites” is one requirement out o
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by wepple 5y ago
I agree. Security/privacy aren’t going to become less of a problem, and knowing what is actually running on our systems is a remarkably unsolved problem.
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by wepple 5y ago
Really not a value-add contribution. A lot of software that has existed forever is written in C by unpaid volunteers; are you planning to rewrite it in rust? Further, snark could be made about how this will have near zero security impact ye
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by wepple 5y ago
Java is uncannily good at repeatedly allowing code execution via data misinterpretation across the board. The way it does serialization makes it impossible to secure. Templating libraries have forever been an issue. Endless extensibility in
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by wepple 5y ago
Wow, fascinating. I’m not entirely surprised that the taxes cover the healthcare costs (probably similar in NZ where taxes on smoking are very high), but I was startled by the idea of early mortality being a saving. I would point out that h
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by wepple 5y ago
One consideration here that many folks (US in particular) may not consider is that smokers put a very substantial burden on the NZ healthcare system which is taxpayer funded. Of course, there are plenty of counter examples to this such as o
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by wepple 5y ago
Exactly, it’s an absurd headline. Their influence over growth has gone back to more-or-less normal. This article says very little of value.
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by wepple 5y ago
When I got my NYC drivers license, the full end to end test was 8 minutes (I got a printout) on empty roads. I’d take a high quality autonomous vehicle over a tired Uber driver any day as a pedestrian
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by wepple 5y ago
I agree that it doesn’t seem trumpeted, and the author is really pushing his point quite far, but your point that they don’t seem to take a stand on free speech would appear to be incorrect: https://handbook.mit.edu/expressi
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by wepple 5y ago
The power they have isn’t over us, it’s over institutions and businesses who seem to bend to the will of the mob. I’d like to see some data on whether a Twitter storm in a teacup has any measurable negative consequences for a typical large
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by wepple 5y ago
Didn’t come across that way at all to me. I read it as general concern at the suppression of ideas. There was no call to action to ban Twitter hashtags or forfeit MIT.
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by wepple 5y ago
Don’t forget WhatsApp users switching to Signal and possibly never returning
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by wepple 5y ago
+1 I find that YT actually badly overfits my history; it’s super predictable and narrow. Sure it’s preferable to falling off the bandwagon into conspiracy, but it doesn’t really “explore” a lot for me
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by wepple 5y ago
I have a large enough house with a full-bedroom sized dedicated work office. I also don’t have a work phone (nor work email on my personal phone) and don’t check my computer outside work hours. I’d say there is still plenty of psychological
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by wepple 5y ago
This is really common, not just keyboards but time zone settings and even geo IP lookup. The effort required to make your enterprise look like it’s in Russia is definitely not worth the effort given that this would only stop one slice of or
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by wepple 5y ago
Really fascinating idea I hadn’t heard of before. Felt “icky” at first pass, but it’s no different to having a separate TOTP gen app, in fact given it stops you from having to copy/paste the code around, possibly less exposure there. T
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by wepple 5y ago
So the TOTP seed is deployed to a specific users mobile app?

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