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by wladimir 15y ago
It is by no means limited to the US, but various sources (such as wikileaks cables) make it clear that it is mostly the US government pushing for such draconian measures worldwide. So moving your business away from there to make it clear
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by wladimir 15y ago
I think his argument is a very bad one. It starts with the usual "Adversaries have more money and resources so it's better to just give up the fight". That is no help unless you're already on the winning side and posturing. While he certain
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by wladimir 15y ago
Because I don't like dealing with the business side much.
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by wladimir 15y ago
I think within 2-4 decades humanity (as we know it now) won't even be relevant. Relevant to whom?
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by wladimir 15y ago
And you can also configure Tor to only use a certain bandwidth quota per day/week/month.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Or they'll switch to producing the "ink" for the printers, as that's also a pretty non-trivial business from what I've understood (and will even be more so when 3d printers can print more advanced objects). 3d printing will be a win for con
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by wladimir 15y ago
We also have high tax rates on booze and cigarettes, for similar reasons, officially to discourage over-use and finance the cost to society (healthcare etc...).
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by wladimir 15y ago
Re: UTF-7, is anyone on the world actually using that? I've only ever read about it in articles about security problems.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Why should it be treated differently from any other startup? A lot of people have the opinion that gambling does not produce "value", and that it makes people addicted to it, while running them into the ground financially. I'm not sure ab
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by wladimir 15y ago
The great thing is that one now only has to explain to people to use UTF-8 in all cases, which is preferable to having to fool around with a lot of language-specific encodings. And it helps that almost all editors, these days, also default
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by wladimir 15y ago
No no no. My idea of wisdom is that it comes with age, higher-level patterns one finds out for themselves. What you call wisdom is simply obedience to a set of norms set by others. There are many claiming that their words are wisdom, so you
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by wladimir 15y ago
I don't claim to know the details, and I'm certainly not trying to defend them or something. But even if they're not as effective as they could be, every "bit" helps.
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by wladimir 15y ago
what has BoF done for us lately? Or ever? Educate people about the need for internet freedom / privacy, which is a good way to get broader popular support.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Tor does not distribute sites. You can have hidden services, but they're still hosted at one server (or, at most the sites that have the private key), which are hard to trace but can be taken down when found. I think gp is talking about som
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by wladimir 15y ago
Most people outside these small confines aren't. Not yet. That will change as soon as they deem it necessary. A lot of technical people are willing to explain to less technical people, and there are suddenly a lot of easy tutorials on how
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by wladimir 15y ago
As a software engineer, I like to work on interesting problems (this includes 'new' paradigms and 'obscure' algorithms), make users happy to feel I'm doing something useful, make sure the code is elegant so I (and fellow programmers) can ap
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by wladimir 15y ago
It seems that (almost?) everything that was planned out for plan9 is finding its way into operating systems. The ideas were good, but somehow they had to take the long way around. It was way ahead of its time.
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by wladimir 15y ago
I'm told that WoW works pretty well in Wine, so I wouldn't think those are valid reasons. Warden only has to inspect the running game process, which does not require root. It also looks at the list of running processes, which doesn't requir
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by wladimir 15y ago
I like to know what I'm doing actually matters I wish I could give you ten upvotes. I get a lot out of interacting with the people that actually use my software. It makes things more personal and that makes me more motivated to work on a
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by wladimir 15y ago
That's incredible. Even though I don't like it a bit that they're yielding to censorship, they did the best thing you can do when forced to censor: stay transparent about it. Provide a public API. Same with the subpoenas: They were forced t
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by wladimir 15y ago
Yes. Don't get me wrong, I think there are big challenges ahead for humanity, and some of those can only be addressed with advanced engineering, which, in turn, needs programming. But my paradox is: The biggest of dangers comes from people'
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by wladimir 15y ago
I personally think society has come to the stage where its clear that problems are no longer solvable in a technological way, or by more advanced technology/science. That dream is gone. For me, this makes programming feel more like a means
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by wladimir 15y ago
I doubt it too. How can this "right to be forgotten" even be serious while the EU is lobbying for data retention laws at the same time?
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by wladimir 15y ago
Agree that it is completely a matter of priorities. With hardware generations succeeding each other every few years, much faster every time, there was hardly reason to optimize everything. Bolting on new features was the highest priority. B
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by wladimir 15y ago
I think in the long run the software will do a much better job than a person Software is good at doing a single, static, well-defined job many times. What people do much better than software is adopt to change, deal with unexpected event
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by wladimir 15y ago
There is nothing inherent in that people should value economic productivity above all else. That's the gospel of the industrial revolution, and it's not really valid anymore in the (post-)information age. If you cannot be part of "economic
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by wladimir 15y ago
You could put a lot of effort into adding stuff on top to make it more secure, for example public key authentication and encryption. But maybe it's time for SMS to go away. It's very limited compared to other communication methods, and the
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by wladimir 15y ago
That's interesting. Seems they thought about it and chose the most secure way, then.
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by wladimir 15y ago
but their lives are absolutely meaningless and empty There is nothing "the economy" can do to change that, though. Feeling meaningful and full is a state of mind. And that goes more in the realm of religion and spirituality (and psycholog
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by wladimir 15y ago
What is this "average"? Obviously, it is a statistical measure. But what does it mean in terms of people? In those terms, "the average" is just a narrative of what the average person would be like. Which seems to be breaking down. Sure - yo

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