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by wtbob 10y ago
> I don't think urban liberals are the ones clamoring for harsher law enforcement. In the 90s it was urban blacks clamouring for harsher law enforcement, since it was their neighbourhoods which were suffering the effects of drug-rel
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Can you summarize how he "[broke] desktops with PulseAudio"? For a long while it was flaky and buggy, with audio periodically failing. It was never the end of the world, but it was annoying, and I think it runs decently enou
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by wtbob 10y ago
> But I know that when I pull a 3 year old log out of the archive, I can gunzip it and will still be able to read it, no matter how much the file format has changed since then, and I don't have to dig up a 3 year old magic decoder p
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by wtbob 10y ago
> All you proles stop complaining about corporate corruption, problematic immigration, and stagnant wages because everything is great and you have us to thank. It's better than it otherwise would have been. As Margaret Thatcher not
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Your incredulity at the fact that trains still have human operators involved in any capacity at all, on the other hand, is spot-on. I'm with you 100% there. Every time somebody wrecks a train because they were asleep or distracted
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U.S. hospitals serve people of all classes; people with low impulse control are positively correlated with the criminal classes; people with low impulse control are more likely to behave impulsively when given bad news. It's unfortuna
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by wtbob 10y ago
> I'm surprised to find that sentiment on HN, even most smokers seem to agree that their smoke may harm others and are considerate about it. The question is not whether people agree that something may be true; the question is whethe
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by wtbob 10y ago
> In an overview of fair division applications published in Nautilus, science writer Erica Klarreich offers one such example. In the event of the contentious breakup of a marriage or relationship, the algorithm, which Ring and Brams call
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by wtbob 10y ago
> If people don't want you smoking by them, they usually don't want you vaping by them either. Sure, and the decent thing to do is not to do it. Can I get the law to enforce my preference regarding body odour? Can some racist
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So much for 'All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States'! Y'know, the Constitution ain't perfect, but it's better than what we have now.
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> The reason for their opposition is twofold; e-cigarettes appear to act as a gateway drug for people who don't smoke; teenagers in particular. colourful packaging, synthetic fruity flavours; the e-cigarette industry is well aware o
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Does it matter in this context? Yes, yes it matters. Correctness matters. Falsehood is wrong .
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by wtbob 10y ago
> 2FA is a major inconvenience. The login process goes from 1-2 sec to 30sec. That's definitely true, and it's definitely annoying. But one is not logging in every day (or even, I hope, every month: 90-day cookies are safe eno
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by wtbob 10y ago
This is why one should always, always use client-side encryption. Want to encrypt to the server? Sure, fine, there are good reasons for that interaction to be encrypted. But there are good reasons for one's data to be secured fro
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by wtbob 10y ago
Yup, pretty much. STDs are unavoidable, given promiscuity: there's just too much going on for diseases not to evolve and spread.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Well, that's the good thing about PIR — with the protocol I discussed, OWS wouldn't have access to one's list of contacts. They'd still know with whom one spoke (anonymising that is a hard problem), but at least they wo
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by wtbob 10y ago
> I would like to think that after 20 years of effort, Netscape actually does more than 7.5 times as much stuff as it did in 1996. Does it though? In 1996 it included a mail client, a news client and a gopher client along with its HTT
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by wtbob 10y ago
> An actual software engineering degree concentration would be better for what most people actually want, but it's a rarity. Part of the problem, IMNSHO, is that we have widespread disagreement with the profession of software '
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> so did you get a reply? No, I've not. If I wanted to brush up on my Java, I'd take a look at submitting a PR. But Java is the opposite of fun.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Note that everyone's favourite privacy-respecting app (mine too!), Signal, also does contacts-sharing, although it doesn't do friends discovery (so the server knows one's contacts, but one's contacts don't). If Open
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by wtbob 10y ago
> So basically don't install Facebook or Whatsapp try to use the Facebook website if you can or better yet don't use Facebook at all on your phone if you value your privacy. I've been doing this for years now, and you know
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by wtbob 10y ago
So, Netscape Atlas was 6 megabytes in June 1996; Firefox for Windows 64-bit is 45.2 megabytes today (I picked the Windows download because it sounds like this guy was using Windows back then); that means the size has multiplied by 7.5 over
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Opera's security breach highlights a problem with proprietary password managers(xda-developers.com)
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Why I started learning emacs in 2016(warski.org)
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by wtbob 10y ago
> UK last month: Grosvenor dies leaving 9bn GBP in land to his son. We have inheritance tax in the UK, the son should have received a bill of several billion which would fund our health service. The Grosvenor family have spent the centur
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by wtbob 10y ago
> This is the first I've heard about SPKI being an Internet-scale answer to the problem of X.509. You're not the only one, and that's the problem. It has been, for nearly twenty years now. > The problem with the CA sys
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by wtbob 10y ago
> The idea of GuileEmacs is not to move away from the elisp language. The idea is to use an elisp implementation based on the Guile virtual machine. > Elisp will not go away. So any arguments for lisp and against scheme are void in t
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> Even if you pick a trustworthy CA, you're at the mercy of the weakest link (any random other CA elsewhere in the world). This was solved RFC 2692 & 2693, in 1999, and the entire industry has studiously ignored the solution a
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> Except that demonstrating a flaw _by predatory profit-driven entities that have a direct stake in said flaw_ leaves plenty of room for spin and hype. I think we're at a point where getting some money behind spinning and hyping the
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> I hope Emacs guys will finish the GuileEmacs[1] project. I really really hope they don't and use Common Lisp to achieve the same end. Running emacs in a Common Lisp like SBCL implementation means that it will be natively compil

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