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by xorcist 6mo ago
> Isn't it about time someone developed one? Honest question: Why? If you want a Windows-like environment, run Windows. I get this all the time when people ask about a Linux equivalent for something, and aren't really satistied
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by xorcist 6mo ago
> He caused a MAJOR issue for Greece That link goes to the Greece financial crisis which, according to the Wikipedia page, started in 2009. Varoufakis was elected minister of finance in early 2015 and resigned only half a year later. Fro
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by xorcist 6mo ago
> Companies issue stock to raise money There is certainly some misunderstanding here, and I am unsure about where it is. Perhaps another example could have been more clear. When you "buy the S&P500" you do not buy stock fro
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by xorcist 6mo ago
This may sound reasonable but isn't at all how newspapers are run. You can absolutely buy an ad in the New York Times criticizing the New York Times. Within reason of course, as you said the are private entities allowed to take on any
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by xorcist 6mo ago
> To take the obvious parallel, buying a newspaper did not imply agreement That ... does not hold at all. You wouldn't buy or subscribe to an openly Nazi paper unless you are a full blown white supremacist.
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by xorcist 7mo ago
The problem is that Europe does not spend enough on US weaponry. Bulding nukes domestically does not help with that. NATO was explicitly built to keep Europe in line. That worked to the benefit of everyone, until national security intrests
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by xorcist 7mo ago
> If your money goes up in value, you have a huge incentive to stockpile it and not buy pizza A lot hinges on this being true, but being deflationary is not unique to gold. It is also true for a lot of other things, including stocks. Yet
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by xorcist 7mo ago
> the entire modern tech industry would not exist without ZIRP The problem with zero interest rate is that it doesn't incentivize better ideas. Why would you work to increase productivity if capital has no cost? The period 2016-2021
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by xorcist 7mo ago
> Buying stocks hoping that it would appreciate doesn’t work when there is no economic growth Why? If you and I earn $100 per year, every year, that means there is no economic growth. We spend half of it on food, clothes, and other neces
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by xorcist 7mo ago
How can you falsely revoke a certificate? If an attacker can revoke a certificate, either by falsifying the signature or possessing the necessary key material, it is by definition not a trustworthy certificate anymore, and the revocation is
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by xorcist 7mo ago
That is indeed the question: How does attestation help with proving that? From my limited understanding, I can immediately think of a dozen ways to implement such an attack, and none would be helped by Google attesting that the device is in
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by xorcist 7mo ago
> Bitcoin, where users would need to migrate their coins to a quantum-resistant scheme Is that so? I always thought that the design choice that only hashes of the public keys were public was a pretty clever way to make the whole scheme q
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by xorcist 7mo ago
Until Microsoft decides to no longer sign the Linux boot loader shim (for IBM/Red Hat, no less).
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by xorcist 7mo ago
It's not your own data anymore if you gave it away.
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by xorcist 7mo ago
The actual revocation needn't be secure. False revocations are an oxymoron. The practice around revocations need to be secure of course, but that's more on an engineering problem than a cryptographical.
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by xorcist 7mo ago
The argument here is kind of hard to follow. Who is the "owner" of the phone, "the user" is also mentioned and it is not clear if these two are the same. Is the owner of the phone in the controlling-software sense, Googl
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by xorcist 7mo ago
That seems like a weak argument to require attestation? What would attestation prevent that scenario, specifically?
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by xorcist 7mo ago
Scary is the understatement of the day. I can't imagine the environment where someone think that architecture is a good idea.
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by xorcist 7mo ago
> senior citizens and tried to explain how to parse the domain Why would you want end users, senior citizens or not, to mentally parse URLs? The rule is: If the bank, or paypal, or your landlord, or anyone else really emails you that you
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by xorcist 7mo ago
> the operation was in no way sponsored by the Saudi state, We do not know this. There are plentiful evidence to suggest direct involvement of the state itself, and the bin Ladin family is certainly hard to untangle from the Saudi state.
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by xorcist 7mo ago
> except by Trump, Hegseth & co Do not underestimate the current administration. They have other reasons for this conflict, and so does Netanyahu.
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by xorcist 7mo ago
"Military action", perhaps, but that is a very vague term. You replied to someone about "fighting foreign troops on own soil" which describes a ground invasion. 9/11 was something else. It is USA did not respond wit
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by xorcist 7mo ago
Isn't verifying sources a much harder problem than just searching the list of works in the first place? Especially in cases such as this. For well known works of literature and music structured data exists already.
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by xorcist 7mo ago
And least one of those environment can contain template strings that are expanded with arguments from request headers when run under popular enterprise java frameworks, and by way of the injection patching could hot load arbitrary code in r
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by xorcist 7mo ago
You don't. We lost the war already. [1] You may not store your personal data with the surveillance companies computers, but your friends will store your data there. Your mail, your chats, your contact information. Without even asking y
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by xorcist 7mo ago
"Free trade" is one of those euphemisms that seldom is free and only sometimes concerns trade. It's mostly about leverage to create a stronger position for negotiations.
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by xorcist 7mo ago
The same NSA that publicly states "We kill people over metadata"? If that's the type of things they say publicly at conferences we can only imagine what a more sensitive comment would look like. How anyone can underestimate t
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by xorcist 7mo ago
You are absolutely right. It is a good feature, but it must be a concious decision. It should not be default. You should set it in your shell alias or environment, just like you have something like LESS="-FQMR" (no bell, mo
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by xorcist 7mo ago
Right. But more often than not, the problem that's being solved is "we have gotten money to throw at things", so the answer of throwing in many more people to busywork kind of makes sense. That's before we even think abo
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by xorcist 7mo ago
Newspeak is the trademark of oppressive regimes. Can we please not overexert ourselves in trying to please the global tech companies by pre-emptively changing our language? Google details new process to install unverified Android apps. Th

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