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by zby 12y ago
Update: Removed the unnecessary and (as noted below) false remark about Joel not understanding Dependency Injection. The main (but not only) reason we have object factories is to be able to extract code suitable to be unit-tested from the w
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by zby 12y ago
I was actually referring to http://democracyos.org/ - it says "Open Source Join a community that's hacking the future of democracy today. We are 100% open source with an MIT license."
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by zby 12y ago
And yet another problem with this is that on computer systems root is the god - it is very hard to prove honesty in the system. Maybe with crypto we'll have some methods here - I am all for experimenting with this - but it is important
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by zby 12y ago
I do believe that transparency is already changing politics. This is unstoppable - from the FOIA formal rights to lowering the barriers for mass distribution of information with internet to the the miniaturization of microphones and cameras
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by zby 12y ago
There is http://partidopirata.org/ there :)
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by zby 12y ago
Why it is 'Open Source' and not 'Free Software'?
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by zby 12y ago
Update: It looks like it is not just polls - there is also a debate tool (although does not look very sophisticated). Still the article talked mostly about polls. I don't know - maybe it is a step in the right direction - but I have th
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by zby 12y ago
It is a classic - but also quite old - there are some new techniques for countering this: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/01/countering_tr...
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by zby 12y ago
The problem is not that they can do it - the problem is attribution. The governments can do a lot of bad things, and it is not ethics that stop them.
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by zby 12y ago
The crucial question here is if the virtual state can do anything that would be in conflict with the state that has jurisdiction over its servers. I think that with some advanced cryptography this can work to some extent (with servers behin
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by zby 12y ago
I have always thought that we'll have some internet courts of arbitration that would cut through the red tape of dealing with many jurisdictions. But can we have sovereign states that exist only in the internet? I doubt - maybe there w
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by zby 12y ago
Are you sure that all internal traits needed for "winning" (what ever that means for you) have identical distribution across every possible divide of the society (by sex, race, social class, etc)? Consider this: "The differen
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by zby 12y ago
Libraries are more powerful if they are decoupled. For example I wanted to build a website that would let you check message signature against public keyservers. This sounds trivial - but unfortunately the libraries that I've reviewed d
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by zby 12y ago
Addressing the Moxie Marlinspike post - PGP being flexible and comprehensive is not the problem. The implementations/libraries (including GPG) being a fossil from last century are. From my own experience I can say that the libraries a
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by zby 12y ago
For 20 years nobody cared about crypto - how is it surprising that we have what we have? For the future - progress does not come from just line of development, there needs to be many many experiments before we get good crypto. We need bette
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by zby 12y ago
If Iran-Contra was not discovered you'd think it is a 'bizare explanation' and a conspiracy theory. And it was only by a chance that it was discovered. This is even more evident in the case of Watergate.
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by zby 12y ago
I agree with the open source point (but not that it would solve everything - see "Trusting trust"), but shipping with the backdoor by default is is problematic for the attackers, because it makes it public.
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by zby 12y ago
The culprit of the 'ugly Perl' meme is the $ character, all the rest is just a rationalisation of the first impression: http://perlalchemy.blogspot.com/2011/01/is-responsible-for-u...
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by zby 12y ago
Interesting! I would rather use a one per day limit instead of 30 per month - this would force people to think another 24 hours about their reply and that could improve it :)
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by zby 12y ago
There is also a very detailed plan for something like a broadband tax by Philippe Aigrain: http://www.sharing-thebook.com/
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by zby 12y ago
"Even without a power structure, people will try to dominate, bully others, by posting more frequently than anyone else in an effort to drown out other opinions or contributions." This can be easily countered with setting user quo
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by zby 12y ago
I have another quip about that "Frameworks are framing, libraries are liberating" :)
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by zby 12y ago
As to virality - I like Henry Jenkins ideas. After I googled it now I found that he wrote a book on that subject ( http://nyupress.org/books/9780814743508/ )- but I had just read this on his blog.
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by zby 12y ago
That is not too bad - they'll probably not deploy army to crush celebrations after all. By the way - there is a great democratic potential in play: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201105&#x2F
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by zby 12y ago
I was once filmed for a documentary (on migrant workers) made for BBC and I was quoted saying something like "This newspaper used to be full of job ads" - they cut off the ending of my sentence: "now it is all in the internet
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by zby 12y ago
This crashes my shockwave flash plugin - should I start to be paranoid?
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by zby 12y ago
And they all use gmail?!?!?!
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Ask HN: Requirements for voting software
1 points by zby 12y ago|2 comments
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by zby 12y ago
All those that don't use placeholders in their SQL code.
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by zby 12y ago
The growth has to stop very soon - exponential functions can go on only so long. And when it stops the volatility will not stop - this is a prediction of course - but I am pretty sure that it will be this way.

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