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by zhemao 13y ago
Yeah, I don't see the problem with this. If the code is known to work, why do it over again? Just because it's a month old doesn't mean it's necessarily bad. Remember, laziness is one of the three primary virtues of the
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by zhemao 13y ago
This. Every time I've started a project and then abandoned it shortly afterwards, it was because the goal was too complex and I didn't break it up into small-enough pieces. Every time I've succeeded at a large project, it was
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by zhemao 13y ago
If CloudSigma is using SSL with forward secrecy, tapping the fiber would be pretty useless. Unless you're suggesting the NSA has compromised CloudSigma's internal network, which is possible.
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by zhemao 13y ago
Even if they vocally oppose it now, how do we know they will continue to oppose it once in office. Remember that Obama was pretty vocally opposed to secret government surveillance prior to becoming president.
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by zhemao 13y ago
I also find it ridiculous that they charged him for "obstruction of justice" for not being at home when they executed the search warrant. It's not like they told him in advance they were coming to search his house.
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by zhemao 13y ago
Well yeah, that goes without saying. Obviously they wouldn't have taken such a dangerous job if they had better options. They probably wouldn't have left Ireland or China in the first place if they weren't facing poverty and
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by zhemao 13y ago
LOL, cause everything is better if it's rewritten in javascript.
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by zhemao 13y ago
He's only a repeat offender if what he's doing is actually an offense. I don't think you could consider chalking a public sidewalk to be a criminal offense, unless you're willing to say that a kid who draws a hopscotch p
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by zhemao 13y ago
I agree with everything except "forced the Chinese and Irish to work under horrific conditions building the nation's railways." The conditions were terrible, but I don't think the laborers were forced. They were paid, vo
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by zhemao 13y ago
Wait, so the judge can order the lawyer not to talk about free speech. That's like, a meta-violation of the first amendment. Not only can you not exercise your 1st amendment rights, you can't even exercise your 1st amendment right
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by zhemao 13y ago
That's not to say that people not using more free (as in speech) isn't a bad thing. It's just that for quite a few things, there are either no free software alternatives or the free software alternatives are not user-friendly
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by zhemao 13y ago
"Should be doing" and "is practical or feasible to do" are too different things. Not all of us are satisfied with browsing the web by emailing a wget daemon and reading it on a computer designed for a Chinese government
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by zhemao 13y ago
Were you aware of localtunnel " http://progrium.com/localtunnel/" before you started this project? I think it does sort of the same thing. Obviously you have a lot more features than localtunnel does (SSL, HTT
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by zhemao 13y ago
More like there you toil in the hot sun so that the crop on which your future survival depends doesn't become choked by weeds, devoured by pests, or withered from heat. People forget that agriculture was a back breaking affair and an o
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by zhemao 13y ago
Says the man who clearly put in a few hours of servitude in order to purchase the shiny contraption with which he wrote this essay. Not even subsistence farmers these days are entirely self-sufficient. They still have to purchase some of th
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by zhemao 13y ago
I agree. Even if everybody knows this is a joke, it's still kind of in poor taste for a manager to say this.
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by zhemao 13y ago
Especially since he had to deal with the fallout of his predecessors' human rights violations, especially in the "abets our enemies and alienates our friends" department.
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by zhemao 13y ago
Google stores an unencrypted copy on their servers, so the NSA would just get it from them. No need to store the encrypted copy for perpetuity.
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by zhemao 13y ago
What exactly do you mean by profiling? Do you mean deliberately choosing a group of people so that they all fit a certain set of demographic criteria? If so, then I am arguing that there is not necessarily profiling going on. Just because a
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by zhemao 13y ago
Then they would need a way to do client-side public key encryption in the web browser, which is difficult and not really an important feature as far as the vast majority of their users are concerned.
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by zhemao 13y ago
Of course, the font is vanishingly small, so I could understand if you think that method puts too much of a strain on your eyesight.
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by zhemao 13y ago
The site is shown in the little parenthetical section next to the link text. You could just mentally filter by not clicking on links with (medium.com) next to it.
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by zhemao 13y ago
It's an option you can choose at compilation time, I believe.
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by zhemao 13y ago
How on earth could you conclude that? It's a group of 14 people. It isn't terribly unlikely that they weren't chosen solely on race and gender. Not to mention that they're all federal judges, and the federal judiciary is
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by zhemao 13y ago
First of all, we don't know whether they were lying. Second of all, if they were, they may have been forced by the government to lie. The FISA requests they were getting also came with gag orders.
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by zhemao 13y ago
Google does encrypt user data at rest. The problem is that they also have the decryption keys. They need to be able to see the data in plain text in order to target ads and improve their services. That's their entire business models. S
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by zhemao 13y ago
I'm not certain, but it seems from the article that they implemented MegaPipe to run alongside the BSD API. You do have to keep the BSD sockets API alongside the new implementation. Not only because there is a lot of existing code that
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by zhemao 13y ago
I really don't understand Soylent. Do people really hate eating so much? Eating is one of the greatest joys of human existence. I understand that people have other things to do, but are you really so busy you can't sit down to enj
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by zhemao 13y ago
You could also try the DE2's "little brothers", the DE1 and DE0, which cost considerably less but have less logic elements, DSP blocks, and peripherals.
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by zhemao 13y ago
When you've taken over the internet, what's your next move? Make the internet bigger of course. I for one welcome our new Google overlords.

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