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by zxcmx 9y ago
Yeah except for the tons of people who help out their parents on minimum wage jobs because family is family. And those parents "contributed nothing" (except for you know, labour and care and such). It's nice when people have
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by zxcmx 9y ago
I think "yes, prime minister" put it best: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2n916d It never makes sense to use nuclear weapons. My favourite thing about the nuclear chain of command is how many humans are in
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by zxcmx 9y ago
This is the author: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=9gs9StcAAAAJ&hl... Not a shill. Source: worked with him. This post of his is an interesting read and might give a bit more background to the what you saw:
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by zxcmx 9y ago
This comment and parent are pretty master level HN trolling.
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by zxcmx 9y ago
You are correct re: exchange arb and gox, but it worked the other way around. Gox dollars were illiquid but BTC was liquid (until BTC withdrawals started failing just before collapse). So Gox had a higher BTC price than anywhere else. Probl
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by zxcmx 9y ago
The argument falls flat for me due to the assumption that one only participates in the "marriage market" OR the "sex market". Seems a false dichotomy, not backed by data,and the rest of the argument depends on it.
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Not involved in discussion but here is my take on it. Most SAT instances are surprisingly easy to solve, hence the "unreasonable" effectiveness of SAT solvers. The construction of known-hard SAT instances is really building a new
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by zxcmx 9y ago
People who use the software professionally to make money. There is a market segment between enthusiast and enterprise where people pay real money for software which supports their freelancing and consulting. Hex-rays and (and formerly photo
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by zxcmx 9y ago
The other scenario where this kind of thing can be useful is poorly secured "kiosks", aka, you want to run arbitrary code but the administrator of that machine doesn't want you to. Macros can be disabled by group policy.
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Parent comment is expressing that a web of (sometimes? often?) bullshit is better than inescapable authority telling you how or what to think. It's not a non sequitir it's just written in shorthand. I'm not 100% sure I agree
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Everybody wins, but the people with the most win the most. In the limit that means they end up controlling all the things. You would somehow need "little people" wealth growth (in aggregate) to outstrip "rich people" wea
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by zxcmx 9y ago
It is this bug: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Server_Side_Request_Forgery Except that with tor, hitting ANY external IP from the "real" IP of your hosting box is bad news (since your service is no longer hi
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by zxcmx 9y ago
How about a limit argument then? Ok if not 10,000 years, why not 500? Still too much? Another 50 then? At what point does this argument tell me I should just kill myself right now because I don't "deserve" to live any longer?
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by zxcmx 9y ago
I was about to make this exact argument, but on inspection, the authors of the article are making a more subtle point. Their claim is that extensive use of even "white collar" contractors may cause long term harm to organisations,
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by zxcmx 9y ago
I upvoted you and I think you made your point well, I just feel the opposite way to you. Thanks btw :) I would prefer shitty nonfunctioning systems which still allow me to use cash and buy a bowl of noodles to the alternative where I need t
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Well by political fiat we know the yuan can't go down! We can trust it because we can see how investors act :) Owait it seems like everyone who has the option wants to convert it into rents in "western liberal democracies". S
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by zxcmx 9y ago
There's tons of folks on hn betting their shorts on bitcoin and way more exotic things, just that hopefully we can all afford to lose our, uh "investments" ;)
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Well on the whole people who sell sensible advice for free in the personal fincance sphere, though living off their blog income, are probably not the bad guys. Although you might have to exercise some independent thought to figure out what
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Chip and pin switch is the best case. Think about all your other accounts. Gas, power, water, fines, etc. Also i don't know have ever been involved in an "it upgrade" project and what it means to have the gas pumps now do dif
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by zxcmx 9y ago
It is not trivial to prevent at all. You need to spend money and fraud prevention effort at every trust point. All of this costs literal salaries of people who say "no computer says no" at every point. Those people also suffer ris
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Well shit thats what peope don't get. You accept a shitty system that kinda works or a national system that works super well that looks like modern fascism with good biometrics. Choose your poison. Carefully.
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by zxcmx 9y ago
I apologise but I think you have a poor understanding of the way this stuff works. Everyone absolutely wants to extend you credit.
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Tell me which party to the transaction you are as you make this rational decision. Or explain that you don't understand the industry or any of the regulatory frameworks involved. Have you ever accepted a payment? EDIT: not sure if I mi
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by zxcmx 9y ago
I understand, but in practice the fraud liability when it comes to identifying parties between two huge companies is very, very clearly laid out. As in, weeks or months or years of discussion. Not talking about credit cards thougn which are
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by zxcmx 9y ago
This is a wonderful idea but it is not cognisant of risk or user experience. I am sort of surprised more HNers don't understand risk and the tradeoffs involved and seem to be taking an absolutist stance on this. Equifax is an unforgiva
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Low trust versus high trust society is the thing you need to understand here. You live in a high trust society which means that, in general, it is more efficient to optimise for conversion rate than to deny valid but incompetent or "un
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by zxcmx 9y ago
None of this works for you as a person if your easily look up-able information can be used to apply for credit. In a high trust society you are extremely vulnerable to this stuff. Low trust societies do not have this problem in the same way
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by zxcmx 9y ago
My experience of local NGO / nonprofit workers is similar, although I see that they are frustrated with organisations that seem to increasingly spend more on seeking grants and reporting than "service delivery". Also, well fu
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Ahh kinesis has crazy gotchas depending on what you're doing. If you are pushing LOTS of events it kinda makes sense but see: https://brandur.org/kinesis-in-production for some gory details. In particular: "you ge
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Perhaps because your goal isn't blanket, end-to-end privacy? To work on end to end privacy one really needs to control the experience end to end; trusted clients and a solid protocol, plus trusted discovery. Email is not that thing. Em

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