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by zxcmx 6y ago
Interesting, yep: https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/165022051727702/ Thank you.
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by zxcmx 6y ago
You'll note that logically a company cannot actually solve this problem themselves in a satisfactory way, since you would have the same problem trusting the verification mechanism as you did trusting their app in the first place. What
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Do you have a reference for this please? All I can find is this "false alarm": https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/more_on_backd...
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by zxcmx 6y ago
That's still not a full answer, of course, your proprietary operating system or closed chipsets can spy on you. Absolutism isn't helpful IMHO, there is no true security in this world only degrees of trust and risk. You can always
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Right, is it grit to save your startup at the cost of your marriage? Life is all about tradeoffs. Personally I think the ability to make appropriate effort / reward choices > "grit". Of course, to an investor, abandoning e
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by zxcmx 6y ago
I think European dev market is a lot more complex than that; if you work in Zurich or London, do contracting, work for a major bank etc then the market is way different for you than if you do (say) PHP as an employee of a non-software compa
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by zxcmx 6y ago
I think this is position is a bit naive. Like saying "but child porn is just bits, like any other type of file". A crucial step in shooting someone (or a drone strike) is figuring out who to target and where they are. The fact tha
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by zxcmx 6y ago
So much this. Have seen apps where there were 4 diff string types brought by external dependencies and then like 3 or 4 more to deal with from diff Windows APIs.
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by zxcmx 6y ago
It's much worse; it's very difficult to debug complex pipelines (you can never get "inside" the runner), there are no services or reuse etc. Due to lack of features you can really only use codepipeline in very simple cas
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by zxcmx 6y ago
What if crypto fund II were a token. That'd be putting money where mouth is.
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Yeah I had a look and this is... not great. I take it all back.
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Since the extra words express the point more forcefully, perhaps they were necessary after all :p
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by zxcmx 6y ago
This looks fine to me? I mean the process of putting secrets in a web site is fraught, but: a) KDFs in general are deterministic, not sure about your point here. b) As long as you have sufficient input entropy, using SHA256 to mix some stuf
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by zxcmx 6y ago
I'm finding this super difficult to believe, it doesn't pass my internal BS detector. Anyone know how they arrived at this? Quick order of magnitude calc: Googling "London to New York flight carbon emissions" I get 0.67
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by zxcmx 6y ago
A bloaty app that's not platform native is still infinitely more usable than something which doesn't exist at all. Electron is one of a number of technologies which allow things to exist (in a non-optimal form) that might not be e
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by zxcmx 6y ago
People not getting COVID-19 immunity after recovery seems an extraordinary claim that would require very strong evidence for me to take seriously. How do you believe people recover from COVID-19? The fact that you recover from it at all, an
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by zxcmx 7y ago
Breastfeeding does reduce odds of conception but it doesn't really last more than a year. Plenty of people get pregnant while breastfeeding. I dunno, original poster mentioned scant nutrition being a condition for an extended effect so
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by zxcmx 7y ago
Yeah I think fair to charge the customer more to access more of the total battery capacity because Tesla is now assuming more warranty risk on the battery.
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by zxcmx 7y ago
Ships have boats! Except submarines. They used to be boats, but many subs are "really" ships now. But they are usually referred to as boats.
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by zxcmx 7y ago
I just don't think the assumption of malice is required, or particularly credible. People want to help! Do you believe if a virus started in, I don't know, Seattle with 10's of thousands infected, that U.S. citizens, foundati
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by zxcmx 7y ago
I think GP's point was that if you have a candidate it would also make sense to use sequences from the hospitalised to try and confirm your strain didn't put them there. Aka this being one mechanism by which you confirm it is only
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by zxcmx 7y ago
Sure, we can agree it's exponential until it's not. And then we can start to think about whether it's going to be a logistic curve or oscillate and what factors might amplify or damp and our model is much more interesting. Li
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by zxcmx 7y ago
Well you very quickly run out of mass, space, hosts etc so on a long enough timescale... Like an exponential process that starts at 1 atom with a 1 year doubling time would affect all the matter in the universe in less than a century (lets
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by zxcmx 7y ago
Maybe a dumb question, but can I run Krustlet in the browser? (maybe via browser WASI polyfill?). Does this mean you could assemble ad-hoc clusters using volunteer browsers? Not saying one _should_, but could you?
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by zxcmx 7y ago
How do you find quantitative risk in general? I find this approach problematic in computer security systems because assigning a meaningful numerical risk turns out to be very, very difficult. I'm often dealing with rare events that I&#
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by zxcmx 7y ago
It's difficult because ontologically you can never actually prove something is "safe". It's proving a negative (never any harmful effects). Some harms are subtle or situation dependent, and small effects will only show u
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by zxcmx 7y ago
Our ancestors got their children working as soon as they were able. Farm work, piece work, factory work, whatever. Kind of frowned upon now.
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by zxcmx 7y ago
Interesting that open source software is not discussed, it seems like one of the most radically successful embodiments of this.
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by zxcmx 7y ago
Can you explain more about this? I've seen a few startups now pitching depth-of-field innovations for biometric use. For example http://www.infinityoptics.com.sg/who-we-are/ Not sure if this is a bit too directly
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by zxcmx 7y ago
I have nostalgia for local production but also recognise it can be harmful to subsidise inefficient industries. Hard to draw the right line between cronyism (obviously tariffs are actually a tax on locals) and resilience. Strategically, NZ

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