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> that no one else cares about

LOL - says the guy who responds in the thread!

Or did I just catch you using your other account?

> as is evident by all of the downvotes

What downvotes? I can't see what votes you got. You can't see what votes I got - they are all perfectly black. I see gray on two of the comments that replied to me.

So this is a very interesting comment that you leave here... long after anyone else comes to this entire thread, which has long disappeared from the homepage (and no new comments except for in this thread)... why would you think I got downvotes unless it was you who tried?

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Pro-tip: Those people who really don't care about a discussion ignore it, at most they cast a vote.
> that the hardware involved in the actual key rollover complies to the highest level specified by FIPS-140 (presumably actually FIPS-140-2).

Eww, FIPS-140-2.

FIPS-140 compliance isn't a selling point. It's more of a genetic marker than anything. Most of the time, it signals to hackers, "we value standards compliance over security."

Did you know that ECB mode is FIPS-140-2 approved, but AEAD modes (i.e. what you should be using to encrypt) such as GCM and OCB are not?

Yes, that ECB mode. https://blog.filippo.io/the-ecb-penguin/
If you have the torrent file, you can use one of the things that mount them as virtual file systems, like btfs (https://github.com/johang/btfs).
8.8.8.8 :)
On more serious note
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_denial-of-service_...
Given the lengthy apology afterwards, I suspect it was more like "People love to be told they're great, let's start with that".
The keys are stored in a FIPS 140-2 Level 4 HSM.
Oh, I know that programmers and hackers and whatnot knew torrents were cool; I'm talking about non-technical people.

For example, until fairly recently, if I mentioned a "torrent" to my non-technical mom, she would assume I meant ThePirateBay or something like that. Nowadays, she knows it as just another means to download files.
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HUMINT is much more resource intensive than SIGINT. Paper voting is much more secure for persons than e-voting / polling.

Blockchains are more easily conducive to side-channel attacks at revealing who a person voted for than paper voting is.
> This is already a massive problem in programs where we do require demonstrations of need. See NPR's expose on rampant disability fraud: http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/

But, the disability fraud is due in large part to the rampant unemployment, poverty, and gutted social safety net in that area. So, the option for those folks is disability or live on the streets. I wouldn't exactly say you are making the case for requiring proof of need.

Also interestingly you see use of drugs as reason to refute need. I believe there is a correlation between desperate poverty and drug use, I think it's because for those people with no hope of escaping poverty they need some kind of escape. Unlike you and I if we ever loose a job or get hit with an unfortunate circumstance we can get out of it fairly easy because of our education and in-demand skills. Now imagine a factory closing and 5000 folks with barely an education now out of a job, some percent of that cohort is going to end up resorting to drug use as an escape from their hopeless position. Idealistically, I'm hoping a basic income gives people like this some hope back. But, even then if there truly are no jobs for them, then if some % of the population enjoys weed then maybe that's ok--it's better than a lot of other possibilities they could be doing.
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The handheld units are now universally laser, but there are a couple places where radar is still the norm. Some cops have car-mounted radar units so they don't need to get out of, or open the window of the car. These are great if you want to watch a highway that doesn't get much traffic or to catch speeders while your own car is moving. Both scenarios are very common in rural areas.

Also, automated speed detection systems (aka "photo radar") use radar because you don't have to aim it like you do a laser.
Also time -- the $50 option costs no time. I think your argument is important. We spend a ton of time debating and considering how to prevent freeloaders. I'm more inclined to just ignore them and see how it goes, then start adding checks into the system when (if?) its apparent the free-loaders are a legitimate threat to the system.
Wasn't one of the excuses the CEO had for missing pay dates that his money was tied up in IRS dealings? Maybe a copy of QuickBooks would've helped with that.
You might like https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/docs/ab... , https://urbit.org/docs/using/filesystem/ , or https://ipfs.io

BTSync and SyncThing are also tools to do this, and I'm sure there are FUSE things to work with BT and block chains ("bittorrent fuse" google results look promising).
There's a third option which always costs $0.
One window of vulnerability is the after-party where everyone with a piece of the signing key drinks cocktails together.
Don't have the details of the study, it was from an informal evaluation from Jean-Marc Jancovici, a well known (in France) climate/energy specialist. A similar argument is made here:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/solar/solar-energy-isnt-...

Related quote: "If the photovoltaic panels made in China were installed in China, the high carbon intensity of the energy used and that of the energy saved would cancel each other out, and the time needed to counterbalance greenhouse-gas emissions during manufacture would be the same as the energy-payback time. But that’s not what’s been happening lately. The manufacturing is mostly located in China, and the panels are often installed in Europe or the United States. At double the carbon intensity, it takes twice as long to compensate for the greenhouse-gas emissions as it does to pay back the energy investments."
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Another problem is power consumption.

Wit the current, appallingly bad battery technology the only way off-the-grid IoT can hope to proliferate is by keeping the power consumption as small as possible. This is of course a problem for a rather specific use case of IoT/WSNs, but one that gets completely destroyed if not taking this into account.
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I think 'Python vs C ...' and 'Python vs C++ ...' are different questions. Much like 'C vs C++ in embedded systems' is its own topic.
Like most Shakespeare, a single interpretation rarely does it justice. I think it ties in with Thompson's idea of either floating with the tide or swimming towards a goal very well. The soliloquy it is taken from is about Hamlet debating whether to avenge his father's murder (swimming) or not (tide), and whether to continue living (swimming), or just accept death (tide).
I was taking the most simplistic approach. Your point is better than mine, but usually the argument I see is that "there are welfare queens, and that's not fair, therefore there shouldn't be welfare at all." I was more arguing against that.
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Any good suggestions about how blockchain systems propose to securely and anonymously distribute voting power?

In the paper system Michigan uses, ballots are not distributed anonymously, but the identifying information is torn off the ballot before it is counted and secured.

(I think it's pointless to propose a voting system that depends on individuals securely managing a cryptographic wallet; it's pretty clear we don't yet live in a world where that's a good idea. But it'd be interesting to see how they propose to solve the above problem.)

edit: logfromblammo answered my question below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12382298
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I've backed up my claims with careful citations. Can you do the same?

Or is this just scapegoating an unsympathetic minority in order to distract attention from the bad behaviors of a politically powerful and exploitative group? Kind of like how Trump blames illegal Mexicans for the plight of the white non-working class?
> it's not fair to expect them to even spend 5 minutes

The problem isn't that they don't look or give careful consideration...

The problem is that they LIE about it to the people they contact.
The right to life implies you have the right to earn an income. This also implies property rights on your earned income. (The original formulation was "life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness").
Maybe on paper, or in theory.

In my life I'm not ashamed to say it was the hunger of having nothing, no safety net, and having no job that STILL drives me today. That fire that got started when I had bills and no money is still burning strong today.

But I worry if theres too mucb cushion perhaps I would have not hurt as bad, and ever achieved what Ive accomplished since then.
One of their employees now lists "JobSonic" as their employer. Ironically, searching for "Job Sonic" results in the Jobs page for Sonic, the fast food chain. Bunch of rocket scientists over there.
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Compared to inundating Manhattan? Perspective.
Absolutely. If you don't like it, sell them weed and then you have their $500. It always boggles my mind how many people would rather see the system grind to a halt, rather than anybody naughty be consuming. I would much rather see a class of people with disposable income.
Whereas where I live it's just starting to get above $2/gallon again. It's something that varies a lot by region/taxes.
Just a PSA: there is zero chance that nuclear fusion makes a meaningful impact in stopping climate change in the next 30 years.

Before it becomes a significant part of our energy mix, fusion needs to be cheap, safe, and reliable.
It is nowhere close to any of these things right now, and it will take a lot of time and money to get there - especially the "cheap" part.
It's simply not going to happen before the year ~2050.

The technologies that have a chance to stop climate change are solar, wind, and energy storage.
those who are net recipients of government money, and those who are net contributors.

This is only one way to split the pie. Another way to look at it is the division between people who earn their lot in life by working and people who collect economic rents from the commons. It seems only fair to me that those who collect rents should contribute more. This is the principle underlying the concept of the social dividend [0].

Take a factory owner, for example. They are net recipients of many societal benefits, including: roads, electricity, water, sewage removal, education and health care for their employees, favourable tax rates for their property, etc. For that factory owner to then turn around and cry foul at being called upon to be a net contributor to basic income is hypocritical bordering on antisocial.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_dividend
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Because most welfare is paid for by the states...
That depends on how you define a client. If you're a Comcast customer, for example, they are performing DNSSEC validation for you transparently. Recursive resolvers on most Linux distributions have DNSSEC validation by default.

One school of thought is to migrate DNSSEC from relying on validating resolvers sitting within the network provider, and moving it closer to the edge, in web browsers and so forth. Not much of that has happened to date.
Switz and Icelanders were able to pull it, did not they?

Of course this is a skill and it will be acquired for some time.
After that, we don't even need politicians that much.

I'll try constant populism because today we live in the era of constant oppression.
1% of Nothing is Nothing. Why offer equity in compensation packages?
Another data point: I was forced into it by economic circumstances (bills and no job). Literally EVERYBODY has this option.
> Wanting to put a good foot forward, I brushed off the confusion

This is codependence, defined.
Surely unique timings would still be unique using Dvorak.
Cool story about your mother. I'm interested to hear more about the kind of company that supported that transition, how long it took, and what it was like for her.
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It's weird! I have a life where I go do things that are not always compatible with replying to internet randos.

And seriously, I am doing a terrible job at persuading you because I'm really not trying to persuade you of anything. As I've said, I don't believe you're persuadable.

People who vigorously mount a defense of a biased status quo rarely are persuadable because their motivation isn't rational; they're the sort of person who will defend whatever status quo they happen to be born into. That they have convinced themselves that they're the only truly rational people is also not a new phenomenon. The people who argued against the anti-slavery movement felt exactly the same way.
No. I expect people to only vote on issues that they find pressing. By perhaps spending a replenishable "voting score".
I agree you can have completely non-electronic sensors. Case in point: the sensor wand on a Flying Moth sailboat:

http://www.sailmagazine.com/racing/regattas/learning-to-fly-...
If the contractor's blueprints had been meticulously peer reviewed, why does the blueprint medium matter?
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True, but if you pay more in taxes than you get from UBI, it's essentially an accounting operation; you're still a net payer in practice.
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If you regularly need to make 200 mile round trips without charging facilities on both ends, then you're probably not a good candidate for an EV at all. A plug-in hybrid is probably your best bet until there's more charging infrastructure.

My household has 2 cars, and one of the cars stays under 50 miles for 100% of trips since we only use it for commuting.
True, I was thinking more from the perspective of trade schools. The whole, market responding to demands thing. I took a quick look, seems WV is well known for redirecting federal funds to random stuff. Like gold plating the dome on the capitol building. I also heard they were supposed to get really nice fiber internet, but I guess that was probably "redirected" as well.
Not sure Academic Torrents is the best example of a use of torrents for "non-technical people".
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k8s is essentially "aws in a box" and it's a product that locks. As soon as k8s cluster is running in GKE - it becomes not that portable at all, due to operational complexity as well as tide up to the google infra.
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If a corporation, especially a multi-national, benefits from a tax, I would question the benefit to society from that tax.

Not to say that society would not benefit, but it does make me wonder.
Here, around Denver, CO, I'm currently paying somewhere between $1.99 to $2.19/gallon.
This kind of argument misses the forest for the trees. In any welfare system where we don't just say "screw 'em" to people who can't seem to support themselves enough to survive, there will be people who game the system. Now, I'd argue that those people almost always have the potential to be productive (and aren't productive because of motivational, situational, or basic economic reasons), but there is no benefits system we can introduce that will directly encourage these people to change. Yes, if we introduce basic income, by making things significantly better for everyone at the bottom we might slightly increase the number of people who don't contribute economically, and I agree that initially this feels like a moral problem that we might like to avoid. But in the grand scheme of things, I believe that a basic income will cause an increase in economic productivity (through increased access to education, less reliance on illicit activity, and removal of certain stressors that keep people locked in the cycle of poverty) to a MUCH larger demographic of people, vastly offsetting whatever inefficiencies are introduced by an increase in those who don't contribute to the economic system. Heck, even the reduction in bureaucratic expenditures might be enough to offset this cost. At the end of the day, any system will have a potential for introducing moral hazard, but I feel that any increase that might be introduced by basic income is vastly offset by the other economic benefits the system brings.
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That's not quite correct. From https://github.com/feross/webtorrent-hybrid:

> In node.js, the webtorrent package only connects to normal TCP/UDP peers, not WebRTC peers.

That's why there's this webtorrent-hybrid client which runs a hidden electron process to communicate with WebRTC peers and normal TCP/UDP peers. According to the readme, there's (understandably; it's running chromium in the background) a lot of overhead with this method so they're working toward a non-electron version of WebRTC in Node.
...but the vast majority of programs in the US teach Java or C++.
Overcrowding is still a problem with California's prisons [0], to the point where inmates are getting dumped into smaller communities through realignment under AB 109 [1].

Hopefully the perps involved will get plenty of hotbunking time, though.

[0] www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_24980457/california-prison-overcrowding-governor-asks-court-more-time

[1] http://patch.com/california/gilroy/bp--ab-109-californias-fe...
No, the disability fraud is caused by healthy people lying in order to take money from others that they didn't earn.

Are you somehow claiming that wealthy Americans are unable to make choices for themselves, i.e. they are incompetent? If so, lets find them caretakers who can manage their lives for them. Lets not let them continue making bad choices that cost the rest of us.

I have no problem with smoking weed and I do it myself sometimes. I have a problem with spending your own money on weed and then turning to me claiming you are hungry. Spend your own money before you spend mine.
How many times will this be submitted before it gets traction? Indeed, will it ever?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12381788 (1 hour ago, 1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12381213 (4 hours ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12379951 (11 hours ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12379646 (12 hours ago)
What do you have against your brother putting $500 back into the economy? That's good for everyone (except for him in the example you gave). If you were smart you would have sold him the weed and made yourself a few hundred bucks. Then you could easily feed him with the profit. The local grocer can then feed his family with the extra money he made because you bought more from him due to your sudden windfall and so on. The economy benefits from money circulation. Basic income is going to improve the health of the economy by giving spending power and financial security to everyone. In turn this will make people looser with their everyday spending which will be of phenomenal benefit for the overall health of the economy. You're thinking about it as if it's your personal account. Money doesn't work like that at scale.
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Excellent point. Which would make the developers even less likely to go anywhere or talk to authorities.
Alternative solution: send her a model of the key to 3d-print
Agreed...although it is rather ironic that "CrackStation's Password Cracking Dictionary"[1] tops their list of most downloaded by a respectable 9% over 2nd most downloaded "Arizona State University Twitter Data Set"[2].

[1] http://academictorrents.com/details/fd62cc1d79f595cbe1de6356...
[2] http://academictorrents.com/details/2399616d26eeb4ae9ac3d05c...
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"Cool, and what's your proposal for an alternative energy source to power modern civilisation?"

We have several alternatives.

The only problem they have is that most of them are difficult to store in a self-contained moving vehicle that turns rubber wheels to move on flat blacktop.

So, we increase reliance on vehicles that turn steel wheels on steel tracks, and get their power from overhead wires.

Next question?
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Coolant is a easy check. Just pop the hood and look.

Oil... that's trickier. You want the engine cool, otherwise the oil will burn you when you touch it. You also should park at a flat spot before checking.

I check as often as I can, but its maybe once a month for oil. Usually once a week for a few weeks after an oil change, to make sure that nothing is leaking.
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It's not necessarily hard but it is a ton of work and requires a lot of low level knowledge of the underlying window system. You need to have a very good understanding of the layer beneath you (xlib, Wayland, win32) and how fonts are rendered on the various systems you want to support. There's also various tradeoffs you need to make. Do you go with custom drawn widgets or use native ones? Native offers a shortcut if you have a greater understanding of the lower system API. Custom drawn requires possibly less knowledge of the various widget API but more knowledge of the underlying window drawing API. Getting basic buttons and labels drawn is not hard. The harder parts are menus, text entry, scroll bars and scrolling. None of the current toolkits were cross platform from initial release. Almost all started with Xlib and then years later were ported to Windows. Some still haven't made the port to OSX (except to rely on x11). It's a lot of work and maybe that's what makes it hard.
>There’s no way a startup I found on Angel.co is going to screw me over, I thought

Is this satire?
> This is a personal correspondence

No it isn't, that's the problem: It's impersonal bulk-email that pretends to be personalized.
> bicycle commuter

And I propose the e-bicycle conversion kits, generally for the price of a commuter class cheap bike the cost per watt of motor and cost per KWh lithium battery has been dropping by half every couple years. Today in 2016 you're looking at about two watts of motor power per dollar (so $500 kit would get you more than a horsepower, and riding on horseback seems adequately fast) and about $30 per mile of battery range so $500 of lithium ion should get me around 15 miles on a charge (depends a lot on speed, hills, how much you pedal, etc)

Of course the government is getting in the way with all kinds of regulation and outright banning in some more backwards cities (NYC, etc). But I don't live in a backwards city so no problemo.

Until 2016 I'm not going to ride a bike to work because I'll be all sweaty during the roughly two months per year the weather is good enough to ride a bike. However my son is very interested in the mechanical work of assembling an ebike conversion, and it sounds like a fun teen boy and dad project to work on together, so in 2017 I could slowly ride an ebike to work mostly sweatless. Its an interesting technological development. I have not gone beyond a couple hours of online research on this project, but I'm figuring for a couple grand, which isn't much, we can build matching ebikes.