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>"It's very hard to police a world wide distributed teams, who have many conflicting views, all of who get paid based on what they produce and don't have much long term incentive to see things any other way."

Why is this hard for management to police their own departments? Other industries manage distributed teams just fine. I agree with your other points in that passage.

The real issues is that there exists a culture a criminality with little little fear of consequences. jail. The only way that's going to change is to start holding individuals accountable.

>"I mean, in this case even the risk team singed off on it. What more could a CEO do?"

Verify? These CEOs have insane compensation packages. They make more in a year than most people will in a lifetime. When questions about their insane pay packages arise, the party line always seems to be that they are worth it because they are "that good."

If they are that good then more should be expected of them. They should be conducting independent audits - "trust by verify" or do some innovating in the area of compliance. Their M.O. is always to blame someone else, the buck never stops with them.
I haven't used a payphone in at least a decade. I haven't carried a calling card in nearly two decades. I have change in my pocket that could be used for a payphone maybe twice a year.

It makes no sense to expect students to use a payphone in this day and age. How many schools even have working payphones now? I bet most had them removed or disconnected because no one uses payphones anymore.
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I usually see it the other way round. When a movie is in US units and gets translated to literal values, like 16 km, 32 km, and so on.... when it's obvious that it doesn't matter.
Unfortunately that's not possible. Each library makes choices and tradeoffs on their defaults. Each time, I set whatever quality dials existed to the highest available, and I standardized on 75 JPEG compression. There is no way to get consistent quality across all libraries, which is why I included the results for the 12 images used in the test in the blog post, so everyone can handle this the way they want.
The padlock isn't meaningless. It means you can submit passwords and credit card details without someone else in the internet cafe sniffing your traffic. The only thing it doesn't do is it doesn't protect you from MitM (or verify the legal identity of the entity you're talking to).

The green EV certificate stuff is what's supposed to tell you that you're safe from MitM and phishing, because you can verify the legal identity of the entity you're talking to.

Really the biggest problem is browsers like Chrome that use green padlock/text for DV certs, because that's misleading and either makes people trust the DV certs more than they should, or distrust EV certs. Safari does this much better, using a grey padlock (and no other text) for DV certs, and showing Green padlock + green text for EV certs.
> If something is actually true, then why is it preferable not to say it publicly

Heavily de-contextualised true information can be just as misleading as actual lies. Hence the vaccine example.
I'm not much for conspiracy theories, but it's interesting to note that The Guardian actually recommends people concerned about surveillance to stop using WhatsApp, without offering any alternatives.

>If you use WhatsApp as a way to avoid government surveillance due to its end-to-end encryption service, you should stop using it immediately.

In the wake of the UK snoopers charter having sailed through parliament, this seems odd. Occam's razor tells us that it's coincidence and bad reporting, but still.
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Oh yes, I agree, DPI settings should be global accross the system as much as possible and copy buffer should definetly work consistently. Generally it's the application's responsibility to implement the tie in to these platform systems - on the interface level that should preferably not be tied inseparably to any UI code).

To me however, this is on a different architectural level than how the UI itself is inplemented (which, technically, is just motion graphics with hotspots, but psychologically is the most important part for most users).
You're completely right. Gene Roddenberry created a quasi-utopian future, I don't think he created Star Trek with the aim of answering the questions about how we maintain our society through the coming technological advances. I think Gene's goal was to paint a picture of what his vision of a perfect human society would look like from a purely social perspective.
> There's a way to report on the tradeoffs WhatsApp made, but this wasn't it; this was "VACCINES MAY CAUSE AUTISM".

Let's look at what the Guardian actually wrote:

> A security vulnerability that can be used to allow Facebook and others to intercept and read encrypted messages has been found within its WhatsApp messaging service.

> Facebook claims that no one can intercept WhatsApp messages, not even the company and its staff, ensuring privacy for its billion-plus users. But new research shows that the company could in fact read messages due to the way WhatsApp has implemented its end-to-end encryption protocol.

This is an accurate summary of the facts, expressed reasonably. The Guardian was right to report it. If people are really switching to even less secure services then I share your concern (though arguably people are safer using a known-insecure service than a service which claims more security than it actually has). But lying to the public or concealing research from them cannot possibly be the correct way to handle this and I will not endorse it. I guess I know who not to take any more security advice from.
They seem to work for some people...I am not one of those people. But I've had a lot of conventional chairs become less comfortable after several hours, too.
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Doesn't Erlang (and thus Elixir) have a native Windows version anyway? Or was that just a test to try out WSL?
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State security services can't buy this kind of PR with money; only a cocktail of vanity and incompetence can do it.
Tesla model years match the year of production. 2014 Teslas were built in 2014.

Tesla rolled out AEB in March 2015 as a software update for all cars with the appropriate hardware. All Teslas produced starting in mid-September 2014 have the appropriate hardware, so several thousand MY 2014 Teslas have AEB as of early 2015.
That's a contradiction in the show. In some places, they laugh about the concept of "money", and in others they clearly have and use money like you point out, and talk about "Federation credits". It's one of the really annoying things about Star Trek, because they clearly didn't think it through.

For the episodes where they aren't dealing with extra-Federation societies like the Ferengi, it makes perfect sense to not talk about money on the ship. It's not much different than being in the Navy today: if you work on a US Navy ship, you don't have to pay to see the doctor, or to go to the mess hall and eat, etc. All that stuff is free. It's part of being a crewmember on a ship. It's the same on the Enterprise-D (or even Kirk's Enterprise), except they have even better benefits (e.g. replicators; on modern Navy ships there's I believe a little store where you can buy extra goodies they don't give away in the mess hall, but with replicators you wouldn't need this). Gene's idea of modeling Starfleet on the Navy worked out pretty well this way for a while, until they started dealing with jurisdictions outside of Federation control and then they had to retcon stuff like "gold-pressed latinum".
The wealth fund is enormous only in part because of the massive natural resources. The real trick is not pissing it away like other oil producing nations do.

In fact oil is the only substantial natural resource that Norway has that most other countries don't. Forestry is not terribly profitable because of the terrain, most of the valuable minerals are in the north (and mostly on the Swedish side of the border), large scale hydro has been built out to close to the maximum possible already.

Was your communist country really socialist before it became communist or is the word communist here simply shorthand for Soviet Russian style dictatorship imposed by an external power?
It depends on the cockpit seating layout, really.

If you are siting side-by-side in aircraft, most - not all - will have the throttle and related components in the center console, so they aren't duplicated and can be used from both seats. By necessity a pilot in command, seated on the left, will fly with his/her stick in the left hand and right on throttle/everything else. It just happens to be that most civil aircraft cockpits have this configuration. A yoke or side stick can stand in for a center mounted control stick in this configuration and is simply a design factor.

If you are sitting in an aircraft with a single seat operation (i.e., no center console) the throttle will usually be placed somewhere to the left of the pilot, so the controls change - right on the stick and left for the throttle. You'd almost never see anything other than a center stick in this configuration, but there are aircraft with side sticks, like the F-16 and F-22.

There are some exceptions, particularly where side-by-side seating is more specialized and not duplicated. See:

Siai Marchetti SF 260 (notice duplicated throttle on left) : http://tagazous.free.fr/affichage2.php?img=8451

A6 Intruder (Right seat is not a capable of flying aircraft) : https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/a1/32/a8/a132a868a...
The disruption is that it surfaces all those problems which already exist for taxi drivers in the current system. They often work insane shifts, lose money if it's a slow day, etc. They have to enter into long exploitive contracts just to rent a medallion from the politically-connected rent-seeking monopolist who owns it.

Also, I often see drivers who don't resemble the photo ID in the cab at all. Likely they're unlicensed friends of the medallion renter, who help cover the insane shifts they rent the medallion for. But it negates much or all of the supposed value of taxis.

By giving those drivers an identical (somewhat crappy, as you point out) choice which doesn't lock them in, it's shaking up the taxi industry. And by reducing the value of the medallion it's hurting the monopolists who lobby to keep the number of medallions low, etc, which helps us in the long run with healthier markets.

As for Uber specifically, their value is surge pricing. And I say this as a customer, not a shareholder. I routinely wait for taxis that never come when I'm in cities that have banned Uber. But I never wait for an Uber where it exists - I can choose to pay if I want it. If I'm late for a meeting, I'll pay. It's a service that was unavailable before at any price.
If you quit without adequate cash, you will spend most of your time worrying about money rather than building your project. If you have your parents' support, then you spend time worrying about their level of support.

I would not take this level of risk unless you have already validated your idea through a customer sale, and it's just a matter of finishing the project to deliver.
People aren't using WhatsApp to replace GPG with a carefully-curated web of trust. They're using it to replace SMS which can be surveilled both en masse by governments and telecoms, and surveilled by individuals savvy enough to set up a fake cell tower.

WhatsApp is an unqualified success in this regard. That it makes trade-offs unsuitable for dissidents of world governments does not diminish this.
I know this is a silly conversation, but that's not what happens. Their motivation for "lobotomizing" the ship was that it was going to destroy them.

They worked to preserve their existence, and let the new lifeform go its own way. If anything, the outcome was a trite, touchy feely ending, only vaguely discussing the actual implication of the new lifeform, while they got back on course to their original mission.
> Either way, it does not do well to look towards pieces of fictions for solutions to our real world problems.

Especially when the economic / political systems of the works are not even self-consistent and rely on non-existent technology (replicators).
Just servers, about $550/mo once we launch the new infrastructure. That doesn't include the $10k I had to sink in to buy the equipment and IP addresses.

Then pad the bill a lot of misc other nonsense: social media liability insurance (yes this is a thing), ARIN fees, LLC registration, a literal fax machine (for DMCA compliance), monitoring, etc. Grand total will hover around $1000.

Architecture is a core + CDN model. The main servers run as a HA cluster in a datacenter, and then the anycast CDN caches content at the edge. It's not too far away from how S3+Cloudfront works or something like Cloudflare works. Nginx does all the heavy lifting, and the "front store" is just a giant blob of ruby: https://github.com/neocities/neocities

Not too bad for 110,000 web sites. Costs at this point are pretty stable for the next million sites (but surprises happen). I can double our bandwidth capacity for about $200/mo in less than a few hours if I needed to in a pinch.
Bruce Schneier calls it a vector...

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/01/whatsapp_secu...
Gene Roddenberry's "Andromeda" tackled this pretty well I think. The warship can be operated pretty much entirely by the on-board sentient AI, and it is because it has a skeleton crew of like 6 for most of the series. Because the AI is sentient, every commonwealth ship has a personality, the ship itself is a person.

It also has storylines that explain why AIs don't literally run everything: there was a large lash back against the proliferation of AI after the fall of the government, to the point that there are planets that completely ban their existence and destroy on sight.
What do you mean? The test is doing resize and JPEG compression. If you're interested in isolating the compression part, the code on GH should be super easy to modify to your particular requirements.
So, we agree that calling this a 'fake' article is itself misleading. We also agree that Signal is a more secure alternative. Your position is essentially 'people cant be trusted with accurate information, you have to dumb it down so they can make the "right" choice based on the limited information they can absorb, so the Guardian should apologize and retract their accurate story.'
How many people who actually work in this field can you find that agree with you that this was a reasonable way to write the story? Because there is an avalanche of expertise signing on to an open letter that specifically states the opposite. Who are your best authorities to cite?

But it gets worse for your argument.

First, the story The Guardian originally wrote is still there in the slug: "WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages". That headline was the top story on HN for most of a day.

WhatsApp ran this story with a single technical source, and then peripheral color-commenting sources that weren't technical and were commenting based on the premise that the "backdoor" story had been vetted. As you can see, virtually all the expertise in the field disagrees with that premise.
You can't call an "emergency contact phone number" from a payphone without the right change unless that number is 911 (or the local equivalent). My kid[1] can't call me from a payphone in an emergency. Not only does my kid not carry change, but won't know my number. I don't even know my own mom's number.

And yes, the secretary/front desk/whatever can call me on behalf of my child, but that seems pretty ridiculous, too when everyone already owns a cell phone.

[1] My kid is two years old, so this is obviously academic for me at this point.
He signed the letter we're debating!
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Try searching for a pdf of the "Web Application Hacker's Handbook".
But is that elected leader elected by people or by representatives? This is where trek and wars meet. They both have a federal approach parralleling the US sennate, reps from individual planets rather than according to population. And the leader is elected by the sennate. So this isnt a government for people and thier rights, but a government of governments more akin to a United Nations with a navy. So there could be a nazi planet and a libertarian planet as how planets govern themselves is irrelevant. Individuals do not have rights under the federal government but through whatever planet they happen to be upon.

There are links to japanese fuedal system, which has a place in the US system whereby the federal government is allocated its own lands apart from the states. "The empire" would be as if washington DC and the US president started annexing state lands.
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> WhatsApp has something like a billion users. Virtually none of them asked for end-to-end encryption.

As someone who uses PGP, but doesn't use WhatsApp this is the key piece of context that makes this a questionable trade-off instead of a crazy one. It would be better if the default was for there to be a notification and for there to be an option to disable resending messages on key change, but I can at least understand why they would sacrifice some security in order to make E2E encryption transparent to users who don't know they need it.
... Yes, just like millions of people are dying on the altar of democratic socialism in Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and in the United States (Social Security is socialism. Welfare is socialism. Food stamps are socialism. Medicaid is socialism.)
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You know you can recharge a cellphone, right? In fact you can make a call while it's still charging! Guaranteed one of your friends has a charger you can use.
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Okay, so we can say that:

1. CO2 is currently the highest it has ever been since human civilization has existed (10k years, roughly).

2. CO2 is currently the highest it has ever been since humans have existed (200k years, roughly).

3. CO2 is currently the highest it has ever been since primates have existed (50M years, roughly).

But for the sake of argument let’s say:

4. CO2 may not be the highest it has ever been since mammals have existed (200M years, roughly).

5. CO2 is not the highest it has ever been since multicellular life has existed on land (500M years, roughly).

Fair enough. Maybe 1-3 are less concerning to you than they are to me. When you say "the climate has been warmer in the past and CO2 levels higher" and are referring to a period prior to the existence of primates, it doesn't necessarily make me feel that much better. :) That said I’m nothing close to being expert in this stuff.

It’s interestingly difficult to think about time over so many orders of magnitude.
Not sure I understand your argument - are you saying that because there are other loopholes in immigration for big corps, we shouldn't address the most abused one?
With first-party games coming to an end, the Wii U's underwhelming run is essentially over. The dynasty of related PowerPC processors starting from the GameCube has come to a close; other consoles switched off of much more custom and high-end PowerPC parts in Wii U's contemporaneous generation, with Xbox One ditching the custom Xenon and PS4 abandoning the Cell for AMD APUs that are closer to off-the-shelf than we've been in years.

With the Switch's Tegra and AMD's chips in the others, for the first time we'll be at a point where all mainstream game consoles will have CPUs designed by and sourced from companies whose primary business is GPUs, which I think is really interesting.
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4-5 years ago when I last used a mac for work, there was a program that had an unlimited evaluation period and was just setup to nag on launch (like winzip). using little snitch just blocked the nag (literally the license did was remove the nag, so it didnt affect functionality). In the end, I wound up not using the program anyway - I really was just trying to evaluate it without the nag. For some reason sublime text comes to mind? I think I wound up just going back to vim

Installing little snitch, I got overwhelmed by how much stuff was trying to make calls in and out. It really does serve its purpose, but you also have to have an idea of what you should be letting out, you can easily break things and if you just "allow all" it somewhat ruins the point of having it.
I think the vaccine analogy is really helpful here. You can make true statements, like "vaccines can kill you", that cause massive public harm if they're not correctly contextualized.

People come away thinking "vaccines are bad". In this case, the Guardian put the tech equivalent of "vaccines can kill you" in a headline.
The Wii was nothing more than a collective delusion. People were buying into that, for no reason other than everyone else was. Majority of those machines sat collecting dust, after the arm flailing novelty wore off. After that episode, the next Wii launches, and people knew better than to just jump on the hype train. The Switch will perform at least as poorly.
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Of course, and this does get pointed out to them.

But it's easier for them to extrapolate data and say, hey, we couldn't get emails of xxx thousand users, so we lost xxx amount, vs our argument that they probably lost a number of users who were annoyed by the popup.

Except, you can count conversions, but you can't "measure annoyance"
Of course, and this does get pointed out to them.

But it's easier for them to extrapolate data and say, hey, we couldn't get emails of xxx thousand users, so we lost xxx amount, vs our argument that they probably lost a number of users who were annoyed by the popup.

The fact is, that you can count conversions, but you can't "measure annoyance". And hence, the argument rests.
I used to use sublime until recently I started to use Atom and one of the things I like is that you can easily sync your settings to a github gist so that you can use your config across systems
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The average driver goes about 10 years between a crash, which doesn't seem to be all that good.

Another factor is the extent to which bad driving doesn't result in an accident, either because of infrastructure, other drivers reacting, or just a lack of cars. For example, most red light runners don't cause a crash because stoplights usually have an all-red period to compensate, there often aren't other cars to crash into, and other cars might brake to avoid crashing into the culprit.

Many crashes require two bad drivers to misbehave at about the same time. For example, I couldn't tell you how many times I've had somebody change lanes into me, but it hasn't (yet) resulted in a crash because I've seen it and gotten out of the way before they hit.