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Eisenhower's warning of the military-industrial complex is still very much valid, nearly 60 years later.

Ike then counseled American citizens to be vigilant in monitoring the military-industrial complex.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/eisenhower-warns...
New lidar sensor could equip every autonomous car in the world
TV and radio advertising is targeted by region - even by city in some cases.

Banning any and all targeting online would result for example everyone in America seeing advertising only intended for people in London.

Essentially resulting in online advertising being rendered useless.
Let us know how it goes?
Yes, and then we could license it back to people for $30 per month. It's a capitalist nightmare/dream (delete as appropriate based on whether you're a technosocialist or technolibertarian).
Remember that saving money isn’t usually a privatization factor.

FedEx will deliver mail for a nickel when they get a dollar from the government to do so.
Sorry, it was more of a hypothetical. I'm not involved in hiring for my current company and definitely don't speak on behalf of them.

I work in games on gameplay and engine code.
"Universal Credit" is a horrendous scheme that manages to combine (malicious) ignorance of the needs of its beneficiaries with ignorance of how to run a large software project.

The idea sounds great on paper - there are a lot of different benefits, why not reduce duplication by merging them into one scheme then only asking for personal information once - but it ignores cashflow. People can be left without money to live on for weeks. It's also a classic "big bang" project which just piles the requirements of existing systems together, and hands them to one of the traditional government crony contractors: Accenture, HP and IBM. At least it didn't involve Serco.
We're not talking about complicated scenarios with multiple moving actors. Tesla's autopilot cannot even do something as basic as detect stationary obstacles that are directly in front of the car. It will crash into barriers even if the highway is completely devoid of other cars.

You may consider humans as bad drivers but Tesla's autopilot is even worse than that:

It can't even look in one direction!
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I've always wondered about the legalities of such things. How is it okay for a company to legally sell a hack of another company's technology? Is it because they only sell to the police? If this is okay, then where is the actual limit? Can they sell hacked access to a company's servers for example?
100% certain. It exists already.

The real question to ask yourself is of all the groups you belong to (HN readers, people in their 20s, etc, etc) will any of them fall out to the point that the system flags you as deserving of "driving while black" treatment at any point in the future.
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lostlogin mentioned he had never signed up to FB
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The advertising industry in general is hitting just ludicrous saturation levels. I barely register ads anymore because there are just so fucking many now. My brain is attuned to shut them out, which makes them less effective, and the only solution the ad industry seems to have is MORE SODDING ADS.

What also strikes me is how many billboards in my commute route (not long, but still) are blank, or rather, just have the owner's spiel on them about outdoor advertising and how to get your ad on one. A lot of them have looked like that for a long time, maybe we're finally hitting saturation?
Well, it's not like you couldn't make money by inventing an ideal cure, you just can't do so sustainably, but for better or worse sustainability has never been a particularly high priority for businesses.

I think patents make any kind of free market approach difficult if not impossible, but it's not as if there's no monetary incentive to invent the 'best' cure.
Is there an article with the background on this? Why do we have both the W3C and the WHATWG, and why do the W3C just copy and paste work from WHATWG, if that is indeed what happens?
I Am Not A Constitutional Scholar, but I don't read that as the Constitution explicitly requiring the Post Office, but merely delegating the power to do so to Congress. Presumably Congress would still be within its rights to not exercise that power, or to abolish the Post Office entirely.
The quantum internet is already being built
End-to-end encryption does not prevent Facebook from accessing WhatsApp chats
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg summoned to testify in front of EU lawmakers –again
I wonder how much Illinois impacts the average...

At this stage, there is literally no way to even pay back the pension (it'd be $20k per person in the state, if we needed to pay it back today).
More like politician or candidate hires the actuarial consultant which will use the most liberal assumptions they can to make the costs appear as cheap as possible. And then not even fund to those calculations, because who is going to force them to?
>Are you just referring to the fact that the default settings don't enforce encryption

Mostly this. It's not an accident but a deliberate choice.

Their questionable crypto scheme also does not support group chats.
This one?

https://www.dezeen.com/2011/06/08/safe-house-by-robert-konie...
My personal problem with the deficits is that the people who agreed to these terms are retiring and got either inflated pensions or lower taxes (as a result of under-funding the pensions).

So, younger adults who are just entering the workforce are going to shoulder the burden for paying for these deficits based on decision made when they were children or not even born.
Anonymity and fluidity of payments is something which technology can potentially address, but I agree that this is currently not the case. I see no reason why this couldn't change in the future.

Wanting everything online for free is, in my opinion, a cultural matter. In the physical world, we're used to paying for almost everything; food, transport, housing, (indirectly) the street lights, etc. very few things are provided gratis through advertising.
I think it's perfectly fine to post message threads on HN. I would much rather read the source then a summary written by someone else.
In many cities, they will be impossible to pay out. In the 2030s, my city will need to double its revenue to pay pensions as well as maintain services, but that won’t happen since revenue is falling. If contracts are going to be broken due to insolvency anyway, it makes sense to gently break them now to let younger employees react while taking care of the eldest who can change nothing.
As someone who works in a different state, this is why when given the option I went 401K only.

401Ks have a lot of issues, and definitely aren't superior to a pension scheme in general, but pension schemes are so poorly run and have so many corruption-like issues that at least with a 401K it is just a simple vested savings account I can move if need-be.

I guess what I am saying is, trust in traditional pensions is so low to some, getting a worse but safer alternative looks nice by comparison.
In defense of porn sites: That's one of the seemingly vanishingly rare instances these days where you pay the fee and they knock it off completely. No more ads, no more upselling, no prompting for reviews or comments whatever the hell. It just becomes a functioning site in which to watch porn.

Yeah I know it's sad that this is so remarkable, but at the same time, it's one of the rare instances where you're actually getting what you pay for.
It's not the "will" be arrested that matters. It's that you "can" be arrested is held over people's heads to prevent them from voicing dissent or standing up to the government.
I think the US is still stuck in the Cold War mentality of making military spending an “untouchable” cut. Meanwhile country infrastructure is falling apart and our equality gap is unprecedented. Sounds a lot like the USSR.
Nonsense.

Terrorists do use the air to convey voice; air is their primary communication medium for propagating their terrible ideas, and arranging their despicable plans. If we denied them access to air, to stop their voice communication, it would severely limit their ability to harm us. Isn't saving even just one child's life worth it?
And don't worry about the terrorists without air not being able to talk about the legal, daily matters. Relevant institutions are already equipped to handle deaf and mute people. They could also just use internet or other service.

Just deny them air so they can't talk, okay? It's the common sense solution. /s

Slippery slope is a thing, especially when actors with under-handed intentions ask for simplistic, ham-fisted solutions. Once a precedent is established for censorship or snooping, it's pretty hard to draw, and defend, a line in the sand.
> Lets start with something simpler first. How about websites asking for user permission before using cookies

One way to fight back at the cookie problem is to install the "Cookie AutoDelete" extension (Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode..., Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookie-autodelete/...).

The various sites can still set cookies, so those that fail without cookies still work while you are viewing them, but a configurable time after you close the tab the extension will delete all of the cookies out of your browser. So those cookies set by advertisers to 'track' you around different websites simply go away. On some sites, you'll see 400+ cookies get deleted 10 seconds after you close the tab you were on.
This site here backs up what you said, and as you mentioned its really not close. My personal experience was based on short term rentals (<1 year).

https://www.bedssi.com/rental-price-guide-for-australian-cit...

I did find that Sydney had more availability and options (at least during the market period I was searching). Lower Supply and High Demand should drive up Melbourne's price, but as you said, real estate in Sydneys CBD is just more valuable than Melbourne.
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Contrast with the US which keeps it's NSA spying and data collection private. Until it isn't.
Rest of us ask, "Is having such people sustainable in out society?"
Some history here:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHATWG#History

- https://annevankesteren.nl/2011/02/html-development

- https://annevankesteren.nl/2016/01/film-at-11

- https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/when-standards-divide/

Differences between the W3C HTML 5.2 spec and the WHATWG Living Spec: https://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/W3C-WHATWG-Differences
The W3C was the original standardization organization for the web.

They wanted to create standards that allow easy implementation by others, and were willing to make some tradeoffs with backwards compatibility for that (see XHTML).

The browser vendors obviously oppose this, and want standards that just formalize what they already implement. As result, the browser vendors created their own standards committee, which standardizes whatever the browsers already do (if existing). This is the WHATWG.

As result, the web standards situation has gone to insanity. The WHATWG URL spec contains 4 pages of pseudocode and algorithm definitions for how Chrome parses URLs, and how you should as well, and the W3C, still being relied on by the other actors on the web that aren’t the 4 largest browsers, has to copy the WHATWG spec as base for their own specs, because browsers will ignore whatever the W3C says anyway.

But remember that the WHATWG proposed to the W3C that the W3C should copy the WHATWG specs as base for their own specs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHATWG#cite_note-9
I'm not sure how you expected to avoid this.
http://diveinto.html5doctor.com/past.html

A very entertaining read, IMO.
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I read through your indiehackers post and it was very interesting to see your approach on SEO, e.g. viral marketing with interesting side projects
I had a long think on this, it occured to me that fitting in was not always the intention of casual office attire. One inhention originally was to fly in the face of convention and show a level of superiority due to technical prowess versus the squares in suits. There's a sociological phenomenon which escapes me. The same reason teenage girls go out in public with trackpants and messed up hair.
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That's legally been the case for decades. Anything in the public view is exempt from whatever privacy rights we have left, and has been for quite some time.
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That's not a bad thing IMHO. I think the world could do with fewer underpaid jobs with no advancement opportunities.

Edit: Looks like some founders looking to create underpaid jobs with no advancement opportunities found my comment /s.
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if I build a gam then what is it as shovel? people will not makemoney out of it. I'm also not a middleman because there's just me and the end customer, I vuilt it from scratch. So who am I?!
if it aint broke, dont fucking fix it. im talking to you "dev dev dev" faggots.
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> Don't confuse symmetric with asymmetric (current public key) encryption

After reading this multiple times, and looking up QC (Quantum Computing) and FDE (Full Disk Encryption), I got the following out of it:

- symmetric encryption is safe for AES-256 and up
- asymmetric encryption isn't getting cracked because QC isn't magic

Is this a correct TL;DR ?
The issue being of course those same voters were in many cases are the recipients of said pensions. And those who were not and still voted for such things enjoyed the benefits of cheap government services without having to pay full freight.

Now that they enjoyed not having to fund the pensions for 30 years, they are retiring and expecting the next generation to pay for them having their cake and eating it too.

I find it very difficult to really figure out where the greater moral hazard here lies. As you state this was a problem everyone knew about when setting these public pensions up and it was easier to kick the can down the road. You will find it very difficult to convince me that the average union member in the 80's didn't know the sweet deal they were getting. It was a trope growing up in the 80's/90's to hear adults talk about "scamming" the overly generous pensions systems of the day.

I think it's interesting public unions in Illinois advocated 30 years ago for enshrining pension benefits into the state constitution. That language was added specifically because the public unions knew the deals they were making with politicians were not fiscally sustainable.

At this point I don't see a good way out and something major will break at a societal level before it gets fixed. There simply is no way to pay for these promised benefits and still maintain local and state government at a functional level in many states. I don't think bailing them out federally is an answer either - again for moral hazard reasons. I also don't think quadrupling taxes on the next generation is morally any better either.

In many ways this discussion is moot. The math is so overwhelmingly bad in some places it's simply not fixable from the revenue side only. Everyone is going to have to share some pain here, and that includes those receiving benefits.
The Social Security Trust Fund owns an awful lot of US treasuries (almost $3 trillion), but I don't think that really meets the bar for "controversial" as treasuries are the only investment it is allowed to buy (by law).

For states, I am interested in specific cases.
That is why those pensioners, who are allowed to do so according to their contract, are taking their pension as a lump sum payment when they retire. And they are doing so in larger numbers which is further eroding the financial health of the municipalities.
I will give you some examples of how everything you say is utter garbage.

Lets luck at the COTS program form NASA.

They selected two companies, SpaceX and Kistler. SpaceX succeeded on everything and they flew the missions at the price agree on in the contract (witch was globally competitive). Kistler was not able and so they went down. The program succeeded and the US now has the by far the cheapest ISS supply vehicle and the only one that can return cargo (SpaceX btw added this feature on top themselves, it was demand by NASA).

Once the contract COTS 2 was negotiated, SpaceX again made the single best and cheapest bid and was again selected in a competitive process against companies that are far larger and have more pull in Washington.

The same goes for Commercial Crew. It was a competitive process that included many companies who have far more access to politicians and career bureaucrats then SpaceX had. And yet again, SpaceX was on of the selected, BECAUSE THEIR OFFER WAS JUST SO MUCH CHEAPER THEN ANYBODY ELSE.

Have you ever consider that maybe SpaceX gets these contracts because they are just far cheaper then anybody else?

Many of the numbers I am talking about here are public. You can go look it up. The reality is your argument is absolute bullshit that has absolutely no bases in reality.

Now that was NASA, lets look at DoD. Clearly SpaceX only gets all these contracts because they play golf with so many generals, right?

Again, totally false. Its the exact opposite, ULA had long been the prime contract to the point where the launches were no longer competitively bid. It took multiple law suits against the DoD before SpaceX was even allowed to compete. Then they had to go threw a very hard certification process.

Once SpaceX was allowed to compete they massively underbid the competition to the point where ULA has actually stopped even bidding because they know they have no chance at winning in a fair competition.

Also, the notion that SpaceX after 2008 depended on government contracts is totally false. Only about 1/3 of SpaceX launches are for the US government and they have tons of private launches on their waiting list.

All in all, your entire argument is totally false.
The worst part about the USPS is that it occasionally contains incredibly important correspondence. So you can't just bin the whole thing, instead you have to sort through a pile of garbage on the 1% chance something critical is in there.
I enact my own personal rebellion by actively avoiding products I've seen advertised, given the opportunity to do so.

If I'm choosing between Product A and Product B and I can't tell any difference between them, but I've seen Product A shouted at me in ads, I'll choose B.
Do you have data to backup that assertion?
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> payment is incompatible with anonymity

Monero was designed to solve this problem. I hope that something based on those ideas becomes a popular or dominant means of payment in the future.
> It's still a machine, so treat it like any other machine and hold the designers liable.

I think you mean the operator. If I run someone over in a car, I'm responsible, not the manufacturer nor the vehicle itself. Sure, manufacturers can be liable for design flaws (steering wheel didn't work?) but it's appropriate that that not be the default.

(This rule should also apply to another great invention: the corporation. Sadly, however, the "drivers" never seem to be held accountable.)
Why do you say that? He's a professional investigator, and the story is about catching someone committing fraud. How is that being a jerk?
What if a competitor shows up and can demonstrate that their treatment is better, for example that it does not lead to relapses?
Fixed wireless plans also have data caps, and you can get satellite unlimited plans affordably now (with soft caps, but so does most everyone else), at speeds greater than DSL.

The main issue for rural satellite access is no longer bandwidth or even data caps but latency.

And if you have DSL in rural areas, count yourself lucky.
In Toronto I think we'd love this idea for the same exact reasons. Our city was amalgamated from several different cities in the 90s and most people regret the decision because citizens/politicians from the more suburban areas have different motivations than those that live downtown (especially WRT driving vs transit). The infighting over the years has caused many delays/cancellations in our infrastructure to the point that transit has become possibly the #1 problem for our city. I can't compare the situation to Sydney but aren't smaller jurisdictions generally more nimble?
That dude is fed up
It’s relevant in an information theoretic sense. However modern security is explicitly computational rather than information theoretic, which means it’s not relevant for modern security in any practical sense. For example one time pads are only really used (correctly and safely) by agencies like the NSA and GCHQ, and even then only for the strictest, “spare no expense” security requirements.

I’d personally be appalled to see a quantum random number generator utilized in a cryotosystem. Well understood cryptographic failures like nonce reuse and side channel attacks are still routine; I can’t imagine the number of novel side channels and footgun opportunities that would be introduced with a cryptosystem utilizing this thing. The hardware, design and implementation requirements would add an enormous amount of complexity for an extremely small improvement overall.
There was a recent story about potential poisoning of the blockchain. If a prankster embeds some illegal content in the blockchain, would having a copy of the blockchain be illegal? I read a few stories about it but never saw any legal analysis.

Is there a way to do a consensual removal of poisoned blocks?
Most likely, yes.

As with everything though, there are trade-offs. If going strictly AWS fits your use case, you're fine working with GraphQL, etc., go for it.
Why should pensioners not face counter party risk like the rest of us?
This is certainly possible and I would welcome it but this is something that cannot be done overnight. It will take decades to convince politicians and more decades to upgrade the existing infrastructure.