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> Daily news isn't for in-depth research. That's what books, documentaries, and other slow media is for. The daily news is for reporting the news of the day.

...but what about weekly and monthly news? That was the publishing frequency for most of the publications in this area. Those were the magazines those people wrote for, often not hindered by any deep knowledge about the subject matter but gifted with a quick pen - not to mention the advertising department which wanted to keep their clients happy.
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Somehow this even happens with programming managers. I feel like we have a real crisis of leadership in software development.
Your thoughts on Grassland echoes the ubiquitous, widely accessible and on balance beneficial surveillance predictions David Brin made in "The Transparent Society". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society
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Depends on the extent of "nuclear tech". If it's just building a nuclear reactor in SA, I don't see a problem at all. Nobody is giving them the tech needed to enrich uranium.
End to end encryption isn't super useful if one or both endpoints are compromised.
I don't see why it can't work if the only way to change them is through a special UI at boot (the security of which can itself be protected with hardware-assisted measures).
He's a rational actor who also somehow doesn't actually get it in a broad sense. Consider Kara Swisher's interview with him on Recode Decode… or Doug Rushkoff (Team Human book/podcast etc) wondered publicly if part of the problem was how Zuck dropped out of college. Rushkoff speculated about all these deeper philosophical, economic, political, humanism, etc. courses that might have got Zuck to actually get a more mature perspective instead of basically going right from adolescent snarky asshole to just applying that maturity level (albeit with a lot of intelligence) to his business.

He's rational in a sense, but he very well might not have ever stepped back far enough to really consider broader perspectives with an open mind, even as he reads and hears concerns. He probably reads them all with some strategic/tactical mindset that blocks him from truly getting the point.
Rich implies power. Privacy or not, the rich will always have certain advantage against normal people.
Almost everything in life boils down to some kind of social convention which is essentially 'tradition'.

I don't know if you have kids, but as soon as they start to ask questions, it becomes clear.

Like why you can't just wear your thong to work? Or nothing at all? Pull at the thread and it comes apart pretty quick. Answers lie more often lie in identity and culture, then they do some kind hard logic.

Obviously Monarchies represent a distinct issue as there's the essential problem of class, but I'd also argue there's something much more than intangible there: so many of the most successful countries have monarchies. Popular ones to boot. Even countries which had powerful socialist leaders (and of course socialism/communism would be utterly opposed to monarchy in theory because that's literally the top of the class system they want to destroy). Sweden, for example is a very socialist country with a monarchy that's more popular than the UK monarchy in the UK.

Of course, you can dump all of that and just use Western time, and mark your birthday in 'days since Jesus was born' ... but I'm not sure how relevant that would be in bucking tradition :)

I also think there is value in the Japanese 'era' system in some ways.

While we see it through the lens of 'Monarchy', maybe we consider just seeing it as 'era' which uses the Monarchy a specific demarcation point.

After all, a new 'era' would have represented entirely new forms of governance, structure, international/feudal relationships. An opportunity to do things like debt forgiveness, heck even build some public works like big libraries or museums, such as happens for each US President.

In many ways, it makes (or perhaps did) make more sense to mark 'eras' in relation to the geopolitical context as it would have in hard dates.

In the grand scheme of history we use the Geological Time Scale [1] (i.e. eras, epochs) as it's quite a bit more convenient that just citing dates.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_time_scale
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It's interesting that DEC did horizontal pixel stretching because individual dots would be too precise to be seen because of phosphor latency.

The Commodore 64 had a similar problem with single-pixel latency, which is why the vertical portions of its character ROM are all two pixels wide. Otherwise, the character would be too blurry to be read comfortably on televisions of the era.

I used to love making my own C-64 fonts pixel by pixel and comparing how they looked on a Panasonic portable TV versus my Commodore CM-141 monitor.
I think the blind faith is less about whether they can guess what's needed and more about always portraying confidence and saying that you'll succeed. How seriously are you going to take a product when the CEO of it sounds hesitant or sounds like he's hedging his bets? If you know a lot about the field then the honesty might be refreshing, but if you don't know much about the field then it won't seem appealing.
I find that I almost never read documentation in languages like Common Lisp and Clojure for two reasons:

1) documentation is often unmaintained and reflects the state of the library at some point in time, but not the current API. But...

2) even when there is good documentation, it’s often easier to just take a code example and then use the excellent jump to definition and other tooling to understand how the example works than it is to read the definition: in part, because there’s always a repl available in these languages and it’s much easier and quicker to run mini-experiments on the language at the repl than it is to read the documentation and translate it to code.
As a society we've conditioned people that when your manager or someone in authority "asks" you to do something, it's not really a question. I think when that particular power dynamic doesn't exist, people are more willing to push back, question priorities or outright say no.
> What's stopping me from finding all the unsecured IP cameras in my city and using them to "mine" data?

Absolutely nothing.

> Further, if I could do that what's stopping others from reusing the nodes that I set up?

Right now, nothing. Nodes could overlap other nodes. But they're still using compute cycles so they're still spending money. The only issue is, who gets theirs into the tree first. And if the hash is the same, you better be first or you're just wasting time.

Keep in mind, I've still got a lot of work to do. And until today, I've been working on this by myself. And pretty much since last summer. You can see the list of tasks that I need to complete on the site under "Beta Version".
Exactly my point. If someone else other than Sanchez had access to her phone, E2E encryption won't do shit. But to say that anyone is able to magically "intercept" E2E encrypted communications out of thin air is total bullshit. If I were Bezos, I'd refuse to pay for this "investigation".
> Because he works from home, Mr Beaumont has been able to increase his revenue by keeping cold callers talking - asking for more details about their services.

ROTFL
While I agree that it's inconvenient on a technical level, I think it's the right choice for a model where publishes are more infrequent. Push-based means you only have to publish N times every time you post something (N is subscribers), and it's instant for subscribers, whereas pull-based means you need to poll every so often M times (M is subscriptions) getting nothing back most of the time, and you get posts with a large delay.
I don't know how to think about FB and these issues. To grow platforms to the scale that FB has requires long term thinking which I think FB showed throughout (curtailing annoying notifications - e.g. Zynga games spam - which might have looked like 'improved engagement'). Social media is brand new to humanity and companies of all types have traditionally done pretty shitty things to make a buck (for example, in the mining industry). FB is a company where people express themselves - that's quite a new thing! And FB is learning that we need to trust it. I don't think what they are doing is disingenuous, they are too clever for that. Though they are getting beat up a lot right now, in the long run it's probably for the good of the company - learning the hard way. (I own FB shares.)
FZROX or VTSAX. Perhaps not in a lump sum right now, but that amount divided into weekly deposits to mitigate risk a bit.
As of version 8, it does:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vim/vim/master/runtime/doc...
Sex is not a human right, but a reasonable pursuit of sex, relationships, marriage etc. very much is. Entitlement has no legitimate place in such a pursuit, simply because it incredibly counterproductive. There's a very real dynamic where being nonchalant about these things makes you more likely to be successful at them, and we shouldn't be dismissing it so quickly.
My godfather was doing this in the late 90s. He took an RV and retrofitted it to be a salon. His problem is that his (white collar) clientele didn’t want to pay the premium to be on site, and the driving time ate up his margins. I think, had he been younger and had more room to pivot his business plan, it might have worked.

The travel time versus a stationary area is the hardest to overcome.
Time is indeed money. Most companies track customer acquisition cost in dollars and I've often wondered whether both parties - customers and companies - would like a more direct model.

Let's say an employee earns $50/hour. And a SaaS has identified that employee as being a decision maker on their service. And let's say my current CAC ie $10,000 and the lifetime value of the service is 25k. And let's say that the SaaS closes 1 out of every 5 people that sees the demo.

Wouldnt there be appetite for the SaaS to offer 5 potential decision makers $500 each to participate in a demo? And another $1000 to the DMs company? The CAC decreases by 25% and the spend goes to the people and companies most participating in the process as opposed to tools like Marketo, and spend, etc.

Anyway, I think the guy here has hit on something but not at a high enough price.
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To keep up with your analogy: I'm here mending the fences of my farm to keep the horses from running, and you are using a bolt cutter on my gates. It's without my permission, and goes directly against my wishes.

Some of us are still actively working on making the world a secure place. It can be done... but not with a project like this. It certainly doesn't help that this style of thinking plays right into the Mr Zuckerberg's hands.

> But I'm doing you a favour. Because I'm giving your life away for free.

I think I'm going to be sick...
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Just another skinned-DroidOS reseller. Would love to have seen something like the QNX-based Blackberry q20 have survived, something actually different from Android/iOS.
8 miles is a 30 minute bicycle ride (for me) in the city, and my city is in the top 5 by worst traffic in the world. Except for winter time, I never use a car to go to work, it would take me 1.5-2 hours for 10 miles (in each direction). There are options bicycles and scooters.
If anyone else is curious about those acronyms, this is what I think they might mean:

CLEC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_local_exchange_car...

SS7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_System_No._7#Protoc...
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cool-retro-term is my go-to terminal program for quick projects that don't need multiple panes.

It freaks out the IT guys and our workspace consultants, which is a bonus.

The only downside is that on macOS it crashes on quit. But since I'm quitting it anyway, no harm done.
Isn't there something as a decentralised DNS client?
It's tough to align a laser precisely enough to reliably hit a satellite. The necessary equipment is too heavy and fragile for ground troops. Plus it doesn't work through clouds.
I don't have a concrete proposal. I was just trying to illustrate that there may be a model inbetween total and zero regulation.

The line of demarcation could be storing personally identifying information, interfacing with advertising networks, or maybe even ownership of certain patent/intellectual property rights.
That's 'long run' economics. So yes, as soon as you get outside the short run it gets hard to calculate.

But it's really hard to argue in any circumstance that 'more workers = higher wages' because wages will be a function of available labour.

The 'rub' in the data really is the fact it doesn't take into consideration the black market. Wages paid under the table are 100% part of the real economy, and those are wages, but they generally don't go into the equations.

Imagine if the 'average us wage' were calculated with a few million extra people earning below minimum and with zero benefits?

When there is full employment though, and not tons of undocumented workers, one could argue that economic expansion could pick up the slack, surely.
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I run my own dns server (and a bunch of other stuff), but as secondary dns with a hidden master. It lets me configure records how I want but with the benefit of using my provider's international dns server network.
Until that happens, Prompt for iOS by Panic Software out of Portland is very useful. I've used it on my iPhone in emergencies for years, and recently put it on an iPad and it really shines.
But I'm speaking to the set of cases where there is some external economic incentive (outside of the crypto token value) to either incriminate or exonerate some actor's behavior.

I think the scrubbing/exoneration scenario is straightforward, and the physical anomalies you mention (for the incriminate overlay attack) would be handled by CG or 1:1 offline model recording.

Maybe the network needs to report on cases where sensors disagree and visualize/surface these n different versions of history.

Any thoughts on leveraging something like Golem for the compute and Streamr or Erasure for the payment/sponsorship?
Your paper is literally cited and explained by the one I posted...
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They also removed the ability to preview RSS feeds, which is annoying because one of the few certain ways to subscribe to a feed was to preview it and then hit subscribe in whatever addon you were using.

In the past it was even possible to subscribe with whatever addon you prefered from the firefox RSS preview directly, but that was already lost after the jump to WebExtensions.
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I suspect the solution is even simpler: make the penalties for mistakenly shooting unarmed civilians significantly higher. The death of an unarmed civilian should be career-ending for the officer(s) at fault at the very least. If the penalties are higher, than that'll drive officers to prefer less-lethal weapons (tasers, pepper spray, batons) and only use actual lethal firearms after assessing that yes, the situation warrants it.

I also say this as someone with family members who have served as law enforcement officers.
So after the encounter with my teacher at Home Depot, I posted my resume on dice.com. A trade school contacted me.

I went for the interview, and the founder asked me "Do you think you could teach?" I replied with confidence and said "Yes." I had no clue if it were something I would do right. All I knew was I would give it everything I had.

I ended up working at a trade school as a teacher making $25/hr. I had to travel ~2 hours in one direction and would get home around 2 am. I was too afraid to quit working at Home Depot so I kept both jobs.

It wasn't until I got a job at a start-up company making $30k a year during the .com boom. I was severely underpaid, but I was happy that I finally had a full-time job in IT! Until the company went belly up a year later and everyone got laid off.

So what happened next? I was on unemployment for six months and refusing to work in IT. I was angry that after all of my dedication and hard work, I would be tossed aside. I read JavaScript articles by candlelight because my electricity was turned off for not being able to pay the bills early on. So I felt violated and used.

A manager from that startup company asked me to come interview at a company where he was working. I decided to give IT one more change. That job paid $40k a year. Granted I was still underpaid, but I had hope. Although I was underpaid, I was now able to pay bills and not struggle. I rented an entire home for $400/month. Side note, I was renting a house from an ex-drug dealer who didn't own the home. Instead, he took an abandoned home, cleaned it up and said he owned it. I didn't know this until years later.

By 2005, I was only making $48k a year, a far cry from what I make now. I learned how to negotiate and obtain my worth. I make it a point to teach people about how to achieve their proper worth. e.g., Never negotiate with yourself! You know that mental process when you want to ask for $$$ but decide on asking for $$? Learn how to value being told "No" during an interview vs. doing and accepting anything to "Yes."

Hope that answers your question.
Discoverability is so, so much better in stores.

Amazon is great if you know exactly what you need, or what to compare a few, well-defined options (especially for something like a technical book, where the reviews often highlight subjective things rather than "quality").

For a lot of things, however, I don't know exactly what I want going in. In principle, Amazon's recommender system could work here, but in practice, it hews really closely to authors, series, and topics I've already bought, with a dose of total randomness (what on earth is a "Chinchilla Lava Ledge?"). There's none of the serendipity of looking for one thing and finding something similar but better.
What about their own country? Unless you're calling it a shithole?
> the list never includes ways to spend less time working. It's almost like an unspoken rule.

Having just spent years outside the developed world and "working", I realize now that it is very much a spoken rule that "Thou shalt contribute to the economy".

> I know that to recommend that is to take a chance with your livelihood

That's a strange statement to make - it's like you are agreeing with the unspoken rule!

Working less absolutely doesn't take a chance with your livelihood. Step down to 4 days a week and drive a use car, don't have a TV and don't buy a new cell phone. At the end of the month you'll still have exactly the same money.

Step down to three days a week and just live in a smaller place and cut out more things - you'll still have exactly the same money.

There are no chances being taken there, just choices.
... My experience with those companies, and I've been employed by more than one: the decisions to make those special sauce systems predate their fame in every case.

So no, and I don't get why you're trying to now raft programming languages you don't like to a medical diagnosis.
I don't know what he's so concerned about. He knows as well as the the rest of us that "If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to worry about."
Keep in mind that many of the preferred key exchange algorithms and ciphers have changed vastly since 2006.
OpenSSH has been improving in the cryptography department by leaps and bounds.

OpenSSH 5.2 switched to preferring AES-CTR.

OpenSSH 5.7 added ECDH as a kex and ECDSA as for signing.

OpenSSH 6.2 added encrypt-then-mac and prefers it by default.

OpenSSH 6.5 added Curve25519 as a kex and chacha20-poly1305 as a cipher. As well as Ed25519 for signing.

OpenSSH 8 will add quantum resistant algorithms for key exchange.
Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook Corporation because he doesn't believe his own claims.
Thanking him would be wrong. But I acknowledge that Facebook has provided early example into the real harms of social networking + data collection + psychological manipulation via ux. If Facebook became prominent later, after stronger ai was available to trap users attention, it could be a disaster. Are we inoculated? I am not sure. Also not sure why you are being downvoted, I think your comment makes a salient point and some snark is fine as long as it is not a personal attack.
Very impressive work. Reconquisita of the public plaza by leveling the data playing field.

We also are approaching a society, where very high powered artefacts are available to the common citizen.

Who prevents a twelve year old brat in a star trek society from throwing a rock into a planet at c? The physics of space, make those living in a gravity well the inhabitants of a glas house by nature.

The ugly answer is, society, by constant self-observation. The other ugly side, not discussed by this though, is not only the danger of authoritarian control, but the danger of risk averse society as observer. We already have this in some limited form. Parents who no longer allow kids to experiment with chemistry sets, etc.

The stagnation they produce is very similar to a politician, who conquers the head of state, and then once in power- just sits on it. All the ressources in the world, and nothing willing to spend them on.

To balance this, will be quite a task.

Also - how do you keep a person under surveilance, once they are no longer directly connected to the society?

Should any wannabe dictator be allowed with a pack of assemblers out into the ort cloud? May we only be allowed to dwell only in numbers larger then three?
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I had a comment for that further up in the thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19532614
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I do not think the "non-fountain" style of error correction has the nice property of "just grab any reasonable fraction of the packets and you will get to decode the whole message". With a Turbo/LDPC/Polar/etc code you encode a packet, send it, and when it is received it is either decoded or not, but there is no notion of a message spread redundantly over many packets, where any n of them are enough for the decoding of the full message.
well there is dnscrypt. i use a local cache for fast revisits. ya i'm not sure everyone having full dns servers would be a good thing or even practical.
I do not think the article provides the correct explanation. I'm sure, most of the readers do not use Smalltalk, and they have their own (straightforward) reasons for that. Most probably, why should they care about an old, outmoded, strange and almost dead language? You cannot sell a dead horse.

It is a pity. I could name dozens of its great ideas that are still waiting to be re-invented by the mainstream languages of today.
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Could it be that these languages haven't evolved all of the tooling and ecosystems other languages have? You don't spend time setting up stuff. With web dev, you constantly spend time switching between various tools to just even build the damn thing/app.

None of it is needed, per se - for years everybody made web sites without it - but we've all convinced each other that it's just what you do.

Maybe Smalltalk doesn't have these conventions (yet)?
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