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Cook confuses iMessage security with iCloud security in this interview, whether on purpose or out of ignorance. Yes, only the users have the private keys in the iMessage case, but this doesn't matter in practice because Apple (or for Chinese users, China) controls the server that distributes the public keys, allowing the Chinese government to eavesdrop on any conversation involving at least one Chinese party trivially. By pretending that only where the iMessage private keys are is an issue, he also distracts the interviewer from the fact that China has gets to determine when to decrypt any Chinese user's iCloud data, which Apple itself had already confirmed to Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/article/china-apple-icloud/rpt-insig...
It was a 2008 Seat Leon diesel. We managed fine, and even managed 200 kph on the autobahn (perhaps a bit under 50 MPG there..)

We drove around 5000 miles from Barcelona to nice to Florence to Geneva to Offenburg to Bremen to Luxembourg to Amsterdam to Brugges to Paris to Barcelona. It was fucking awesome - and to tell you the truth I really, really understand what "trip of a lifetime" means now that I've never really recreated that experience.

Three good friends on an adventure together (first time to Europe for all of us!) in a new and interesting place in our mid 20's when we were all single and had jobs we didn't care too much about was a pretty damn great recipe, and we still joke about the football Cheetos floating around the back of the car from the first day of the trip.
Conventional media promotes strong opinions in the consumer about stuff they havent checked themselves. Those dogmas are then factionalized along and pre-judged with.
Just seems to be using this event to rant about stuff they were already upset about. The first name mentioned is Marc Zuckerburg, who has nothing to do with the actual scandal.

This is hardly the first charity scandal related to accepting donations from questionable donors. The issue predates electricity, let alone modern tech companies.
> Ultimately, this thread does feel a lot like the author making a dreadful scandal about himself.

This is what Hoffman is saying, and it would be very on-brand for Giriharadas to do so.
> Although areas of California City have not developed as expected, California City has grown from 3,200 people in 1985 to over 14,000 in 2018. Cerro Coso Community College closed escrow on 22 acres (8.9 ha) in the heart of California City for a Community College to serve Edwards AFB, California City, Mojave, Boron, North Edwards and the entire high desert in the Antelope Valley.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_City,_California

Many of southern California's big cities used to fit a similar description.

I wouldn't be surprised if in 20 years California City was the fastest growing metro area in California, with residents drawn by the low cost of real estate, good schools, a new UC campus, booming aerospace industry, and proximity to Los Angeles.
In this Lex Freidman interview, Eric Weinstein (a bit kooky) explains his view on the trenches of advanced mathematics/physics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wq9x2QcZN0

He goes into depths about the problems right now in academia
Awesome! Indeed feels like a better selection of recommendations

The only tweak I’d make? Link to UK (etc, but UK for me) Amazon too! Mainly because I’m lazy but also you could then set up a UK affiliate tag. I buy a lot of books, get your slice!
That's just a default configuration difference. You can configure it to do lift-off regen if you like. There's also a camera based auto-regen mode that can switch between coasting and regen based on the distance to the car in front.

Philosophically, Porsche believes it's easier to drive a car fast when one pedal is solely responsible for accelerating and one for braking. Having the throttle be responsible for acceleration and light braking makes it difficult to modulate speed consistently. You can even see the philosophy at work on their gasoline cars, in Sport+ mode the anti-lag system pretty much removes engine braking.
Rich consultants / independent service providers working remotely move from one place to another. Yawn.
How is it? I'm debating watching it.
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I'm guessing HK police haven't adopted body cams yet?

For that matter, has anyone outside of North America?
> when you take that job†, I think you also undertake an ethical obligation to leave that post as soon as it becomes reasonable to say that your continued presence is a distraction or disruption from the mission of the organization

While that's all well and good when it's an issue you agree with, would you be willing to apply that standard in the other direction? If Joi Ito had created a controversy by standing on principle for something you believed in, would you say the same thing?

My point being that you cannot divorce the distraction/disruption from the ethical view of the action itself. Many things are disruptive, but some disruptive things are ethically important. We do not want to discourage prominent figures from taking controversial stances simply because it might distract from the mission of their organization. At least, I don't think that's a healthy thing to do in an untargeted way.
Yes. The technology is in use, just using natural gas instead of hydrogen because of cost.

If/when hydrogen becomes cost-effective via direct market forces or mandated at gunpoint by government, the technology is ready.
Yeah, it's worth remembering that Russia still operates RBMK nuclear reactors and plans to do so for as long as they can keep them working. The safety levels of their nuclear power program do not exactly match Western standards to put it lightly.
This is, in my opinion, a stunningly poor reaction to the Epstein/Media Lab trash fire. You can believe, as I do, that Epstein was a monster and Joi fucked up in the worst possible way and also retain enough independent thought to see this article for what it is: an opportunistic rant by an angry person who imagines themselves the lone voice of reason against a vast conspiracy that includes everyone from wealthy Greek aristocrats (lol) to Bill Gates to Timothy Leary.

Please.

There's a lot to be frustrated by in the culture and cult of tech, but the irony of Morozov posting this op-ed on a site that is usually proudly powered by a mountain of open source created by the sorts of smart kids that spend time researching at the MIT Media Lab is galling.
What's the practical range of any jamming attempt? Wouldn't the government have to put jammers in every corner?
https://www.facebook.com/events/1501835843304159/
https://www.facebook.com/events/376574989936263/
At a minimum it would be a signal. I remember from the Snowden leaks that NSA was monitoring people who had searched for Tor Browser and other privacy tools.
Other donors who may not have been as willing to contribute to the lab if they knew the lab accepted monies from Epstein. That's why his donations were recategorized as anonymous even though the recipients know who they came from.
European here. I haven't worked in the US but from chatting with my US friends, tech salaries are stupidly low here indeed unless you live in Eastern Europe where you'll get similar purchasing power as in the US.

Unless you work in a major(and expensive) tech hub and have skills that are scarce and in demand, income in tech everywhere else is not that much higher than any other boring office job unless you're a consultant on some niche thing.

So while you'll live a good life, you'll never hear stories like in the US of people in tech making enough money to buy a huge property or retire early unless they founded a successful startup that saw a good exit which is pretty rare.
>"psychologically manipulate" - isn't that just a loaded way of saying "convince"?

"(...) The girls he allegedly abused were largely from troubled backgrounds, either in the foster care system, from broken families, or below the poverty line".

-- and as young as 14 year old, at that. Does "convince" really apply?

>Did he actually do all those other things, beatings, threatening?

(...) Multiple women say they attempted to refuse Epstein, but to no avail.

“I was terrified and I was telling him to stop,” said Araoz, recounting one visit during which Epstein raped her.

“If I left Epstein … he could have had me killed or abducted, and I always knew he was capable of that if I did not obey him,” another alleged victim, Virginia Roberts, said during a hearing.
I heard he used the same email on twitch as his personal facebook and has already been identified.
Your arguments were thoroughly demolished in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20906267 before you posted, although you've added a particularly delicious couple of new errors:

> Note that writing a Word document is not programming, since people are not writing directly in the language, instead Word generates the code for them

By this argument, writing a program in C is not programming either. (This was the sales pitch for FORTRAN: you could fire all your programmers, because the FORTRAN compiler would generate the code for you.)

> What people see in Word is not a language since it doesn't have a textual representation

This is a particularly amusing error, quite aside from the fact that XML is a textual representation. I suppose programming in Scratch and Labview by this definition isn't "programming" --- while apparently writing HTML would be!

Plain ASCII text files have a variety of advantages and disadvantages; it's a standardized, very simple format with half a century of compatible history behind it (and more, if you consider plain text files in other encodings), without extreme limitations. So there are a lot of languages defined in terms of plain ASCII text files rather than OLE containers or whatever, including most popular programming languages, as well as XML, HTML, RFC-822 email, CSV, URLs, and so on. But, as should be obvious, the encoding of your program is entirely orthogonal to the expressivity of the programming language!
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Which is why the author of the article didn't find the upcoming release for the book she searched. Searching for a book we can't make money on? Pffft GTFO.
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IANAL, but the GPL contains warranty exceptions, rights of the end user to get access to the sources and other paragraphs, which are targeted to the end user and not (only) to other developers. So, I see that many open source installers use the GPL as a EULA text, but the linked source lacks an explanation of why the GPL could not be seen as such.
This is an angry piece.

The Epstein case doesn't surprise me. Most people with money are morally reprehensible or have dealt with morally reprehensible people.

What I can't understand is where TED talks play into this? Are they evil by proxy?
Not so easily. There's still social signaling, as exemplified best by this amusing meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-do-you-do-fellow-kids
He hid the donations from MIT. Since Epstein was on the blacklist, MIT might have a civil case against him. I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know if that would be, for example, "fraud".
If you have rarely been able to actually find the answer, why do you assume prostitute? Sounds rather misogynist to me.
No, there is a huge difference. In a house, the AC is powered efficiently by electric power from the grid or even your solar cells. With the car, you keep a combustion engine , that could output 100kW or more running purely to power a 1kW AC unit. This is one of many advantages of electric or hybrid cars, that you can keep AC running.
I didn't mean it was a better synonym ;)
Using an app by itself isn't probative of anything, and homing in on half the people in a large crowd isn't effective.
Your comment is problematic for Ito, but non-responsive to the parent comment's argument.

The thread is: bb88 proposes that Epstein's charitable giving to MIT was a way to reputation launder ("turn a sleazeball into a boyscout").

davrosthedalek disputed that claim, as the donations were anonymous.

The reason for anonymity doesn't matter; the net effect is there is no plausible reputation laundering effect from anonymous donations.
There is plenty of skepticism, even from during the prohibition era, which seems to be finally on the way out.

Harm reduction activists documented quite a few horror stories, seizures/deaths from LSD + lithium, HPPD, etc.

Psychedelics are promising, sure, but I doubt anyone serious thinks are some kind of panacea.

There is just not enough money in this whole thing yet to sweep skeptics under the rug.
What do you mean getting away with what he did for so long? He was sentenced more then 10 years ago for having sex with underage girls.

Donating money doesn't make you a philanthropist. I'm not caping(? not sure what this means) at all for Epstein. I simply think it beyond ridiculous to fault an institution for taking donations from any individual as if that act implies the institution agrees with all actions that individual has taken.
The comment I responded to did not mention Epstein in any way or form.
"Resigning to spend more time with my guild."

Joi Ito: What World of Warcraft taught me about being a better leader (chronicle.com) - 32 points by yarapavan on Apr 28, 2011

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2493209

https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/new-director-of-...
Some of the "women" (including some who testified) were 14 year old at the time, and a majority below 18.

He once jocked for a 17 year old that "she is getting too old for me".

The girls were scouted and selected by a group of trusted aides "from troubled backgrounds, either in the foster care system, from broken families, or below the poverty line"...

Not sure how much 'agency' we should give them.

These are not really women going with some boyfriend or merely a young girl with a much older guy. E.g. I'm OK with Louis CK asking to masturbate, and then doing it when the women said yes (I don't consider their "yes" to be any kind of manipulation, rich or not, powerful or not, they could always say no).
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I have a friend in India who drove me to this place several years go https://www.google.com/maps/place/Narne+East+City/@17.458150...
The place apparently has been a ghost town for almost 30 years.
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Why do you talk like this "the usual merit bar for comments on this site"?
Hi. According to MIT Epstein donated ~800k over 20 years, looking into a sudden large donor makes sense, but AFAIK there wouldn't have been anything to find 20 years ago.

Certainly possible, but it would be interesting to understand the timeline and reasons. The "keep this donation anonymous" would take on an entirely different meaning if it was prior to the prohibition, for example.
It's not like the same tactic can't be turned back on police, whose comms are already monitored by specialists in any large direct action.
When the subject of discussion is a man known to be involved in human trafficking, being so trusting and naive does not a lick of good.

You seem to be repeatedly ignoring the context of Epstein's criminal conviction.
It's a bit sad. With a bit of money and some connections, you have access to a botnet large enough to cause some serious downtime.
In the sense that it's not quite clear if he would have had to resign if Epstein were not blacklisted.
With Hong Kong's population density, I could see this technology working fairly well. I'm not sure how well it would work inside buildings, but could be good enough for people walking on the streets. It would also theoretically possible for each phone to store hundreds of encrypted text messages if latency isn't important.
I’m not sure how it’s misogynist. It’s a people watching activity that’s just a pastime. Similar to trying to tell narratives about people sitting near us in a cafe. Just because I’ll never know if someone really is a traveling archaeologist smuggling artifacts doesn’t mean I don’t derive pleasure in thinking through the thought.

In the particular game of “prostitute or daughter” (also sometimes prostitute or son, although much less common) we try to pick apart clues that might inform the guess. Places we’ve seen them. Actions toward each other. Actions when apart. Etc etc.
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The problem isn’t “taking Saudi money”, the problem is “giving Saudis equity” (i.e. influence and potential future profits). Donations solve this.
It's still missing a crucial ingredient: you have to demonstrate that your list of events is an unbiased sampling of all relevant events, as opposed to a cherry-picked list of useful events. For example, it would not be an "empirical argument" to convince everybody that a coin was unfair by publishing an article whenever it came up heads. An example isn't evidence, and a list of examples aren't evidence. Evidence is when you have a list of examples along with the other necessary information (which can take many forms, for example I wouldn't mind seeing a list of examples from a known-non-morally-bankrupt control group).
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I'm not sure the trafficking was even on the radar at that point. The legal proceedings didn't even start yet. It's no wonder it's not on Wikipedia then.
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It simply means the process of politicians or normal people identifying with a specific group (other then the nation as a whole) and making that groups interest its primary concern rather then the nation or humanity as whole.

Or even simple the process of making policy turns into what are you and what are you not, rather then what are your actions or lack their off.

I the simply fact that you are born gay, straight, polish or any other identifiable group is what defines you and therefore defines your life.
I kind of agree with you but I don't like some of this.

> Especially since some of the most-wanted drugs, treatments for depression, are not that easy to tell from a placebo

Anti-depressents have a good track record, though imperfect.

> our most powerful drugs are... lithium?

What are you saying, that lithium has a short name so it's crap? That it's a simple compound so it's crap? That it's a metal compound so it's crap? What?

I've known people on lithium, if it works, you're beyond grateful for it (I've not been on lithium but prozac for me treated a life-destroying depression).

Please don't slag off drugs so casually without posting statistical evidence. Those of us who've had successful treatments can attest to their value, mixed as it can be. It's better than the appalling alternative.

I can't find my posts but here's one that accords with my horrible experiences https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16435140

"f I hadn't gotten a prescription for Prozac I probably would have killed myself by now"
And if you need pills routinely you should probably think twice before having a chronic condition.
the HN comments on all the recent Epstein stories have been very strange.

I have to assume at least some of the more contrarian views are coming from people who haven't been following the full story in the US news, and so don't quite grasp the nature of the allegations. The case is far from just "some rich guy turned out to be an abuser".

If you can't understand why the reaction is so strong against those who maintained ties with Epstein, it's worth looking into the full story, perhaps starting with the Miami Herald's "Perversion of Justice" story last year.

https://www.miamiherald.com/topics/jeffrey-epstein
Peter, if you think "most people" have some convicted child rapists in their circle, you have a very warped view of the world.
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I first read this as “Large Underwear Observatory”
I've read about the first half, which didn't mention that Epstein was already convicted for sex trafficking by the time he arrived at MIT in that story.

It didn't occur to me that he would be walking around freely doing deals if he had already been convicted.

I didn't have the information that he was let off the hook and there was also no indication I should google for something like that. What search term should I have used?
> Physicists don’t understand their own theory any better than a typical smartphone user understands what’s going on inside the device.

This article seems to take a confused definition of "understand". Not admitting to a full and complete understanding is rather different from knowing nothing at all.

And to give your typical smartphone user some credit, most of them probably have some idea of the concepts of radio waves and computers, even if they don't grasp the details.
Your marijuana point makes no sense. Now your logic is circular --

1. Normilization is when the police stop enforcing something

2. More and more people started to disagree with the legal status of marijuana

3. It became hard for police to enforce drug laws.

You are now arguing that step 3 is normalization. What do you call step 2? I think most would agree that step 2 is normalization, and its effect is step 3. If step 2 is not normalization, then what is it?

Remember - people truly believed marijuana caused people to murder and rape people all the way back in the 30s. In terms of public perception, it wasn't too far from child trafficking.

>Note that is different than the normalization of child trafficking itself.

It's not - you cannot remove those two. You can take parallels to how LGBTQ are portrayed in media. People credit Modern Family - which featured a homosexual couple - as normalizing homosexuals in our society, but you are making the claim that is"only normalizing homosexuals on tv." Thats ridiculous - the two are inexorably linked. It's not what happened.

It showed people that if you are gay, you no longer have to live in hiding, that people will accept you, and you can live this "happy sitcom" life.

If I am a child trafficker, and I see this guy Epstein shaking hands and kissing babies with a top academic, how is that not sending the message that "hey we know you kidnap kids, but we don't mind, come to our dinner"? Isn't that normalization?
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It's easy to go too far in the other direction.
Well, now anyone who cares a lot about HK or is hostile to authoritarian policing in general knows about it. Knowledge is power and all that.
>Otherwise, please explain what special powers old rich men would have over young women.

The power that comes from being rich, well connected, parading powerful friends (even judges, politicians, financiers, and so on), aides, bodyguards, the means to have them beaten or killed if you want to, and so on? The power to get them fired from their jobs? The powerful to do "Eyes Wide Shut" level shit to them and them knowing it?

Or you expected some magical power that applies to every old rich person in any situation between them and a young woman?