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> Secret police worked when criminals were put away with parallel reconstruction, for instance.

It wasn't the secret police which worked. It was the parallel construction.

> “You can’t stop math.” Not true, strictly anyway.

You can't stop math.

> Backdoors are an antiquated way of implementing exceptional access. The proper way is to provide third party access that is truly exceptional (living up to the name), and not based on flaws that a malicious actor or rogue nation can break.

This statement is a fantasy. There is no way to provide third party access that is "truly exceptional" that a malicious actor or rogue nation can't break.

> Instead of E2EE, how about building E2E2EE. Doesn’t need to be measurably weaker.

Anything weaker than E2EE is measurably weaker than E2EE. E2E2EE is measurably weaker than E2E2EE.
Also, when laying out your strategy, don't make the mistake of betting everything on the hard problem working quickly. Uber started as a taxi hailing service, not a self-driving taxi service, and that was the right plan.

Make a model that makes money now using low-risk tech/ops approaches so you have the money to build your flux capacitor to plug into the business you already built to unleash the phase II hard-tech-powered model.
Slowly I having my doubts about that. At least for early stage and angle investment. Investors need a 10x exit. Now imagine an early stage investment of 250k in a small business that grows to 10 million revenue. Healthy, because it is a lifestyle business not geared towards hyper growth. Assuming the company is profitable and cash positive, buying back the investor for 2.5 million through a bank loan is a reasonable thing.

But that hints at an interesting problem. 250k is angle and seed, not traditional VCs. And there seems to be so much desperate money out there in the current "no interest for your bank account" times that there simply aren't enough small businesses like that strategy to work. Hence VCs, hyper growth, and, ultimately, things like SoftBank.

Whether that is healthy is everyone's guess.
OK, so how have things been going for the UK and Australia? Has anything concrete actually happened as result of the legislation that has helped law enforcement get access to encrypted communications?

In other words; does legislation actually make a difference in practice? Or is it just some sort of pointless political signalling?
Saying that a VC-funded startup can provide the same experience as Bell Labs or Xerox Parc is a tremendous false equivalency. Some exceptions might resemble those R&D behemoths. Most will not because VC - with its attendant growth expectations - is antithetical to “tinkering” (a great word another commenter here used).

And good luck picking the exceptions as a potential employee when every such startup has a reality distortion field. I can assure you you’re more likely to end up somewhere run by an Elizabeth Holmes type, who can sell you a compelling narrative that will ultimately flatline. Employees have no window into the reality of a startup from the outside. Very often they don’t get to see that much more on the inside either.
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Hi guys, I'm in the fortunate position of being a first 5 employee at a $1B+ valued startup. I'm allowed to sell as long as the investor doesn't raise some red flags during vetting.

Since companies are staying private way longer and all my eggs are in this basket, I'd like to diversify a bit.

I keep getting emails from bottom feeder broker dealers who want to charge me >5% to spam their email list.

Surely there's a more efficient market or a better way to do this.

Does anyone have any advice?
So the concern then is that the message might be tampered with on the wire?

Is there some hypothetical reason we can't just append the SHA256 of the message to the message before encrypting it? It should be impossible for an attacker to alter any message bits undetected with this scheme.
Is 2.5mm really viable for 10 people within SF Bay Area? That would mean compensation would be around $250k per person (not including payroll taxes, office rent, and whatever else cuts into that). That's distant from the compensation packages being given out by Big N.
Exactly. I could care less about lock in. I want security, availability (can I get spare/replacement parts 10 years from now) and reliability.

Qualifying new vendors is a pain in the ass.
Why is the license on another website... and a website built for collaboratively editing a document no less?

Best to set it in stone (by bringing it onto your own website) before you start selling.
Nextcloud is pretty good these days.

And I say that as someone who dismissed it as complete trash when it still was owncloud, a few years back.

It’s really gotten noticeably better, and (for me at least) syncs much faster than Dropbox ever did.

I’m populating new clients at 500mbps (which is my line cap). I really can’t complain.
> The disease has spread in places like Singapore and Thailand, which are warmer in February than most Northern Hemisphere cities are in summer.

Most Singapore buildings and its public transport system are fully A/C.
UK financial watchdog admits to leaking confidential consumer data
Common ownership is the term Henry George used. Of course, keeping the title system was specifically preferred in order to limit the scope of government.

Just need to pay for the land you use, since it belongs to all.

We should, perhaps, distinguish common ownership from public ownership. The concept of the Commons is one that people ought to understand. Something can be owned in common without it being managed by the government.
A VM can also optimize for the workload and the configuration of a program in ways that a compiled-once program cannot (profile-guided-optimization can help there)

A simple example is

log.debug(“foo:” + bar + “(“ + baz + ”)”)

A native C++ compiler would have to do the string concatenation and must call log.debug. A VM can (sometimes) detect that “log.debug” is a no-op, and skip computing its argument and calling it, and can even recover when “log.debug” stops being a no-op. It can even do that if the code for log get loaded dynamically at runtime.
How about using simple text for commercial software titles? That will make page searchable with Ctrl+F.
>The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard startup than an easy one.

I completely disagree. It has nothing to do with being "easy" or "hard". It has everything to do with the RIGHT people heading the team of RIGHT people. Put RIGHT people together and you can solve both easiest and hardest problems out there.

Companies fail a lot of times because wrong people with wrong or little experience make executive decisions that ultimately destroy these companies.

Poor managers cant build and keep good teams together. Poor managers ultimately erase companies chances to succeed.
There are plenty of proxies that do that with some config like nginx. Even if you were using a relational database with a backend you’d still have to solve the same problem.
I find this to be pretty alarmist.

"If the pandemic hits" ... the virus has already hit.

The WHO itself has backed off the Pandemic classification [1].

The virus has an overall 98% survival rate, and most diagnosed cases in the US, are not actually showing any symptoms (which itself is a cause for concern re: spread).

The annual Flu, MERS and SARS were far far worse. The flu kills between 26,000 and 52,000 annually in the US [2], and as much as I love prepping, this just does not fit the bill for the amount of FUD it has generated.

edit: comments are making me re-think my position. COVID is far worse mortality rate wise in 65+ patients vs flu.

1 - https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/who-tries-to-calm-ta...

2 - https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
On the flipside of over-extending, last time my family played we included auctioning. Didn't take long for my brother to realize he could send it to auction, bid $1 (which no one challenged because we were focused on the partially-completed colors we had), and immediately mortgage it for free money to buy houses on the properties he did care about.
My point is that a random person with access to any highly specialized tool will not output usable results. If I try to use a compiler and mess up, nothing bad happens.

If I go get myself an EKG and mess up the reading, well.. death is somewhere in the list of possibilities.

(To be fair, I fall into the group of people who believe in very strong government regulation to protect people from themselves, because the world is too complicated to make well-informed decisions. Easy example is seatbelts - if Ford could sells cars for $1500 cheaper if they didn't have seatbelts then some people would buy them and they'd die. Not everyone will do the proper research, so everyone needs protecting.)
>Made of several layers of quilted cotton fabric, using a process called the sashiko technique, and resist-dyed using the tsutsugaki method, these coats would be worn plain-side out and thoroughly soaked in water before the firefighters entered the scene of the blaze.

Very surprised that wool was not used (it is fire-resistant and wicks sweat). Was wool not available to Japan during this era?
Former fusion startup founder here. This is a very good point. My startup took 6 years to fail and much of our competition at the time is still at it 20 years later.

There are a number of things which are also impedance mismatches between the typical SV startup mode and hard startups. One of these is the failure path. When an adtech startup fails, the founders just go get well-paying jobs at a FAANG, or at least that what the perception appears to be. When your fusion startup goes bust, you... get evicted and live in your car for a while. There's no on-ramp for failed founders back into the industry. Heck, if its a hard startup, there may be no industry yet to go back to. So, you have to go find something else to do to pay the bills. The personal cost of failure can be much higher than typical startups. "Our incredible journey" for hard startups is more like, "Well, none of us died".

Another thing which doesn't mix well between the typical SV expectations and hard startups is that all the things which VCs think are advantages to being located in SV are generally disadvantages to people working on hard problems. Doing web software with ads? Lots of people to recruit in the Valley. Doing nuclear fusion... is there anyone doing nuclear fusion in the Valley? How do they afford to live when competing with all that cheap ad money? Perhaps I should locate on Madison Avenue, it has the same "advantages".

Then there is the typical way that VCs filter, starting with step one, "Know someone who can introduce you". That's a lot easier when you are in the same location, working in similar industries. It's a poor filter when most of the people working on a problem live far away, doing stuff very different from everyone you know. There are far fewer serial entrepreneurs when the failure time is measured in decades, so networking is more difficult.

I'm happy to see VCs try to return to working on hard problems. The Valley used to be good at that, before they became a center of the advertising industry. But Valley VCs need to read their history. In the late 1950s/early 1960s, New York was the center of finance and advertising. The idea that somewhere out in the wilds of California would become a center of a new industry with its own finance ecosystem was crazy. But everyone in the early Valley knew what those East Coast people were like. The Valley is now the new East Coast people, the new Madison Avenue. Doing a hard startup in the Valley now is like trying to start Intel in 1960 New York. Hard startups are hard enough, without trying to do that.
I would say there's quite a bit of pattern matching in video games, especially real-time ones like competitive FPSs.

You see a player round a corner and know that they are likely to end up at point A, B, or C within times X, Y, or Z.

You hear a specific gun being used to your left, it is likely being fired from areas D, E, or F because those have good sightlines to where you are.

For both circumstances you know that of the Q number of weapons you have R will be the best option for the range that you will likely encounter the enemy at and grenade S will also help. Weapons T and U will leave you undermatched. You switch to Q, reload it in an area that you know is relatively safe. As your approach the target you know that enabling powerup V will help you get the upper hand.
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You always buy everything. I can't believe people are arguing about it. Here is the game:

1. Roll dice.

2. Buy whatever you land on.

3. When everything is bought, make a few deals with other players. This takes 30 seconds and is the only skill involved in the game.

4. Roll dice until game ends.

It's 99 percent luck.
I've made the full switch. I still love Emacs, and if VS Code suddenly disappeared I'd switch right back. That said:

VSC looks and feels like a Mac app. Keyboard shortcuts to system services work the same there as in any other app. Emacs doesn't, however much time I spent trying to get it to do so. It also feels faster in a lot of ways because slow operations usually don't block UI updates.

VSC is way more popular lately, and it's extendable by people who don't want to learn elisp. I personally don't mind elisp at all, but I've come to accept that this is the minority position. So, what's that mean for VSC? It has a ludicrous number of packages / themes / etc., installable from the builtin package manager (that everyone actually uses; no more fetching code from some guy's website because he's politically opposed to the idea of a package manager), that actually work out of the box and are configurable through a GUI (or JSON if you want to commit the settings into source control).

I love Emacs, VSC is much better at editing Python than I've ever been able to configure Emacs to be. Linters and formatters are well supported and Just Work.

Here's the majority of my main settings.json file:

{
"files.trimTrailingWhitespace": true,
"[python]": {"editor.rulers": [99]},
"python.formatting.provider": "black",
"python.formatting.blackArgs": ["--line-length", "99"],
"python.linting.flake8Args": ["--max-line-length", "99"],
"workbench.colorTheme": "Dracula",
"editor.fontSize": 13,
"editor.fontWeight": "400",
"editor.fontFamily": "Fira Code",
"editor.fontLigatures": true,
"git.enableCommitSigning": true,
"workbench.iconTheme": "material-icon-theme",
"editor.formatOnSave": true
}

It's clearly not as configurable as init.el, but look how easy it is to change the theme or font size, and to add vertical rulers, and to configure font ligatures. As it turns out, I would much rather have settings be that simple than to have a Turing-complete language for computing the config at runtime. Others will disagree, and that's OK. But for me, it gets rid of one more massive excuse for screwing around with my editor config instead of writing code.
Well, during the Cold War the feds declared encryption to be "Auxiliary Military Equipment," listed on the USML [1]. It was illegal -- prison time illegal -- to ship software which could encrypt communications outside the USA up until 1992 [2].

I'm old enough to remember the tail end of this and it was absolutely absurd, yet still very real. I remember Zimmermann being investigated by the feds [3]. Zimmermann was smart to tie publishing PGP to the First Amendment. Something like Signal in those days may well have resulted in charges and a conviction.

Never underestimate the potential for folly when it comes to government regulation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Munitions_List

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_i...
Hell, that sounds like my reasoning. Can you mind read?

But seriously, I agree that this is the way to go. Add low fixed costs and you can have a very healthy, very profitable company. And if the business model scales reasonably well even a potential VC ready startup with the need for VCs. Can't think of a better strategy to become, and stay, my own boss.
Since I'm on home dialysis, I'll be pretty screwed if this goes on too long. I usually get medical supplies once a month and have probably an extra 2 weeks of backup supplies. Medications I can usually get 3 months at a time so I have plenty.

In terms of food and home essentials, we tend to shop in bulk normally so just need to make sure we are stocked up.
East and West Germany. If that doesn't expose the horror that socialism can bring to a population I don't know how else to explain it.

If one were to make a list of all of the advances in humanity across a range of fields of study, one would be very hard pressed to match the accomplishments of capitalism-rooted systems with what came out of the entire human history of socialist-based systems. One list is a thousand kilometers long and the other, by comparison, a post-it note. I truly don't understand how anyone can defend such ideology given the overwhelming evidence against it.

The countries usually held-up as examples of "good" socialism are not socialist nations at all. The way I would characterize them is that they are capitalist nations with good to excellent social programs. And, guess, what, there's nothing wrong with that at all. But let's not call them socialism, because they are not. Socialism leads to horror and suffering. Norway, as an example, is not a socialist nation. Even better, they could not have the programs they enjoy were it not for the oil industry they intelligently use to fund aspects of their society.

Bernie and company love to grab examples like Denmark and pretend they apply one-to-one to the US. We are not Denmark and Denmark is not the US. You can't do that. You can't point at the educational system in Finland and propose we do the same in the US, it won't work. We are different, the cultures are different, it's a different reality.

The simplest examples of this is what happened in Japan during Fukushima and today in China with COVID-19. If a disaster like Fukushima or Wuhan happened in the US you would, more than likely, have looting and all kinds of criminal activity by people taking advantage of the situation. That is a cultural difference that is almost insurmountable. And so, if someone proposed bringing Japanese style policing into the US because "look at how well Fukushima worked out" they would be, well, insane, completely disconnected from reality.

That is what Sanders and company are doing with Socialism and when they compare the US to other nations. We are not the same. We are better at a few things and worse at others. We can always improve, but let's not pretend there's some magical pill that will make everything better instantly, that's not real.
#000000 is black

#FFFFFF is white

They are 3 sets of 2 hex numbers.

#FF0000 is red

#00FF00 is green

#0000FF is blue

(you hear of RGB, Red Green Blue, in that order)

Now if you want a darker color (closer to black) you lower FF to a lower value. A darker blue would for example be #0000AA

if you want a lighter color you increase the other 2 color values. A lighter blue would be #2222FF

If you don't like hex there is rgb(0,0,255) which does exactly the same.

There is also rgba(0,0,255,0-1) with an alpha channel.

You can also put any part of that in a css variable and use it where you like.

body{--foo: 0,0,255,0.5; bar:0,0,100 }

p {background: rgba(var(--foo)) }

div {background: rgba(var(--bar), 0.8) }
In the Bay Area, my wife was also concerned about the brominated fire-retardants and found a manufacturer in Marin that use latex foam and wool toppers to make mattresses. We ordered one for us (custom dimensions for a European bed) and one for our daughter. We also had them make cushions for our couch: the frame is rattan so no stuffing or fabric, then we just put the old covers over the new cushions. They are all comfortable and free of chemicals. The downsides are they are expensive and heavy (takes 2 people to move the twin mattress). However, this was over 10 years ago, and I don't remember the name of the company.
This was as certain to happen as a sunrise in the morning. Nobody's surprised

Sadly this changes nothing :(

They will face no penalties. They'll continue with their sleazy work. They'll make lots of money off of their stolen data set (fb, Twitter, and Google never authorized those copies and nor did users)
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The Olympics won't be cancelled.

Why?

Because the percentage increase of foreigners coming into Tokyo as a result of the Olympics is negligible compared to the numbers going in and out on a daily basis.

I love a good end-of-the-world scenario as much as anyone. But, gimme a break... What rational benefit would there be in cancelling the Olympics? The only risk of disease arising from the Olympics is the spread of herpes, chlamydia, and ghonorhea in the Olympic village (a small price to pay to party with uber-fit gymnasts...)

We've heard these warnings so many times...

Ebola, Avian Flu, SARS, MERS, West Nile Virus, Mad Cow Disease, H1N1, Zika Virus, etc., etc....

Wake me when the dead start not staying dead... Now THAT would be a virus I could can get behind. Until then, I fully expect to watch the Olympics this summer (and maybe an episode or two of The Walking Dead), and read through some of these hysterical posts and chuckle.
In UWP yes, but not in Win32. Win32 has always been stuck on IE's MSHTML.dll controls, up until either XAML Islands for the WinRT-based EdgeHTML (coming soon, in preview today) or "Webview2" [1] for the Chromium Edge (coming soon, in preview today).

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/hosting/webv...
Mongo reminds me of Tesla - early products were shoddy but had incredible hype.

"It's incredibly fast!"
"It's web scale!"
"It'll be able to drive itself cross country in a couple of months!"

And I think the unfounded/exaggerated hype bothered a lot of us, but like Tesla, the actual product seems to have improved quite a lot as they've had time and resources to throw at it. So sure, some of us remember Teslas and MongoDB from 2013 and scoff, but the current reality is much different.
Can't wait to see what CouchDB 4.0 with FoundationDB at it's core does for the db.

This is a great release too!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. What you're saying definitely makes sense. However, the question is whether one should prefer or avoid such, considering my assumptions on relevant pros and cons (in other words, it's a question about fundraising process optimization).
More information on the piece of shit Judge

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/11/assa-j11.html
I guess it's the selective aspect of a question like this but I'm genuinely surprised that so many people in this thread are taking actual measures.
This server can't prevent authenticated user from uploading huge document of running expensive query.
A reasonably sized trade of wing options (far-OTM calls or puts) should be expected to move the volatility implied in the prices of options at and around that strike. I would call this "vol impact" or "skew impact." Go buy 5k AAPL Jul 250P tomorrow morning, and see what happens to the implied volatility of the offer on that contract by the time the market closes that same day.

Market makers are sensitive to wing trades, precisely because pricing skew is more of an art than a science. Trading away from spot can have a substantial impact on the way the implied volatility surface looks. And this can affect trades of other maturities and strikes.

Trading options, for me, is nothing like playing poker. Poker doesn't have an underlying storyline the way companies do. Nor are there catalyst dates in poker.