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by austerity 10y ago
I vaguely remember giving it some consideration. But the bigger point is that my judgement on these things is not to be trusted since I'm just an application developer and not a crypto expert.
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by austerity 10y ago
Yup, arbitrary restrictions on passwords are a bane. I've thought about adding various modes but then you need to remember the mode you used. So far the most sensible option seems to be falling back to a password manager for those site
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by austerity 10y ago
It's simple concatenation. The exact algorithm is described at the bottom of the page so that one could reproduce it (and their passwords) independently.
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by austerity 10y ago
Shameless plug time! Instead of remembering different passwords or using a password manager (and thus storing all your passwords somewhere) you can use https://salty.pw/
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by austerity 10y ago
How did this become about taxes when it's actually about corruption? New evidence is uncovered of people at the top systematically abusing their power and disregarding the very laws they instill upon everyone else. Yet HN commenters ar
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Man Faces Prison Sentence for Circumventing UK Pirate Site Blockade(torrentfreak.com)
2 points by austerity 10y ago|0 comments
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by austerity 11y ago
It could and it would be wrong. But it's not at all what this leak is about.
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by austerity 11y ago
Nothing. But some people can't control their urge to cry wolf.
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by austerity 11y ago
If by "skew" you mean publish some (true or at least reasonably verified) information that could influence the voters' decision then why the hell not?
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by austerity 11y ago
The wording in that article is pretty telling, but why do you imply they can no longer be trusted? A business that was profitable before became unprofitable due to legal pressure, so they exited it. It doesn't look like they've be
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by austerity 11y ago
Welp, it was only a matter of time... Thanks for the info!
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by austerity 11y ago
First of all, there's no such thing as own server. The trust you are putting into the ISP your "own server" is connected to is exactly the same as the trust you are putting into a VPN provider. Second, for a lot of people in
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by austerity 11y ago
I too like to come up with rationalizations of my NIH syndrome.
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by austerity 11y ago
It's remarkable that you had to preface your argument with "Just playing the devil's advocate here". It appears that the fear of AI taking life and death decisions is so great that merely making an argument in favor of i
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by austerity 11y ago
Oh, come on, let's not pretend this is somehow different from the traditional money. I am not particularly ignorant nor reluctant to learn as far as an average person on the street goes and I have no friggin idea how the mechanisms tha
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by austerity 11y ago
> This means that there must be at least thousands of IQ alleles to account for the actual variation seen in the general population. Or that IQ is only governed by genes to a very small extent in which case the rest of the argument goes
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by austerity 11y ago
It's not the memory that is the problem, but the collectivist mentality. I "remember" a lot of history but I know better than to associate myself with dead people of the past or to hold my contemporaries responsible for anyth
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Show HN: Salty.PW, a stateless password manager(salty.pw)
4 points by austerity 11y ago|0 comments
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by austerity 11y ago
As someone who is fairly enthusiastic about Go and has implemented a few livelihood-providing production systems in it I am baffled by the number of people who keep trying to use it for application (and especially web application) developme
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by austerity 11y ago
> Just because something is legal doesn't mean that it's okay, from a values and ethics perspective. Exactly. And taxation is a prime example of that. Just because a racket gang decides to spend some of their proceedings for th
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by austerity 11y ago
The mere fact that the encryption ban is being discussed and bringing it up doesn't instantly end one's political career is frightening. Access to all individual's communications is a level of trust reserved for closest famil
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by austerity 11y ago
Is there anything I can read up on this? I hear the population of Baltics halved, sounds like a rather drastic effect. Although I didn't imply immigration restrictions are the only problem either- indeed the language and other cultura
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by austerity 11y ago
While that's true, holding everyone by force is the most primitive and inefficient (in terms of common good) solution I can think of. For example, the safety net is in fact an early stage investment so it would be logical if the govern
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by austerity 11y ago
At some point other factors like ease of contract enforcement, infrastructure, etc. become more important than shaving off a few more percents from the taxes. So in the end it boils down to which government is able to provide better service
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by austerity 11y ago
You are deciding whether to violently take away wealth from the rich. It might even be a good idea, but the real manipulation here is to pretend otherwise and get all offended when it's pointed out.
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by austerity 11y ago
I don't mind being a pigeon. What I am objecting to is other pigeons making major life decisions for me.
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by austerity 11y ago
No. Next question please. Seriously if anyone is treating humans like pigeons here it's the author by posing this question.
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by austerity 11y ago
That's something a censorship proponent would say. But if it was the case there would be no need for censorship.
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by austerity 11y ago
You know where those evil profits ultimately come from? People paying to have their needs satisfied. I make a decent living providing people with solutions to some of the problems described in this article (censorship and fragmentation) and
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by austerity 11y ago
Good article. However I don't understand why so many smart people fear decision-making machines. In my experience the decision makers in bureaucracies, government and private alike, never ever show the "humanity" ascribed to

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