mhjas

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by mhjas 8y ago
To some extent, but I also think people severely overestimate what it takes to be notable. We live in such an extreme consumer culture that even a small amount of effort added to what you are already doing will set you a part from a lot of
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by mhjas 8y ago
> if you give $5k to someone living on $20k vs $200k annual income, the $20k person is much more likely to spend most or all of that $5k on food, housing, etc. That would normally be the case, but I would argue that salary and housing ha
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by mhjas 8y ago
This seems to be mostly about random startup topics e.g. "how do I sell my product?", a little bit about hardware startups and not a lot about "hard tech". Which they also seem to define as essentially "traditional
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by mhjas 8y ago
There are reasons to believe that the free market isn't healthy at all when it comes to labor. Low salaries for low-skilled labor enable companies to delay modernization, automation and other increases in efficiency. High salaries for
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by mhjas 8y ago
> I suggest reading the introduction to the book in Amazon. Plenty of "scare quotes" there too, just pushing an opposing narrative. I don't see the relevance of the tone of the book. Especially not if the author of the art
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by mhjas 8y ago
This also helped with reverting to username from real name after unlinking.
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by mhjas 8y ago
> Still, he makes plenty of other good points. Could you summarize, or mention a few? Because I struggle to see much of any merit to the article. It starts out with scare quote even in the first paragraph which is, if not just outright b
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by mhjas 8y ago
I mostly disagree. Saying "this should be like that" isn't a problem. When you are saying "this should be like that because it is proven by x" you have to actually prove your theory for it to be valid. Anecdotes and
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by mhjas 8y ago
It is straight forward to compromise the BMC, it isn't straight forward to hide a backdoor in the BMC in front of some of the best security researchers in the world. Especially with such attack being well known and seemingly trivial to
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by mhjas 8y ago
I just don't think the relationship between those two things you are describing exists. If the Chinese government approaches a Chinese manufacturer with the goal of compromising US software companies adding some sort of chip that recon
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by mhjas 8y ago
I don't really see why everyone is calling this implausible. Modchips have been around for at least 15 years. The idea of the clipper chip is 25 years old. At every hacker conference there are people "hacking" devices by vari
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by mhjas 8y ago
I just don't get the narrative. I can appreciate walking away from, and not being part of, something you don't like. But at that point the damage was already done. Seemingly they main thing that was achieved here was making the co
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by mhjas 8y ago
How to regulate this is up to each and every country, just like it is up to each country how to regulate things like pollution, traffic and infrastructure. That a bank who can't handle security compromises their customers user experien
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by mhjas 8y ago
"Do you accept cookies" is only relevant because there isn't a separate login mechanism in HTTP. Actually knowing whether you are sharing data with the website, and what website that is, would be a major improvement. Security
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by mhjas 8y ago
> The parent was arguing that security is hard [...] It isn't though, at least not compared to the state of things. Pretty much any government would be competent enough to mandate some sort of two-factor authentication that would gr
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by mhjas 8y ago
I can't disagree from a technical perspective, nor should everyone else. But that just isn't that relevant. Sure, you could hack the entire world 20 years ago, but there just weren't that much impact. If you read almost any c
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by mhjas 8y ago
> "as to enforce equality of income". This is what puts me off of Europe! It is one of the few ways to have an equal society. With to large income inequality the welfare state becomes unsustainable. The poor can't pay for
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by mhjas 8y ago
While I find your perspective interesting I disagree with some of your conclusions. > It's effectively cap to enforce equality of outcome. It isn't so much to enforce equality of outcome as to enforce equality of income. What y
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by mhjas 8y ago
I think that outlook was more likely a few years ago. In the grand scheme of things it seems like places like Stockholm and Berlin have largely capped out. I think it is getting harder to see that there would be significant growth for these
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by mhjas 8y ago
I don't know about Switzerland (nor that much about Lambda School), but even the most flexible schools in Europe tends to be quite rigid. Apply months in advance, study for years, deal with grades, admissions and administration etc. Wh
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by mhjas 8y ago
Freelancing, starting companies and the NHR scheme (which is sort of an exception but still) seems to have a lot of deductions, conditions and exceptions that require more guidance than some other countries. Maybe this is something one adap
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by mhjas 8y ago
I have had my eye on Portugal for a number of years, but there are a few things that seem less than ideal. * Cost of living for a good quality of life still being relatively high or rising, especially in Lisbon and other tourist/expat
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by mhjas 8y ago
Decent working condition have always been revolutionary for a large part of the world. Overall things haven't changed, at least not for the better. I like a lot of what dhh says, but I think the weak part of his arguments is probably p
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by mhjas 8y ago
Whether Obama is a hypocrite or not is certainly a matter of opinion. The defining moment was the missed opportunity to end, or begin to end, the war on terror. Up until that point the invasions, surveillance, renditions, torture and threat
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by mhjas 8y ago
As far as I know that is exactly what they did. > ‘They knew where the target was – third floor, second door on the right,’ the retired official said. ‘Go straight there. Osama was cowering and retreated into the bedroom. Two shooters fo
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by mhjas 8y ago
That is a hard one. They only thing I could come up with off the top of my head is that Sweden a bit more consensus oriented, which could be quite good for creating commercial successes. Like for example I would say that the Netherlands has
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by mhjas 8y ago
That is essentially how "vision zero" works, but with the right speed for the right conditions. https://youtu.be/7kIFegy4fII?t=1478
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by mhjas 8y ago
To some extent I think people just underestimate what education costs. Sweden pays ~€40k to educate an engineer (5 year, B.Sc + M.Sc). On top of that there is another ~€20k in student benefits to the student and ~€40k in a government backed
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by mhjas 8y ago
I don't think it is that relevant. You can be happy in Sweden and miserable in Malta. They funny thing is that people tend to say the same thing about SV, but because of the nice weather. Not to say that dark afternoon can't be sp
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by mhjas 8y ago
I would guess they do that in Denmark and Copenhagen has a very modern subway system.

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