micaksica

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by micaksica 8y ago
> This crappy voting system didn't write itself. One of the downsides of programming being easily accessible and easy to get a job in is that there is no required standards body to write code. There's no way to fix this. The be
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by micaksica 8y ago
IMO Occam's razor ends up here. Electronic voting systems do two things very well: obfuscate the system in a way that is relatively incomprehensible to a layman, and provide plausible deniability in the case of manipulation. Even if ma
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by micaksica 8y ago
> If I go see a doctor, I have no idea if I will end up with a $40, $400, $4000, or $40,000 bill until the bill comes months later and I have to pay it. NO IDEA. This is what's really strange about the American healthcare system. Fo
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by micaksica 8y ago
> Unbelievable that these companies take security for their prized assets way less seriously than I do. A lot of engineering teams unfortunately see strong security as a hurdle to fast development, and/or security is put as a lower
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by micaksica 8y ago
No. I hear both simultaneously as well.
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by micaksica 8y ago
> their graphs (at least on Android) have no labled Y axis! It's the same on iOS. I can't say I'm happy with Robinhood. It's dumbing down something that can get you into a world of financial pain if you don't kno
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by micaksica 9y ago
So far, that's been me at every n+5 years or so.
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by micaksica 9y ago
It's been literally years since node-forward got its talk about signing packages [1] with a lot of pushback from the npm team. Every time a new typosquatting article shows up, there's some more waffling by npm. left-pad happened t
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by micaksica 9y ago
While I guess this is something, I would be curious to know what types of users are being targeted with these NSLs, and for what crimes. While it's natural to think "Islamic extremism and terrorism" as that's the usual n
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by micaksica 9y ago
Reddit says they were making about $500K a day in mining fees.
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by micaksica 9y ago
It's good for pseudonymous worldwide transactions. Blockchain analysis software is now a thing, and while costs are high, there are companies that specialize in tracing BTC transactions. [1] It is possible to launder/mix BTC or
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by micaksica 9y ago
There are plenty of absolute crackpot petitions on there at this stage that undermine the legitimacy of this one by being placed alongside it. I believe this motion is futile as well.
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by micaksica 9y ago
I'm not very fond of Tim's product, but I agree with him in his perspectives on SF and the Bay Area in general. Too much of it feels toxic at this point, and it has felt that way (to me) since about 2011 or so. It pushed me furthe
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by micaksica 9y ago
Make people care more about reason and logic than emotion when making product purchasing decisions? I don't think we'll get very far with that goal.
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by micaksica 9y ago
> The rock stars these days are rappers and DJs and they don't play guitar. And nearly every kid can afford a shitty chinese USB->MIDI controller and a cracked version of Live/Logic/FL Studio. The DAW and a controller i
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by micaksica 9y ago
> We need ways to communicate Microsoft developed quite a few of these ideas internally with the TwC (Trustworthy Computing) initiative in the early 2000s, and built a protocol - and development workflow - around threat modeling and secu
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by micaksica 9y ago
Your story resonated with me because I had the same experiences with a 12” MacBook. While I can’t really use you as an example, since you kind of need a Mac for a lot of the work you do specifically, I’ve heard the same complaints about App
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by micaksica 9y ago
How much is this based on the libsignal-protocol-JavaScript code? Where does it differ from it? Where are the tests to test protocol steps? I actually love seeing things like this, but it’d be nice if there was some more documentation on th
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by micaksica 9y ago
This. I would trust most non-security tech CEOs to give better security advice than the executives at Symantec.
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by micaksica 9y ago
I don’t think we disagree with each other. Room to grow housing and office space requires a whole lot of development to happen. My greater point is that there is very little incentive for most people to move to Detroit compared to other loc
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by micaksica 9y ago
Do you mean the actual city of Detroit? There is little to no way Amazon is going to be able to import their workforce to live in the city of Detroit. A whole lot of the housing options there are extremely outdated or require extreme renova
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by micaksica 9y ago
I'm curious what the percentage of npm publishers that have this toggled on is, and I wish that was available data. First, in terms of all packages, and then of top 1000 packages. I'll wildly guess <0.5% of all packages, and &l
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by micaksica 9y ago
Facebook has been making a lot of overtures to appease the Chinese government as of late. This is likely just another one. FB knows damn well you don't break into China without playing Chinese ball and they seem A-OK with doing so in t
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by micaksica 9y ago
> their middle class are now sending their children to western schools and many of them will probably go back to China I disagree with the "middle class" being the ones sending their children internationally. The Gini coefficie
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by micaksica 9y ago
> you can assume that it's being wiretapped/monitored. This can be assumed with any technology stack that is popular, domestically-grown, and well-established in China. I have WeChat installed. Would I use it to converse with p
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by micaksica 9y ago
> The people who will get ahead in China in the future are the ones who are somehow able to live outside of China to experience new ideas. So in other words, the ruling class continues to rule, as they will be the only ones with the sanc
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by micaksica 9y ago
Because I hate these clickbait titles: the author plays phone-go-round, calls four numbers, waits on hold a bunch, gets disconnected, and eventually gets transferred to an "agent" that ends up being a busy tone. All that was accom
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by micaksica 9y ago
"Burakku Kigyou" are (usually) white-collar 'sweatshop' type companies. Long hours, bad pay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_company_(Japanese_term)
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by micaksica 9y ago
Perhaps I am just risk averse, but this sounds enormously financially irresponsible. This man literally shoved all in on with a vendor he neither understood nor had a previous relationship with. I don't think you should be risking maki
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by micaksica 9y ago
I disagree. Do you believe that web application developers should be able to write an efficient JavaScript interpreter, or build a working CPU in Verilog? As technology increases in complexity, roles specialize. Skillsets diverge and junior

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