throwacide

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by throwacide 9y ago
“Pencil” Reference to wargames of course. Passwords are fundamentally broken. Don’t blame the post it note nor the person making it. Blame the concept of passwords.
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by throwacide 9y ago
What’s the significance of primes being one less than large powers of 2? Does this mean base-2 is the most natural base?
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by throwacide 9y ago
apparently this being reposted in the third position is a natural result of hn ranking
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by throwacide 9y ago
Surface area is bigger than ever so there’s all sorts of low hanging fruit still out there. One hacker told me it’s exponentially worse than ever. Eventually we will have global standards but humans are still largely stuck in their totem po
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by throwacide 9y ago
So, gross management failure. Or, more likely, a hack. Although I don’t see how they would lie that one person really has such power, knowing the truth would likely leak. This isn’t a newbie getting set up on his dev db who was given too
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by throwacide 9y ago
Misguided. Circumstances are that he either is or is not qualified for a single point of failure job like that. If not it’s management failure. If the human is “qualified” for a single point of failure responsibility like that, he’s now fir
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by throwacide 9y ago
Probably a security hole
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by throwacide 9y ago
Citation? You’ll need a smoking gun.
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by throwacide 9y ago
I doubt Aaron anticipated the level of blowback.
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by throwacide 9y ago
someone needs to do independent audits in the form of a zero knowledge proof to say “ok I understand why the wizards and warlocks are at battle”. Used to be that we would say to ourselves, “we should consider It likely Obama flipped once in
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by throwacide 9y ago
In other words you can implement arbitrary dynamic trust, Opening up the possibility of arbitrary hierarchies, and much more efficient and robust mechanisms of establishing truth. Authorities could be designed arbitrarily and evolve on top
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by throwacide 9y ago
“Adventures in negative vs positive reinforcement experiments via ‘studies’ shown as social media content”
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by throwacide 9y ago
That’s not really important. What is important is that they receive data about the suicidality, because it is inevitable that a large percentage of people like me who are long term suicidal will not have documented it with a medical profes
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by throwacide 9y ago
I gave my saliva to 23andme two years ago. I’ve been suicidal my whole life. If genetic markers for suicidal tendencies are discovered in the future, can they use my stored sample to assist in such studies?