DarthGhandi

The thing never mentioned in these data points is the sheer amount of fossil fuel exports either. The numbers are staggering when you include them.

Why is this on HN?

They need to make it legal to bring it up in court, it's pretty clear and there's decades of evidence that they are happy to break laws themselves to get the job done, despite caring about privacy I'm not that fussed really. Parallel construction has it's merits and for the most part cops want to improve society, especially for the most dangerous cases.

That said, a scary amount of digital crime cases get dropped by the FBI when they are faced with some scrutiny. Their reasoning really doesn't hold up when they justify it either, got a bit of smell about it.

That doesn't make any sense whatsoever, also that's already a phrase used to describe a particular region comprising only of two countries you've mentioned (out of 8+)

He's getting a lot of ripoffs copying his work verbatim, nearly all of it occurs within a few hours of being posted here.

None of it has attribution, all are selling ads.

Some are copying comments from the threads here and putting them down the bottom of their fake blogs also to give it some legitimacy.

It's a shame when people who write high quality stuff like this for free end up treated this way by digital parasites. It's not an easy problem to solve, either you lock it up and get no exposure or you get robbed.

His work will still be there years from now, the poorly proofread copies likely will be too.

I made that original comment in the last thread, it was only speculation but it's an easy, low cost strategy to deal with this.

Let it get popular on HN with no proofreading, it gets copied, then fix it in a week or two and keep the version more likely to stand the test of time.

Much prefer the first letter I type into a browser bar be one in 26 letters, not 3 at best for most of the internet. Would make random tld's in oppressive countries somehow even more desirable than they already are.

It's a silly idea in the age of url suggestions. I can reach most things I want on the internet with 2 key presses. Everything common in one.

N: Hacker News

C: Cloud Console

M: Gmail

R: Reddit

X: Well you get the idea

In a world of secret court trials, NSL's and parallel construction, there's truly no way to prove this until it's tested in court.

Has a single judge ever faced negative consequences for illegally rubber stamping a warrant?

When there's no downside for fucking up your job it's all a moot point.

thought I'd heard that name before, he's quite active, no idea how you ended up with "silence"

https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/23/gcc_openssl_vulnerabi...

Every transmission whether data or voice has random noise in it.

We both have a shared key, I send you a cat picture over ham radio with the message encoded in the least significant bit of each pixel.

How exactly is that going to be detected? The picture looks virtually the same as the original.

The practical difference is you can send any sort of data with packet radio, how are they actually going to prove you've hidden an encrypted message inside that without the key (preferably symmetric)?

Well you can search his name and "Hacker News" on Twitter. Here's an example: https://twitter.com/BretDevereaux/status/1307080975151697921

Probably the best way to view is searching the headline though, it's some brazen content thievery, some even copy comments like our own in there.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Collections%3A+Iron%2C+How+Did+The...

It doesn't at all of course, but it clearly makes the quality of plagiarised work worse, if you perhaps look into it more you'll see these sites and how they operate. The author has mentioned this before publicly and specifically noted it was due to HN exposure.

Absolutely hilariously how people found my original comment so offensive as to gray it out, was simply repeating something anyone can find in 3 seconds on Google.

What's the difference between encrypted messages and broadcasting random noise? Who could actually prove otherwise without the key?

The last 3 times I've tried to go back to tildes it seems like a massive political circlejerk where dissent is not tolerated.

Is there somewhere without politics being jammed down your throat in every thread?

We have "construction robots" already. It's called foreign labour and no one in the West would dare suggest bringing them in for one-off large infrastructure projects regardless of how many cost-benefit-analyses you can get the smartest economists on Earth to produce, nor the willingness of the laborers to do it.

The author has a massive problem with people from HN stealing his work without attribution.

It's very much in his interest to have a crappy first draft hit the front page here and fix it up after that.

Flym - On fdroid

There's some solid programming talent in Vietnam, they constantly amaze me with their skills and will work for a few hundred a week before they get poached by the states.

I've seen kids straight out of highschool who can write solid stuff and know git back to front compared to some lad with an Ivy league bachelor's who is basically clueless, needing his hand held for months and yet demanding 8x the wage.

I treat everyone who only has a degree and no real world skills with a lot of suspicion. There's plenty of ridiculously good hires out there.

What alternative would you claim is better with equivalent liquidity?

I pay a thousand a year in trading fees to my stockbroker in Australia and they don't even offer an API.

Last tax year my trading fees were low double digits with bitmex.

The volume with both is about the same.

> However, for an attacker that is well funded (e.g. NSA) it's likely a very small challenge to overcome.

Yeah that's a solid "citation needed", you are talking about breaking serious cryptographic assumptions there.

Are you honestly that surprised?

People have started to value things like GitHub forks and stars as though they mean something. Create a metric and it will get abused, this is how the world works.

What numerical value would you place on saving 100 lives? Virtually all of them over 80.

$500m? $1b? $100b?

Just for comparison about 80 young Australians died from suicide this week alone.

What do you mean "stuck"? That the news isn't writing articles about it daily?

It's opaque workings still concern civil libertarians tremendously. There's 50,000 on the list. That seems excesive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List#Controversy_and_cr...

I can buy location data on millions of people across the world right now from American companies who make free apps

What exactly is stopping the Chinese from buying that same data? Name one hindrance they will face, please.

The delusional jingoism on HN is painful to fight.

https://apnews.com/f6a83c0b8e0a65563e4c76955c37c0ab

> the CCP which is ideologically opposed to the United States

Really? They seem quite fine with the states last I looked, you 100% sure that statement shouldn't be the other way around?

Does the CCP demand everyone on Earth follow their communist ideals? Does the CCP send drones to go bomb weddings and children in far away countries they really have nothing to do with?

Honestly they are a refreshing superpower and do far less horrendous shit to the rest of the world if you ask me. Sorry about your failing broken nation but someone needs to say it.

Even the EU is over your constant need for war with Iran/China/$NEXTBADGUY and not playing ball, perhaps get a bigger toupee for the president and stop building an entire economy on perpetual warfare next time?

Meta: when you collapse the first top-level comment here and need to then click "more" to see anything else on page 2 it's not worth commenting anymore.

Think you might have understood my point.

Satellite phones are out of reach like meth and online political dissent is for the Chinese, yet still everywhere.

Regardless of mispricing in your links for the average mainlander (they make most satphones/data receivers) hundreds of millions of people in China could still afford it at the prices quoted.

This isn't some small Finnish town we're talking about, it's 1/5th of every person alive on Earth.

Again I'm sure you mean trading, someone conducting it as a business, what's a "forex investor"? Anyone who owns foreign currency?

I have 4 different currencies sitting in a bank for years, they've moved far more than $200 in gain/losses over that time.

Accountants in both Sydney and Singapore have never wanted the details of me moving that cash around.

I pay my income tax (converted rate) on them and that's it.

I've also been paid in crypto before and that gets capital gains applied plus income tax. Not complaining though, often worked out ok.

> You have to record all forex investing gains and incomes.

I'm not sure about the US but this is definitely not the case in the rest of the developed world.

You are saying that every American citizen when they travel overseas, exchanging money and purchasing items on their card have to report that to the IRS?

Get the feeling this only applies to professional traders not people on holiday.