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blackflame··on America’s First Amphetamine Epidemic 1929–1971 (2008)
The opposite of addiction is connection.
blackflame··on America’s First Amphetamine Epidemic 1929–1971 (2008)
That cocaine didn't buy itself.
blackflame··on Ask HN: What's the current sentiment on JWT for stateless auth tokens?
You always have to authenticate the JWT anyways to verify data hasn't been changed. The stateless part is the fact that the sensitive data is stored in the JWT itself instead of retrieved from a DB. As long as you can validate the HMAC / Signature then you can assume the contents of the JWT haven't been altered and can therefore trust the client's data.
blackflame··on Ask HN: What's the current sentiment on JWT for stateless auth tokens?
Because trusting the client with data is always a risky proposition.
blackflame··on Ask HN: What's the current sentiment on JWT for stateless auth tokens?
The biggest thing to worry about is a hash length extension attack. https://blog.skullsecurity.org/2012/everything-you-need-to-k... This requires avoiding the use of a MAC hashing algorithm such as sha1 or even sha256 because it's possible to append data and generate a valid signature from a previous oracle. Alternatively, you could use SHA2 to generate a 512-bit key and then truncate the key to 256 or use an HMAC
blackflame··on We Just Got a Rare Look at US National Security Surveillance
"Little relevance?" They failed 4 times to get a FISA warrant until the magical Steele dossier appeared. It was the entire basis for the warrant. If Trump paid for a research paper on any of the democrat candidates and then used that paper as a basis to spy on their campaign, then the democrats would actually have a reason to file impeachment charges.
blackflame··on Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates
Or that’s just you personifying them via disneyfication.
blackflame··on Silicon Valley Is Listening to Your Most Intimate Moments
HA! Jokes on them! I don’t have any! Wait...
blackflame··on Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it
If you aren’t learning on the job, you’re missing out on a better way to do things
blackflame··on This is how A Society Dies
They try to tax themselves to prosperity.
blackflame··on Schwab Leaves San Francisco for Texas
No, the Bay Area rides on the coattails of tech. Severs can be anywhere and the second they decide Nevada (Cough Oracle) is cheaper, good by to all the money financing the impractical public policy. Humans are naturally selfish and greedy. That is fundamentally incompatible with any socialization of sufficient size
blackflame··on Schwab Leaves San Francisco for Texas
You can’t ride on the coattails of FANGO (Oracle) forever. For every person doing well you have just as many doing drugs in a tent on the streets below multimillion dollar 2 bedroom lofts
blackflame··on How to Solve the Soldering Problem of HDMI Connector
Are there classes one could take that give hands on tutorials on soldering technique? It’s amazing to me how people are able to solder such fine traces or even remove an entire chip from a Mobo without damaging it. Where can you learn these skills because the school I went to (ucla) certainly didn’t have any
blackflame··on Five cities account for vast majority of growth in U.S. tech jobs: study
Oakland is to SF as Anaheim/Orange County is to LA
blackflame··on Schwab Leaves San Francisco for Texas
When will the people of SF learn you cannot tax yourself to prosperity
blackflame··on Apple to release 6.7 inch iPhone in 2020
Why does it cost $599 to get the back of an iPhone XS max (with working screen) replaced and only $349 if your screen is totally shattered?
blackflame··on What is energy, actually? (2011)
Ahh you forgot the thing that makes America great: a new invention opens an entire new industry that attracts investors away from current businesses that are stable and not rapidly growing discontinuing the negative spiral you described. Furthermore, companies are not obligated to perpetually take on investors. Perhaps they simply pay a regular dividend instead on the profits they already have like what power utilities do
blackflame··on Unconditional handouts benefit recipients and their neighbours: study
This sort of logic just fails to understand human behavior. First off, you make the terrible assumption that there will be more people earning at least double $X so that you can take half of it to give to another that isn't making X. That's nowhere even close to a 50-50 split, and this policy would make it even less even not more. You cannot tax yourself to prosperity. All you are doing is taking money from the people that are producing and giving to the people who are not in the hopes that they might suddenly decide to be entrepreneurial with their newfound financial freedom. Guess what, that desire to become financially free is a far stronger motivator.
blackflame··on Unconditional handouts benefit recipients and their neighbours: study
If California actually paid to take care of the massive amount of homeless people I think this number would shift blue quite a bit. You cannot tax yourself to prosperity as a society.
blackflame··on The Web Began Dying in 2014 (2017)
Why that is the web anymore than a javascript enabled version makes no sense.
blackflame··on The Web Began Dying in 2014 (2017)
If by the web you mean booting up an entire JVM to enable drag and drop
blackflame··on The Web Began Dying in 2014 (2017)
Naw, with the coming of 5G it will destroy their monopolies on the communication lines which should open the door to more local competition.
blackflame··on Unconditional handouts benefit recipients and their neighbours: study
UBI is not a donation. It is forcibly taken at gunpoint (though they will ask nicely many times before pulling out the gun). Also, there can be no "unconditional" giving without "unconditional" taking in a world with finite resources.
blackflame··on Unconditional handouts benefit recipients and their neighbours: study
Resources are finite, ergo it’s a zero sum game. To give unconditionally to one, you must take unconditionally from another.
blackflame··on Unconditional handouts benefit recipients and their neighbours: study
Unconditional handouts are only good for the person handing things out.
blackflame··on In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas
I'd much rather work fewer days with longer hours. This seems like it would introduce too much overhead in picking up where I left off each day
blackflame··on “Is your startup idea taken?” and why we love X for Y startups
I completely agree and there are definitely variations based on the mineral content of the source. For me, I can't stand arrowhead water because it tastes salty to me. I think a lot of it has to do with how local water supplies shape our concept of the taste of water.
blackflame··on California Mayors Join Campaign to Buy Out PG&E
The transmission line monopoly is such a cash cow that really doesn't make a lot of sense. For the life of me I can't figure out why utility poles don't have wireless communication such that when one node loses power, the previous one kills power to the downed line (which in theory should happen faster than it takes for the line to fall to the ground and start a fire). Once those lines are modernized, the potential for profit is enormous. It doesn't make any financial sense to give up such a rare monopoly.
blackflame··on California Mayors Join Campaign to Buy Out PG&E
I live in California bud, I know how the municipalities operate here (very poorly). I'm thinking much more deeply than you are. If I own the only powerlines in town, one of the rare true monopolies in America that will keep my family rich for generations, I'm not trading that for a one-time payoff.
blackflame··on How to Buy Drugs
Let's make an open-source virus while we’re at it? Your target audience is very small, you're not going to get much help, and you'll be exposing any undiscovered vulnerability to state entities that have the resources to exploit them at the cost of the operator's freedom. Open source only works if you have a healthy number of eyes working on it otherwise you're better off with security through obscurity. Think of how many people work on the linux kernal and how bugs are still found all the time
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