dev_dull

Thank you for indulging my curiosity!

Out of curiosity, what would happen to you if you were swimming in the water nearby and a transmission cable was exposed to seawater? What path would the electricity take in the vastness of open sea?

> That's a big difference from what you're saying actually happened.

It's been 2 long years, and hopefully (finally) the public will get some transparency regarding the genesis of the 4 FISAs signed to spy on the campaign.

Of course, to learn anything substantial about the IG report you basically have to surgically removal oneself from the MSM spin machines.

Also an administration that has been wiretapped (maybe illegally? Let’s see what Durham finds), leaked against, and the recipient of other unprecedented behavior (such as anonymous Nytimes op-eds).

Does everybody here know the #2 at the FBI counter intel was texting his lover and asking if there’s anybody in the White House who could spy for them?[1]

They’d be foolish if they don’t try and dramatically shake things up. If I were them I wouldn’t trust any previous admin holdovers.

1. https://www.google.com/amp/s/pjmedia.com/trending/strzok-pag...

You threaten that and they say “go pound sand in the courts”. And even if you “win” in the courts you still lose because “the process is the punishment”.

I think they do backup if you do an offline (e.g. iTunes) full backup and restore on the same device, which of course is never what people do.

The joke is a thief will get ahold a live person and still be easily able to social engineer account access, despite best efforts to lock it down with technology.

I’m extremely skeptical about ANYTHING put out by this group, and Jim Baker in particular.

This guy was general counsel for the FBI at the same time they were abusing FISA warrants to secretly spy on Trump admins. You think they’ll stop at Trump? They’re just getting started.

We need to get back to our roots of being extremely careful about our intelligence agencies.

I know you’ll initially be turned off by the subject of the below article, but definitely read it. For the sake of our civil liberties, the leash of our intelligence agencies must be kept short.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/spygate-the-inside-story-behin...

“Hello thanks for calling. I understand you want to reset your password. To verify it’s really you may I have your cryptographically impregnable super token? Oh it’s lost, I see, how about can you verify your billing zip? Splendid you’re all reset.”

Losing your life’s savings in an irrevocable way is a feature of crypto currency. Not a bug!

I’ve mostly disabled 2fa via phone where alternatives exist. Unfortunately some services (such as twitter) require you to verify a number (you can sign up, but you’ll quickly be account-locked without providing a number)

I’m still wondering why I can’t use Touch ID to do U2F...

Yet the rich keep buying waterfront properties.

That 100-mile border thing really bothers me, since it includes basically every major city in the US. Does anyone know if there's been any legal challenges to this ruling in court?

And now an annoying aside. I really wish the ACLU was sincere in fighting this but they won't get any more of my money. I used to support the ACLU because these were the types of P1 issues they would battle. It seems in the last years it's faded to more social justice platform. Fine for them if that's what they believe are the most pressing issues of our time, but not my P1 constitutional concerns.

What's the point of anything if the government can railroad your 1st and 4th amendment rights? Are there good alternatives to the ACLU of yore?

> First, it was a massive waste of those 2 human's intellect

This is usually the reality and it's nothing to be ashamed about.

At work, do what you're paid to do. In your free time, pursue interests (literally, things that are interesting to you).

The key to these types of solutions is always to follow the 80/20 rule. For example, it’s foolish to say and attempt “I will automate all of your data entry people” because there will always be weird idiosyncrasies that are better fit for humans. You will dash yourself against the rocks trying to get a “100% complete” solution.

Instead, create software that allows 1 person to do the job of 5. You create massive business value without getting sucked down the hole of edge cases.

I sincerely hope I never hear the phrase "Russian dossier" again in my lifetime. The CIA seems to follow every place this phrase shows up.

Thankfully the war in Iraq was the last time our intelligence agencies mislead the public.

> ”Each day I walk into work, and this slot opens up above my head, and money falls out ... the next day I come back, and the slot reopens; more money falls out.” This is a surprisingly dark way to view your life’s work.

This is a very realistic and nice way to look at money and finances. You were paid to do a job. Take what comes out and put it into all of the appropriate places, then you’ll be ready when you come back to work and — wouldn’t you know it — nothing comes out.

The 0 and O are fairly ambiguous in that example. I pretty much require strikes or dots in the 0 for any font to be considered unambiguous.

> the conclusion was extremely clear, children raised with hyper focused protective parents succeeded

By what metrics? An Ivy League student who requires their parents to intercede with their teachers versus a well adjusted state school student who takes care of themselves.

I read back some of your history. I hope the dark clouds break in your life and you get some much needed warm rays of hope. It’s sad what happens to people in this country stuck in the kafkaesque twilight of our medical system. And then to be rejected by friends and family...

“Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?”

Fortunately there's great study and statistics so we don't need to rely on conventional wisdom:

> Married couples have on average sex 5 times a month[1]

Under 30 it's even higher, over 8 times a month. Honestly consider your average 30 year old unmarried coworker. You think they even have the time to go out and get laid that often? That sounds exhausting!

1. https://healthresearchfunding.org/sexless-marriage-statistic...

Blaming this on budget cuts is absurd. There didn't even use to be something such as an "STD clinic", let alone easy access. In many states STD testing is totally free and anonymous. How long has that been around?

Besides, have you seen sex education in schools these days? Let's just say it's... comprehensive. Compare that to the 70s, 80s, 90s, ANY other time. Children today go into sexual relationships with way more information that any previous generation.

This study is funny to me because there's such obvious answers to the trends:

Having less sex: more and more people are putting off marriage. I'm sure happily married couples are leaving even their most promiscuous peers in the dust with their nuptial regularity.

Rise in STDs: the risk of unwanted pregnancy is much lower these days then in say, the 60s and 70s allowing for "riskier" sex. Longer time to marriage + hookup apps + less risk of pregnancy = more partners, more chances for STDs to spread.

Maybe I should say it dominates for silicon valley tech companies and startups, which is manifestly obvious to anyone who works here.

For those that think Apple can't pull this off, remember that they dominate the developer laptop market. They just need to incrementally slip it in via software and hardware.

For example I recently found myself doing some video encoding via ffmpeg. The default install from brew supports videotoolbox (T2 chip accelerated) out of the box, and boy howdy is it fast. It smokes my multicore intel server optimized with vaapi.

Soon users will do a `pip install pytorch` on their dev laptop and get the metal-optimized version of it without even thinking twice. Apple already has their foot in the door.

Why not? You just bought a car and paid by sending $XX to $COMPANY. But why are they still waiting for it to settle? OOPS! They were hacked and you actually ended up sending that to North Korea. You think they're going to still give you the car?

They should do exactly what’s been done in Mac/bsd variants and make both of them the same CSPRNG via fortuna[1]. Then the only thing the system ever need to worry about is getting a few bytes of random data seeded and you can read securely all day long.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortuna_(PRNG)

I think the likelihood of being hacked is far greater than the likelihood of being skimmed.

For all of the praise of diversity, all I see is a monoculture in Silicon Valley.