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jp_rider

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jp_rider··on Many Covid Patients Have Terrifying Hallucinations and Delirium
Where do you see that rate in your source? You seem to be off by an order of magnitude.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01738-2

Edit: I misread your qualifier of "under 50 age group". Overall fatality rate seems to be around 0.4% according to the CDC site.

jp_rider··on Introducing Haskell to a Company
I am available if your company needs consulting services for Haskell. I can help with development, design, maintenance, and training. If you would like to learn more, please email me at consulting@jamesparker.me.
jp_rider··on Phishing Is the Internet’s Most Successful Con
I've been working on PKAuth, which addresses this problem (not at the TLS level though). I wrote a short blog post [1] with a demo video about the underlying protocol. I'd appreciate any feedback!

[1] https://pkauth.com/blog/post/2018/08/27/announcing-pkap

jp_rider··on Web Authentication: Proposed API for accessing Public Key Credentials
How does the browser know what the relying party is? Does the website provide a URL for the browser to communicate with?
jp_rider··on Poverty, segregation persist in U.S. schools, report says
Since Baltimore City is getting more money per student, why aren't they able to properly maintain their buildings [1]? Poor management? Corruption? Lack of heating and working bathrooms is inexcusable.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/us/baltimore-schools-wint...

jp_rider··on IOTA Surges Past Ripple
It appears their own crypto was already vulnerable. A friend pointed me to this article:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/amycastor/2017/09/07/mit-and-bu...

He was also concerned that there's no security proof in the whitepaper. To me, it seems like you could feasibly launch an attack with less than a majority of the computing resources.

jp_rider··on Firefox 57.0 Released
If you'd like to disable pocket, here are instructions:

https://help.getpocket.com/article/1025-disabling-pocket-in-...

jp_rider··on The Case for Writing a Kernel in Rust [pdf]
If you haven't already, check out Redox OS [1,2]. It's a microkernel written in Rust.

Here's a good interview with the developer [3].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Redox/

[2] https://redox-os.org/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH5JgMlNE8o

jp_rider··on Why one Republican voted to kill privacy rules: “Nobody has to use the Internet”
Even with https it's a lot. Saw this post the [other day](https://www.reddit.com/r/WarOnComcast/comments/65547r/as_if_...), but I can't find a cached version.
jp_rider··on Cloudflare gets wildcard certs for a domain using their DNS-only service
Wow, same for my website (using Cloudflare for DNS-only). How do we get these revoked?

Edit: If you're using Heroku, the zerigo_dns addon makes it easy to switch to Zerigo.

jp_rider··on Blockstack: Decentralized DNS for blockchain applications
How does this compare to Namecoin? It seems pretty similar.
jp_rider··on Apple Ordered to Pay $625M to Patent Troll in FaceTime Lawsuit
I actually sort of like your proposal. Don't individuals have to file for patents and then employees buy it off them for like $1? If this is true, existing patents would fall into this loophole, but new patents could never end up in corporate hands since you can't buy a person.

Another issue I see is that patent trolls could just represent patent owners in litigation and charge high legal fees (or sign a contract that they receive all revenue for the patent).

jp_rider··on Request For Research: Basic Income
I don't know whether basic income will be effective, but I hypothesize that its changes in incentives will reduce productivity and happiness for the majority of people.

Personally, I’m more interested in a system where costs of living are drastically lowered. Subsidies could work, but I think technology could play a large role. Imagine a clothing factory where everything is automated. Raw fabric comes in and finished clothing comes out. With minimal human interaction, variable costs should be much lower. Customers might even be able to design custom clothes with software.

Nonprofit organizations could be established to maintain the factories and equipment. Their primary goals would be to minimize cost, ensure quality, and maximize customer satisfaction.

Obviously, such a system would require a lot of capital and technological advances, but I believe it is feasible. This idea could also be applied to other areas like farming, electricity, ISPs, etc.

jp_rider··on Perfect – Server-Side Swift
I ported Haskell's [Aeson](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/aeson-0.10.0.0/docs/Data-...) library to [Swift](https://github.com/PKAuth/SwiftAeson). You might find it helpful with verbosity and better type checking. Note that there is some hackery to satisfy Swift's type checker (and its type inference usually doesn't help too much).
jp_rider··on Verizon revives "zombie cookie" device tracking on AOL's ad network
Opt out [instructions](http://www.techlicious.com/blog/verizon-uidh-supercookie-tra...).
jp_rider··on Is HTML a Programming Language?
As an aside, HTML5 and CSS3 are [turing complete](http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4222).
jp_rider··on 3 drinks a day can trigger liver cancer; coffee offsets it
It's been shown that caffeine shortens telomeres, while alcohol lengthens them [1]. This could be the reason why they offset each other.

[1] - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131205142127.ht...

jp_rider··on Heartbleed in Rust
I feel like you're undervaluing memory safety. Memory safety prevents most (all?) exploits that lead to remote code execution. There can still be high level vulnerabilities, but guaranteed memory safety is a huge improvement.

Rust's type system can be used to prevent high level attacks too. For instance, if an sql library is set up properly, it can prevent sql injection by requiring inputs be properly sanitized.

jp_rider··on PureScript: a statically typed language which compiles to JavaScript
Interesting. For my current project, I don't want to include large frameworks so it looks like this library [1] should do the trick.

[1] https://github.com/aktowns/purescript-simple-dom

jp_rider··on PureScript: a statically typed language which compiles to JavaScript
This looks really cool! Do you currently have any abstractions for interacting with DOM elements?