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lexs··on At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more than a year at Harvard
Do you really think that urban hipsters from Stockholm are culturally similar to rural Swedes? This sounds more like a dog whistle for "non-white". In any case it is a deeply racist view.
lexs··on At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more than a year at Harvard
What is the alternative? Having 65 year old prison guards probably isn't the best idea from a security perspective. Prison guard median salary is only about $40k, especially in California that is not a lot, can't exactly live of your savings until death and it's not like people are lining up to employ 55 year old ex prison guards.
lexs··on It is unlikely that built-in email encryption will ever be available in Gmail
Well it clearly depends on how you use the CC feature, most of the complains about CC have been in regards to mailing lists as that's where obviously unwanted information leaks happen.

"the CC feature in itself might be a GDPR violation" is a, to use your words, "retarded" idea. For starters you can still send emails internally, perfectly fine to use CC there. Also I'm sure there are some legitimate interest cases where CC instead of BCC makes sense too.

This is classic GDPR fear mongering and laziness.

lexs··on It is unlikely that built-in email encryption will ever be available in Gmail
In regards to 3. why exactly is not using CC for mailing lists "retarded" (very poor choice of words by the way). Just because I'm on a mailing list doesn't mean everyone in that mailing list should see my mail address and the fact that I'm subscribed. That is exactly what BCC is for so why not use it?
lexs··on Huawei Sues U.S. as a ‘Last Resort’ Over What It Calls an Unfair Ban
Aren't there European competitors for some/most of the stack like Nokia, Ericsson, as well Japanese?
lexs··on Atlantic City Is Really Going Down This Time
> 3 cents/kilogram

add in the costs of climate change and it would be significantly more

lexs··on Instacart and DoorDash’s Tip Policies Are Delivering Outrage
there is a term for that in German "Scheinselbstständigkeit" basically "pretend independence", seems more like a loophole than anything else
lexs··on Instacart and DoorDash’s Tip Policies Are Delivering Outrage
Isn't there a minimum wage even for tipped workers at like 2$ something?
lexs··on US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages
I wouldn't say its a rounding error, it's roughly the budget of the National Science Foundation which seems more sensible than a ...wall
lexs··on A Look at the PayPal Mafia’s Continued Impact on Silicon Valley
> Why are these men the gate keepers to success?

The point of this article is how they invest their money not how they founded paypal

lexs··on Apple tells suppliers to produce 10% fewer new iPhones
That quote only says that the revenue declined in China, not why. Economic downturn might be a reason, losing market share in China due to local competition, product strategy or similar might be another reason.
lexs··on We can confirm that there was a successful 51% attack on Ethereum Classic
Eyal, Ittay, and Emin Gün Sirer. "Majority is not enough: Bitcoin mining is vulnerable." Communications of the ACM 61.7 (2018): 95-102.

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~ie53/publications/btcProcFC.pdf

lexs··on How the 0.001% invest
$1M as "small loan" in 1968, then becoming president of his fathers real estate company 1974 (shares divided among Donald Trump and his 4 siblings) estimated at $200M ($40M for him but not liquidated at that point), and then inheritance from his father in 1999 estimated between $20M and $300M. Slightly more than the infamous small $1M loan then.
lexs··on Marriott Data Breach Traced to Chinese Hackers, US Readies Crackdown on Beijing
Fentanyl is a Schedule II drug, the labs themselves aren't the problem, black market trade is
lexs··on Richard Stallman: We Can Do Better Than Bitcoin
Proof of Elapsed Time (Hyperledger Sawtooth) is exactly that
lexs··on Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power
Is your statement here that regulations surrounding nuclear should be eased?
lexs··on “A Horrifically Bad Idea”: Smartphone Voting Is Coming
move the polling station then?
lexs··on Why [Insert Thing Here] Is Not a Password Killer
Ok lets compare these approaches rationally, especially from a user perspective. If you let the service provider choose/generate the password it might as well generate your keys for you, there really isn't much of a difference. From a credential management perspective there really isn't a difference either between a long non-human readable password and a long non-human readable private key. They basically suffer from the same problem, neither can be used without access to the credential manager. The only "advantage" passwords in that scenario have is that you don't need to sign anything you can just send it to the relying party however when you rely on password managers to input your credentials anyway that manager can manage signing as well right. I'm not advocating to use PKI instead of passwords just that forcing the use of password managers through very complicated long forced passwords has in my opinion not much of an advantage over PKI when both are equally opaque for casual users.
lexs··on Why [Insert Thing Here] Is Not a Password Killer
but isn't a password manager just as much of a barrier in this context?
lexs··on Why [Insert Thing Here] Is Not a Password Killer
At that point why not just switch to PKI?
lexs··on Oceans 'soaking up more heat than estimated'
how would that statistic look like if it attributed the carbon where the end product was consumed? At least China isn't calling global warming a hoax...
lexs··on Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants
> We are too fresh and young for a warrant canary.

Turkey doesn't have the best track record on this, if you don't have a canary might as well assume you are already cooperating

lexs··on Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants
Doesn't this statement ignore a huge amount of context?
lexs··on When Sears Flourished, So Did Workers. At Amazon, It’s More Complicated
probably not warehouse workers then
lexs··on A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the Industry Is Rattled
Refugee/Asylum claimants are "insured" in the sense that such services are payed for under the Asylbewerberleistungsgesetz. Otherwise uninsured people will have to pay themselves or receive help from social services.
lexs··on A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the Industry Is Rattled
Do you call around and shop for different fire departments? Seems weird that such a basic need would be treated this way.
lexs··on New law lets you defer capital gains taxes by investing in opportunity zones
How much long term investment can you realistically do when your income is less than $19,000?
lexs··on Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing them with robots
That's a very close eyeball to 60% actually! I was more surprised that it would be taxed as normal income not at the lower capital gains tax (in your example 15% instead of 39.4%), you seem more knowledgable though.
lexs··on Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing them with robots
You have a very narrow understanding of socialism then, there are many different forms of social ownership. State owned is only one of them.
lexs··on Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing them with robots
Could you break down how you get to "easily" 60%?
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