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sig-reductionon I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled

Check out this analysis of American action movies. It may change the way you see Batman and other characters that may have influenced your thinking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOMiAeRwpPA

sig-reductionon What lies beneath: Evidence from leaked account data on offshore banking use

OP's conspiracy theory is absolutely true. There is a whole thread of academic research estimating the right tail of the wealth distribution (spoiler: the Fed household finances microdata is garbage).

Diff the Bloomberg and Forbes rich lists... they're not the same list. One oligarch on those lists had their estimated net worth double after the Appleby leaks turned up some trusts. I'm pretty sure Bloomberg just calls people up and asks them how much they have.

sig-reductionon What lies beneath: Evidence from leaked account data on offshore banking use

> Personally, I think the entire financial system is broken and should be squashed.

It's uglier than you can imagine.

sig-reductionon Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory (2016)

I think OP has a good point. Although language if fuzzy, so are "binary" signals once you drill down to the physical layer. The fuzziness of language goes away if you allow yourself to assume an idealized language embedding model. Similar ideas are in an epsilon ball around the embedding of some concrete linguistic instantiation of the idea.

An example of a binary signal: "It is unambiguously true that a lab leak did not occur in Wuhan." The spread of this binary signal could be measured using the technique described above. A BERT embedding may suffice.

The channels are just tweets, DMs, and Vox articles.

sig-reductionon Tosh: Changing your SSH server's listen address every 30 seconds based on TOTP

Tx for the insight.

Does the extra logging carry a risk over and above dos (which is mitigated by the `-m limit` stuff in the iptables rules)?

sig-reductionon Tosh: Changing your SSH server's listen address every 30 seconds based on TOTP

> Or is completely firewalled off from the world, and only accessible once you've authenticated yourself to your VPN. Or only reachable once you first authenticate (public/private keys, two factor crypto key auth, etc) to a bastion host, and then reach the system from the bastion.

There's a lot of attack surface in there. Port-knocking is supposed to be a way to reduce attack surface. It's a belt-and-suspenders approach to the reality that even fully patched openssh has exploitable bugs.

Using this tool, a MITM with an openssh 0day can just follow you in. KnockKnock [0] and tools like it do not suffer from this defect. This tool is conceptually similar to KnockKnock, using OTP instead of a monotonic counter. Using OTP opens it up to replay attacks.

https://github.com/moxie0/knockknock

sig-reductionon Ask HN: If I travel to China, does China have all of my iCloud data?

I think you are asking something like, "does Apple voluntarily share my information?" Read some of the articles in [0]. At this point, I think it is pretty safe to assume that most large countries and some large companies can access your iCloud data with limited effort.

[0] https://www.electrospaces.net/

sig-reductionon How Iran Uses Bitcoin Mining to Evade Sanctions and “Export” Oil

I've always wanted to understand the geopolitics of oil and gas. Despite much interested reading, I can never quite figure out what's going on.

One of the more interesting quote's I've encountered along the way, "The foreign tax rates of U.S. oil multinationals fell significantly after the first Gulf War, during which the United States intervened to protect Kuwait, a major oil producer. Although it is not possible to know for sure what caused this decline, a possible interpretation of the fall in taxes collected by oil-producing countries is that they reflect a return on military protection granted by the United States to oil-producing States."

Figure 2 on page 20 has the discontinuity.

https://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/WrightZucman2018.pdf

sig-reductionon Citizen app sparked a $30k manhunt for the wrong guy

The company has a retired NYPD commissioner on its board. Maybe people like that?

Like most "social" projects, this is about turning ordinary life into reality TV. In the second stage they make it more "interactive".

https://fnewsmagazine.com/2021/03/safety-or-surveillance-the...

sig-reductionon Exclusive: Inside the Military's Secret Undercover Army

To put that 60k people number in perspective, FBI has 35k employees including administrative support staff.

sig-reductionon Brood X Periodical Cicadas FAQ

Prime lifespans help to avoid lifespan synchronization with predators. But resonance is important too.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120710081027/https://cims.nyu....