mmaro
Re:Seasteading: Cities on the ocean
on Sunday December 04, 2011 @03:28PM (#3311700)
Re:24 year old student lights match: Europe versus Facebook
on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @09:34PM (#3128175)
Watch Moxie's "New threats to privacy" from BlackHat 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qzldtKV1PY
Essentially, the problem is that these voluntary relationships become not-so-voluntary as the privacy-compromising tools become more necessary to participate in society.
Re:As more hackers start to die, when do we finally do something about...
on Friday October 14, 2011 @01:24AM (#3110063)
That's a reasonable concern, but at this meta level there are two things going in cryonics' favor: there's a good chance you're overconfident about its non-utility[1], and there's a chance that your reanimation comes much earlier than expected, so the cumulative risks don't add up to much.
And FWIW, Alcor and Cryonics Institute don't require power for storage; they require deliveries of liquid nitrogen. I don't think either facility has much earthquake/tsunami risk, either.
[1] Personally, I would want to be > 99% sure about this before completely giving up on cryonics.
Re:As more hackers start to die, when do we finally do something about...
on Friday October 14, 2011 @12:39AM (#3109979)
This is a false dichotomy. You can strive to achieve as much as possible today, as well as attempt a second chance at life through cryonics.
Re:As more hackers start to die, when do we finally do something about...
on Friday October 14, 2011 @12:18AM (#3109921)
Anyone remotely interested in cryonics should go read about it on LessWrong[1], instead of reading the same ol' ambivalent/pro-death comments. The only good reasons (that I can think of right now) not to sign up are if (1) you can't afford the ~$50/month or whatever your life insurance premiums + member dues would be, or (2) you rely on the financial support of people who are strongly anti-cryonics.
Keep in mind that after you suffer your serious accident/illness, you won't have the time/money/energy to sign up for cryonics, and you'll have more trouble convincing your next of kin to support you. And you probably won't be able to get any life insurance to pay for it, obviously.
Re:I was once a Facebook fool
on Friday September 23, 2011 @05:50PM (#3031716)
Please consider my comment retracted (I can't delete it); Andrew did a much better job than I remembered.
Re:I was once a Facebook fool
on Friday September 23, 2011 @05:10PM (#3031600)
http://ifile.it/mdk43ht - this link will probably be dead in a week or two
(BTW, if you save everything you find interesting, you realize just how much disappears from the Internet. The half-life of the average link is about 4.5 years.)
Re:I was once a Facebook fool
on Friday September 23, 2011 @01:53PM (#3030911)
It's been a while since I've watched it, but I didn't get the impression that Blank lost it. As I remember, Andrew just made a big deal out of his minor misstep and focused on the misstep rather than getting the interview back on track. I think most interviewees, not just Blank, would find this annoying.
Re:I was once a Facebook fool
on Friday September 23, 2011 @01:30PM (#3030794)
He also replaced 'iLike' with 'the "competitor"' and 'Sean Parker and Mark Zuckerberg' with 'senior Facebook executives'
Re:TrueCrypt 7.1 w/ [OS X 64-bit support]
on Thursday September 01, 2011 @06:52PM (#2952136)
If you don't trust Apple's FDE solution to not have a backdoor, you probably shouldn't use their operating system at all, as it has access to all of your data.
Re:TrueCrypt 7.1 w/ [OS X 64-bit support]
on Thursday September 01, 2011 @05:56PM (#2951974)
Would there be any reason to use it over Lion's full disk encryption?
Re:How dead is dead?
on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @03:09PM (#2922092)
There's no way your probability is close to 0.1%.
Exhibit A: http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/Death_by_Age_2007-a.pd...
Exhibit B: life insurance companies collect a lot of data from you, and no company will price a 21 year old anywhere near 0.1%.
Re:How dead is dead?
on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @06:36AM (#2920203)
http://www.alcor.org/cryomyths.html#myth2
(Also, just in case any young people on HN think they have no chance of dying, add up a decade of 'Death probability' on http://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html )
Re:Google Fiber: 151Mbps down / 92Mbps up
on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @05:20PM (#2918414)
Ping measures the round-trip time, so it would really be twice that.
Re:Fukushima Robot Operator Writes Tell-All Blog
on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @03:32PM (#2918053)
Paste http://sh-blog.at.webry.info/rss/index.rdf into Google Reader's 'Add a Subscription'; it has all the posts since Jan 7.
Or this link to the feed in Reader might work: https://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F...
Re:Father of Cryonics Dies at 92, Frozen in Cryonics Institute
on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @05:09PM (#2814145)
CPR brings people back from the dead; before the 60s, they generally stayed dead.
Re:Father of Cryonics Dies at 92, Frozen in Cryonics Institute
on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @04:55PM (#2814050)
Well, as long as we're considering all sorts of hypothetical scenarios, consider this one:
1. You die in a year or two from terminal illness or an accident.
2. You purchased a life insurance policy when you were healthy, so cryonics is very cheap.
3. Unforeseen advances in AI/nanotech/medicine allow you to be revived in just 15-20 years.
4. You are back from the dead and find subsistence (let alone wealth) in the near future superior to your old life.
Re:Tresor Runs Encryption Securely Outside RAM
on Monday May 30, 2011 @03:33PM (#2600219)
Computers get stolen, but they're usually already off, or turned off during the theft. But let me get this straight: you're worried about an attacker reading out everything on your hard drive, but not worried about them reading out all the unencrypted stuff in RAM? I'm not against disk encryption, I just don't see the point of this specific protection.
Edit: now that I think of it, if a company laptop with customer data had full disk encryption and was stolen, do you still have to notify everyone? Does it matter whether it was off or on/suspended? Maybe people will be relieved when they find out that "8GB of data was probably not stolen" (with AES-in-CPU-only) instead of "300GB of data was probably not stolen".
Re:Tresor Runs Encryption Securely Outside RAM
on Monday May 30, 2011 @03:26PM (#2600202)
If the attacker has enough physical access to pull out your memory, I doubt they'll be very disappointed by AES-in-CPU-only protection. They're still getting 8-32GB of other private data (passwords, everything in your page cache, etc). The real solution is to physically protect your computer.
Re:Dramatic escalation in Japan (Fukushima Nuke Plant)
on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @04:00AM (#2326515)
Reposting piguy314's [dead] reply:
It's instructive that we've already engineered ways of preventing the problems TEPCO is experiencing at their Fukushima. Many newer reactor designs have a passive residual heat removal system that removes decay heat even without electrical power to run cooling pumps.
http://www.ap1000.westinghousenuclear.com/ap1000_psrs_pccs.h...
Re:Pay Teachers More
on Sunday March 13, 2011 @12:05AM (#2318386)
Ah, right. I made a very stupid mistake in thinking they teach students for ~7 hours/day. I was also biased by my (probably) above-average experiences with teachers.
Re:Pay Teachers More
on Saturday March 12, 2011 @11:48PM (#2318355)
Teachers do not work less than 40 hours per week. A ton of time is spent on grading, prep, helping slow students, school meetings, complying with NCLB requirements, etc.
Re:Don't touch me, I'm British
on Saturday March 12, 2011 @10:31PM (#2318222)
The information that the smooth touchy people deduced automatically: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edh2GQHZmtI (in case this link dies, it's Lance Mason's "How To Kino")
Re:Dubai on Empty
on Saturday March 12, 2011 @09:37PM (#2318135)
Most of these are well-justified in his essays; obviously a condensed summary will not be very convincing.
Re:Dubai on Empty
on Saturday March 12, 2011 @07:34PM (#2317884)
The U.S. has two main political parties: the left-wing one in perpetual power, and an incompetent left-wing one that still thinks they can get the outcomes they want through elections (they can't; progressive civil servants run the show).
Some introductory reading: "Politics: Comtemporary" in http://moldbuggery.blogspot.com/2009/03/collected-writings-o...
Re:Ask HN: Do you have trouble reading long documents online?
on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @06:44PM (#1985236)
NoScript and AdBlock Plus may help with that. Even if the page is using a META refresh, NoScript has an option to kill those.
Re:Ask HN: Do you have trouble reading long documents online?
on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @02:19AM (#1982196)
Yes. I paste long documents into Microsoft Word, adjust the line spacing, print to a laser printer, then use a mechanical staple gun (see PaperPro).
Re:Ask HN: Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why
on Sunday December 05, 2010 @09:59PM (#1973660)
Gokhale's 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back, via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1739607 (thanks, HN). It's not the best presentation or the best science, but it has ended my back pain and given me awareness of my body. Anyone who sits with a curved back or occasionally lifts heavy objects should read it.
Re:Stratford 727, Yale 9: Keeping Score on DHS "Best & Brightest" Program
on Sunday December 05, 2010 @03:26PM (#1972565)
They are (USCIS is part of DHS). The INS was dissolved in 2003.