objectiveariel

musk's lawyers are laughing all the way to the bank.

first they assure him that they can make him walk out of the deal.

he pays them.

then they assure him that their angry letters to twitter will suffice.

he pays them.

then they assure him that he has good chances of winning the lawsuit.

he pays them.

this racket probably ended this morning when Zuckerberg texted musk saying "yo bro forget it my cousin jim got sued and lost so yeah just bite the bullet bro"

After 3 seconds of reflection, musk decided to follow Zuckerberg's rigorous and sophisticated legal advice, because that's how he makes important decisions worth $40 billion

A fool and his money are soon parted, lawyers know this very well.

Most traditional approaches to voice isolation are essentially a combination of EQ and filtering, it's interesting to see an AI-based approach to the problem.

In my bash_profile is a simple echo which makes the shell say hi to me every time I open an instance. Brightens my day a little bit:

  echo 'Hello dude '

As an iOS dev, this one is super useful:

  alias cdd='rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/* && echo "Cleared DerivedData/"'

This is probably the most pathetic PR move we've seen this year so far.

Acton sold off his userbase to Facebook in 2014, with full knowledge of the Snowden revelations of 2013 where we learned about Facebook's involvement in PRISM.

Here's a framework and protocol for handling your digital assets after your death:

https://arielelkin.github.io/articles/digital-estate-plannin...

TL;DR:

You need a digital estate planning protocol that is comprehensive, privacy-preserving, reliable, and convenient. The best solution is to use a secret-sharing scheme.

The following sequence is suggested:

  1. Alice encrypts her digital testament using a symmetric encryption algorithm, splitting the key according to a 
  secret sharing scheme.
  
  2. Alice publishes the encrypted testament.
  
  3. To each executor, Alice gives one of the shares of the encrypted key.

If you use a password manager, this is equivalent to giving each of your executors a slice of your password.

Feedback welcome :-)

You're missing the point. The fact that the language still allows you to write `p.isImmortal = true;` is the issue.

> That being said, I always try to be respectful when I get one and politely reply. Always remember there's a person on the other end trying to provide for his/hers family.

Eichmann was also trying to provide for his family. Respect is something you earn for not being mediocre.

What a scoop! Banks engage in unethical business practices? But I thought they were charitable institutions, for heaven's sake.

It's not like their greed has ever caused a global financial crisis.

Strong, much-needed words here:

"Right now, entrepreneurs are trying to fix things that aren’t broken. And we can all name a lot of things that are broken: healthcare, education, homelessness and poverty, food waste, climate change…"

Damn right. Those are real problems.

But then the author praises Elon Musk for sending people to Mars. For prioritising space exploration over alleviating famine, poverty, illiteracy, whatnot.

The author's utter inability and unwillingness to distinguish between frivolous and meaningful is precisely the problem he's denouncing.

Also known as GitHub

Decapitation. That'll teach you loose coupling.

Beware: Those lacking a sense of humour will be sentenced to impalement.

Besides, I'm not like Creon. Creon was into Delphi, and I'm not into Pascal.

Yup, I'd be the Philosopher King in Plato's Republic. First thing I'd do is ban JavaScript programming.

I love this bit: "I prefer to spend my college years searching, exploring, and wondering, as opposed to training to become an "asset" in the file cabinet of a "human resource" department. Rock on fellow baristas, rock on."

Translation: "I'll come out of university with no transferrable skills whatsoever. Dreadfully unintellectual dead-end jobs are where I'll be able to keep pursuing my love of knowledge".

Dude.

The author's bio is probably the most important part of this article:

"Grant studies at Wake Forest, where he majors in philosophy and economics."

Translation: "I'm passionate about half the university course I'm currently doing and have absolutely no idea how the job market will treat me when I'm done with it."

Full disclosure: I myself studied philosophy at university. I'm proud of it, but I'd never boast about how poorly it prepared me for the job market.

To me, this manifesto has little more than historical value. It's more an expression of generic adolescent angst rather than of hacker culture.

It's a poor "manifesto" too. What exactly are the aims of The Hacker? "Exploring", "Outsmarting you", and "judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like". Platitudes, really, if you set aside the emotional outbursts surrounding them.

The Jargon File offers a more balanced and intricate exploration of The Hacker. It's always worth a read.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/index.html

I actually believe the Russian government can do that.

It's trivial for a messenger app to include code that sends a copy of your private key to the messenger app's company's HQ, if served with a warrant or if obliged by law (and that seems to be precisely what's happening here).

If the messenger app is open-source (like Telegram or Signal), you can satisfy yourself that the messenger app isn't sending your private key behind your back.

But it's a different story if the app is closed-source and its parent company was involved in PRISM (like Whatsapp).

Could you please let us know where you got that 5% figure from? I thought (according to the latest post on Ethereum's blog https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/07/15/to-fork-or-not-to-fork/) that the voting was done just on http://carbonvote.com/

> I'm willing to work with whatever definition you specify, and I won't try to play semantic games with the definition if it's at least close enough to something specific to work with.

My question is precisely asking you to define that.