throwacide

“Pencil” Reference to wargames of course. Passwords are fundamentally broken. Don’t blame the post it note nor the person making it. Blame the concept of passwords.

What’s the significance of primes being one less than large powers of 2? Does this mean base-2 is the most natural base?

apparently this being reposted in the third position is a natural result of hn ranking

Surface area is bigger than ever so there’s all sorts of low hanging fruit still out there. One hacker told me it’s exponentially worse than ever.

Eventually we will have global standards but humans are still largely stuck in their totem pole phase.

So, gross management failure. Or, more likely, a hack. Although I don’t see how they would lie that one person really has such power, knowing the truth would likely leak.

This isn’t a newbie getting set up on his dev db who was given too much access to production. They’re pointing the finger so that mechanism that facilitates single point of failure should be independently audited

Misguided. Circumstances are that he either is or is not qualified for a single point of failure job like that. If not it’s management failure. If the human is “qualified” for a single point of failure responsibility like that, he’s now fired.

Probably a security hole

Citation? You’ll need a smoking gun.

I doubt Aaron anticipated the level of blowback.

someone needs to do independent audits in the form of a zero knowledge proof to say “ok I understand why the wizards and warlocks are at battle”. Used to be that we would say to ourselves, “we should consider It likely Obama flipped once in office because he saw confidential stuff that would make you sick”, which is a more cosmo view

In other words you can implement arbitrary dynamic trust, Opening up the possibility of arbitrary hierarchies, and much more efficient and robust mechanisms of establishing truth. Authorities could be designed arbitrarily and evolve on top of this core protocol. This so far sounds closer to tcp/ip foundation. Bitcoin would be more like Series of children with a dynamic system of never ending strings and Styrofoam cups.

I bet there is already CS research theory ready to apply to this design. (Easier said than done and I am just guessing really).

“Adventures in negative vs positive reinforcement experiments via ‘studies’ shown as social media content”

That’s not really important. What is important is that they receive data about the suicidality, because it is inevitable that a large percentage of people like me who are long term suicidal will not have documented it with a medical professional. And, due to privacy laws, it’s difficult to say whether that data if it did exist with a medical professional would make it to 23 and me for them to be able to make such a correlation. I would presume that they may be able to and for or data mine from articles if I were to commit suicide for instance bud

I gave my saliva to 23andme two years ago. I’ve been suicidal my whole life. If genetic markers for suicidal tendencies are discovered in the future, can they use my stored sample to assist in such studies?