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alecmuffett
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Comment #45863811
What did Hart say about comity?
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Comment #43272560
One of the hardest problems you can face is getting a community of disparate developers to do the right thing at scale; sometimes the easiest solution for that is a monolithic inte…
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Comment #43272146
OP here. I am sympathetic, really I am, but the challenge then is a diversity of solutions tends to lack really good high quality security systems integration, meaning that data le…
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Comment #41159485
...in the UK riots
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Comment #33260658
I kinda agree (and I wrote the cited article) but as soon as you pick a number (2^40? 2^64? 2^80? 2^128?) you are painting a huge target on your forehead, when it's better to teach…
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Comment #33260394
That's my point, yes.
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Comment #33260386
nicely put.
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Comment #31333067
Analysis thread, beginning with link to full-text PDF of draft law: https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/1524066299600683008
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Comment #29981787
Confusingly, perhaps intentionally so, it's a global number, not a UK one. Details here. https://alecmuffett.com/article/15902 Disclosure: I wrote the blogpost.
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Comment #29006868
Author of original blogpost here; I am seeing a lot of discussion here about "what constitutes a public group?" and so I wrote this to help with the discussion. https://alecmuffett…