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They defeat/bypass smog control systems to either boost power, or literally, just blow clouds of diesel exhaust on demand.

So by that logic, if a tv station chooses to broadcast content that propagates racist misinformation and calls for violence, but the station only does it because that's what they a…

While I agree with your points about the clear indication of covid deaths, unfortunately this will have no impact on the debate. Facts aren't super relevant anymore.

Agreed. In my case, daydreams regardless, I'm not expecting to build a multi-billion $ exit. It's more about building something useful for people, that I can control the direction …

I just watched this last night. A lot of the content will already be well known to the HN audience. There was one big light-bulb moment for me. One of the speakers was clarifying t…

Very true and covid has made this so much worse. Distance learning is manageable for my kids as they're a little older and I can work from home. But families with younger kids wher…

I don't think I exactly understand your points. Using an example of IV reuse in AES-GCM: The weaknesses resulting from this wouldn't be discoverable with a test like corrupting the…

Yes, the goal was/is to start with a very high level example then get more into crypto specific concerns. The audience is for devs without any real experience/knowledge of using cr…

>Perhaps surprisingly, implementing cryptographic primitives & protocols requires little cryptographic knowledge. That's a dangerous statement on it's own. Making proper use of pri…

You're not alone. This has always felt scammy. It's a little more gray-area than some of the traditional vapor-ware which was more about driving competition out of business by larg…

I don't see PBKDF2 as a full footgun, but maybe as the minimally still-acceptable method. When I was building my system for E2E messaging (pritact.com) I started out with PBKDF2 bu…

Free is a big part of the problem. The existence of free tools in a space, that are paid for with data gathering, crowds out the market for paid competitors that operate in a more …

Re: Terms I read through a good amount and I think they make sense. The short version helps, but that always worries me from a legal standpoint. If we summarize something in a lega…

This makes a lot of sense. Providing some kind of categorized/easily digestible format for the policy to fit into. When I was writing mine I tried to be very clear, but my startup …

Yes, that kinda HSMish model of non-extractable keys is a very nice touch. I really wish they would add Argon2 though. PBKDF2 is still a valid choice but there are a lot of HW opti…

I agree that Web Crypto has a lot to offer. I use it in my latest project. In terms of it being easy to misuse, I think that applies to cryptography in general, but there are some …

I've been following your activity because of your strong stance on privacy and very much agree with this post. In fact SimpleAnalytics is my only 3rd party call from my SaaS site (…

I'm in the same boat with my communication based startup. I'm being very cautious about any third-party interaction and the heavy activity from the stripe JS wasn't compatible with…

I've noticed this in myself and others. There is so much novel (no pun intended) stuff happening to everyone now that, I think, there isn't the downtime needed to effectively pay a…

I carry this thought process over into my current life. When I start with a new technology/language/etc. I try to start barebones command line, text editor. I transition quickly in…

I think any sufficiently complex system is hostile to reform just through its natural inertia, which in a huge system is a complex and fascinating topic itself. But when you have t…

I think that's mostly to build familiarity with the tracks. Many games have done excellent jobs of mapping the tracks to high precision including the backgrounds. So, all the visua…

The bit about the lack of a mobile app, and the over-compensating for it was a great illustration of guessing at the importance of features to users. Something I'm dealing with a l…

"Azure Dev Ops" is up there too. It turns out searching "Dev Ops" gives a lot of responses not relating to the product. Who could have possibly anticipated that? Side note, I like …