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"All generalizations are false, including this one." - Mark Twain

Yep. Cory Doctorow has talked about this: how the universe "makes it easy" to secure communications because mathematically, it's really easy to encrypt (verify that a number is pri…

I'd have to disagree. I think the interview process desperately needs an injection of pragmatism. If the actual job never requires Big-O analysis, then asking it during the intervi…

I have the same feeling toward them. They're chosen for the same reason new technologies are often chosen: because they're new. The people doing the choosing aren't concerned with …

Couldn't agree more. The "innovations" SV has brought to the interview process are more to satisfy the need to "disrupt" the traditional way of interviewing, with no thought to whe…

Exactly. And this is why surveillance is so difficult to fight. The actions are far removed from the consequences, and the public just isn't very good at long-term planning. But we…

I have to say, I hate take home tests. They move all the burden of time commitment onto the candidate. And even if the question says it should take 2-3 hours, there's a game theory…

BCrypt has a character limit of 72.

This is a great idea. I wish I had known about it years ago!

Rationally questioning your own views first? Obviously that's a rare quality in the population or we wouldn't be in the messes you outlined above.

"virtually"...being kinda generous, aren't we?

Well that escalated quickly.

"Algorithms are for people who don't know how to buy RAM."

Well, have you ever not thought that after a password leak?

There was an experiment with this called Mincome in Canada. They found that the only two groups of people who worked less were new moms and teenagers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

Yep. If the government represented the will of its people, we'd have sensible gun control and readily available contraception. The government hasn't represented us for a long time.…

How about we popularize encryption, and take the choice out of the hands of corporations and governments?

That's exactly why the users can no longer trust the service or the government to do right by them. Client-side encryption is the only way to be sure your rights aren't being tramp…

Since most of the tech community disagrees with government surveillance, and tech community early adoption is often the catalyst for mainstream adoption, what do people think of ge…

Nick Merrill tried to crowdfund an ISP way back that automatically encrypts all traffic, making surveillance impossible. Of course it ended underfunded.

Not enough links.

Just like how it only takes a few GPS coordinates to figure out who you are with a high degree of accuracy. Anonymizing data doesn't mean much in the big data world.

They both work tirelessly, mostly for people who don't even know they exist. Money donated to them is money well spent.

Is a website, is beautiful, is easy to use, has an API. You've hit on the first three, so when the API becomes public, I am so using this. Are you hosting this yourself? Do you exp…

Is there an API?