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We're working on this at CryptoMove: https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/news/2017/03/29/n...

Our CTO and my co-founder at CryptoMove (also, my dad) created the Hello distributed programming language recently. From the white paper, some of the problems Hello aims to solve a…

This comment made me feel bad, because it sounds like you have cool friends. :) :(

The 9th circuit, followed by the 4th, has been limiting the CFAA's scope precisely due to the concern about prosecutorial abuse and criminalizing simple unauthorized system access.…

Santa Clara held a conference on potential solutions to the software patent problems a few months ago. The proposals ranged from abolishing "computational idea patents" (Stallman s…

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Ctrl+F Tesla, SpaceX, zero results. Really? I'm excited about these companies.

This was on reddit all day.

I'm saying these arguments may sound reasonable, but they can also be viewed as a tactic to derail conversations about oppression and marginalized groups. The fact that "it looks l…

Applies to many of the comments on this thread, so just posting it separately. TL;DR the language we use to discuss and analyze these kinds of issues is not neutral. http://www.der…