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> This crappy voting system didn't write itself. One of the downsides of programming being easily accessible and easy to get a job in is that there is no required standards body to…

IMO Occam's razor ends up here. Electronic voting systems do two things very well: obfuscate the system in a way that is relatively incomprehensible to a layman, and provide plausi…

> If I go see a doctor, I have no idea if I will end up with a $40, $400, $4000, or $40,000 bill until the bill comes months later and I have to pay it. NO IDEA. This is what's rea…

> Unbelievable that these companies take security for their prized assets way less seriously than I do. A lot of engineering teams unfortunately see strong security as a hurdle to …

No. I hear both simultaneously as well.

> their graphs (at least on Android) have no labled Y axis! It's the same on iOS. I can't say I'm happy with Robinhood. It's dumbing down something that can get you into a world of…

So far, that's been me at every n+5 years or so.

It's been literally years since node-forward got its talk about signing packages [1] with a lot of pushback from the npm team. Every time a new typosquatting article shows up, ther…

While I guess this is something, I would be curious to know what types of users are being targeted with these NSLs, and for what crimes. While it's natural to think "Islamic extrem…

Reddit says they were making about $500K a day in mining fees.

It's good for pseudonymous worldwide transactions. Blockchain analysis software is now a thing, and while costs are high, there are companies that specialize in tracing BTC transac…

There are plenty of absolute crackpot petitions on there at this stage that undermine the legitimacy of this one by being placed alongside it. I believe this motion is futile as we…

I'm not very fond of Tim's product, but I agree with him in his perspectives on SF and the Bay Area in general. Too much of it feels toxic at this point, and it has felt that way (…

Make people care more about reason and logic than emotion when making product purchasing decisions? I don't think we'll get very far with that goal.

> The rock stars these days are rappers and DJs and they don't play guitar. And nearly every kid can afford a shitty chinese USB->MIDI controller and a cracked version of Live/Logi…

> We need ways to communicate Microsoft developed quite a few of these ideas internally with the TwC (Trustworthy Computing) initiative in the early 2000s, and built a protocol - a…

Your story resonated with me because I had the same experiences with a 12” MacBook. While I can’t really use you as an example, since you kind of need a Mac for a lot of the work y…

How much is this based on the libsignal-protocol-JavaScript code? Where does it differ from it? Where are the tests to test protocol steps? I actually love seeing things like this,…

This. I would trust most non-security tech CEOs to give better security advice than the executives at Symantec.

I don’t think we disagree with each other. Room to grow housing and office space requires a whole lot of development to happen. My greater point is that there is very little incent…

Do you mean the actual city of Detroit? There is little to no way Amazon is going to be able to import their workforce to live in the city of Detroit. A whole lot of the housing op…

I'm curious what the percentage of npm publishers that have this toggled on is, and I wish that was available data. First, in terms of all packages, and then of top 1000 packages. …

Facebook has been making a lot of overtures to appease the Chinese government as of late. This is likely just another one. FB knows damn well you don't break into China without pla…