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> So much this. It's not news this is a thing, it's a problem of a cost -- if there is not way to remotely id a person, remote company has to pay for a flight ticket and is at disa…

Anybody can sue anybody, and this someone in your example would likely have standing, so why not? A single person self representing against a company that is essentially one of the…

I'm bearish on introducing noise[0] to resist traffic analysis, and I'm exceptionally bearish when the only layer managing noise injection is "a for-profit entity that can be legal…

> That does not mean there aren't serious drawbacks that are more worth pointing out such as why bother with a very complex and noisy backdoor when you can just covertly create eno…

Some of the prior works in this paper[0] address noise in anonymity networks, but in general: you either add noise at the link level which malicious nodes can identify & ignore, or…

Synchronous packet transfer only solves the problem if you build a truly constant rate network. Traffic monitoring works when variances exist; your flow has to be fully homogeneous…

The threat actor most use to talk about this is a global passive adversary: a threat actor who can see all relevant traffic on the Internet but who can't decrypt or adjust the traf…

You did it, you posted the meme. https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/

I've only recently started using AI, and have discovered my use or rejection of it is predicated on my feelings for the task. This argument of "authenticity" really resonates. I'm …

Squint enough and you'll see a cellphone consists of two primary chipsets: a main SOC/stack that runs the operating system, and a modem/software stack that pushes cell packets. Pow…

"Near a user" is also a big assumption. I'm ~200 miles to ORD and ~500 to IAD, but my ISP's peering & upstream arrangements mean Cloudflare serves my traffic 700 miles from DFW. Bu…

The vast majority of underperformers I've managed are people who are less motivated to perform, less technically skilled, not aligned to the team, have different values, etc. Almos…

> However, deliberately keeping low performers around as a buffer becomes a self-own on a longer time horizon. Smart managers will negotiate hiring exceptions to replace a low perf…

This is a great point. Toxicity is entirely orthogonal to performance. And you rarely have to worry about toxic low performers: if you're unlucky enough to hire them, they don't st…

> The second mistake they made is assume that companies would prioritize being lean and trimming the mediocre & bottom 5%. There are other considerations, combined productivity is …

> the manager said there were some layoffs coming up and he would have been out with those but because of the way things worked it didn't make sense to let him go earlier. Incentiv…

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEDLISPRIPERSQUFEE10900 The median home in the Bethlehem, PA core based statistical area costs $200 per square foot in October 2024. In October 2…

The median price per square foot in the US is $226[0]. The insanely economically depressed rust belt area where I was born has a median price over $150 per square foot (you do _not…

Funny enough, those 5 line items are almost precisely how my company manages performance. The only thing I'd highlight here is the importance of salary with scoring/calibration. As…

IANAL either, but from what I've read before the courts treat searches of your home with extra care under the 4th Amendment. At least one circuit has pushed back on applying privat…

I think it'll prove far more likely that the government creates incentives to lead Google/other providers to fully do the search on their behalf. The entire appeal seems to hinge o…

> Show that to someone with no understanding of Apple and it's products, or AI, and you'll have someone equally confused. Apple is selling a magical button that unprofessional idio…

> I’ve watched that little animation several times, and they tell a better story in a minute twenty-five than all of Apple’s AI commercials combined. If I showed that video to some…

For professional use, the idea of "opening up and upgrading a machine" feels wild . You're either given one by your employer or buying one yourself, and either way, it's on a 5 yea…