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doomjunkyon NSW Digital Driver Licence

You are right, but at some point there will be a new generation of politicians and the promises will be lost to the old generation.

doomjunkyon قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic

I totally agree. Let me say this. Europe has had at least three chances for a united language. 1) Latin when Caesar conquered europe. Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Romania, adopted that language but later diverged, 2) frensh when Napoleon conquered europe and 3) german when Hitler conquered europe. I hope the EU will implement english a an official language even if the only english country (UK) will leave.

doomjunkyon Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?

How? Chronologically or structured by topics? Appending at the top or buttom? Timestamps? Tags? How do you navigate through the file?

doomjunkyon Show HN: Kung Fu Chess

TL;DR: "Chess Without Turns"

doomjunkyon LastPass bug leaks credentials from previous site

You should make a feature request. These guys are on a fast development pace.

doomjunkyon France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra

It's not that easy.

The trust system only works between participants. Trust can't be enforced.

The promise works with a third party. When two parties to lose confidence/trust into each other they can relay on a thrid party (the gov.) to enforce a prommise between two participants.

doomjunkyon France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra

One key difference between a government issued currency and a distributed cryptocurrency is that the former is based on a promise and the latter is based on trust.

A government issued currency is based on the promise [1] given by a state that this money must be accepted by everybody else. Everyone can enforce his rights by law.

A distributed cryptocurrency is based on trust given mutually by the users. The trust relays on the circumstance that no significant number of participants will abandon their precious investment may it be acquired through mining or purchasing of coins.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promissory_note

doomjunkyon Medical equipment pricing is completely broken when a sling costs $200

Here in europe we don't get to see the bill at all. The hospital sends the bill directly to the insurance company. Think about it. The negotiation of the costs will take place between two companies (B2B). In this case the insurance company becomes the advocate of the people not their opponent.

doomjunkyon Apple has copied some of the most popular apps in the App Store

Did you approche Apple or vice versa?

doomjunkyon Ask HN: How Do You Read?

I use this technique to counter distracting thoughts to concentrate on reading, learning, or working. As of now i have 1288 textfiles.

doomjunkyon I Miss Microsoft Encarta

Off topic: Thank you for getting me to research the history of the hyperlink [1].

- 1945 linked microfilm pages in the essay "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush [2]

- 1964 the term "hyperlink" in Project Xanadu by Ted Nelson

- 1983 the "highlighted link" in HyperTIES system by Dan Ostroffin [3]

- 1989 manifesto for the Web by Tim Berners-Lee

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink#History

[2]: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-m...

[3]: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/hyperties/

doomjunkyon Algorithm can pick out almost any American in supposedly anonymized databases

Rektor Seymour Skinner: "A certain agitator let's call her Lisa S. no that's too obvious let's say L. Simpson." [S07E05]

doomjunkyon Algorithm can pick out almost any American in supposedly anonymized databases

Even for big numbers, if x = 100% or x = 0%

doomjunkyon Twitter was down

07/11/2019 Twitter outage

07/03/2019 WhatsApp, Facebook & Instagram outage

07/02/2019 Cloudflare outage (Discord, 9gag, Medium)

07/02/2019 Google Cloud glass fiber damage (Google Services)

06/24/2019 Verizon route leak (Cloudflare, Google, Amazon, Reddit)

06/02/2019 Google Cloud excalated outage progression (G Suite, YouTube)

doomjunkyon More than 1k Android apps harvest data even after you deny permissions

It's NOT pretty absurd to use access point information to gain location knowledge. Google Street View has done so.

doomjunkyon Why is collapsing a Hacker News comment so slow?

Actually i use the collapse feature for totally diffentent use case: Navigation.

I don't want to scroll over all the replies just to find the next post or i want to see all replies to one post. Therefore collapsing is convenient, but the slowth is annoying.

doomjunkyon Monte Carlo methods – Why it's a bad idea to go to the casino

Everything that makes your brain feel good, can be addictive.

Not the drugs are addictive, feeling good is.

doomjunkyon Justin.tv's Live Video Broadcasting Architecture (2010)

Maybe twitch creates an illusion by showing the streamer only a subset of people that is shared among all other groups. This allows everyone to see what the streamer sees and to communicate within their group.

doomjunkyon Avoid Indirection in Code

But all problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection. ~David Wheeler

doomjunkyon SSH gets protection against side-channel attacks

No. I just tested KeePass.

1. I created a new test-entry with a long and random password.

2. Opened the process's memory in the HxD hexeditor.

3. Ctrl+f

4. Found this password 4 times.

Even after i locked KeePass i still found the password 2 times.

This is bad!

doomjunkyon Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation

The 80/20 rule is basically the power law which is one of my favorite laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law

doomjunkyon Asian countries take a stand against the rich world’s plastic waste

How can we find out whose garbage is it?

doomjunkyon 8chan served with search warrant [pdf]

Irony was used by René Descartes against the church / inquisition.

doomjunkyon Outcry as Australian police search public broadcaster

Forensic analysts must use read-only adapters to clone hard drives.

doomjunkyon Valve has mutated from a game developer into a financial middleman

Capitalism made Half-Life and Portal.

doomjunkyon Reasons not to reveal your DNA

Money

doomjunkyon How to increase your chances of finding a hidden camera

The Airbnb rules for hosts: If you’re a host and you have any type of surveillance device in or around a listing, even if it’s not turned on or hooked up, we require that you indicate its presence in your House Rules. We also require you to disclose if an active recording is taking place.

https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/887/what-are-airbnb-s-ru...

doomjunkyon Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonize

The term national park is a euphemism, considering that all life forms in this exclusion zone suffer from genetic diseases.