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lowpro

647 karma · joined December 15, 2013

Network security, love to write, travel, hike. reach me asnair (at) protonmail.com

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lowpro··on FBI’s Comey Concedes Mistake Was Made Over iPhone in San Bernardino Case
If anyone watched the entire hearing today, Personally I was astounded by the misunderstandings of both the director and everyone asking the questions, it seemed that only one or two of them understood what Apple was trying to say in a technical sense.
lowpro··on How sleep and mental health are linked in the brain
I've also found this to be the case, I used to sleep 3 hours per night, take an hour nap afterwards, and on weekends I'd sleep 12 hours or so per night. My averages sleep per week was 55 hours, or about 8 hours per day. It all evened out on a weekly basis, although I don't think sleep is supposed to work that way...
lowpro··on Justice Department Wants Apple to Unlock Nine More iPhones
But does that imply that the technically inept don't deserve privacy, even if they want it? I think it does, and is therefore an unviable solution.
lowpro··on Map of battles fought since 2500 B.C
There's very little data on the Mongols unfortunately, especially since they were nomadic and moved so much, one dot in the middle of Mongolia just says "Mongol Battles".

But the data for much of their conquests doesn't exist.

lowpro··on The Political War on Cash
> Drug dealers and politicians (same thing in my opinion)

The number of things wrong with this statement. I don't like most politicians, but those two are very different. I'll just leave it there, because I don't even know where to begin to refute this.

Also, anyone that uses +$100,000 in cash is a bad person? This makes no sense. I run a charity, and if I choose to give cash to the organizations beneficiaries, is it evil? If I do the same thing personally and find $100,000 to give to charity or a family in need, am I evil now? Generalizing people who spend a lot of money (to you anyway, it's a very subjective and arbitrary definition of a lot of money) is just illogical.

lowpro··on The Political War on Cash
Maybe some of the more classic black markets, but the newer ones that use Bitcoin and are online are the way of the future anyway. I have a feeling many of the larger BM organizations would be fine if cash was eliminated today. I see this mainly hurting consumers and citizens.
lowpro··on SF tech bro: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, despair of homeless’
Even though Justin seems like an asshole, I wish the Washington post and other news sources would try to objectively report the news instead of joining the bandwagon and making fun of the views of others. This type of subjective reporting doesn't lead to civilized discussion where you actually address the other sides views, not their delivery.
lowpro··on Mondo bank taking £1m crowdfunding investment
I wanted to invest in Mondo when I first heard about it 6 months ago and was disappointed. This has brightened my day, I just wish I could use it in the US. I know it's coming, and I can't wait for the future.
lowpro··on Wherever oil goes, the stock market goes
This is simply a badly written article. In 2008 oil was very high, the market was not. Now in 2016, oil is very low, and the market is heading down. There's little correlation, and the market conditions today could be argued to be a result of bad regulation and poor government interference in the private sector (conservative view anyway), and now people want even more government influence when it's in $19 trillion in debt and the Federal Reserve mark to market is insolvent.
lowpro··on A startup is betting $10K your marriage fails
Shouldn't someone officially end their marriage because of abuse if it is in fact caused by abuse? I don't see how this is an issue. I'm probably overlooking something, but the incentives seem to align.
lowpro··on My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”
Just to make clear, most teens are NOT this active. Being one and being that most of my friends are still in high school, I'd estimate 1 in 10 are as active as this girl is with snapchat. As far as texting goes, yeah about 1 out of 2 are constantly texting including myself, but it's all to fight boredom. Boredom in school, boredom watching TV. It's like ADD but everyone has it.

But for snapchat, most people are in the 20,000-40,000 range, with some up to 200,000 and some down to 2,000, haven't seen any above or below that.

lowpro··on We're ditching the office completely
That's per month, which would be very roughly 290,000 per year I think, before taxes.
lowpro··on One of Paris’s last horse meat butchers discusses the disappearance of his trade
Is anyone familiar with horse meat in the US? I'd like to try some for a reasonable price, I've never heard of it being sold here though.
lowpro··on Obama wants to tax oil companies $10 a barrel to pay for clean transportation
Apple is a primary example of his point... If corporate tax isn't eliminated or reduced, will Apple ever put that cash to good use? No! It doesn't want to lose billions, so it'd rather the money sit there then lose it. Removing the tax in that case would stimulate the economy with billions of dollars in new private capital (without devaluing the money already out there [printing money]).
lowpro··on Newegg sues patent troll that dropped its case
And lose...

If they have to pay the other side if they lose, there would be a lot less lawsuits, so in the end it probably evens out in terms of strain on the legal system.

lowpro··on Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab
Great PR move by gitlab, and I don't mean that negatively. This kind of direct response is exactly what a company looking to improve should do, hats off to gitlab!

Once their performance increases, maybe we'll see the momentum shift from Github.

lowpro··on Why I love Snapchat
Being a 19 year old college student with many friends in high school, I can say snapchat is the most popular social network, followed by Instagram then Twitter, and lastly Facebook. If something is happening, people will snap and tweet about it, Instagram and Facebook are reserved for bigger events that are worth mentioning, snapchat and Twitter are for more day to day activities and therefore get used much more often.
lowpro··on A cult of extreme physical endurance among executives
This happens to me to, although it changes depending on the season. In winter I need more sleep and I'm just less productive. In the summer 5 hours of sleep and breakfast can keep me going all day.
lowpro··on Warning signs of cyber crime according to UK National Crime Agency
It used to be used only be those not in tech, but considering many major universities now have "cyber-security" degrees, I think it's mainstream now, for better or worse.
lowpro··on Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS
You don't have to be a monopoly to have anti-competitive behavior, like disallowing competitors to compete with you in a market that has sizable market share, even if you own that market.

For example, if they banned any non Apple apps in the Apple App Store, there's still ~60% of the market in other stores (Google Play/Windows Store), but that still isn't allowed and is very anti-competitive.

lowpro··on Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS
"Apple doesn't abuse its power" only allows a Firefox content blocker in safari
lowpro··on 0 A.D.: A free, open-source game of ancient warfare
I've been playing AOE since the original and still play it often, I've recently found Total War to be a sufficient RTS/Turn based game for me, a nice mix between Civilization and AOE.

That being said you should look again at AOE3, there is still a small online community that I hope will continue for quite awhile.

lowpro··on Tested: Why the iPad Pro really isn't as fast a laptop
The graphs speak for themselves, you don't have to read any of it as the author only explains the number of graphs which are simple and readable.
lowpro··on The Tech Talent Shortage Is a Lie
I'm not sure why exactly the author related the issue to racial and gender inequality, which is an issue, although I think it doesn't properly address the real price ledge issue. The real problem is you have to know someone to get in early, and not everyone has an in. Because there are less women and minorities, they have less people to help them get in, although being a white male, you still have to know someone to get in, there's just a higher likelihood you'll know someone.

When the industry looks at actual skills instead of who you know, the issue will correct itself.

lowpro··on How I won a Facebook hackathon without a line of code (2014)
Keep reading, it says just below that they got rid of that design.
lowpro··on The Tenacity of Tech Recruiters
You have me in tears, these are priceless.

The more you delay the recruiters, the more it costs them and the less they pursue it.

lowpro··on What I learned from losing my Facebook internship
It was hardly an exploit when the data was publicly available... It was a lack of privacy control by Facebook which the public recognition forced them to fix.
lowpro··on Study of Ad-Blocking Software Suggests Wide Use
Thank you, I've been here for a long time, still a noob though. I figured if I wasn't sure there had to be others thinking the same thing.
lowpro··on Study of Ad-Blocking Software Suggests Wide Use
If I remember correctly, ad blocking software overlays the ad with blank HTML right? So blocking ads doesn't actually reduce data usage, since the browser still downloads everything, Adblock just has to parse it and get rid of the junk.

I believe because of this download-then-parse model, webpages actually load slower. I remember an HN article on the front page about it.

Nonetheless, I still use Adblock. The sites worth supporting I normally pay money for in some way, such as premium on a forum.

lowpro··on I uploaded 4 terabyte over Korea's 4G, and paid $48
Asia is known for having much better internet than America. This is nothing new. Americans normally pay more for less.
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