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throwawaybbb··on How Trolls Overran the Public Square
Heretic is so passe.
throwawaybbb··on Software Security Is a Programming Languages Issue (2018)
That can be summarized as: unexpected interaction between independently secure parts.

Just because you've written secure components in a safe language doesn't mean you don't have security issues when you run them together.

throwawaybbb··on An update on YC China
>That might work for a smaller country like South Africa, but China too big for that. China could probably make everything it needs itself, or learn in a decade or two. So it sounds to me like a new iron curtain, leaving both sides poorer and the people caught in the middle suffering from the separation. (And good luck fighting global warming.)

The majority of the US and Soviet population was better off with the iron curtain than without in real terms. The US median hourly wage only surpassed that of 1968 in the last 3 years.

throwawaybbb··on Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia
Someone needs to build and maintain the audit log software.
throwawaybbb··on Australia’s Darling River is running dry
To where and how? Electricity is not something you can export when your main grid is 5000km from your nearest neighbour
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