BuuQu9hu

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Yes, I'm familiar with the "funding people" philosophy. However, YC invests $120k, not millions.

Where does the other $1.88+ million for "only a vague idea" come from?

BuuQu9hu

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

> 18 months... Certainly not enough time to find product market fit in many cases if you start out with only a vague idea.

I don't understand how "only a vague idea" is able to raise millions of dollars in the first place. Can you elaborate or give an example?

BuuQu9hu

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

I'm using Pomodoro Technique to focus on urgent tasks.

BuuQu9hu

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

I'm not the person you're replying to, but I too would happily "die in my 40-es if I would get 25-yr-old body until the end of the life in exchange." I'm 36.

BuuQu9hu

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

I disagree with nearly all of this post and its parent. It has much conflation of ideas, but I will argue that this is the thrust:

"When bad actors are made more capable they are made more destructive, therefore, no one should be made more capable."

This idea represents stagnation and fear of one's fellow man. We prevent ourselves from improving our understanding because we worry someone will use it against us. Today's society as an example, this is almost an inevitability! The comments above focus exclusively on the potential negatives. This is not a useful way of conceptualizing the problem.

  Albert Einstein said in the 1940s: "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."

  The big problem is that all these new war machines and the surrounding infrastructure are created with the tools of abundance.

These are examples of intellectual augmentation by collaboration of scientists and engineers. However, the resulting destructive technology is made available by the concentration of material resources and therefore is wielded by a select few in powerful positions. Note that the former cannot easily create such technologies without the latter. Note that the former are nearly always NOT the ones operating the technology!

  PU President Shirley Tilghman describes a new library that will replace several "isolated" departmental science libraries with one "scientific" library.

  Well, to harvest more protein, that scientist makes the shark's brains four times bigger than normal and now the shark's are super-smart and eat all the scientists.

These are simply good intentions and unintended consequences. In the example of shark scientists, augmenting their intelligence by collaboration result in them getting eaten. However, in both examples, a sufficiently augmented intellect could have recognized and avoided the unintended consequences altogether.

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Critically: do not conflate the consequences of acting on knowledge, with intellect or the augmentation thereof.

The material results CAN be negative. The phenomenon of intellectual augmentation itself is only of positive consequence: problems CAN be solved more effectively. Problems can be solved poorly and have unintended consequences but this is unrelated. The wrong problems can be solved and this is also unrelated. The problems solved can be for the sole purpose of killing and this is also unrelated.

The sentiment is that intellectual augmentation should be discouraged in general because The Few that have the resources to produce destructive results will be made that much more dangerous, by intent or by mistake. This is FEAR, not certainty. The far more dire consequence is that your fellowman, who wishes to collaborate and solve all sorts problems for the greater good and otherwise, is DENIED the tools to facilitate his problem solving. And subsequently, humanity is DENIED all the good that could arise from such a scenario.

I don't intend to deny those who are pessimistic about the overall effect of augmentation tools in the hands of present-day humanity, nor am I an optimist on the subject. But to state confidently about net loss or gain to humanity from such tools is FOLLY. I would say: make intellectual augmentation tools and have them available to everyone. Not because bad things won't happen, but because good things WILL happen. This is where the heart lies and where it GROWS. And don't we agree it's this that is lacking?

BuuQu9hu

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

I'm assuming you do everything you should right? So... perfect body? Saving account? great family life? Work is flawless?

Life doesn't happen in a vacuum and specialization is a thing. People spend their time on different things.

Everyone should do A LOT of things but don't. You can't hold a billion people accountable for that. They thought for whatever reason this was a reasonable trade off. Turns out... maybe not.

Instead of being a fucking nerd about it, lets work to help people move to better services.

"ummmmm... actually, you should learn about GPG encryption for your files".

FFS.

BuuQu9hu

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

>U.S. investigators identified Guccifer 2.0 as a particular GRU officer working out of the agency’s headquarters

No where in that do they mention IP address just that they identified him as a GRU officer who works at HQ in Moscow.

BuuQu9hu

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Or you could just do: ssh -t [email protected] "sudo command"

BuuQu9hu

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Gaswagen

BuuQu9hu

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

>Opera did try to some interesting features such as "Unite" which -- if you squint a certain way -- was a form of p2p decentralization. Yes, it's interesting to have a built-in web server in the browser but not enough people cared about it.

Unite is a typical example of something that worked fine and disappear all the same. I haven't find any browser that surpass Opera 12 to this day. All the new "exciting stuff" are no use to me. I don't want to adapt to my browser, I want a browser that adapt to me.

BuuQu9hu

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

"10 years is a long time. This was back when I still heard people seriously asking if the internet would last."

In 2007 the web, the mainstream part of internet, had been going on for 17 years. And the internet was even older. If people thought 10 years ago that the internet could disappear, they think the same today and in 10 years as well.

" It was even plausible! Google was only a few years out from its IPO. Few people thought the internet could help elect a president (and I don't mean the current guy)."

Oh. Because without these two anecdotals event the internet couldn't last?

"A lot changed in the last ten years"

Not that much. Facebook, twitter and youtube were already around. The main difference is that we lost everything else. We have less and less choice. But it was already starting in 2007.

BuuQu9hu

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Hello,

I'm not a tech expert at all, could you give an info please?

I've run this test and it's positive : https://repl.it/repls/DeliriousGreenOxpecker

Does it mean that a website with this kind of script can access all of my browser session? For instance, if I log in to my bank account, then I logout and about 10 minutes after I visit an evil website. Could evil website retrieve the URL of my bank account + the credentials?

Also, is there a POC that can display all browser history?

Thanks.

BuuQu9hu

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

I never comment on HN but your comment was so helpful to me I just had to say thanks. So thanks!

BuuQu9hu

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

zoz

BuuQu9hu

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Seems like a very good project for infosec community with real case use, look forward to it coming out.

BuuQu9hu

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

This is truly delusional. Yes, you can build a poorly constructed cathedral. Yes, the cathedrals left standing are truly exceptional. On the other hand, no bazaar will even come close the longevity of an exceptional cathedral. The philosophy of its construction is fundamentally flawed.

BuuQu9hu

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Nice

BuuQu9hu

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

> If you ask anyone who knows me, I’m probably the biggest Apple fan they know.

> To tell the truth, I’m a life-long Windows user that grew to be disillusioned by Microsoft after Windows Vista.

You're just a fanboy looking for a bandwagon.

BuuQu9hu

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

HIPAA, not HIPPA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Insurance_Portability_a...

BuuQu9hu

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Why don't you look up the hundreds of studies on effects of athermal non-ionizing radiation on _biological_ process and then use your limited imagination to consider the human dangers.

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