hashimotonomora

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Comment · 4 years ago
- need to know basis.

- strict separation of concerns.

- only outbound hiring.

- no hiring of people who can be blackmailed.

- understand your threat model.

- if you were an enemy and had to break into your org, what would you do? Improve that.

Comment · 4 years ago
That’s counter intuitive (at least for you) because in modern society it’s customary to think that people are born tabula rasa and then “it’s all a social construct”. Perhaps we are indeed born with innate preferences, biases, and default sexual orientations …
Comment · 4 years ago
Do these keys work well under FreeBSD?
Comment · 4 years ago
If you are lost in a city would you rather have the wrong map or no map at all?

The person that has the wrong map and thinks that it’s the right map is the one that’s naive.

Regarding insurance companies, you are conflating ensemble probabilities with time probabilities. Insurance companies can estimate the ensemble probability of an event in a group of agents which belong to a certain category and not the time probability of said event on a single agent.

Comment · 4 years ago
What is an ensemble probability of something that has never occurred and is essentially impossible to model? Have you seen all infinite alternate universes? Probability does not make sense.

Compare the following: What is the probability that you will die today?

What is the probability that you will die today given that you belong to the category of people with A_i characteristics and whose ensemble probability of dying on a given day has been measured?

Comment · 4 years ago
Essentially trust. If your bank does not have relations with a foreign bank in a faraway country, both can use an intermediary bank that both trust and do have relations with.
Comment · 4 years ago
Is this allowed by ICANN?
Comment · 4 years ago
Are you following a law or just arbitrarily and unilaterally deciding to do this? I am not Russian myself but I expect a domain name provider to be extremely neutral, unopinionated, and stable. Namecheap is showing to be neither so it can’t be trusted for important domains.
Comment · 4 years ago
Are they following a law or just arbitrarily and unilaterally deciding to do this? I am not Russian myself but I expect a domain name provider to be extremely neutral, unopinionated, and stable. Namecheap is showing to be neither so it can’t be trusted for important domains.
Comment · 4 years ago
The fact that it’s difficult or expensive to track does not mean it cannot be. Technically it’s possible to force every cash handling business to scan (just like you scan an UPC) each bill.
Comment · 4 years ago
How does Walmart compare to that regarding purchases with ill-gotten cash?
Comment · 4 years ago
3141592 thousandths. Integer is beautiful.
Comment · 4 years ago
Can you give a short example? So you don’t trust your own administrator?
Comment · 4 years ago
The problem (with science in general) is in trying to collapse multivariate and multicausal representations of reality into a single value (cf. Procrustes).

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