Hacker News: bayareanative

New comment by bayareanative in "YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube"

bayareanative — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 04:36:43 +0000

Heck, anyone offering insider advice or education in many professions and trades should be worried: medicine, nursing, legal, engineering, aviation, maintenance (automotive, aviation, industrial and many more), physics and more.

New comment by bayareanative in "YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube"

bayareanative — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 04:35:03 +0000

Corporate, ad-supported platforms are inherently prone to arbitrary censorship... they always have been and always will be. If you want freedom, viewer/donation-supported distribution not tied to corporate interests is the only way to go. But, you have to get someone to pay or it all comes crashing down.

New comment by bayareanative in "Artificial gravity breaks free from science fiction"

bayareanative — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 04:31:58 +0000

Don't let that go or you're condoning dishonesty.

New comment by bayareanative in "Artificial gravity breaks free from science fiction"

bayareanative — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 04:30:49 +0000

This title needs editing. It has nothing to do with gravity.

New comment by bayareanative in "New Property of Light Discovered"

bayareanative — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 08:54:13 +0000

Could this encode additional classical bits (optical transceivers) and/or qubits (single-photon quantum key-distribution protocol)?

New comment by bayareanative in "Navy Got 'UFO' Patent Granted by Warning of Similar Chinese Tech Advances"

bayareanative — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 08:48:22 +0000

Rush to provisionally-patent what may or may not exist. Monetize the little green Martians' tech even before meeting them. Good thinking. Even if it doesn't exist, it's still better to gamble on the off chance it does.

New comment by bayareanative in "Boeing's 737 Max software outsourced to lower-paid engineers"

bayareanative — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 08:41:41 +0000

I know which is worse: it's not 737 NG's Ducommun's substandard critical structural parts, underpaid subcontractor software engineers in India or Boeing monetizing safety as optional extras... it's the systematic, systemic corruption of safety regulatory protections capture allowed this to happen. Planes didn't fall out of the sky 30 years ago because enforcement entities actually had resources and tried to do their jobs.

The inescapable problem is that all newer planes from Boeing and likely other manufacturers are suspect in uncountably tens of thousands of ways because they cannot be presently assured (without engineering reviews, inspections and documentation) to be fit for passenger travel due to the lackadaisical regulatory climate in which they were developed and manufactured. The 787, 737 NG (-600 and up) and 737 MAX are just the tips of the known problems. And now Boeing wants a folding wing plane too?

New comment by bayareanative in "Navy Got 'UFO' Patent Granted by Warning of Similar Chinese Tech Advances"

bayareanative — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 08:14:21 +0000

Tinfoil attention seeker or big claims/flimsy evidence pleader. There's also a lot of lonely, sad people who say the FBI's watching them and have a file on them... delusions of grandeur.

New comment by bayareanative in "Temperatures in France cross 45°C threshold for first time since records began"

bayareanative — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 17:19:07 +0000

Paul Beckwith did a video about Iran and other areas where temperatures exceeded survivable wet-bulb levels. There is an upper-limit based on thermodynamics. https://kevinhesterdotlive.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/heat-...

Yes, you must remain indoors in non-evaporative air-conditioning, dehumidification or near sources of cool water, or you die.

Power outages? People can die.

New comment by bayareanative in "Temperatures in France cross 45°C threshold for first time since records began"

bayareanative — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 17:10:04 +0000

Spain and the south of France will be bad. And, Spain is already desertifying like crazy and climate models show it's screwed long-term. I would expect climate refugees leaving the Iberian peninsula in greater numbers soon, farmers in Spain are already leaving (I saw a docu by Journeyman Pictures on Spanish olive orchards dying and being abandoned).

New comment by bayareanative in "Apple Moves Mac Pro Production to China"

bayareanative — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 17:04:38 +0000

Chips are different because it costs more to reverse/reengineer them, but once engineered (or copied) for manufacturing, it's trivial to make more. Software and physical design is more difficult to control.

New comment by bayareanative in "Apple Moves Mac Pro Production to China"

bayareanative — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 17:01:58 +0000

Apple and Samsung already exploit slave labor indirectly throughout the entire supply chain from sulphur mining, rare earth elements mining in the ocean and final assembly. Depending on China might be a stupid move if it suddenly decides to enact sanctions to harm the US economically... it would be a huge hit domestically but it might be necessary for a pretext to war (if foreign relations policies change).

New comment by bayareanative in "White House weighs encryption crackdown"

bayareanative — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 16:55:25 +0000

"Regulations" is a terrible word conflating and FUDing necessary protections with unfair restrictions. Deranged, all-or-nothing libertarians mindlessly cargo-cult refrain "regulations and government are evil becus government" is typical of bombastic, utopian drivel. Laws vary in harm, protection and/or benefit by degrees and by circumstances... nuance FTW. Most of the time, corporate capture of government's policy-making leads to inaction on major issues, corruption, military-industrial-complex self-dealing and capitalist-class-leaning grotesque inequality.

New comment by bayareanative in "White House weighs encryption crackdown"

bayareanative — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 16:46:20 +0000

Remember that stable democracies always have the potential become authoritarian dictatorships. History is littered with examples: France, Germany, Japan, Chile, Turkey and to a lesser extent, the authoritarian strongmen who were elected in the US, India, Brazil, Venezuela and many more.

New comment by bayareanative in "White House weighs encryption crackdown"

bayareanative — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 16:31:25 +0000

They will have to pull encryption from my cold, dead hands. And I'll strongly consider making a 80% lower legally-unregistered gun if things get any more insane, because stuff is going off a cliff 1930's-style.

New comment by bayareanative in "[dead]"

bayareanative — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 16:26:25 +0000

Yes. Exactly. I waited for a hour for it to stream to Youtube to skip their bombastic nonsense and Creepy Corporate Joe. They should've tested them down to 8 at the beginning to hold a series of debates every couple of weeks. This debate series was boring and low-signal, hurting civic participation in general.

New comment by bayareanative in "[dead]"

bayareanative — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 16:23:05 +0000

Yeap. The two part debates had a few great candidates weighed down and split with aspirational and corporate candidates. And the moderators were horrible, neoliberal corporate hack$.

Jimmy Dore, George Galloway, Ro Khanna and Noam Chomsky are some of the only people qualified to interview candidates for POTUS.

New comment by bayareanative in "Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel"

bayareanative — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 16:07:51 +0000

Evernote stumbled and failed to execute so many times. The got hacked, had a clunky/yucky UI forever and lost people's notes. Plus, like a meal kit service or taxi app, they didn't have anything that was inherently defensible. That's why they failed.

New comment by bayareanative in "NPM fired staff for discussing workplace conditions"

bayareanative — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 12:38:55 +0000

That would help anonymous discussions on non-work platforms offsite or on personal devices.

New comment by bayareanative in "“The books will stop working.”"

bayareanative — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 12:33:20 +0000

Yes, this. I'm surprised they're not labeled as scary "socialism" and replaced with public-private "partnerships" with commercial ads, membership fees and overpriced concessions. It seems the public commonwealth is being cannibalized for vampiric exploitation at every opportunity. You can't sit down anywhere, because it's been replaced with a sterile multi-use zoned commercial areas with a Code of Conduct* without buying something. Remember water fountains and public parks? Not anymore.

*I ate at this food truck in Austin that was in a mixed-use commercial area that had a 12 term CoC. These places typically have control-freak power-trip mall (wannabe) cops.