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Ask HN: How can you know if VPNs (e.g. Mullvad) are legitimate or gov honeypots?

hashimotonomora — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:46:52 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30873995

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by hashimotonomora in "NSA Network Infrastructure Security Guidance [pdf]"

hashimotonomora — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 14:10:23 +0000

- 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.

New comment by hashimotonomora in "Scientists watch a memory form in the brain of a living fish"

hashimotonomora — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 14:00:52 +0000

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 …

New comment by hashimotonomora in "What's the risk from fake Yubikeys?"

hashimotonomora — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 13:52:27 +0000

Do these keys work well under FreeBSD?

New comment by hashimotonomora in "Nuclear war probabilities are useless - counter to the nuclear gambler’s ruin"

hashimotonomora — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 22:33:57 +0000

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.

New comment by hashimotonomora in "Nuclear war probabilities are useless - counter to the nuclear gambler’s ruin"

hashimotonomora — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 21:20:19 +0000

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?

New comment by hashimotonomora in "Tell HN: SWIFT is not a payments transfer system"

hashimotonomora — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 13:13:00 +0000

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.

New comment by hashimotonomora in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"

hashimotonomora — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 03:40:14 +0000

Is this allowed by ICANN?

New comment by hashimotonomora in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"

hashimotonomora — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 23:49:00 +0000

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.

New comment by hashimotonomora in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"

hashimotonomora — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 23:48:01 +0000

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.

New comment by hashimotonomora in "'50% of transactions were fraudulent' when Steam accepted Bitcoin for payments"

hashimotonomora — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 17:39:38 +0000

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.

New comment by hashimotonomora in "'50% of transactions were fraudulent' when Steam accepted Bitcoin for payments"

hashimotonomora — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 16:04:21 +0000

How does Walmart compare to that regarding purchases with ill-gotten cash?

New comment by hashimotonomora in "Curious lack of sprintf scaling"

hashimotonomora — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 02:39:00 +0000

3141592 thousandths. Integer is beautiful.

New comment by hashimotonomora in "Paranoid SQL Execution on Postgres"

hashimotonomora — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 02:25:47 +0000

Can you give a short example? So you don’t trust your own administrator?

New comment by hashimotonomora in "The claimed effect size is about a zillion times higher than is plausible"

hashimotonomora — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 02:20:21 +0000

The problem (with science in general) is in trying to collapse multivariate and multicausal representations of reality into a single value (cf. Procrustes).

New comment by hashimotonomora in "World’s first octopus farm stirs ethical debate"

hashimotonomora — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 02:04:17 +0000

Cows (actually their genes) have been evolutionarily successful by paradoxically allowing themselves to be slaughtered and eaten by humans.

New comment by hashimotonomora in "PostgreSQL Schema Change Guide"

hashimotonomora — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:25:21 +0000

All objects update their reference after a renaming. If you rename a column, foreign keys referencing that column have the name updated.

New comment by hashimotonomora in "Soybean oil affects hypothalamus, causes genetic changes in mice: study (2020)"

hashimotonomora — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 17:10:17 +0000

Care explaining what bizarre mental issues?

New comment by hashimotonomora in "Do Not Recommend: User Provided Primary Keys"

hashimotonomora — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 00:52:26 +0000

What are some use cases for Int256?

New comment by hashimotonomora in "Inside Pornhub"

hashimotonomora — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 00:47:24 +0000

It’s a healthy reflex from real life that spills over here.