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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46421004

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It seems like the perfect occasion to quote Mickens' immortal words:

> Basically, you’re either dealing with Mossad or not-Mossad. If your adversary is not-Mossad, then you’ll probably be fine if you pick a good password and don’t respond to emails from ChEaPestPAiNPi11s@ virus-basket.biz.ru. If your adversary is the Mossad, YOU’RE GONNA DIE AND THERE’S NOTHING THAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. The Mossad is not intimidated by the fact that you employ https://. If the Mossad wants your data, they’re going to use a drone to replace your cellphone with a piece of uranium that’s shaped like a cellphone, and when you die of tumors filled with tumors, they’re going to hold a press conference and say “It wasn’t us” as they wear t-shirts that say “IT WAS DEFINITELY US,” and then they’re going to buy all of your stuff at your estate sale so that they can directly look at the photos of your vacation instead of reading your insipid emails about them.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf

You should get two equal readings if for the first one you push on the scale with one feet, take it off, wait a few seconds, then weigh yourself.

They are the same character to you, a native speaker of a Western language written in a latin script. They are the same to you because you are, in fact, an ASCII machine. Many many people in the world are not.

Case insensitive filesystems make about as much sense as ASCII-only filenames.

There is a similar problem with financial regulation; my understanding is that the knowledge transfer between industry and regulation there is solved by the equally problematic "revolving doors", where people alternate between regulating and advising companies (and thus as regulators they don't want to make too many enemies).

You mean it had PLUGS on both end? That's not a cable, that's a murder attempt!

I mean, "unregulated" is the whole point of alternative medicine, isn't it? If you take an extract from some plant, do a double blind stuy and prove it cures something, then sell it following government safety regulation, that's just called "medicine".

> 2. It's not a view that very few people hold.

And yet it makes the author feel a contrarian free thinker. It turns out, it's the prototypical Thiel truth!

The nice thing of being at the start of a millennium is that after version 99 you can just move to 100!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37219779

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> URLs are tricky to parse and there are numerous security problems in software because of this. trurl wants to help soften this problem by taking away the need for script and command line authors everywhere to re-invent the wheel over and over.