Cryptographers have proven that it's possible to use this as a primitive from which you can rebuild the rest of common cryptographic primitives (public encryption, symmetric encryption, etc). So--if it's possible to put this together it'll be a novel construction for every cryptographic primitive that also dodges some of the problems with key distribution and negotiation.

I've been thinking that this is basically a result of people being overexposed to aspirational lifestyle marketing influencers--even though they're doing better than ever, they're more aware than ever that others are doing even massively better. Since it's influencer marketing, they're seeing people do better in specific ways that appeal to them instead of just being passively aware that others are richer.

[1]: https://www.sca.isr.umich.edu/files/chicsh.pdf

That's wrong as `tptacek noted. If you meant something else, that wasn't clear.

I am hiring a new Application Security team in Austin to focus on making the highest-privilege applications in the non-AWS side of the company the planet's most secure.

This team will be joining a 9-month old effort to collaborate with developers of key apps on security assessment, architecture improvement, design and code review, and automation of the security process.

The pros of our team are technical excellence, a culture of sustainable work (we are working hard here, but strictly 9-5), the opportunity to have a significant influence on the security posture of the company as a whole, and the chance to hack on applications operating at a global scale, and low (1x/month) oncall expectations.

The cons of our team are moderate process debt (arising from our newness and some unexpected demand)and higher-than-normal ambiguity in tasks (we hold too many task definitions/bars in our head and haven't written them down yet).

Please apply to these roles through the links below:

* Security Engineering Manager: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/2769965/security-engineering...

* Senior Security Engineer: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/2778970/senior-security-engi...

* Security Engineer: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/2777245/security-engineer-ii...

I'll check this post periodically and respond to any questions (concerning non-confidential info about this job) if people are interested.

ICOs were killed by Solidity and the Ethereum ecosystem more generally being insufficiently expressive to create anything of value other than pyramid schemes (insofar as those have value).

By contrast, many Modernist philosophers believed that human history moved inexorably towards more-just society or that human knowledge moved towards perfect understanding of all phenomena.

Edit: not sure I understand what you mean when you say "The pattern is much broader that postmodernism claims it to be. "; the project of postmodernism is in part to show that there is no pattern.

Check out https://muse.jhu.edu/article/27340 for the argument against though!

These observations invalidate Modernist ideas that held that human historical development lead toward specific outcomes or followed observable patterns. For instance, postmodernist thought argues Marx was wrong in thinking that history followed a dialectical pattern, and instead holds that history follows no pattern.