ofcourseianal (u/ofcourseianal)

ofcourseianal commented on Nobel laureate predicts a quicker coronavirus recovery latimes.com/science/story... · Posted by u/RickJWagner

seanmcdirmid · 5 years ago

I’ve heard that rather than eliminate all new cases, the best we can hope to achieve would be to slow down the spread so our health system isn’t overwhelmed all at once (most of us would get the virus, just not all at once). Somehow China is claiming to achieve the complete elimination goal rather than the more pragmatic slow the spread goal. Which begs the question, what are we getting wrong in the rest of the world?

ofcourseianal · 5 years ago

Wake up. No other country implemented the same measures at the same point in the infection curve.

ofcourseianal commented on Too Much Crypto [pdf] eprint.iacr.org/2019/1492... · Posted by u/fanf2

ChikkaChiChi · 6 years ago

I think the point is that additional rounds are poorly representing any sort of measurable return. Maybe the thesis is poorly worded to get attention?

I don't think anything in cryptography should be taken for granted. Any sort of assumptions that were made 20 years ago should be revisited given how much the landscape is changed.

That being said, it actually DOES look like there is a call for less rounds, and I am totally projecting what I think we should be advocating for.

Isn't one of the cardinal rules of crypto "fast crypto is easily broken crypto?"

ofcourseianal · 6 years ago

One time pad is pretty fast

ofcourseianal commented on World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen Is Now World Fantasy Premier League #1 twitter.com/MagnusCarlsen... · Posted by u/thom

ByThyGrace · 6 years ago

Is there even such a thing as a Fantasy Chess league?

ofcourseianal · 6 years ago

whoosh

ofcourseianal commented on Viral Tweet About Apple Card Leads to Goldman Sachs Probe bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/gyc

zrail · 6 years ago

Car insurers can point at actuarial data to back up their rating decisions.

ofcourseianal · 6 years ago

Maybe GS can too?

ofcourseianal commented on Being a good guy boss left me £1.2m in debt bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan... · Posted by u/dustinmoris

wedowhatwedo · 6 years ago

It's interesting that "Millenials got shafted". When I went to college in the 1980's, it was much cheaper than now - I admit that. I lived in a very small dorm room with 4 guys in it and one bathroom on a whole floor of dorm rooms. I worked part time during the school year and full time during the summer to pay for it. I had no car, no TV and only ate food the school provided via my meal plan.

I now work for a large public university. Let's compare. Most students don't have jobs at all. Most students live in high end apartments (lots of these apartments cost more than my mortgage payment for my 4 bedroom house - per person). These students visit the town restaurants quite often and we have bars that are overflowing on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights with college students. When I've asked how this happens, I'm told that college loans let you pay for room and board so they happily get the most expensive housing possible because it's "free". Almost all students have cars and lots of them have a "parking ticket budget" so have no problems parking illegally and paying for it. It's also "free" because of their student loan.

Who is shafting whom?

ofcourseianal · 6 years ago

You can stop thinking about all the auxiliary stuff you mentioned, and just compare, for example, the ratio of tuition : minimum wage from your college education and a contemporary one.

ofcourseianal commented on Homemade IC (2018) sam.zeloof.xyz/first-ic/... · Posted by u/modinfo

phkahler · 6 years ago

That will take something like 20000 transistors.

ofcourseianal · 6 years ago

0 0 0

Here, I think you dropped a few zeroes.

ofcourseianal commented on Developer of Checkm8 explains why iDevice jailbreak exploit is a game changer arstechnica.com/informati... · Posted by u/headalgorithm

mtsr · 6 years ago

Why? Is there any way to be certain these are done in hardware and can’t be caught in a low level system once the device is rooted? It’s a black box, so no way to know until somebody manages to pull it off.

ofcourseianal · 6 years ago

Yes

ofcourseianal commented on TSA-style body scanners are coming to public spaces massprivatei.blogspot.com... · Posted by u/Jerry2

snorlaxle · 6 years ago

I know it's really hard to wrap our head around the idea of objective worth of human lives but we already have calculations for the statistical value of life[1]. We only need to do a similar calculation for our freedom and then we can objectively determine when it's worth it to trade lives vs freedom. At some point (if not there already) a few lives is going to be statistically worth less than the freedom of the entire population.

[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life)

ofcourseianal · 6 years ago

Oh, well, if we already have the calculations (and a Wikipedia page!), they must be right.

ofcourseianal commented on Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta hackernoon.com/leaving-ap... · Posted by u/indidea

ofcourseianal · 7 years ago

“be far more respectful of user’s data privacy”

“the chat application is Telegram”

Is this satire?