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Back in Chicago as a stay-at-home dad. Expect a mix of infosec (plus privacy and safety), 3D printing, and some politics. You're probably following me because of my old job(s).
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Put another way, I am 100% against intelligence or law enforcement agencies having backdoor keys—on straight principle. But, it's also silly to argue that they'd be incapable of protecting such keys while we simultaneously trust tech companies to protect keys with far more expansive capability.
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It's just a bad argument. The whole device security model is already built on keys all the way down to the firmware, which we trust to be safely maintained. And it's a bit crazy to argue that intelligence agencies—the originators of air-gapped networks and HSMs—can't also protect escrow keys.
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And I realize this may seem like quibbling, but it's a form of argumentation that really frustrates me. When something is morally wrong, you don't have to tie yourself in knots in an attempt to otherwise dismiss its efficacy. Just hold the line on it being morally wrong, rather than muddy the issue.
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Am I the only one who gets a more tryhard Steve Ballmer vibe from these sorts of theatrics? It all just reads the same to me when a later middle-aged man in tech tries to seem tough and edgy (which I state as a now solidly middle aged man who spent a career in tech).
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I'd generalize beyond pointer tagging to any case where you just need to treat a pointer as an integer type. For example here, where I check for wrapping in pointer math:
source.chromium.org/chromium/chr...
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Bit of a tangent, but I remember it really hit that Dazzler was the one to "kill" Rogue in #247. Those two had a bumpy road from enemy to friend (plus the Longshot love triangle). And then they just kept knocking off X-Men. It ran for over a year—often bi-weekly—before there was a real team again.
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FWIW, I found the data-driven approach in Pfaff's "Locked In" to be more compelling than Alexander's tendency to use anecdotes.
I also just started Hinton yesterday, and already appreciate its deep exploration of the historical context (vs the lawyerly perspectives in Alexander or Pfaff).
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The right-hand side of this Zillow price estimate is amazing.
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The dumbest part of his answer is that they could be hitting it as a legit trade issue. USDA is only now approving chicken vaccines, which had historically been pointless due to other countries' dubious import restrictions. Of course, this also means accepting the efficacy of vaccines, so… 🤷♂️
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Have you read "A City on Mars" by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith? It's a very accessible coverage of the subject that also has the feel of techno optimists coming to the realization of just how intractable a problem space colonization is (at least for our current social/technological development).
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It appears I'm not the only one with this issue, and their stock answer is a $10 refund to cover the cost of glue to reattach the hinge. Guess I'll see what they say about the 10cm of chipped glass adjacent to the hinge. 😮💨
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Reuters has something of an epilogue on the de minimis suspension chaos. I skimmed it real quick, but didn't notice any of their sources expressing surprise at what happened―which makes sense given how utterly predictable that whole trainwreck was.
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Little known fact: Apple has always been a CIA operation.
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This was my comment the day it was announced, because the chaos was entirely predictable to anyone remotely familiar with ordering goods from overseas. There's no way their own people weren't telling them exactly what a mess it would be, but they went and did it anyway.
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Clearly there's a joke to be made here about context collapse.
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Things were kinda hectic, so I didn't get around to unboxing until Tuesday. And unfortunately the printer arrived with the top hinge detached and chipped glass on the door. I'm still waiting on an email back from Creality customer support.
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Feels relevant.
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I know a bunch of friends and colleagues from UTP (or I guess the Stokes Scholarship now). They're consistently among the best people I've ever worked with. The few I know still at NSA are now in very senior roles, and the ones that departed all went on to be very successful in the private sector.
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Pretty sure my dad got a Casio BOSS the year it was released in 1989 and carried it religiously until the late 1990s.
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This is such a better story than any of my experiences giving sworn testimony.
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Early exits are notoriously noisy, and my recollection is that the trend in the 2016 election wasn't clearly identified until they had averages of multiple weighted exits. I'm not inclined to go looking for those sources now, but I remember being surprised, and then convinced after digging into it.
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Those seem to be from election day, so I assume they're early exits rather than *weighted* exit polls. Every cycle it's the same thing with all sorts of proclamations based on unweighted, early exits. Then as much as a year later we get weighted exit polls incorporating voter files and census data.
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One silver lining is that Madigan and Blagojevich absolutely hate each other, and Blago has had his lips firmly attached to Trump's ass for more than a decade. So there's a decent chance that Blago will block any opportunities for Madigan to get a pardon.
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Oh, well I mostly agree with that part. It's hard to tell which is a bigger existential threat to humanity: climate change or the ever widening inequality gap―because both problems are just increasingly feeding into each other.
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I have more thoughts, but I'll stick to this: The complaints about how the press covered the economy in the last election aren't contradicted by anything presented in the article, because the issue was that the same fundamental economic facts were spun positively for Trump but negatively for Biden.
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Nah. DNS failed to resolve when I tried to pull the payload. Just shoddy work, really.
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In case anyone wants the payload, I pasted it into the alt text:
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Methods seem sound to me. Happy to review the paper before you publish.
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Okay, you enticed me into looking and now I have to ask: Were you just trying to empirically prove that mathematicians have no sense of humor?
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Yeah, the 23€ exemption is more of a floor (hence my spitballing at $25-$50), but I'd really want to see a study on the impacts of different cutoffs.
For consolidated clearance, there are good reasons to allow it, and I'd think abuses could be addressed with better enforcement (random inspection?).
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Absolutely. I also think it's more than just reciprocal trade, and should account for things like labor and environmental standards. Otherwise trade seems to increasingly devolve into finding ways to paper over negative externalities.
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Another way of stating my position is that the de minimis exemption should apply only to imports that are in fact de minimis. I don't think anyone can credibly argue that is the case right now. And of course, that doesn't preclude creating whatever new trade categories might make sense.
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Direct-to-consumer de minis sales from China are estimated at $240B (7% of total exports) in 2024, and have been growing rapidly. Obviously there's a lot more to US trade policy, but this is an increasingly important chunk. And beyond lost sales revenue, it's a huge safety and compliance mess.
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I agree that the tariff amount itself is largely a red herring (which was kinda my whole point). But I disagree on the exemption threshold, because that sets the line for what goods stimulate economic activity at home versus abroad. And right now it's skewed towards economic activity abroad.
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Not that it really matters, but my personal opinion on the de minimis exemption is that $800 is way too high. I expect a proper economic analysis would land close to the EU limit. So, just pass a law with a CPI tied threshold in the $25-$50 range and strip the President's power to muck with it.