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mikec3010 | 7 years ago | on: How Women Came to Dominate Neuroendocrinology

Please don't talk about gender discrimination in other industries? Is that wrongthink?

Dang, please don't allow people to post about these topics if you don't like facts that are inconsistent with your or others' pre-approved narratives.

mikec3010 | 7 years ago | on: Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way to store energy

I wonder if you could compromise and use powdered concrete in a closed system? High powered fans could blow the fine powder upward in a silo so it would act like a liquid. Then large paddlewheels catching the powder could power a generator coming back down. I have no idea if powder going up a tube has less friction than blocks on a cable/pulley, however.

mikec3010 | 7 years ago | on: NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students

I think the reverse of what he said was true: that tuition has risen artificially because of all the free money. But yeah I'm also skeptical that tuition would decrease even close to the same way if the money were removed. I think they'd cut supply before they cut price. Especially with the all too common "but you need a degree" fallacy

mikec3010 | 7 years ago | on: Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Chinese Agents

The same "they" you are referring to. The ones writing the checks. I don't care about the precise technicality that enables wage suppression. I literally don't care. The constitution also says no spying on Americans, but somehow that precise word of law was elided. The bottom line is: they have billions, they suppress wages for employees, and they enrich billion dollar contracting firms. Nothing I claim is untrue.

mikec3010 | 7 years ago | on: Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Chinese Agents

> you don't know what you're talking about.

Personal attacks aren't welcome here.

The government has the money. As evidenced by their defense budget.

The government does not pay the money to their employees. As evidenced by NSA employees making less than high-grade truck drivers.

The government does pay billions to corporations such as Lockheed or Booz, etc.

SO let's recap: they have the money, they just choose not to pay it to their employees. But instead it inexplicably gets rerouted to rent-seeking gatekeepers.

mikec3010 | 7 years ago | on: Break a dozen secret keys, get a million more for free (2015)

> even though a 280 attack will break somebody's AES-128 key out of a batch of 248 keys.

Yeah, "somebody's", but what does the average somebody have that's worth cracking their encryption over? It seems to me that most cryptanalysis threat models would be very specifically targeted: what is the President saying on his secure line? Where are the submarines being dispatched? What are the corporate earnings or fed rate decisions going to be?

Trawling thousands of encrypted connections and cracking one or two is a pretty cool feat,but probably not valuable enough to recoup the costs or yield anything of extraordinary value.

mikec3010 | 7 years ago | on: TinyWM – A tiny window manager in around 50 lines of C

I learned this the hard way when I realized CUPS (printing services) is a dependency on almost any major desktop app. I thought "I don't own a printer, probably will never need one, let's remove this superfluous printer software" only to find it's so ingrained in applications it may as well be a part of the OS. In all fairness, it is convenient to be able to print to pdf sometimes
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