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Comment Re:Guess which citizens aren't getting vaccinated? (Score 5, Interesting) 71

And yet they pay taxes. Curious.

It's curious that you provided no reference, because your statement, while technically correct, is misleading. Israel collects taxes from the Palestinians but transfers the results to the Palestinian Authority on a monthly basis.

Comment Re: with a promise to seek unity (Score 1) 980

If polls are any indication, Americans on both sides of the political divide overwhelming disapprove of what went down in the Capitol.

Just so you know, the day it happened, 45% of Republicans were in support of what happened at the capitol: https://imgur.com/a/C0EAJm2
Source: https://today.yougov.com/topic...

Over time this has come down to 15%, but we still have to deal with the fact that 75% of Republicans believe the election was illegitimate: https://imgur.com/a/rW9dauk
Source: https://today.yougov.com/topic...

And for what it's worth, only 20% of Democrats felt the same way in 2016.

Comment Re:Clinton parsons. A-ok, he's our guy! (Score 1) 240

The Economist: "No president comes close to Mr Trump's ratio of self-serving pardons to those issued in the interest of mercy or national welfare."

But protocols and norms have guided the process. A body within the Department of Justice -- the office of the pardon attorney -- assists presidents in deciding to whom they should extend mercy. The pardon attorney assesses candidates according to criteria such as "post-conviction conduct, character and reputation", "acceptance of responsibility, remorse and atonementâ and âoeofficial recommendations and reports" from federal prosecutors or judges. Yet Mr Trump has taken on the task largely by himself, bypassing the office for all but a few of his pardons.

Bill Clinton drew criticism across the political spectrum when he pardoned Marc Rich, a fugitive tax-evader who raised millions for the Democratic Party and whose wife contributed nearly $500,000 to Mr Clinton's presidential library. But no president comes close to Mr Trump's ratio of self-serving pardons to those issued in the interest of mercy or national welfare.

https://www.economist.com/unit...

Comment Re:Thanks, Obama! (Score 1) 236

A lot of the difference between state deaths per capita can be attributed to the early days of covid-19 hitting places like NY early, when we didn't have good treatment. If you looked at deaths per capita over the last 3 months, I suspect you'd see a vastly different picture, since it has an "equal opportunity" in all states now.

For example, if you look at Reuter's data the top 20 states ranked by deaths-per-capita for the past week, you'll see the Dakotas doing much worse than any other state.

Reuters Source.

Comment Re:Cloudflare (Score 3, Informative) 66

Cloudflare developed Privacy Pass which is a darn-well designed privacy-protecting means of having pre-preprared tokens for getting through captchas. If you read the design document it's pretty amazing.

The overview:

When an internet challenge is solved correctly by a user, Privacy Pass will generate a number of random nonces that will be used as tokens. These tokens will be cryptographically blinded and then sent to the challenge provider. If the solution is valid, the provider will sign the blinded tokens and return them to the client. Privacy Pass will unblind the tokens and store them for future use.

Privacy Pass will detect when an internet challenge is required in the future for the same provider. In these cases, an unblinded, signed token will be embedded into a privacy pass that will be sent to the challenge provider. The provider will verify the signature on the unblinded token, if this check passes the challenge will not be invoked.

This protocol allows a client to bypass a number of internet challenges proportional to the number of tokens that are signed. The blinding feature used in the signing process preserves the anonymity of the user involved by randomising the tokens that are signed â" rendering them unlinkable from the tokens that are redeemed.

Cryptographically speaking, every time the Privacy Pass plugin needs a new set of privacy passes, it creates a set of thirty random numbers t1 to t30, hashes them into an elliptic curve (P-256 in our case), blinds them with a value b and sends them along with a challenge solution. The server returns the set of points multiplied by its private key and a batch discrete logarithm equivalence proof. Each pair (ti, HMACi(M)) constitutes a Privacy Pass and can be redeemed to solve a subsequent challenge. Voila!

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