The actuarial tables showing death rates by age group in the US from the Social Security Administration.
Zooko says “#erasure-coding makes files more fragile, not less,” and “I think approximately 90% of all files that have ever been stored on a #Tahoe LAFS grid have died”. The reason he gives is that it “lulls people into a false sense of security”.
Warner calculates that #erasure-coding (rather than replication) makes your files more fragile, not less, in the independent-failures scenario if the probability of server failure is over 50%, even if it doesn’t “lull people into a false sense of security”, but that generally this is false.
“Half of Western European men are descended from one Bronze Age ‘king’ [4000 years ago] who sired a dynasty of elite nobles which spread throughout Europe, a new study has shown.” They mean male-line Y-chromosome descent; for descent in general, the number would be more like 99.99% after 200 generations.
A former Philadelphia Police Department sergeant is “indefinitely imprisoned in Philadelphia’s Federal Detention Center for refusing to unlock two drives encrypted with Apple’s FileVault software.” He’s being defended by “Federal Public Defender Keith Donoghue”.
Nozick’s “Tale of the Slave”, his brief philosophical justification for #anarchism.