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Microsoft takes 30% of xbox purchases. That's the argument. Apple doesn't take 30% of every purchase you make online. You're free to use a browser and purchase there where Apple doesn't take a cut. I'm not saying I
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I love OSS. I just think it should come with a cap. If a single stakeholder (shareholder, employee, bondholder, etc) is worth $1B USD or more, the license is $1m[0] a year. That way we all get to have fun, but the megagiants like Amazon act
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No. I did not say we should do nothing. What I said was people keep focusing on the one thing that the attackers used to get in, but that one thing is besides the point. I explicitly said that MFA raises the stakes. The point I was trying t
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Look, MFA for access to code repositories or a cloud is one thing, but if you think that MFA is "table stakes" for a VPN I don't know what to tell you other than "then very few orgs are doing table stakes with their VPNs
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Yes, MFA would have helped here, but I think it's besides the point. I've worked on a lot of projects, including one for a major stock exchange, and I've never seen perfect security. It's too slow. Even if you had MFA fo
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Thank you for teaching me the difference between the two words with humour. I'm 35 and I somehow completely forgot it was spelled flagrant.
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The incentives are all misaligned and the solutions aren't obvious. How is the USG going to secure some random admin access password? Are they going to update the code in the repo? I agree with hack-back. I agree with a number of propo
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What's so perplexing to me is why the pay grades for people in the military are so low. Take Michael Flynn, for example, the O-9 pay for a three star general is lower than what a senior software developer makes. Surely if we're sp
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> Now, sometimes a table has a natural primary key, for example the social security number of a country’s citizens. You know, you think that, but it's never that simple. The field was added incorrectly and nobody noticed until the v
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I've been programming for over 20 years too, and I like dynamic languages. I like them a lot more when they're properly tested and well architected, but even the tire fire codebases are at least debuggable. The compiled stuff help
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Ninja Edit: I didn't downvote you by the way. The first objection is that the system allows them to marshal massive amounts of resources to achieve their objectives without support the very infrastructure that they rely on to acquire e
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That is a great quote, though I have a minor quibble about alcohol being necessary as some of the Russians I befriended were former alcoholics and sober for years. Though others drank beer at dawn. I found I made deep friendships more eas
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Thanks for the thoughtful response. I'll say this: Billionaires do not have infinite cosmic power. If they, and they alone, achieved indefinite longevity then we could start to talk about this, but they're no demiurges or immortal
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Risk. Taking risk, usually with leverage, is almost always required. I predicted Bitcoin could hit $50k back before it was worth ten bucks. But I was off a failed startup at the time, so I only acquired 120 bitcoins, partially from some mil
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Russians are so extreme. Even though my favourite professors at Waterloo in Canada were Russian, it wasn't until I learned some basic Russian that I finally got over the typical view of them drilled into people by Hollywood. Your run o
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The right advice to give new hires, especially junior ones, is to explain to them that in order to have a good first PR they should read this Wikipedia page first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_smell Also helpful
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The worst is dreaming and using emacs in the dream. I get around the code so fast because at this point it feels like an extension of my own mind, but in a dream state my brain can't make the code on the screen make anywhere close to a
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Thanks for the reply. I do have each AirPod set to different things, but I find it just doesn't work as well as the interface that I had with the Beats headphones. The tap-tap on my ear is much more distracting than the click-click on
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It totally blows my mind that there are languages without gendered pronouns. It's like someone saying "mother" and "father" were the same word (just "parent", no specialized words by gender) in a language.
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I am a traditionally an Apple guy. Sure some VMs for linux development, but the gear is all Apple stuff. I had Beats Pro headphones that got damaged after a good amount of use so I replaced them with non-Pro Airpods and have hated it. I hav
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I guess what I'm trying to say in defence here is that I 99.5% agree with your response to my comment. Yes: Lawlessness is abhorrent. That said, there were plenty of inventions used by spies against The Third Reich. Those inventions, i
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The classy way of handling puns is to avoid them if they're not intended and leave them unstated if they are. It's funnier to everyone who notices that way, and less distracting to people that are just there for the content.
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> saved the town millions by siphoning power from the local college at peak power demand. I'd like to hear more about the details of how this worked. Did the college have its own power source like a research reactor? Was this techni
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My dad did this for someone's whole team as a favour because he overheard what they were doing over lunch or something like that. Later, he met the manager of the team he'd done it for and asked if they were going to transfer an
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I'm broadly anti-blockchain and anti-cryptocurrency since I grew disillusioned by the scene early on, but even I think blockchain has solved some problems, I just don't think those problems are worth the cost or that those problem
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Oh well then I take it these guys will be back in some form or another in the coming weeks. With enough cash and time they can replace their seized infrastructure without too much effort. Probably with a non-American target next time. I don
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Statements like "money of advertisers and founders was transferred to an unknown account" don't make sense to me. Why is the money held on a server at all? Surely it's more secure to keep wallets receiving money locally
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Probably means this one from 2018: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2018/NIST.IR.8202.pdf Brief quote from the conclusions: > The use of blockchain technology is still in its early stages, but it is bu
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I found the Wikipedia article for the first mentioned story quite interesting as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Antarctic_Expedition
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I don't think so. Had Tesla sold more than 10% of their Bitcoin then sure, but as it stands right now they're still quite exposed to the currency and this new announcement by Musk, and his pivot to Dogecoin for SpaceX is much more

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