Ansil849

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by Ansil849 5y ago
Did Google ever issue a public explanation of what caused this, let alone an apology?
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Hundreds of Salesforce employees object to NFT plans(reuters.com)
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> That shouldn't be a surprise. This has nothing to do with it being a "surprise". That doesn't justify the action, the erosion of privacy. If your car gets broken into in a bad neighborhood, it not being a surprise d
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Why not?
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There are a lot of comments here about how the author should've used ZFS, or how well now they know about ZFS, but the post addresses this: > The other big elephant in the room, of course, is “why weren’t you using ZFS in the first
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Yes, the fangs of colonialism bite deep.
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> How is it deceptive? When people talk about how far one country is from another, chances are extremely unlikely they are referring to how far their central points are from one another.
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Ah, I understand now, yes that makes sense. If Amazon is not refunding the handling fees to the publisher, that's indeed unfair. Though that seems like the issue should be firmly between the publisher and Amazon/Audible, I don&#x2
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> Not quite, you'd get the maximum distance from the extreme end of one territory to the nearest point of the other. But which country do you pick the extreme edge of, and which country do you pick the nearest point of? For example,
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I think Wordle requires a pretty extensive vocabulary to be played successfully. Though you could say the same thing about Worldle: it doesn't require much external knowledge beyond basic geography.
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And you could presumably say the same thing about any other two countries, yes?
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> But then you get Canada and you instantly know it's the USA next. So in your hypothetical scenario....this hypothetical player would know that the only country Canada has a land border with is the USA, but not know what the USA lo
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> a bizarre returns policy, where the consumer could return their AB whenever they pleased, and the PRODUCER shouldered the cost. I don't understand, what's supposed to be bizarre about this policy? Why the seemingly snarky &qu
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> For the arrow hint to work at all, countries need to be a single point. First of all; no, not at all. The arrow hint can work if countries are considered a mass, not a point, it simply means that there can be times when there are any n
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> Also, this is a map game, so for me it's pretty intuitive that it is the center of the hull. I don't follow. How does this being a map game make it intuitive that the distance outputs are based on hull centers? To me, closest
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Like all of these daily games, you can change your system date to get a new round.
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If you can remember 194 shapes over the span of 194 days then hats off to you :).
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What happens after 194 days?
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I was extremely confused about the distance values in relation to the percentages until I read the help: > The distances displayed correspond to the distances between the selected and the target territory centers. > For instance, the
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It's against best practice to have just one U2F key, in case you lose one. Best practice is to have at least two, and to not keep the two together.
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> With a TOTP token, if a user puts Authy or 1Password on the family iPad so their kid has access to MFA for the PlayStation My little one plays with my keychain, which has my U2F keys on it, all the time. She likes the light the BLE U2F
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by Ansil849 5y ago
I'm not sure what contrived scenarios you're envisioning, but if the threat model is, once again, 'person in proximity', they don't have to "steal" anything, they can simply use it, e.g. authenticate with
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> TOTP is too easy to share or steal, especially for targeted or familiar person attacks. I’ve encountered fraud scenarios where soon to be ex-spouses accessed an account via a iPad with authy to get at someone. If your threat model is &
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Push notifications are a separate form of 2FA, they're not TOTP. If anything, enabling TOTP and disabling push-based 2FA would solve the problem.
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> I would appreciate it if the black bar was at least clickable for more info Agree. Why not have it point to the pertinent HN submission.
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> I've stopped using 1Password everywhere I can due to their product "focus", What do you mean by this?
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Seriously...what? This sounds insane and I genuinely don't understand why anyone would work here or put up with this. I understand the main point, I think, of 'make sure that people read instructions instead of ignoring them'
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That is not how scihub used to function. Scihub used to have an engine, named Plato, which would fetch papers automatically if not already in their database. For the last year now, this essential service has not been operational. This is wh
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> Why keep old papers and stop adding new papers - that probably depends on the terms of the injunction. As per the official tweet that has already been mentioned in this thread [1]: > how about the lawsuit in India you may ask: our l
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> I accessed a paper from late last year not so long ago. I think it's working fine. It is not. A large batch of new papers was added manually, but the old service of typing in a DOI and having a paper be retrieved automatically is

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