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by B-Con 8y ago
"Occupy Wallstreet", which was largely composed of naive college students, pushed the phrase "1%". It's catchy. It's more like the 0.01% that most people actually mean when they talk about 1%, including Occup
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> "Crime is OK if you think it doesn't hurt anyone."
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by B-Con 8y ago
> Rather than trust busting, why not start with relaxing the federal laws which forbid the development of third-party applications? Cute phrasing, but what this really means is "why not force anyone who develops a product to allow o
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by B-Con 8y ago
> Good for them -- it's their town after all! Doesn't mean they're doing what's actually best for themselves. FTA: > There are some house numbers that are about 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) apart, Sounds like a pain to
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by B-Con 8y ago
We apologize for the SelfDryv experience disruption experienced by some[0] customers earlier this week[1]. We experienced technical difficulties during a server migration that may[2] have degraded customer experience. The server migration e
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by B-Con 8y ago
What are people's experiences around having requiters you submit a competing offer for them to negotiate against it? I've had recruiters tell me they need to see a copy of an offer letter in order to match against it. I assume thi
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by B-Con 8y ago
Rewording (and hopefully simplifying) for my own benefit because I think the OP is a little loose with the details. There are two parts: Part 1: Subdomain takeover 1) DNS for domain X points to service Y (Y=Heroku in this case). 2) Service
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by B-Con 8y ago
Correct. I fixed it.
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> That's right: the customer's tip doesn't get added to the worker's check — it just gets deducted from what Instacart pays. In other words, up-front tips go to Instacart, not to the worker. My understanding is that t
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This is one of the idioms of Go I liked. "It's OK to repeat the same 3 lines of code." My thought process has always been: If there is a common piece of functionality to be shared, then refactor. If it just happens to be th
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by B-Con 8y ago
Supporting privacy would allow browsers to block requests, full stop. There's no way to spin this specific action as pro-privacy.
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> There are other features (which I understand are appreciated by many users) which can't be implemented with the declarativeNetRequest API, for examples, ... the disabling of JavaScript execution through the injection of CSP direct
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by B-Con 8y ago
I hate the phrase "screen time". Why does the fact that there's a screen involved matter so much? Many "screen time" activities are more closely related to non-"screen time" activities than to other "
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by B-Con 8y ago
Having lost both a family member and close pets that were essentially family... it does make sense. Losing a pet is not the same as losing a human being, but... I can understand the analogy. A pet may have been an active part of the fam
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by B-Con 8y ago
The problem is similar to bots in gaming. Banning bots predictably gives the attacker (bot builder) clear success/failure signals for evading detection, then it becomes a detect-vs-evade arms race that the bot builders will likely win.
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by B-Con 8y ago
> Note: Yes, both these methods are synchronous. But, given that neither of these methods require any I/O orNetwork requests, its pretty safe to compute them synchronously. Found this amusing. Are node devs so used to async that dis
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by B-Con 8y ago
> Why is this still a thing? Because it's cool and the people building it often aren't security experts.
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by B-Con 8y ago
Autoplay is a cancer that spread across the popular media platforms. Facebook, YouTube, and Netflix seem to have all abandoned the idea that the app shouldn't play distracting video and sound without prompting . (I haven't checke
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by B-Con 8y ago
I can only assume YT bends over backward to cater to the copyright claimees so that the major labels keep uploading their copyrighted content to official channels. Basically, at some point this conversation happened: Label: We don't wa
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> “It’s because the law gave them too much leeway” doesn’t make sense. If you have leeway, you choose the easiest and cheapest method, not the one that involves building a whole new communication system. No, you choose the most self-inte
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by B-Con 8y ago
They don't have to produce the same type of content to be competitors. They are competing to produce video content you spend time on, albeit different types. But YouTube is hinting they are considering making "TV show" style
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by B-Con 8y ago
Glad to see my alma mater doing well. > Some of the distinguishing features of the bot included incorporating language disfluencies — pauses such as “hm” or “ah.” Note that Google recently faced backlash over this very feature demoed in
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by B-Con 8y ago
More specifically, he uses the phrase "the FBI of the National Parks" to describe this organization.
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> Maybe calling free software "Open Source" was a mistake. This conflation is definitely a bad thing. Words with an actual meaning get over-used, simplified, stripped of their original meaning, and then merged. It would be 100%
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by B-Con 8y ago
There are many other possible causes for global outages, that specific one is not high on my list of likely culprits.
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The user is too focused on the app, and part of the problem is when we stop using correct phrases and start using "app" for everything. User installed and app and agreed to use a service. User uninstalled an app. User needs to und
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by B-Con 8y ago
Clickbait phrasing. tl;dr: 1) Services can track you based on the data you've given to the app. 2) Obviously, this doesn't stop when you uninstall an app. 3) It's possible (using push notifications) to determine if users have
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by B-Con 8y ago
> Today only 0.5% of HTTPS connections made by Chrome use TLS 1.0 or 1.1. Curious who the 0.5% are. Presumably Chrome is doing it's best to avoid falling back to TLS 1.0 or 1.1 unless necessary, so presumably these are sites that ju
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by B-Con 8y ago
I don't see where in the article this is implied. If anything the fact that half the department will be non-C.S. strongly implies otherwise.
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I found the cross-discipline focus on the staff interesting: > The goal of the college, said L. Rafael Reif, the president of M.I.T., is to “educate the bilinguals of the future.” He defines bilinguals as people in fields like biology, c

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