Chrisoaks

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by Chrisoaks 3mo ago
Why are you not using the subscription plan?
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by Chrisoaks 4mo ago
So what enables job security now?
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by Chrisoaks 2y ago
Not true. Even a perfectly inelastic (vertical) demand curve still intersects the supply curve at some price. In other words, even if I would pay infinite dollars for a widget, I would still purchase from the cheapest supplier.
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by Chrisoaks 2y ago
Appealing to a local maximum more or less repeats the claim. Why would the current design be at a local maximum in the first place?
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by Chrisoaks 3y ago
They will be able to view the public certificate but will not be able to sign or decrypt anything because they do not have the corresponding private key, which is never sent over the wire. HTTPS protects against MITM attacks. When the owner
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by Chrisoaks 3y ago
That’s not true either, as they won’t possess https certificates for whatever the domain is and your browser would flag/block you from continuing.
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by Chrisoaks 3y ago
An unsecured network doesn’t help an attacker gain your TOTP and password unless you’re using a website without HTTPS or that otherwise messes up by putting the credentials as query parameters. The most an attacker might be able to view is
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by Chrisoaks 3y ago
Because the price paid is somewhat less than the value derived. You might have been willing to pay him $110 and he might have been willing to walk away with $90. But regardless of whether you settle on a rate of $90 or $110 or split the d
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by Chrisoaks 3y ago
Sounds like you’re recognizing that the example is positive sum. And bringing currency into the equation doesn’t change the fact that the plumber is better off for engaging in the trade. Not all ways of spending money create the same value.
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by Chrisoaks 3y ago
Free time isn’t zero sum. An accountant and a plumber can create free time by trading services. If it would take a plumber five hours to file his taxes, he could instead fix the tax accountant’s sink in one hour in exchange for the tax acc
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by Chrisoaks 4y ago
But is there a zone, at least internally, where such communication is safe? I would imagine that a firm is incentivized to want to know where their team members are leaving gaps.
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by Chrisoaks 6y ago
> Of course, without any treatment at all, the pain would also have gone away after a few days. And if you struggle for years with chronic back problems and doctors don't really have an answer except to prescribe addictive painkille
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by Chrisoaks 6y ago
I also think step 10 is wrong because it assumes that P ≠ Q.