Gunax

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by Gunax 5y ago
The security hack part of it isn't that sophisticated--it's literally just someone changing values in a database to make certain tickets a winner. The interesting part of the story is the sleuthing the investigator did while tryin
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by Gunax 5y ago
Hmm, just curious why that would make it better. I think it's hard to justify because the cost is so low (it's an extra character, and possibly some confusion) but can have a big downside if the unexpected happens.
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by Gunax 5y ago
In my experience google pays a bit undermarket and relies on both it's reputation for being a bit cushy (as far as private employers go) and having higher prestige than others.
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by Gunax 5y ago
I wrote (or tried writing) a gameboy emulator once. My only qarning is that there are a lot of edge cases in the specification--and the proper specs are wrong. I ended up spending most of the time searching through undocumented/missing
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by Gunax 5y ago
Bribery is not legal, never has been, and is not being advocates for. If you want to call lobbying 'bribery' in a sort of exaggerated way, go ahead. In my experience most of the rhetoric around bribery is reapoy just interested gr
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by Gunax 5y ago
And how would one stop that, or would you really want to? I consider campaigning to one's representatives a cornerstone of democracy and political activism. To get rid if that because groups we don't like also use it is anti-democ
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by Gunax 5y ago
Why is it harder to stop because it's a plugin? I understand torrents (they are distributed) but do the plugins also use distributed content sources?
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by Gunax 5y ago
The difference is that Amazon (unlike the other giants) doesn't have a moat. Facebook and Google basically have one product that is a money machine which funds everything else. The rest is mostly window dressing. Amazon does not have t
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by Gunax 5y ago
No matter how many times I do it, i have troubke squashing. Maybe I am just dumb .
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by Gunax 5y ago
The governor of Missouri is right, legally. Just look at the weev case. You think the law is a out determining what's legal or not--in theory that is true, but it's a farce. In reality what happens is we decide who needs to be cha
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by Gunax 5y ago
It's an interesting consideration of privacy. In a sense, nothing has changed by having these readers--your license plate was always visible. There was nothing stopping the city from hiring people to stand on a street corner and recor
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by Gunax 5y ago
There is a feeling that you (being big tech) discriminate. Not trying to say its true or false... Just saying that it's no different than race or gender.
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by Gunax 5y ago
Sounds like a great adventure. Would love to join if I were an engineering grad.
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by Gunax 5y ago
I am thinking FB doesn't care about us if we don't have a FB account. We are not contributing to the metaverse, why would they? The value of selling a handful of games for approximately $100 of revenue is peanuts compared to their
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by Gunax 5y ago
It's always been this way. You shouldn't enter open source expecting accolades or deference. It's awful the way log4j is being treated. I just don't think anything has changed.
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by Gunax 5y ago
Well, we are talking about a body that finds the constitution protects privacy, even though CTRL-F 'privacy' has zero results. I am not saying they are right or wrong, but any pretense that the courts rule based on the text of the
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by Gunax 5y ago
I just scored my first 250k at a faang after being erm... stuck at a regular/non-prestigious company for 3 years. There's basically a cottage industry of 'cracking the faang interview' so I don't feel like repeating
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by Gunax 5y ago
Hmm... Pretty sure one of those amazon LPs is pretty relevant here.
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by Gunax 5y ago
I have heard that fingerprints are not genetic, but instead form in utero from the random motions of amniotic fluid.
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by Gunax 5y ago
While normally people differentiate 'venom' from 'poison' to be pedantic, I don't think snake venom is particularly harmful if ingested.
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by Gunax 5y ago
Results: The neurosurgeons showed significantly higher scores than the aerospace engineers in semantic problem solving (difference 0.33, 95% confidence interval 0.13 to 0.52). Aerospace engineers showed significantly higher scores in mental
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by Gunax 5y ago
Crypto is a meme--in the traditional sense of an idea, not the internet joke. What you're buying is the prediction that someone else will come along and buy it for more. As it increases in value, it gets more exposure and more appealin
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by Gunax 5y ago
Sometimes it's not about the literal text, but the meaningnis accurate. In this case, Sagan did say 'billions' a lot. And he also tried to emphasize the scale of the universe (something the general public has difficulty grasp
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by Gunax 5y ago
If what comes out of your mouth is (eg.) a disapproval of same-sex or inter-racial relationships, maybe you should be afraid to speak. And it's likely that Shirier would agree--I doubt she would be critical of eg. a publisher refusing
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by Gunax 5y ago
The phrase is certainly apropos, but I am not sure Rumsfeld would disagree. I believe it's implied that the behaviour of the bad apples will not be tolerated.
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by Gunax 5y ago
I cannot talk specifically, but it's likely (ime) down to metrics. Someone somewhere is incentivised to increase the number of people using emojis. Or someone ran the numbers and realises users who use emojis are more likely to continu
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by Gunax 5y ago
Does antibiotic overuse really contribute a large portion of antibiotic use? I ask because it seems like misuse is blamed for antibiotic resistance: but it seems to me that bacteria don't care whether youre using it legitimately or not
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by Gunax 5y ago
At the risk of garnering controversy, I understand why and even support it. The reality is that there is seldom a great choice in many places. It's usually choosing between two or more dictators. When the US supported South Vietnam, it
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by Gunax 5y ago
I barely know it, but my brief experience with clojure has inspired me on how documentation should work. Ex. https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/reduce The pattern is definition -> description -> community examp
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by Gunax 5y ago
My guess/gut is this is a legal theory/stretch and it's unlikely to work. But my understanding of anti trust law is it's always running into new situations that need to be adapted to. Even anti trust law itself was new&#

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