Kalium

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by Kalium 4y ago
The point I was attempting to make is that we have and use the tools to control the quantity of rental housing available. Using those tools has not made renting as cheap as owning. Those tools generally help accomplish the opposite. With th
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I have good news for you! How many rentals are available is closely controlled in most parts of the US. This is one of the things zoning accomplishes. It's possible that the outcome may differ slightly from what you want, however. Rent
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> Is that true though? When Apple made tracking opt-in, pretty much everyone refused. I think that's a clear indicator that the overwhelming majority do want privacy, and if they're actually given a choice, most will probably t
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When you make someone head of security, there are a handful of ways they can go about it: * They can be utterly ineffectual, ideally while looking good in the press and maintaining good relations across the company. The latter is easy when
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I believe it's less outlawed and more not really approved for use due to insufficient research.
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It's very often different companies and different systems. It's rarely the companies with mature and well-implemented security, privacy, and governance systems that do Equifax-style data spills. To draw an imperfect comparison - i
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I agree. My goal here is to set out that there are important uses for monitoring. Uses important enough that it would be irresponsible to discard the notion entirely.
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Now you need to convince them to use this system. You also need to convince them to not use this system, where they're injecting arbitrary code into the sandbox remote machine, to download the data to their local machines where they ca
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Once upon a time, I worked for a shop that did auto insurance. This involves handling a lot of fairly sensitive data about people and datasets about a lot of people, for reasons that boil down to it being incredibly useful data for actuaria
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There's nothing wrong with a lifestyle business like this. It's just not something you should think about with the "startup" business and financial framework. Those are particular tools that address a particular set of p
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If you're in California, your children also get to inherit your price-controlled tax assessment.
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Same here, as far as I'm aware Thorium salt reactors are still solidly in the experimental stages. Demanding a switch to something that isn't ready yet strikes me as making perfection the enemy of better.
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Generally convents and monasteries that produce things like beer and cheese and chocolate do so quite specifically for the money. They're not doing it because it's a quaint tradition. It may be a thought-stopping cliche, but it al
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> Firstly - The '10 bux' could exclude a vast swathe of the poorest. Skipping a couple of Starbuck coffees vs. the local currency equivalent of whatever you are charging equating to a month's worth of food or being able to
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Anything that got a significant update in the past ten to twelve years will support TLS 1.2. The window of systems that would support 1.1 but not 1.2 is pretty small. You have to go all the way back to IE on Windows XP before a lack of 1.2
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I think the simplest explanation is that it doesn't occur to many developers that if they can develop a client, someone else can too.
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I've accidentally wandered onto a film set before. When it's in a public space it's not always obvious what's going on or that you shouldn't be there. I had no idea why a generally quite busy part of town was almost
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This is a great illustration of why appeals processes are often not taken very seriously. Generally they're used to re-litigate the issue by people who do not even consider the possibility that they may have violated policies. The insu
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As other commenters point out, that characterization is not not accurate. There were most definitely humans involved, including on appeal. Does that make things OK? I suppose that depends on whether you object more to the decision or the pr
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Not to split hairs, but I think what you've described is constant investment in something that works and does one thing well. The firewalls and management and maintenance are all ongoing costs to manage the risk. Software is never just
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That's a risk management problem. For how long will the world around this fixed artifact remain constant? How far away is your "foreseeable future" horizon? What happens when you're wrong? I have, in fact, chosen to use
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> The current software engineering paradigm has no meaningful answer to this, no matter what "security experts" tell you. In a sane industry this realization would lead to a change of the paradigm, but people in our industry se
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I do that to find out who the company is. It's usually a better way to find out how much they pay than the recruiter is. Too often recruiters try to avoid telling me either item.
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A weather satellite provides economically important information. That's a resource. We have those today and meteorology has been critical to naval operations for essentially all of human history. We don't need science fiction. W
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> * How is an HTTPS connection created: generally no I would think that people doing web development probably benefit from a working knowledge of DNS, TLS, and PKI. Without those, I would expect a lot of readily avoidable problems with H
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Some people prefer being in control of their hosting.
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Speaking only, solely, and specifically as a user... why do I care if the content is in an integrity-checked hosted cache or if the site owner has analytics? Neither is important to the experience of accessing the content. The problem with
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More than that, it also presumes that no other institution will ever find said backdoor and put it to use for their own purposes.
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Early forms of 3D-printing of food already exist. Foodini is one example.
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> Oh, great, this debate again! I shall use this post as ammunition next time I am arguing with our stupid design team about why we need an off switch on the stupid product we are designing, because it is a giant pain to live with device

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