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Lazare
9y ago
> Nice try, but if the outer layer is UDP, then NAT alters the UDP packet headers. The QUIC payload is never touched. You didn't understand the article. It's talking about existing TCP traffic here, not QUIC. > I don't
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Lazare
9y ago
Google didn't do a clean room implementation, so it's difficult to speculate what this decision might indicate for some other case involving a clean room implementation. (And yes, I know: The overwhelming majority of the work w
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Lazare
9y ago
I was already aware of that one, but sure, that's another example of the opposite of what I asked for. Rather than someone killed by conflicting or over-cautious safety systems, that's an example of someone killed by a single i
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Lazare
9y ago
> But it was never built as a backup system. The collision avoidance system? The fail-safe that's meant to ensure the car doesn't hit something when the human driver screws up? The one that works with an entirely separate aut
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Lazare
9y ago
Sorry, I guess I left out the implicit "as far as I know". Do you know of anyone who's died that way?
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Lazare
9y ago
> It seems a little weird to focus on this. I'm not sure I'd say that this is being "focused" on. It's an interesting bit of info, the other players in the space (Intel, Volvo, Aptiv) have an interest in getting
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Lazare
9y ago
> It might not be strictly true in a legal sense, but it hits close to the mark in the case of facebook et al There's a difference between "we did it because we were legally obligated" and "we did it because Zuckerber
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Lazare
9y ago
A good question, but unrelated to the current story where no such thing happened.
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Lazare
9y ago
> It's an SPA. Yes, that's the problem. > What did you expect? Technology to be used in an appropriate manner to achieve business goals. > That's the new M.O. ...for apps, yes. This isn't an app, it's a b
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Lazare
9y ago
> it does seem to blur the lines of such absolutist statements as those you have made. I could not disagree more. Again, we're talking about copyright, and copyright covers a specific expression of an idea. The fact that Pharrell
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Lazare
9y ago
> The article clearly mentions that they had to punish someone. ...well, no. They had a choice. They didn't have to fire the guy. > Also, China imposed harsh consequences in the form of lost revenue for Marriott True. But no
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Lazare
9y ago
I find stories like this very frustrating. It seems pretty clear that: 1) Roy Jones did nothing wrong, but lost his job through no fault of his own. 2) Marriott did something morally wrong because it was easy, and will suffer zero conseque
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Lazare
9y ago
> Teenagers can hack NASA [...] so I don't think a sufficiently motivated attacker [...] couldn't pull off something like this Right, the fact someone could compromise a random government agency in the 90s clearly means someo
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Lazare
9y ago
> If all it takes is "one occasion" Depends on the occasion, no? There's a difference between "the target account once used phrasing more typical of a Russian speaker than a Romanian speaker" and "the targe
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Lazare
9y ago
> So the impact that you dismiss completely is a matter of strong debate. Not, in my view, among actual experts if you review the literature, but whatever. > I think that that allowing mortgage originators with securities packaging u
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Lazare
9y ago
> The NYT just published a graphic that purports to show the location of the vehicle and the victim: It has a vague location for where the victim's body ended up, yes, but I don't interpret that graphic as purporting to show th
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Lazare
9y ago
> I find it curious the number of comments blaming government regulation, instead of greed and massive private misidentification of risk 1) Greed is a constant. Everyone is greedy, and there's zero evidence that "greed on Wall
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Lazare
9y ago
I dunno if that's what OP meant or not, but either way I'd note the actual malice standard only applies to public officials and public figures, which is defined fairly narrowly. I certainly don't think that qualifies as a dec
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Lazare
9y ago
> Just remember, in the US the Supreme Court has ruled that it's legal for news publications to lie to their readers/viewers. Citation please. If you're talking about the Jane Akre/Steve Wilson lawsuit, that's f
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Lazare
9y ago
Short answer: The federal government has a short list of "enumerated powers", and it can only do those things. (The list is in Article I, Section 8, and it's quite short. It's things like "establish[ing] Post Offic
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Lazare
9y ago
> IBM instead sold the Canadian government someone else's software (Oracle's Peoplesoft) on a sweetheart contract which did not require delivery of a working solution. Okay, so Canada signed a bad contract and didn't make
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Lazare
9y ago
> Pilot is a better bookkeeper, and the reason we can be a better bookkeeper is that, even with a tool like QBO or Xero, there's still a bunch of incredibly manual work that happens ON TOP of those platforms, and a lot of that work
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Lazare
9y ago
Traditionally IRC channels used for open source projects do have searchable, publically accessible logs. It's an easy thing to do when dealing with an open ecoystem like IRC. Want to know what the #docker channel on Freenode was ta
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Lazare
9y ago
That was my first thought too. Xero is quite good and very large, and it's absolutely in the "modern era". And it's growing a very large ecosystem of accountants and consultants that are building on the platform to off
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Lazare
9y ago
Discord is a great tool for gaming communities and other similar groups. If you might otherwise be using group chats on Facebook, or Skype, Twitter, Ventrilo, Mumble, or Teamspeak then sure, switching to Discord is a no-brainer. Do it tod
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Lazare
9y ago
Quite right. The question is why ? If culture is driven by events, it feels like they should have embraced gun culture given how huge that event was. If it's not, then when triggered the earlier abandonment?
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Lazare
9y ago
It's a plausible argument I suppose. And Europe never went through a comparable period of peace and unification (at any rate prior to the present day), so it sort of makes sense that Europe stuck with its guns and Japan did not. And y
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Lazare
9y ago
Interesting fact: Firearms were present in Japan beginning in the 13th century, but saw little adoption. In 1543, the Portuguese introduced matchlock firearms, a much more impressive weapon, and Japan embraced them. They began manufacturi
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Lazare
9y ago
What interesting to me is just how prevalent this sort of thing is. For a long time (at least 10 years), students applying for financial aid in the US are routinely told to 1) fill out a FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) and
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Lazare
9y ago
I can confirm that it's very hard to win a dispute if using Stripe as a merchant with a card-not-present transaction. However...my experience has been that's true of all payment processors, including Paypal, and I have heard a lo
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