OminousWeapons

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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
To my knowledge, it is illegal to sell exploit kits to actors that you know are going to use the kits to commit crimes (e.g. if someone sends you an email saying "I'm looking for an exploit kit so that I can attack company X and s
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
A good regulatory scheme will give people flexibility in how they comply with the rules so that productivity and innovation aren't (overly) constrained. If you find that you constantly need to break rules to be productive then it means
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
Well to be fair a private jet flight is 2K to 10K per flight hour to use, so I think they're entitled to somewhat higher expectations than the average flier.
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
I don't think this is reasonable because it seems to place enormous regulatory burdens on almost all businesses depending on how you define moderation. For example, if I am a physical business that has a code of conduct banning certain
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
I agree, but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. Windows is legitimately confusing for noobs, so I don't see a problem with making the noob learning curve less steep as long as all the "real" functionality
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
I think you're missing the point though. These are people who aren't optimizing for quality of life as most people define it (i.e. work as little as possible and reap maximal rewards and time with people you care about). Work &#x2
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
Sure, you could, but the point is that they have a worldview which prioritizes work and achievement which is why they keep pushing. The work / achievement / resource obtainment is the goal itself, not quality of life as others wou
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
Because being somewhat of a workaholic or craving power / money / achievement is how they got to be wealthy in the first place. This is roughly akin to asking "why don't strong and fit people stop going to the gym?"
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
Naively I would assume that one risk might be the seat itself causing you damage upon impact. At those speeds could there be a risk of the entire seat coming apart on impact and impaling you with metal shards?
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
That's totally valid and as an employer you are obviously entitled to set your work culture and select for the types of employees you want working for you. It sounds like I would be a poor fit for your org.
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
> We should optimise for productivity + life outside of work instead Says who? If you want to work 40 hours a week, have your weekends off, and relax more, that's great. You are optimizing for more time off than me as you value it m
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
Unfortunately I don't remember as this presentation happened almost ten years ago. I do distinctly remember the one element I mentioned though as it seemed sort of absurd (even though he is obviously not responsible for the NIH budget
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
Would this still be an effective attack if you used a single VPN provider with multiple hops and your adversary was not someone like a nation state? Alternatively, what if you did basic VPN chaining (e.g. you vpn to a pfsense instance or so
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
You see the same issues across government. I remember listening to Francis Collins, the head of the NIH, talk about the major problems in academic life sciences at my University. He opened by saying he wasn't there to talk about comp o
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
At least they are moving in the right direction. IIRC, in the past .gov had a policy saying you can't have used marijuana in the past 3 years or any other drug in the past 10. Now I think it's 1 year and 3 or 5 years respectively?
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
> If the US is truly a nation of free people, why do they keep doing as they are told? They want to and choose to. Working for those entities gets you paid and (at least theoretically) raises your quality of life if you don't have a
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
I'm not sure if its an absolute requirement, but remember you are trying to make it appear as if you have moved to that state and made it your state of residence. Not filing a change of address form looks strange without any other data
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
You have to fulfill the residency requirements for state X while also not looking like you live in state Y. Like another poster said, you can go to South Dakota for literally a day or two and fulfill their residency requirements, but that i
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
The military achieved their mission: removing the North Korean army from the country of South Korea.
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
Indeed. We should have been out of there long ago once it became clear that we did not understand the conditions for victory anymore / when we realized that we did not want to allocate the resources required to win. Staying this long w
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
> Masters degrees are cash cows, which is why no one in unregulated industries cares about them. People in regulated/unionized industries also don't actually care; even educators, who at least nominally see intrinsic value in e
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
I worked retail for a year as a kid and dealt with this issue. Another reason stuff is destroyed is to prevent insider issues. You will naturally have merchandise that gets damaged in day to day operations or becomes no longer viable to sel
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
It literally astounds me that managers don't understand that if you force people to shop around to get any improvement in their situations they will resent you for it. It costs time to secure another position, and if you only needed to
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
Yea the current Amex Platinum annual fee is insane but the lounge access you get on that card is pretty amazing. It really is worth it if you travel a lot.
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
People were trying to hide that they actually want to be sexually attracted to their partner?...
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
I'm pretty sure 99% of people would openly agree that physical attraction is a core element of partner selection.
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
You could set up forwarding with Anonaddy, Blur, or SimpleLogin such that you could disable the address the minute you noticed spam originating from it. Alternatively, set up a SMTP redirector: https://github.com/bluscreenof
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
Yup, always note your concerns and objections via email and make sure to CC the appropriate people.
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
If they get too big and powerful they can theoretically pose a threat to Xi Jinping's hold on power. These crackdowns and the actions against Jack Ma are designed to show that the state will always be in control.
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
This would really only work if a third party that didn't answer to local government or the police held the footage. Otherwise it is literally inevitable that you would have inappropriate access or politically motivated leaks.

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