Pyxl101

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by Pyxl101 10y ago
The Snowden disclosures did not suggest that Internet companies like Google were coordinating with NSA. The disclosures suggested that NSA was wiretapping all traffic across the Internet, and then parsing it, storing it, and indexing it so
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A link to an equivalent type of page that teaches modern material would be helpful.
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I have not been closely following this scandal, so I was unaware that other car manufacturers have been indicted in emissions cheating. Could you share a source with more information about this?
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It's interesting that the article says, "In the event of a coup, [US special forces will invade to take control of missiles]". Is the phrase "in the event of a coup" just a pretext for having such plans in place, or
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Just to expand on the parent's point further: it's not just about what the service does, it's about what could happen in a worst-case scenario if the service is compromised by an attacker. Companies get hacked. Well-known com
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> 2) Trying to make a moral case for stealing money from pensioners and giving it to the wealthy in the form of tax cuts is hard, but you gave it your best shot. He did not say that, as you know. The usual argument in these cases is not
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Yes, I've wondered that. Why not provide a joystick for translation motion, rudder pedals for rotation, and a lever for ascending and descending? Allow the human to provide simple inputs, like: tilt the stick forward to go forward. No
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High frequency trading, more like! Or just trading. Mistakes such as selling 610,000 shares at 1 yen, instead of 1 share at 610,000 yen. Clash of Clans only makes on the order of ~$2M-$8M per day, according to estimates, so it'd be tou
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> I don't recall any *nix OS's having automount and autorun enabled by default? If you're implying that Windows does, then that's the consumer version. These settings can be controlled by group policy. In a military o
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How was it resolved? Did the person come forward, turn off the phone, etc.? What do you think would have happened if they didn't?
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I don't like this practice at all, just to be clear, but let me play devil's advocate for a second: Let's say that a company is trying to hire for "a senior level position", as you put it. Let's also take it as
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> Technological progress allows concentration of power in the one who holds the capital, as he will be the main one to benefit from a more efficient capital I do not think that is true. The consumers of all goods and services also benefi
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> But simply sampling 10 people is about as good as 10 anecdotes. That is not generally true. It depends on what kind of statistical assumptions you make, or statistical analysis you conduct. The term statistical power describes our chan
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I also have been finding this difficult to understand. It doesn't help that the Wikipedia article for NFV reads like vendor marketing copy: > NFV has proven a popular standard even in its infancy. Its immediate applications are nume
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Interesting. Never heard the term Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) before. > Network functions virtualization (NFV) is a network architecture concept that uses the technologies of IT virtualization to virtualize entire classes of n
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The burden of proof is on the person making the claim. If someone wants to claim that Uber is breaking the law or has broken the law, then it should be relatively simple to explain what that law is and provide some evidence that it's b
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> 3. Evade local regulations Could you share some specific information to substantiate this? I frequently hear this statement on Hacker News, and (as far as I can recall), every time I've asked for a source or evidence for the claim
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It seems like you are responding as if I'm holding up those situations as examples of how people ought to behave -- as if I'm for or against what happened in them. I'm not. My purpose in pointing out those examples is solely
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I agree many companies could do a better job of being accessible. Providing good customer service is challenging, especially at large scale. I am reminded of when Postmates first launched, and they provided a customer service phone number f
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Yes, it's documented that, to quote the page you linked, "a single partition can support a maximum of 3,000 read capacity units or 1,000 write capacity units." The documentation also explains that scanning a table runs the ri
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Is that surprising? I never assumed that Google was planning to build actual cars with this tech. I suppose I never really thought that deeply about how it would roll out, but if I had, I would have guessed partnerships with others in the
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The idea of a case being an analytical framework is intriguing. Care to elaborate? (Should I just go read it? Does it propose some kind of multi-pronged test?)
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It is flagrant and a distraction. Just like someone who writes messages like this in all lower case without capitalization. It breaks the norm so much that it constantly draws my attention to the choice of writing style rather than the mess
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I don't think you should blame Amazon for enforcing the MFA that you set up. Allowing you someone to trivially reset the password on an MFA-enabled account would completely defeat the security purpose of MFA. If you've been readin
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I wanted to read this post but I couldn't get past the light grey font which was very hard to read. Illegibly thin and light fonts like this are borderline hostile to users, and frustrate me every time I encounter them. I'm sorry
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Google Streetview sometimes shows photos that are a year or more out of date, FYI.
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Could you explain? How does it help to use IPv6 internally if you're using IPv4 publicly? One of the original motivations for IPv6 was that it would provide enough address space for every device in the world to have its own unique IP a
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A funny quip, but since it seems like you're missing the point: what's the business impact of the choice, or the existence/absence of IPv6 support in a hosting provider? If I'm running a small startup that's avail
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It looks like you submit jobs to a queue and it spins up capacity to execute them. In that sense it's like EMR. However the jobs are a Docker image or a zip file with shell scripts. In that sense it's not like EMR. I haven't
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To help learn to use Git properly, start by making many frequent commits from the command line throughout the course of the day. I would say that an appropriate pace is about once every 30 minutes. When you're done with the feature, th

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