Pyxl101

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by Pyxl101 12y ago
Could this observation be related at all to the AMPS firewall theory? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall_(physics) - either a confirmation of it, or evidence that something else is going on? The theory seems to sug
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
Found the blog post referenced by the article: https://chunkhost.com/blog/15%2Fhuge_security_hole_in_sendgr... > However, it turns out that [SendGrid's security] policy was ignored this weekend, and someone man
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
TL;DR: > Hackers targeted SendGrid, a mass email service used by 180,000 companies including Uber, Pinterest, Spotify and Foursquare, to infiltrate Coinbase, one of the most popular Bitcoin exchanges. > Nate Daiger, a co-owner of Chun
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
Once a year is about the right frequency. Recurring stories is one way in which a community shares and perpetuates its culture with newcomers. Some of them are a delight to read on that yearly cadence, like the SR-71 story about a pilot and
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
Seems like a lot of the girl's peers are Muslim. The people she interacts with and values and respects (which includes her peers to increasing degree as she gets older) will have a significant influence on the way she dresses I imagine
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
It's not especially constructive to to reply to a detailed article on "X is bad" with simply "you're doing X wrong", without offering additional advice on what the author has missed or how to do it right. It&#x
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
> A researcher working for Pfizer is essentially getting the same deal as a researcher working for the government or a publicly funded university. A voluntary agreement that the scientist and Pfizer both believe is in their own interest.
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
Definitely a mature approach, and it's definitely better for Balanced customers to have a migration plan. However, I don't think we can assume that Balanced "[left itself] enough runway to look after [its] customers" or
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
Would you mind describing a bit about what you learn or study in the program?
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
It's a neat idea, but ultimately, worrying about cheating or whether someone has cheated feels like a distraction. It suggests a test that isn't repeatable. I'm only confident in my ability to detect obvious plagiarism. Subtl
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
Interesting comment! Not entirely sure how relevant or accurate this is, but I thought I would point out that in Feb 2014, Om Malik from Gigaom wrote: > In 2008, our company decided that we would not pray at the altar of pageviews and ad
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
This is an important problem. As part of interviewing processes, I have several times tried offering "take home work challenges". I had to stop after, having run the experiment several times, I detected plagiarism in about 30-40%
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
Two other points that might be worth further exploration: * There was an article on Hacker News recently about the historical cost of clothing, how it used to cost thousands of modern-equivalent dollars for a shirt. Thus why people wore clo
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
That might be true to some extent but I think it ignores all of the other much more powerful motivations. Wealth is easier to accumulate in a city because there is far more specialization. I can't be a first-rate baker and a blacksmith
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
Why couldn't the user buy the bitcoin in dollars moments before, using the same price-stabilizing mechanism? Could an exchange engage in both operations simultaneously somehow as a sort of market-maker?
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
> encryption is necessary for there to be any meaning to authentication. Could you elaborate on why that is the case? Do you perhaps mean cryptography rather than encryption?
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
> Oftentimes, I notice how pets (esp. cats[0]) are looked after 24/7 by their owners, groomed, given food, shelter, etc. and pretty much do nothing but continuously solicit pleasure. Cats continually police the household to detect a
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
> That's the point of the simulation -- to wiggle things and see what happens. Unfortunately, playing with the inputs to the simulation does not reveal to me any simple mental model of what's happening. About all I can figure o
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
> When the kid asked him what were maths used for, he answered : « and you, what are you used for? » I think there's more than one way to read that statement. It seems overly cynical to interpret that anecdote as implying that child
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
An objection that I heard mentioned previously: removing the links didn't remove the actual content, which could be available through another link (or hundreds of links, some in private forums, etc.). So actually getting content off th
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
If the block chain doesn't fit, you must acquit!
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
Are chips with this feature sold in consumer devices? I'm planning to buy a new computer soon. How can I avoid or boycott the chips in question? Or can the feature be definitively disabled through the BIOS? If I buy a computer, then I
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
There were several different leaks or attacks from multiple actors, one of which has signs of being an inside job, but not all do. I recommend reading this analysis of the events for one perspective on the complexity of the situation: http
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
> But since a downvote is a punishment, often times people will second guess if they should post something interesting just in case it is taken the wrong way by someone. Yes. A thousand times yes. I finally had to create a second "a
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
Why would it put him out of business? Is there no way to clean everything up and get back into compliance? There have got to be PCI compliance strike team consulting companies that you can hire to come in and rapidly fix the problem.
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
True, but a system like I'm describing ought not to be terribly complicated to set up. Perhaps it's simply a remote syslog daemon under the control of a trusted exec. Preferably offsite or in a separate cage. Or if SAAS, under a d
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
Your theory seems reasonable to me, and I know you're not defending them, but ... How difficult is it to keep the right amount of bitcoin and USD in deposit? It seems pretty simple to me. Customer deposits $1.00, then I keep $1.00 in d
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
That sounds like an excuse to me. He can post his paper on his website or on Arxiv. If the content of the paper is like his design drawings for his fusion reactor, though, "premature" is not an unfair word. I'd guess the subm
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
Randomly capitalizing words is another bad sign: > With all the different courses that I teach, I began to see many common threads between the subject material of Astronomy, Physics, Meteorology and the Earth Sun relationship. I wondered
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by Pyxl101 12y ago
> “Purchasing a ticket to a point beyond the actual destination and getting off the aircraft at the connecting point is unethical,” according to the letter by American, which isn’t party to the case. “It is tantamount to switching price

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