Pyxl101

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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Are you responding to the same screenshot that tfehring is commenting on? https://imgur.com/a/j47ls It says: > "A mark-up is added to item prices at this retailer to cover the cost of the Instacart service. Pri
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Does anyone have a link top the court docket or know how to find it? The case is supposedly characterized as "United States v. Choi, 17-CR-308-EJD (N.D. Cal.), 17-MJ-189-DUTY (C.D. Cal.)". I'd be very interested to read it, e
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Why is inequality a problem? It seems like what people should care about is how well off they are absolutely , not how well off they are relative to other people. Let me put it this way: if everyone in the human race was so rich that the
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The phrase he used was "artificially protect". This would be in comparison to allowing culture to change over time naturally.
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Yeah, it's because competent auditors aren't just going to verify the current balance, they'll look at where all the money came from and where it went, and so on. Auditing does take a lot of effort, but that's what it ta
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
I hadn't heard of this company so I looked on their website for more information about what they do. I came across this demo video that's a bit under 5 minutes that was pretty helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch
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Why in the world would they design a custom hash function?! How amateurish. As Bruce Scneier said: > In 2017, leaving your crypto algorithm vulnerable to differential cryptanalysis is a rookie mistake. It says that no one of any calibre
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
A simpler version of the same link is to replace "wsj.com" with "fullwsj.com".
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Why not ask for more anesthetic? When a friend went to a dentist for a procedure, she repeatedly asked for more anesthetic until she couldn't feel the pain. I think it took two or three additional injections after the first one before
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Taking your phone out at a concern is not misbehaving. It's fine and accepted. What OP is proposing is to make phones prohibited at a concert. Then it will be misbehaving, and you can eject people who are breaking the rule. I think thi
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
> Do yourself a favour and call it by it's name: the curreny is called Renminbi I believe you meant to write: "call it by its name". When in doubt, expand "it's" into "it is". The original would ex
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
All contracts have consideration. If the consideration for the agreement that all my assets are Apple's is $1 billion USD, then sure I would happily comply, rather than risk voiding my contract. More seriously: people should comply wit
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I was just about to ask that question: what is the basis for the prohibition on selling shares? How are those prohibitions enforced? If the basis is contract law, then you can't necessarily prevent people from undertaking the prohibi
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Bitcoin is (most likely) not a security. It's a commodity. Securities are typically assets that derive their value from a contractual claim (such as ownership rights to a company), which is not the case with Bitcoin. When you own Bitco
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Slack has been hacked before. Previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9277370 (March 2015)
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The fact that Tether does not guarantee in their terms and conditions that they'll exchange Tether back into equivalent reserve currency makes it _super_ sketchy from my point of view. The only way that Tether should be considered back
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
The differences between men and women are a legitimate topic of scientific inquiry, and therefore discussion. It should certainly be reasonable to explore whether differences in traits leads to differences in preferences or interests such
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
I was wondering the same thing earlier. This doesn't feel like a disclosure that's had anywhere near ~6 months put into it. Did the vendors ignore the disclosure initially and begin to change tactics later in the game? Based on ho
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I think you're reading their phrasing in an ungenerous way. Please consider the Hacker News guideline: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticiz
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Do you need root or comparable privileges to take advantage of BPF? I did not think that was the case. My understanding was that BPF code executes within the kernel. BPF is employed by the `bpf()` syscall for socket packet filtering, as wel
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I browse with NoScript and quite a lot of the web works just fine, in fact. I can selectively enable JavaScript for sites that need it, and that I trust.
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How does that pertain to the vulnerabilities that involve eBPF? My understanding is that eBPF code executes within the kernel, and so would run at the same privilege level.
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Is there any information available about whether the Linux KPTI patch mitigates the ability to use eBPF to read kernel memory? I'm asking because eBPF seems to execute within the kernel, and KPTI seemed to be about unmapping kernel pag
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Non-paywall link: https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/dubai-billionaires-tech-sta... Change link from wsj.com to fullwsj.com to bypass. Uses Facebook redirect.
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Previously posted on HN as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14988157 The top comment said: > This basically adds another set of tools to the architectural-level attack toolbox. From reading this I expect we&#x2
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
It sounds like AirBnB would benefit from a feature where you can personally and automatically contact the booking customer to confirm the reservation. A sort of automatic email with your brand confirming the dates and other information. Or
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It sounds like this interrogation strategy could be designed to make the interviewee think that the interlocutor is onto something, even if they aren't. If you're a regular guy, you're likely to react by becoming bored and ti
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Thanks. That was a very helpful explanation!
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Why would that be? Is there a difference in competence significant enough to warrant such a difference in pay?
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Why is mere information disclosure about kernel layout severe enough to warrant a slowdown and patch like this? I suppose it's gated behind a feature flag? I'm wondering because I thought just knowing the layout isn't enough

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