Thriptic

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by Thriptic 7y ago
> It's fairly clear to me that these complaints, while real, aren't the core issue which is: people would rather get content for free than pay for it. So a lot of the time they will. That's not a fair framing. It's no
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by Thriptic 7y ago
I don't think it's that simple. Sure, money in a billionaire's possession probably isn't going to be used for consumption, but it's not like that money is chilling in a matress somewhere; it is invested. Those funds
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by Thriptic 7y ago
You do a basic background check and investigation which I'm sure Google already does and just add strong political opinions as a parameter to flag. If you're willing to protest against your employer then you are probably already s
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by Thriptic 7y ago
Can anyone provide a synopsis of what data is actually submitted and what exact states trigger the submission?
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I have this problem as well. I have gotten around it in a few ways: First, practice what you are going to say RIGOROUSLY. You should be able to recite your full speech / pitch / presentation / whatever with no use of visual a
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by Thriptic 7y ago
It depends on what you mean by gun control (full ban vs restrictions), but the opportunity cost of banning firearms is not negligible. * There is an economic impact (lost revenue for firearm producers, sellers, resellers, ammunition produce
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These aren't even remotely equivalent and you know it. Western governments don't place minders inside Western companies; they don't take stakes in all companies to exert control; they don't have social scores that are co
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Well what I mean is human augmentation with machines. I'm actually not sure what the proper word is.
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You could if you wanted to die an unpleasant death.
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Naively I would say cybernetics. To my knowledge I don't think there are many regulations governing the types of things that people can implant in themselves. If you try to market a device as a cybernetic or make health claims about it
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by Thriptic 7y ago
Well, you can't run a human trial without IRB approval, you can't run an animal study without IACUC approval, and you can't introduce a therapeutic without FDA approval so I'd say that's pretty tightly regulated.
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by Thriptic 7y ago
As I have said in a number of these types of threads, saying we will pay people off / implement UBI as a solution to reduced participation in the labor force dramatically underestimates the complexity of the problems of automation &#x2
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I am not making the claim that private firearms ownership is required for maintaining human rights. My claim is that it is an additional control against tyranny, which it is. It is more difficult for a tyrannical government to enforce it&#x
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by Thriptic 7y ago
Very fair point. I had never considered this before.
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The Arab Spring and resulting aftermath is illustrative of what happens in such a situation.
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I categorically disagree with this. Look at the enormous damage small groups of armed people have imparted on the government even recently. Two delusional guys in Boston shut down the entire city for multiple days and necessitated a state-w
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by Thriptic 7y ago
It's definitely the case that an armed populace acts as a check against tyranny. You can argue that this is not enough of a benefit to warrant private gun ownership given the societal costs and low probability of a tyrannical governmen
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The amount of benefits is miniscule relative to the value they are generating and their true market value. Further, the biggest benefit, free college, effectively doesn't count because no one in a competitive program has the time to ma
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by Thriptic 7y ago
You're being down voted but you're making an extremely important point. It's very, very difficult to convince people to reduce their quality of life because something bad is going to happen in the future to people who may or
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by Thriptic 7y ago
I agree. I wasn't making a value judgement, simply stating a fact.
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To your point, that same stigma about LGBT guys being weak, feminine, and emotional is one of the many factors that stops a lot of people from coming out too.
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by Thriptic 7y ago
Is their password change function working? I can't seem to change my pw. It gets to SMS 2FA then appears to fail when I try to verify the token I'm sent and boots me back to the PW change page.
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by Thriptic 7y ago
Exactly this. Further, I'd expand on what they are saying to say that the difference between a bad customer experience, good customer experience, and great customer experience typically lies in the little details and goes beyond the co
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by Thriptic 7y ago
I'm not talking about rainbow tables or hash tables, I'm talking about straight up bruting with GPUs and hashcat. You seem to be implying that using a salt adds entropy, but the salt is known (plaintext) and it's added in a s
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by Thriptic 7y ago
What's odd to me about this post and all of the responses in this thread so far is that everyone is only thinking about password length as a way to defend against online bruting attempts when in reality long passwords mostly serve to p
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You made a valid point about the difficulty of judging how sensitive information should be released and the dangers of letting small groups of people make those judgements. I apologise for my somewhat tangential post. I've consumed a g
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If you're concerned about the best interest of the public and US citizens then maybe you should spend less time worrying about Snowden and more time worrying about the NSA's inadequate monitoring, life cycle, and DLP practices. Bi
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Well, the problem in this case isn't really in the scientific or peer review process itself, it's in using citation count as a metric for paper quality or researcher expertise. I've had people play this game on several of my
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The most hilarious rules I've encountered were for a large, well known US hospital: * Password must be EXACTLY 8 characters long * Password must start with a letter * You must use exactly 3/4 of the following: upper case, lower ca
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by Thriptic 7y ago
Pass a law that says every lost user account is an X dollar fine based on data "richness" that can't be discharged in bankruptcy. For simplicity, let's say $10 in this case. 160 million lost accounts is now a 1.6 billion

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