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User3456335
3y ago
No offence to them of course, but they already took the lower hanging fruit. It's hard to come up with fundamental axioms and laws when they have already been found. And there are definitely people around that have the same potential.
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If that's true it's only because most people don't understand these pure maths fields. But their results are generally very useful to the applied mathematicians (whose results are and should be used in most other fields) and
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3y ago
It being illegal seems like a pretty big barrier to me.
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Insider trading: there's a lot of information freely available that can be used to make predictions Market rigging: the market can be affected by your behaviour without you rigging anything Survivorship bias: this can be argued for any
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3y ago
Or she may be fine with getting extra attention.
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3y ago
Are you hereby giving people permission to hack your devices as long as they only use it to do good?
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3y ago
> it is entirely reasonable to assume that "the key in your copy of the app" is "your personal access key". I've never been in a situation where I was given an app binary as a user but where the author intended f
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3y ago
Are you given a key if it is contained in the source code of a compiled binary that you are given?
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In that case, it's his job to enter holes. Nobody asked this developer to go through any holes. If you see a hole in your hotel room leading to another room, you don't go through it to see if there is anything to steal, even if yo
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He didn't ask the application though. He changed the application or used information in the source code in a way that the shop didn't intend. So B is clearly not the case. But even just assuming that the fact that the app was usin
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He had access to the key by looking at the source code. The key wasn't intended to be used by him manually.
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You're not really given it though. You found it and even though nobody ever asked you to use the key card you used it on the floor that nobody ever asked you to go to.
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I'll argue the other side: It's more similar to finding a key hidden under the mat at someone's house. You can then contact the owner and inform them of the security issue but what you should not do is use the key to open the
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3y ago
You wanted to report them for asking you to do the thing that you also thought had to be done? What would you even report them for? Giving valid criticism? Responding quickly?
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This is just one bad example that wasn't even in a real application. Someone just tried to think of an example, happened to look at his oven and quickly wrote something down. The article then attacks this strawman example.
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In my opinion, it's the manager that is being arrogant, condescending and behaving in a cowardly manner. Arrogant: shows no respect for the senior programmer's knowledge of the system Condescending: saying things like "Fantas
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It sounds like you're in a bubble where only cartoon characters convey their opinions passionately. And there are people outside of your bubble that have a different opinion on something you do consider meaningful. At least on the topi
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> veterinarian in Azerbaijan This is not the average vet in Azerbaijan. It's the vet telling a story that fits the values of YOUR bubble. There are probably Azerbaijanis in your own city who you don't know and wouldn't eve
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> Calculations with an indoor air transmission model showed that if an infected individual with this emission rate entered a room, a susceptible person would inhale an infectious dose within 6 to 37 min in a room with normal ventilation.
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This article is not clickbait. Let's start with a simple question: Is this article clickbait? The answer is obviously yes. But if you get right down to it seems like they are trying to get people to go to their website and they are usi
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"even a nude body from a Renaissance-style painting." Well, if that was the worst they had to see... At that age (15), I was studying these paintings in school. How is this problematic?
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The corporate equivalent of "Who the f** is that guy?"
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You are assuming it is a conscious decision and that these high-status individuals are aware that what they express is false. But the point the author makes is that the falsehoods are their true opinion. And most likely, you yourself will h
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The demand for chips has increased so much that it's profitable for these customers to start producing their own chips. This doesn't mean Nvidia's chips are bad or that they missed anything.
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Fair, I didn't know about this. They are farther ahead than I knew. But Intelligent Speed Assistance is way more lenient and it is up to the car maker how stringent they are. It can be as little as a beep which should be very easy to
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Solving for x often entails multiplying both sides by the same number, not necessarily one. Perhaps you're referring to simplifying fractions where you do often multiply by a clever form of one?
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It's very unlikely that they are related. 1/e which is approximately 0.37 is the solution to the problem you're referring to but the occurrence of 37 depends on the choice of base. It just happens to be the case that in base
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0 and 1 are interesting as integers in the same way that a blank canvas is interesting as a painting. Very foundational, very useful but also very plain.
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One other special property prime numbers can have is being irregular. And guess what the first irregular prime number is? 37. Interesting that it appears so late because irregular prime numbers do make up around 41% of all primes. See: htt
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It sounds like you got by more on thorough knowledge of Tolkien than your knowledge of Finnish. I'm going to guess there's more speakers of non-English languages here than of Quenya and Sindarin (which may have been pharmaceutical
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