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by __jal 10y ago
Honestly, I think we are saying something at least similar, but in the case of intersection with the legal system, I thin there's something else going on. Apologies, but I'm running with a tangent. Bite mark analysis is a great ex
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by __jal 10y ago
Citation needed. I don't think it is anywhere nearly so simple as "dumb people believe fiction is real." There is a complicated interplay between lived experience, class, personality, education, desires and other priors drivi
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by __jal 10y ago
Eh. I'm sure everyone here remembers the term 'suspension of disbelief' or related. The reason a Hollywood virus or universal decryption key doesn't allow technical people to suspend disbelief is because both are immedia
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by __jal 10y ago
I think you'd find a lot more voter fraud if you did away with vote-by-mail. It is far easier, far less likely to be caught, and scales a hell of a lot better. And if we were actually serious about voter fraud, we would of course deman
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by __jal 10y ago
Ugh. Facebook should quit pretending to be part of the web. Just recreate the AOL experience and be done with it. It is beyond embarrassing that they're blocking people from helping each other in order to fail at saving, er, face. &quo
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by __jal 10y ago
I agree that everyone should learn more about crypto. It helps people understand what is actually going on, and what they can count on and not count on. Engineers working around crypto that will be responsible for anything important, even d
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by __jal 10y ago
It doesn't change anything, but as the Uber engineer above lists, they have rational reasons for wanting it. I just don't have any rational reason to want to give it to them, so I'll be disabling GPS entirely. But I've m
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by __jal 10y ago
No, I think you have it right. I have lived in NYC and now live in SF, and a sensible comparison would be Manhattan to San Francisco, or the 5 Boroughs, northern Jersey and a chuck of CT to roughly San Jose up to SF. We can argue about incl
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by __jal 10y ago
> 1) They are super, super aggressive when it comes to tax things. Cheating on taxes is worse than some major crimes! Yes. It is seen as freeloading. Which, in fact, it is[1]. > 2) They are culturally anti-business and anti-entreprene
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by __jal 10y ago
> No one running a real business on AWS wants a hard ceiling instead of billing alerts and service by service throttling That's absurd. Of course there are businesses that want hard ceilings. Perhaps not on their production website[
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by __jal 10y ago
"and it's _clearly_ not a high priority for Amazon to complete for the pennies a month available in the race-to-the-bottom webhosting that people like GoDaddy sell for $12/year." Except that that's what this announc
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by __jal 10y ago
Yep. I had a personal $400 learning experience with Amazon. They did refund it. My last company had a low-5-figure surprise a few years ago. Some of that could be considered their fault (alerts were sent to someone on vacation), but again,
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by __jal 10y ago
I don't see why. Liability for other dangerous, complex artifacts don't necessarily follow that rule, even when it comes to software, and even when it comes to open source software. GPSd is one example. Used pretty much everywhere
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by __jal 10y ago
...Which is why it says "YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR COMPLYING WITH LOCAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS".
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by __jal 10y ago
I know you're not trying to say that regular expressions were created as part of Perl, but I think you're giving a bit too much credit to it[1] regarding regexes. The PCRE library is indeed used all over. And Perl was, I think, th
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by __jal 10y ago
It normally is! But. It has catastrophic failure modes. (Yes, pebble beds. Let's talk about realities, not if-onlys.) Because of those catastrophic failure modes, nobody except governments want to assume the risk. And governments only
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by __jal 10y ago
I didn't down vote you, but was tempted, so I'll explain. Yes, you are stating a true fact. However, I'm pretty sure that the vast number of people who see these things do not consider the distinction you draw vastly more dec
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by __jal 10y ago
> So if you cracked my LastPass vault - good luck with that, 2FA considered Well, the traditional[1] way to break[2] LastPass is to ignore individual accounts and go after poor coding technique[3]. 2FA won't help you there. [1] htt
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by __jal 10y ago
This. I can't remember what it was like before I learned a programming language. I do vividly recall my fights with compilers, however, and imagining trying to guess what Applescript wants in a particular context without reasonable not
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by __jal 10y ago
> If rocks on the ground can be (slowly) self aware If weird assemblages of water, carbon, calcium and trace minerals can be self-aware, why not?
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by __jal 10y ago
So the "makers" of browser apps should be considered to have a more important stake in Apple's product than the users?
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by __jal 10y ago
Pick your favorite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root There are others. But no, they don't become the new standard.
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by __jal 10y ago
Yes, this is an application where the blockchain wouldn't necessarily be stupid. I don't see it as necessary, to be honest, and given the frequency with which people lose access to their wallets/have them stolen, I'm not
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by __jal 10y ago
It is odd. That was my first question, having used a more traditional (==much larger) one. I have trouble figuring how the cutting speeds claimed jibe with the overall weight of the device. Not calling it out, just saying based on their num
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by __jal 10y ago
Nobody I've heard of recycles garnet. It is considered part of the cost of operation.
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by __jal 10y ago
Another reason to keep them separate is that it reduces cognitive noise when dealing with spam. I use separate addresses for banks, brokerage, etc. Because the email address associated with each isn't used elsewhere, I can almost alway
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by __jal 10y ago
Not trying to speak for the original poster, but what I took away from the argument is that when FB is "truly social", involving real issues, the potential rewards are sufficiently high that misinformation becomes valuable, thus d
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by __jal 10y ago
> Literally the same argument applies to ISPs. No, if we need a comparison, it is much more akin to requiring those hiring truck drivers to check if they have a commercial driver's license.
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by __jal 10y ago
I appreciate the advice. I rather like Debian, personally, and am kinda past the point where playing with different distros is enjoyable. Debian is an extremely solid base on which to build anything newer I need, and it just works[1]. I&#x2
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by __jal 10y ago
This isn't quite the question asked, but it pertains. My personal laptop is a 2010 MBP. I was waiting to replace it until, well, I saw the new one. Now, I'm really undecided. I'm planning on borrowing a laptop to run Debian o

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