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by __jal 9y ago
Google's security != your security. I do trust Google to "get security right"[1]. I just don't trust them to secure things I don't want to share with them. Which happens to be a huge percentage of data on and genera
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by __jal 9y ago
Same experience. Commercial background checks as used by companies today are useless except as checklist liability-limitation. If you actually care about finding out what a person might not be disclosing with any reliability, that costs a f
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by __jal 9y ago
This concept in history: http://www.watchclocks.org/Types/types.html
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by __jal 9y ago
> It's unclear to me still how much of Startup/Founder Mythology was intended for PR purposes, and how much did startup execs end up believing for themselves. Why choose? For a while, everyone who counted won - execs, investors
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by __jal 9y ago
Really? Mobsters make mistakes, sleep, and theoretically could have pity.
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by __jal 9y ago
Easy! Browse this database to select the telecom firm you find most compatible with your ethical standards: https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/issuesum.php?id=TEC Drill down to find a list of firms who can recruit dead
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by __jal 9y ago
I'm not the down-voters, but my guess is due to citing the 1-in-a-million figure, which is Apple's claim about a random false positive, in response to a question about false positives with twins . Someone reading fast or simply
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by __jal 9y ago
I imagine it is the same thing that drove other acts of genocide, or for that matter, what lead to Heather Heyer's death: the politics of dehumanization and weaponized tribalism.
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by __jal 9y ago
Reason #37,758 that centralized communication services are, at the very least, suboptimal, and at worst, are a matter of life or death. More generally, we need to stop supporting client-only systemts. Cell phones, for instance, could have a
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by __jal 9y ago
It is a terrible analogy all around. What is happening is that Facebook is shifting from being AOL 2.0 to being a government contractor. They'll eventually be more entrenched and integrated (in the US) with the IRS, police, intelligenc
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by __jal 9y ago
It is no different than, say, incorporating. If you fail to perform certain rituals each year, you can lose your legal status. The odds of this happening any time soon with Coke are slim, similarly with ownership of coke.com, but it could.
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by __jal 9y ago
So vote for people who actually want to competently regulate, and work to encourage others to do the same. Paraphrasing, we are currently getting the regulation we deserve - good and hard.
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by __jal 9y ago
Oof. I really don't want to give these incompetent losers my credit card number.
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by __jal 9y ago
How often to you apply for credit? It is, in any case, far less of an inconvenience than not paying the protection racket, having someone impersonate you, and having the credit oligopoly lie about you because of it, leaving you to somehow c
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by __jal 9y ago
I'd phrase this more as, "I was impersonated by someone, and a third-party compounded the problem by lying about it to others. Now, to avoid that problem, I pay protection money to that third-party and waste my time jumping throug
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by __jal 9y ago
Yep. Similar things have happened to people I know, and I recently went on a rampage, locking down a ton of things related to third parties due to someone attempting to get access to my accounts. A lot of people hate this answer, but do not
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by __jal 9y ago
I don't use FB at all, and haven't, ever. I'm a part of two groups that do most of their business on FB, in an official role in one of them. I don't miss anything important, and find it beneficial that I miss the rest[1]
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by __jal 9y ago
That's really how humanity is.
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by __jal 9y ago
> and who's going to do extensive research on the founders of a new VC fund ...Anyone who actually cares about their firm and is smart enough to actually attract VC interest?
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by __jal 9y ago
Not the same thing at all, but when I used to write a ton of Perl, I had a board on which I mapped the shift-number keys (punctuation) to the F-keys. It was really rather nice. These days I mostly use keyboards with fully programmable firmw
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by __jal 9y ago
Seriously. Linux will likely outlive GH[1], and more importantly, it doesn't need GH. The current workflow works fine, and I hardly think any potential kernel hackers are choosing not to work on the kernel because it is email-driven. [
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by __jal 9y ago
My grandfather carefully painted black silhouettes of tools that hung behind his workbench, so he could tell at a glance if anything was missing. (There was a house rule of use anything you want, but it better go back where it came from whe
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by __jal 9y ago
Unnecessarily bitchy defeatism aside, the answer to your question is the Democratic Party[1]. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/08/01/cory-...
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by __jal 9y ago
So what happens when a US citizen starts publishing stuff China (or Russia, or the UAE, or England, or any other state that doesn't protect free speech as we do) doesn't like? What happens in 40 years, when the US is on much less-
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by __jal 9y ago
I very rarely use robots, and think I've only been "abusive" (not really abusive, in my book) once. What if I send a null UA? Or use it as an opportunity to share my favorite quote? What if the behavior of my software doesn&#
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by __jal 9y ago
That argument works, insofar as it does, only for more recognizable bots and browsers. If I write a client of some sort that identifies itself as: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Snackmaster Pro
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by __jal 9y ago
> If you have no robots.txt file then it's an open question. Only for definitions of explicit I must be unfamiliar with. If the presence of a robots.txt makes one's intent for a given resource explicit one way or the other, the
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by __jal 9y ago
That is not Kerr's argument. A key point (which he has developed to a very detailed degree, as both a law professor and actively defending people, such as Weev) is the access controls in place. He's not just bloviating; before you
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by __jal 9y ago
If my ranting concerns you, can you just not ignore it and move on? I just can't understand the negativity... More seriously, I see value in iRobot and others hearing loud noise about how stuff like this is not OK to many of us. - &quo
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by __jal 9y ago
Yeah and I also worry about shrinkage - they're saying ~15%, which would be a massive issue with some profiles. I don't see how a lot of parts would work very well without distortion.

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