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by aahortwwy 5y ago
> There are plenty of people who see my writing for what it's supposed to be: a series of cautionary tales on how things can go wrong, and what to do to avoid them. I rarely see the "what to do to avoid them" in Rachel&#x2
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
I don't have time, but just wanted to comment that I appreciate that you're actually looking into this rather than just handwaving objections away.
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Don't forget to look back in time to 1980s USA.
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
To make it clear they're referring to Indigenous Australians (a particular group of people) rather than using the term as an adjective, like "white" is being used.
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
> not many little girls dream about becoming computer engineers This simply isn't true in many cultures. So why is it the case in the West?
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
Other jurisdictions are not so sensible.
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
The value of the author's continued employment was less than the cost of fighting accusations of corporate espionage/sabotage from a direct competitor.
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
> I do security for a living, this is exactly how I'd have handled it and how responsible disclosure is supposed to work. Assuming you're in the USA (might be an incorrect assumption) I'd strongly recommend familiarizing y
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
> The way it is described is 100% legit pen testing with public data and endpoints and no malicious use of vulnerabilities found. "legit pen testing" requires consent from the owners of the system being tested.
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
> Couldn’t help myself but do one more request changing the ID. Brought another card number and name. Most likely illegal. Don't do this.
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
Hard lockdowns and aggressive contact tracing are incredibly effective when case numbers are very low. Contact tracing in particular becomes significantly less effective as case numbers climb. What they are hoping to accomplish with these m
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
You said "Sweden has more crime than the US." and as evidence you linked a ranking of countries by reported crimes. Not all crimes are reported. So your "objectively quantifiable measurement" doesn't support your
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
> Not sure what you intend to say with it. Unreported crime is extremely common in the USA. I haven't lived in Sweden, but I've lived somewhere lower on that ranking. Day to day life here feels much, much safer than in the US
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
> Overall crime rate is calculated by dividing the total number of reported crimes of any kind by the total population, then multiplying the result by 100,000 (because crime rate is typically reported as X number of crimes per 100,000 pe
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
setdefault also returns the value: is_foo_enabled = config.setdefault('foo', False)
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
Great post. This sentence in particular stood out to me: > The cost of our engineering team completely dominates the cost of the systems we operate.
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
The banners are inherently dark patterns. Non-essential cookies could be enabled via a configuration menu opened by the user at a time of their choosing. But everybody knows no user is going to do that, particularly unprompted. So they crea
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
> we hired an earlier career engineer whose initial project was to handle all incoming provisioning requests So many places do this and it's such a waste. Early career engineers have the most to gain from high-quality experience, ye
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
Symphonies of the Planets , perhaps? https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/various-artists/symp...
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijackers_in_the_September_11_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia%E2%80%93United_St... .
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
I don't know about "a bluff" but this happened in mid-2021 and did not precipitate an immediate invasion. > In March and April 2021, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian military to begin massing thousands
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
Yeah, the whole "this sucks; it should apply to everyone" mindset never made sense to me...
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
I think their product is Horizon Worlds : https://www.oculus.com/horizon-worlds/
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
The first thing I thought of when I saw that ad was the comic strip The Greatest Gift from 2011: https://www.buttersafe.com/2011/12/22/the-greatest-gift/
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
From your original post: > wholesale theft of art assets Curious what you think the difference is? Music, sounds, and other art assets are trivially copied but you don't seem to be OK with that. What's different to you about th
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
I should've known better than to mention the p-word on HN. See my reply to a sibling comment for why I brought them up.
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
I wasn't arguing for game mechanic patents, I was using the existence of patents as evidence that we've recognized the problem of "person A invests massively in researching something new, person B just copies them and wins in
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
> if your idea is copied so easily and consumers apparently can’t team the difference between your game and a clone, do you really have a viable product or were you just the first person to think of an easily commoditized idea? You'
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
No thanks. I spent five years living on a street with very large sidewalks (at least triple-wide, if not quadruple wide). Cyclists and scooter riders were just as inconsiderate of pedestrians. Traveling at dangerous speed, weaving across th
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by aahortwwy 5y ago
> 98% of channels on Twitch aren't monetized. Can't edit, but it's 92.8%. I typo'd it.

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