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by ac2u 6y ago
I'd imagine you're right, I don't know enough about that to say otherwise. However, my point was a "plethora of privates businesses", not "all private businesses"
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by ac2u 6y ago
>and how few governments have slipped into totalitarian hellscapes Just because it's improbable doesn't mean we shouldn't protect against tail risks. Not taking meaningful tail risk protection is why we're in the covi
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by ac2u 6y ago
>I'm not saying the government would get an automatic transcript of every purchase I've made You make the assumption here that governments don't trend towards looking for ways for that information to be automatically suppl
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by ac2u 6y ago
I'm in the UK and we don't pass on said government ID to a plethora of private businesses so that they can turn around and hand it back to the government for tracking.
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by ac2u 7y ago
What makes you ask that of them? Are you already approaching their point from the opposite angle and want to find out if they've got a bias rather than challenge their point directly? Are people not allowed to criticise a publication a
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by ac2u 7y ago
>Surgical masks are still useless Useless at what? Be specific, this constant anti-mask reinforcement is bizarre.
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by ac2u 7y ago
No problem, stay healthy!
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by ac2u 7y ago
I fail to see how that’s a response to my comment.
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by ac2u 7y ago
These measures have little teeth compared to European mainland measures.
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by ac2u 7y ago
It's certainly a panic but if everything is 2FA'd with tokens that the attacker doesn't have access to, then you've done a lot to mitigate the splash damage and have a path to regain control.
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by ac2u 7y ago
I love 1password but I don't understand why you'd use it for 2fa. Surely if someone gains access to your 1password account you're just giving them the "something you have" aspect of 2fa for free ?
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by ac2u 7y ago
Where I work: We encourage people to mark their comments on diffs as to whether it should be regarded as a blocker to being merged, or not a blocker. (Perhaps poster could ask the Senior to do this) Blockers should be comments to correct: -
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by ac2u 7y ago
I think that's a stretch. There was a clarification earlier in the article about the difference between a one-off piece of criticism and a pattern of obsessively negative commenting on everything you do. A critic might respond to eve
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by ac2u 7y ago
I'm playing through the third at the moment. It has managed to recreate the atmosphere of the first two games in a respectable way (given the reduced budget) (even if IMO it's lacking some polish)
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by ac2u 7y ago
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by ac2u 7y ago
Sure, I'll bite. -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- hQIMA1Q/UtfGmbpWAQ/9FM64J6FBcVaqkONtUNBR8/ISiZeGmYfXfmn/p3spjSsp 6/T5b15PiE+2tO6AHcwYyJic6TqNiKRrDIVX4i3dLuULP/PKAD5xb8As4A79iyte Um+Hu6htJKgBoasgsw2nYvKWuCdKiu
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by ac2u 7y ago
for my DO droplet I also changed the ssh port to a silly-high random port and the last time I checked it reduced the amount of nosy bots knocking at the door to zero.
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by ac2u 7y ago
Mods: Is this title accurate? It makes it sounds like an encryption back door, but from reading it sounds more like social media companies being forced to provide the cyphertext. (with the authorities then being in a position to compel the
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by ac2u 7y ago
Disclosure: I work for SquareFoot Unfortunately the real estate market (outside of a few key players) has struggled to change their offerings away from rigid fixed terms to accommodate the need for flexibility. Their long term business mode
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by ac2u 7y ago
As other replies have said, with a high user count, they've likely negotiated that per head figure WAY down. But even if they didn't, it's not as simple either as "can those engineers clone this software for less than X&
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by ac2u 7y ago
Spreadsheets, common. "maintained really well", not so common, so that's great! Congratulations, you joined a very resourceful company that was able to concentrate ruthlessly on their product-market fit by leveraging the tech
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by ac2u 7y ago
Jesus, give them a break. Someone who's practically a mega-corp like Stripe can launch a new product with a flashy landing page on HN and everyone discusses it without issue. There's a bit of a double standard.
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by ac2u 7y ago
I suspect the poster is being pedantic about "its" vs "it's"
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by ac2u 8y ago
You didn't have to physically mod the Dreamcast console. An exploit was found due to the console support for CD's with multimedia support, called MIL CDs. Initially a bootdisc was needed which you swapped with a CD-R, later all du
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by ac2u 8y ago
I would piggyback on your answer to say that learning those adjacent skills will also help you work on your process of learning in general. You're less likely to get stuck and give up because they're adjacent, and then when it com
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by ac2u 8y ago
I whole-heartedly agree that 6-monthly is no where near enough. >If you don't know the names of your directs' (or manager's) spouse and kids then your relationship isn't good enough to trust the other with priorities
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by ac2u 8y ago
I'm sure other approaches can be much more effective, my research was almost 8 years ago and was framed around trying to parallelise one of the algorithms. So my focus was half on the theory behind these solution search algorithms and
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by ac2u 8y ago
Ah I understand, half the battle is terminology (I was introduced to the 'weights' as hard and soft constraints, with corresponding penalties against the fitness function score). Even though I did research on it, I found that the
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by ac2u 8y ago
Hi, I did my masters research into this very problem. A lot of research here does just simply revolve around iterations of hill climbing [1] One thing which has been done quite a lot (and that's not to say you don't already do thi
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by ac2u 8y ago
You didn't use the words, but if saying that community discomfort eclipses all the different types of the work involved (with your point being that they might have been better just doing the work) isn't a trivialisation of said wo

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