alien_at_work

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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Well, you'd need to read up on how SELinux works to understand that. Briefly, SELinux adds some new permissions to files, new contexts to users and so on, so what happens is you specify what a given context is allowed to do, to a very
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
A link to info about SELinux? It's a rather broad topic, you'll probably be better served to google for what ever aspect of it you're interested in but it's definitely in Redhat (even turned on by default [1]) and it&#x
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
You can with SELinux, which is on all the major distros now, no?
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
I don't disagree but I also don't see where that was suggested. The OP just pointed out the radical difference between what was preached and what was practiced. This could be seen as a dismissal but it could just as easily be se
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
That's not entirely true and your analogy is not comparable. Person A makes a claim that X is good and everyone should be doing it. Person A does the opposite of X. That doesn't prove one way or the other the truth of the argum
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>Bethe's only reason to dismiss a new particle as an explanation was Occam's razor. Thank you for pointing out the other fault of Occam's razor: both sides of most arguments tend to assume the razor is on their side. This
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
You're cherry picking. You pick the places where Occam's razor picks the correct answer and ignoring all the places it doesn't. For any new situation we can't predict which of those possibilities the answer will fall
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Sounds like an advertising problem. "Our company chose to be based in the EU because we comply with all their customer privacy protection laws. Not sure why our competitors chose a country without such laws...."
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
What Occam's razor favours is irrelvant. It has no predictive power [1]. The more complex answer is just as likely to be the correct one. [1] http://scienceblogs.com/developingintelligence/2007/05/14&#x
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
And you end up with something misleading. The top Android phones always had hardware that was more powerful, yet they never felt as snappy as iOS. I don't know exactly why but it seems that Android was just a lot less efficient for w
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Did he have to or did he assume he had to?
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Which might be why they thought that he had it. They seemed to be incorrect about something or he wouldn't routinely outperform his brother in physical sports.
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
I came away from the film with the impression that he didn't have and never had any heart condition. He was assumed to be super unhealthy because he was a natural birth (a kind of superstition, if you will), but that makes him like us
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>I don’t understand why Perl 5 and 6 are still tied together as if they are the same language. A lot of people seem to have forgotten, or maybe they weren't around for it, but when Larry anounced Perl 6 it wasn't for a totally
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>Have you heard of logging? So your solution is to dig through log files to find the problem instead of read the unit test name(s) that demonstrate the failure? >This is almost exactly what I suggested. Well, it wasn't clear from
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
I don't disagree at all. But I don't find this sufficient justification to engage in poor engineering practices. DNS has a different set of use cases than HTTP so, while it can be made to work with enough effort (anything can), H
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Most investors knew Madoff was cheating some how, they just all assumed they would get out in time.
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Completely disagree here. If you test this way you'll be sure to have a correct implementation for this dummy program. Further, if the test fails you now have to try and figure out what component caused the failure. A unit test shoul
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>DNS through TLS means it's all end-to-end encrypted I didn't say I'm against DNS being encrypted, even with TLS. I just hate that instead of doing the right thing (e.g. political battle with the government, opening a por
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
I really hope this doesn't catch on widely. It should be a tool for use where censorship issues can't be solved politically. Otherwise, why even have protocols at all? Just say the only protocol is HTTP. IP, etc. are just an HT
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
That's an easy comment to make from behind the saftey of a keyboard. For a cop, you might get called to something like this [1]. There are plenty of cases where calls get misreported the other wa as well: I knew a cop called to a rou
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
> irrelevant misogynist slurs Has the OP confirmed that this is what the phrase meant? Because otherwise you're projecting meaning on something that may not have been intended (again, I have the back ground to recognize this kind o
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
My point is more that investing in a company is a bad investment strategy. There are no fund managers with such a strategy. Any fundamentals strategy will rely on diversification. And a retail trader like us can't diversify cheape
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
The only one detracting from anything is you. The rest of us read the comment just fine. I'm american myself and know the "rack" slang but the meaning you suggested didn't occur to me until you pointed it out. I assum
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>Not the majority, but not an outlier either. No, literally an outlier by definition. How many people do imagine are joining startups world wide? In your case it sounds like it's even worse than I had imagined: do you really just
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Assuming you're telling the truth, these are called "outliers". You know a dozen people who won a lottery ticket. So what. The math still holds: a lottery ticket is a negative investment and startup equity is worthless.
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
> you'll never get rich on a salary. Actually, if you get a nice salary and live below it, you can take the extra money and invest in an index fund. That will get you rich much, much faster than chasing lotto tickets. Especially
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Yes of course. As this example demonstrates in fact: the rational behavior would be to do something that hurts everyone for the sake of an individual who has privledged information. The penalty makes the behaviour we need to encourage bec
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Mostly high-level programmer. I may be wrong or be thinking of another recent attack but my understand was this: the attacker allocates 256 seperate pages, ensures they're not in memory and then runs code like this: if(false_but
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
No the child is perfectly healthy. Their argument is "see! I look away for a second and look what happens!"

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