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by ang_cire 1y ago
Clearly showcasing that the UK chose their target wisely. Use a disliked entity as the way in the door, and people will argue for it without realizing it's a trojan horse.
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by ang_cire 1y ago
> They should do risk assessments to see if their users are at risk of getting harmed, like physical sites and events. The problem is when one group wants to impose their definition of harm on everyone else, saying that everyone else sho
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by ang_cire 1y ago
> the amount of money paid should factor in the anticipated risk for your business. If a privilege escalation means that Google takes a massive hit in Ad Revenue, than this should be factored in. Given this exploit, that would probably
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by ang_cire 1y ago
Anyone with a personality disorder.
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by ang_cire 1y ago
You realize that consent in this case is just what we refer to as "authorization", right? And it is absolutely within any website operator's rights to only authorize their site for certain users and for certain purposes. Webs
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by ang_cire 1y ago
Honestly, not particularly. That area is really chill. It's literally across the street from Pixar's headquarters, and a block or so down from city hall. Utility outages are probably the biggest 'issue' in that neighborh
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by ang_cire 1y ago
Damn, that was a really good (if grim) article/read. Thank you for posting that.
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by ang_cire 1y ago
Good for them! I used to walk my dog past their (office? warehouse?) in Emeryville, and when the weather was warm they'd have the doors open and the giant server stacks just sitting there, looking awesome. I guess it's not really
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by ang_cire 1y ago
There are a lot of people who have biases against using non-native apps on Linux, weirdly. I've run into this even with highly technical people, who just won't believe that something under wine can be just as good (certainly as fa
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by ang_cire 1y ago
Chonky sheep, chonky data
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by ang_cire 1y ago
> Asynchrony is not concurrency This is what I tell my boss when I miss standups.
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by ang_cire 1y ago
Actual answer is your chat window. The steam app has a friends chat function, and "stickers" that are often game-specific images or gifs, can be sent, e.g. [1] this bouncing sheep from Mabinogi: [1]: https://imgur.com&#
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by ang_cire 1y ago
If 1/6 of Americans are potential repeat federal felons based on just one activity , I find it highly dubious that the other 5/6 can't be as well in the other hundreds of activities we undertake each day. Using your parents&
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by ang_cire 1y ago
Tried to provide insight into this, but apparently they just wanted to hate on Mozilla. xD
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by ang_cire 1y ago
> repeatedly refused actual begging to accept payment for things I don't claim to know Mozilla's internal workings, but my wife works for an education-space 501c3, and there are very strict rules about how they can fundraise, h
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by ang_cire 1y ago
Yep, the "we don't have a dedicated security team, but we've never had an intrusion anyways!" crowd.
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by ang_cire 1y ago
Not a huge Chomsky fan. He calls himself an anarchist, but if you pin him down on specifics he turns into a minarchist rhetorically, and a Social Democrat in practical matters. He's similar to Lenin, imo, in that he advocates using the
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by ang_cire 1y ago
If we're limiting 'corruption' to just be about bribes, then sure. Of course, in reality it also encompasses racism, nepotism, etc (i.e. anything that is a "corruption" of the impartial execution of their jobs). I s
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by ang_cire 1y ago
The US has been authoritarian from the get-go. Chattel slavery- direct, constant, and complete control over one's life and death, and the reduction of the person to mere property, is essentially the most authoritarian institution there
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by ang_cire 1y ago
> As far as I can tell, there's no real explanation of how it supposedly came about. Critical awards are a huge boon in getting your book on the very limited and dwindling shelf space (and especially on endcaps and displays, where t
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by ang_cire 1y ago
This is a really good analysis article. Thank you for posting it. I think the critic vs consumer decoupling rings true to me, and this is obviously the worst economy to exist in as a "struggling" anything. There are a lot of indus
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by ang_cire 1y ago
What's funny is that everyone is answering me saying, "you must be thinking of local hidden variables, which have been disproven", and I'm like, 'I didn't even know enough to differentiate between local vs non-
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by ang_cire 1y ago
So to make sure I am understanding correctly, the normal distribution of the outcomes is itself evidence that other hidden factors aren't at play, because those factors would produces a less normal distribution? I.e. if coin toss resul
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by ang_cire 1y ago
> When researchers measure an individual particle, the outcome is random, but the properties of the pair are more correlated than classical physics allows, enabling researchers to verify the randomness. Is this not possibly just random-
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by ang_cire 1y ago
No, many asteroids have detectable, "functional" (e.g. they pull dust towards them) gravitational fields, but are not spinning like planets.
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by ang_cire 1y ago
I really wish I was a video game dev. Alas.
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by ang_cire 1y ago
Sure, I don't mean to imply that there aren't additional skills required to manage something, but you still have to fundamentally understand the thing that you are managing. The idea that management can be subordinate/project
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by ang_cire 1y ago
It absolutely was/is. To bastardize Douglas Adams: For-profit insurance is a scam; breach insurance, doubly-so.
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by ang_cire 1y ago
> I realized the fundamental problem wasn't my absence. It was a systematic mismatch between Leo Apotheker's experience and the role he was asked to fill. > SAP's annual revenue while Leo served as its CEO was approxima
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by ang_cire 1y ago
> What kind of job market is this. One which is reeling from layoffs caused by short-term profit-maximizing bandwagoning in the tech sector. CEO see, CEO do. We didn't just magically have tens of thousands of new programmers/ I

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