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by ascar 6y ago
If it bothers you enough, then don't play the division? I actively avoid and don't buy/play games that require Origin or Uplay. Even when friends tell me about free games in Origin I don't give a fuck. And I'm a ver
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by ascar 6y ago
Surely you have read the guidlines before posting, right? > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that.&qu
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by ascar 6y ago
> You can show up at a bank and demand your balance in central bank money aka cash. If everyone would try to do that the system would collapse. The system is built upon the assumption that the vast majority of people don't do that.
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by ascar 6y ago
I'm not sure if you're kidding, but smashing your devices with a hammer will not damage the cold storage unless you directly hit it and sufficiently deform it. It's much more likely that you just damage the screen, casing and
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by ascar 6y ago
The strategic goal of having domestic food production and growing specific foods don't necessarily go hand in hand. While it makes a lot of sense to counter a famine with potatoes, in normal times you want to mostly produce what your p
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by ascar 6y ago
It's a reasonable argument that government subsidies for farmers reduce prices for the consumer, but I don't think it's necessarily a correct assumption. Subsidies help the local farmers to compete with farmers in low cost co
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by ascar 6y ago
> I feel like you’re disagreeing with a pointlessly weak version of the comment you’re replying to. No, I'm disagreeing witht the one-sidedness of the GPs comment. I don't disagree that the socialising aspect of university is g
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by ascar 6y ago
I went to a German university and fortunately most universities here still believe that their job is to enable learning and that university is as much about learning to learn and learning to live than it is about the content. In contrast to
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by ascar 6y ago
Time to switch to Firefox and give Google less data. Firefox doesn't seem to send the referrer :)
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by ascar 6y ago
That's down to the (obvious) fact that job performance and working ethics is not equal but distributed among practitioners. I think this is especially visible in software "engineering" with people joining the craft after a fe
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by ascar 6y ago
If you look at the context of the article, you should assume that phishing attack is sophisticated enough and responding to that attack with "you should use 2FA" is missing the point (which is exactly what the author claims). 2FA
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by ascar 6y ago
As phishing usually includes impersonating a website and making the victim believe they are giving their credentials to the original service, I think it is implied that most victims would willfully provide their second factor, when asked fo
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by ascar 6y ago
Yea. I also find it hard to believe that WhatsApp wouldn't be profitable with $1 per user per year. There is a lot you can do with $2bil a year. I think I read that Brian Acton called out Sandberg on that once. That it wasn't just
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by ascar 6y ago
I just installed Signal two days ago and enabled backups. This asked, understandably, for storage permission. This prompted me to give access to the sdcard, however, I had the option to select a single folder (or actually directly creating
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by ascar 6y ago
No idea why he is downvoted. He is factually correct as can be seen in merriam-webster and the cambridge dictionary: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/editorialize https://dictionary.cambridge.org&#
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by ascar 6y ago
I also always thought that downvoting should be reserved for low quality comments, but I had been corrected and even dang said: Downvoting for disagreement has always been ok on HN. [1] I don't really like it, but it has always been t
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by ascar 6y ago
Could we please not try to prohibit critique and discussion just because someone doesn't agree with it? Open discussion and well founded criticism is what makes me read the comments. I actually was searching for a response to GP claims
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by ascar 6y ago
Voice over IP and it's connection to the old system is basically a solved problem. VoIP is very widespread, e.g. in Germany basically all new landline contracts are VoIP. Also the backhaul of mobile networks is usually VoIP (references
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by ascar 6y ago
I don't really intend to continue the discussion as most things have been said. Just wanna point you to the context. The topmost comment was referring to his own comment and discussion about the original issue 3 days ago. You can find
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by ascar 6y ago
> If there were SMTP response codes in the 5xx range, that's a perm failure, end of story. This is, plain and simply, wrong. The RFC does not state that. RFC 5321 4.2.1 Reply Code Severities and Theory > 5yz Permanent Negative
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by ascar 6y ago
> And it's not 'go away forever', it's "this specific mail cannot be delivered, please return it to sender, so they can examine the issue and deal with it". > > It's "bring a human into the e
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by ascar 6y ago
Your answer kind of misses the point GP was trying to make. Google's mailserver could genuinely believe that the user doesn't exist, if the user service doesn't fail completely but cannot access part of the data and thus does
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by ascar 6y ago
Simple math says: World GDP (via Google) $80,934,771,028,340 Minutes per year 365 * 24 * 60 = 525,600 Divide and you get 153,985,485
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by ascar 6y ago
You're one of the 10000 today https://xkcd.com/1053/ I think this is a very well known thing that I learned as a small kid, but I (and my family) still rather eat a bit of black on the outside of the meat than eat
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by ascar 6y ago
I hope you don't take this as too pedantic as we all make spelling errors, but you consistently wrote "then" instead of "than".
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by ascar 6y ago
Maybe that's just some kind of selection bias in regard to publicity. A guy being happy usually generates less attentation than some widely agreed outrage. I, for one, prefer to open-source my libraries under MIT and see it used rather
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by ascar 6y ago
I fully agree. A small piece of software I'm most proud of is a very small library I wrote for an ex-employer and was lucky enough to open-source. It isn't updated in years and should nonetheless still work. Since a few years ago
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by ascar 6y ago
> Why would anyone (who is not forced) buy an Intel PC laptop when these are available and priced as competitive as they are? There are enough people who do not want to deal with MacOS and Darwin regardless the hardware specs. Also the w
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by ascar 6y ago
You're absolutely right. From my non-lawyer understanding that's why the youtube-dl dmca mainly rests on youtube-dl showing illicit use within their code (download of copyright protected material) and not that the tool is theoreti
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by ascar 6y ago
Well, it's very similar to many other real situations like common household doors. They provide a weak level of protection and we add laws that criminalize getting unauthorized entry. I'm sometimes baffled that people miss that po

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