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by badRNG 6y ago
Folks often overestimate the power consumers have in meaningfully shaping a market. Consumer protections are rarely gained by simply refusing to do business with market leaders who behave in consumer hostile ways. Regulation really seems to
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by badRNG 6y ago
We are talking about the market share of Windows, not whether the Truest Way to use Linux is via the terminal. In the context of the discussion, Windows does in fact have a significant end-user market share threat posed by alternatives like
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by badRNG 6y ago
It depends what we mean by "Linux" or the "Linux Desktop." Chromebooks aren't going away, non-Chrome OS Linux desktop usage has seen quite a large uptick in recent years (likely due to ease of installation and compa
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I suppose a concave mirror would.
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by badRNG 6y ago
By the same token, one could say that extra-judicial torture could have "usefulness" as you put it. We could have a similar discussion of how absolutists on the torture question aren't doing a proper cost/benefit analysi
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Windows 10 is getting a built-in video conferencing feature(bleepingcomputer.com)
2 points by badRNG 6y ago|1 comments
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From my anecdotal experience working in data centers early in my career, you really don't really know if your failure rate for a specific type of drive/server is atypical for quite some time. This information is critical for many
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Test tool for CVE-2020-1472 (DC auth bypass)(github.com)
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The difference between 2 years and 5 is quite significant for server runtime above water. This argument of diminishing returns would hold better for placing it 1 year rather than 2, 9 months rather than 12, etc. If the concern is that you&#
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That certainly sounds plausible. I wonder if a 30% cost for big players is considered acceptable in money laundering. North Korea laundered $81 million (that they stole from banks) through Philippine casinos [1], so it isn't an outrage
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It increasingly seems that public businesses seem incapable of making long-term plans, even rather trivial ones, if the cost of ending the experiment results in immediate gains. The driving force is the single most important metric: this qu
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by badRNG 6y ago
Nope, still use them for a handful of things (for convenience.) The charge-backs were of significant size too ($300-$500.) This was around 2012-2013 for one and around 2015 for the other.
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by badRNG 6y ago
I don't typically spam HN with tutorial links, but this is one of the better, concise videos for a complete beginner to the Django framework. You probably should be familiar with another back-end web framework, as not much time is spen
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Build a Hacker News Clone in Under 90 Minutes with Django(youtube.com)
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I've been in two different situations where I have had obviously fraudulent charges on my PayPal. In both cases, PayPal denied my claim. In both cases, Discover approved charge-backs for the PayPal charges to my card.
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by badRNG 6y ago
I'm completely confused here. I have always assumed gambling addiction is centered on winning it big, to recoup prior losses, or to otherwise change one's station in life. None of these things are possible on these apps. I'm
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A brief look at programming paradigms(tildes.net)
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by badRNG 6y ago
Anarchist political theory has been associated with "hacker culture" since at least the '80s. I don't consider myself one, but it'd be wrong to say that it isn't apropos.
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by badRNG 6y ago
>“Now it's literally, if you don't have connectivity, you can't do school." It seems that in our current world, having internet access is increasingly like access to power or water. I wouldn't count on incredibly
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by badRNG 6y ago
CW: Child abuse Pizzagate is a debunked alt-right conspiracy theory [1]. Epstein ran a child prostitution ring for himself and his inner circle [2]. Pizzagate conspiracy theorists have attempted to graft their theory onto the Epstein case i
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by badRNG 6y ago
This seems great, thanks for the recommendation. I love that gruvbox and atom one are default themes.
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by badRNG 6y ago
This seems strange, since Amazon's arguably exploited warehouse employees wait 30 minutes to leave due to screenings (to ensure they haven't stolen merchandise.) [1] This was affirmed by the current SCOTUS. [2] [1] https:/&#
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by badRNG 6y ago
It seems to me that if a school district's network is vulnerable enough that a child can bring it down, there is liability on their side. The schools' network shouldn't be crippled by a kid. It feels like borderline absurdity
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Student Arrested in Connection with Cyber Attacks on Miami-Dade Public Schools(nbcmiami.com)
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While I don't think getting bogged down in a political discussion here is a good idea (and I don't necessarily disagree,) I do think it is interesting how ignorant Americans often are of the many literal battles in the war for hum
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>the phrase should be "there is no ethical consumption I can think of at least some ways in which consumption might be more ethically neutral. After a natural disaster, you often see communities band together to meet each others nee
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This is truly one of my favorite aviation stories of all time and reread it anytime it gets linked here. Not sure why you are downvoted, it's the most relevant and humorous explanation of the calm, professional ATC "Houston Center
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Over 400 Gov.uk domains found on spam blacklists(bleepingcomputer.com)
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by badRNG 6y ago
>Are you saying that CPC gets to ban Google, Facebook, Twitter & a ton of other non-Chinese online companies but the US government does not get to ban Chinese online companies, even in the name of fairness both in terms of trade and
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by badRNG 6y ago
>But at the same time, I find it really weird to go, "I morally can't stand for a single thing you're doing and I think you're a generally ill hearted company. Here, take more of my money to help you fund your ill-doi

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