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by blitmap 8y ago
Anecdotal: 1) Working 40 hours a week does not support my long-term goals (house fund, retirement, vacations, etc). Which is another way of saying my job doesn't pay enough. 2) Companies will gladly have someone perform the work of 3
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by blitmap 8y ago
I definitely see the potential for harm in this, but I'm excited to program arduinos from a web ide with a statically-served text editor + toolchain. Personally I switched to Firefox. The ideology is only minimally better, but I&#x27
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by blitmap 8y ago
Protecting tech in transit would be a new business. Tamper-evident packaging and such.
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by blitmap 8y ago
Because it takes businesses 2 years to requiring passwords that are 8-14 characters, include punctuation, capitalization, and numbers. Ugh. :(
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by blitmap 8y ago
There are people who put out books for money, and I can see you are not one of them. I've really enjoyed the passion illustrated in your continually updated series. (Bravo)
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by blitmap 8y ago
I think I agree. It's better to not be proactive, especially since port scanning is a natural way to perform diagnostics. I would wait for others tell me there's a problem, I wouldn't put money toward sniffing out problems
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by blitmap 8y ago
It may not be how it works, but that's how it was presented to us.
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by blitmap 8y ago
Passports are printed similar to currency. There are many features in them that are hard to replicate. It can be done but not easily, so it does fit the bill of "something you have" to authenticate. Not nearly as secure as a yu
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by blitmap 8y ago
Not in favor of Google deciding yet again how I want to browse/view the web. I've been extricating myself from Google services slowly, and I think it's time for Firefox again. Kind of arrogant to decide something like this
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by blitmap 8y ago
Something like devdocs.io as an RSS reader.
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by blitmap 8y ago
I am not OP but I'm imagining data-oriented design. So like, things are structured and then serialized - and at some other end deserialized in place ready to read cache-coherently?
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by blitmap 8y ago
You've never experienced inconsiderate coworkers? Like coworkers who talk loudly on the phone in a nearby work area, coworkers with hygiene issues, coworkers who don't carry their weight or respond well to training?
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by blitmap 8y ago
The thing that concerns me is it's easy to wrap a JS API or unreference it if I know it's abused for ads/tracking. I don't know of good ways to go about tracking based on pointer events or scrolling. I'd put more r
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by blitmap 8y ago
I think Microsoft was right to push for Secure Boot / bootloader signing. The way they pushed for it was/is anti-competitive. I don't think UEFI was the right horse to put money behind. It's a complicated hot mess and
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by blitmap 8y ago
Not to sound obtuse, but I subscribed to their service to watch shows/movies and not be A/B-tested. I know I agreed to it in the skimmed ToS, but the main appeal was to not have ads of any kind. Oh well ->cancel();
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by blitmap 8y ago
Could you define the 'cypherpunk vision of a sovereign Internet'? I am genuinely curious. Is it just a decentralized internet? I grew up watching anime like Serial Experiments Lain and reading Neuromancer so I think I have some
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by blitmap 8y ago
I can understand your frustration and there are valid concerns. As much as I like Las Vegas there are very real reasons not to have events like this in the US.
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by blitmap 8y ago
I am probably very unaware of a Chrome or Firefox extension that allows this: I wish I could Browse to... and set scripts to run before a page is navigated to. I know you can do this from the Dev Tools console just by hooking into events,
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by blitmap 8y ago
I dislike this too. It's like someone licensed your IP and gave it away freely to ancestry.com. The metaphor doesn't really fit if you are the derivative child, but yeah... the insurance companies would already be able to make p
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by blitmap 8y ago
Silver lining: We're united against those other people, lol. By politicians encouraging a divided, polarized atmosphere they've created a largely 2-party system (instead of a many-party system).
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by blitmap 8y ago
I don't want to sound like an ass because I wholeheartedly agree with you. The experience is hollow. But you can't invest in things you can't quantify. You can't make money off of good vibes and authenticity without me
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by blitmap 8y ago
I'm with you. Google writes it like they're trying to exploit the user. Apple writes it like they're working to help the user. They're both working toward the same goal, but it definitely speaks to how they're de
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by blitmap 8y ago
https://venturebeat.com/2016/06/27/donotpay-traffic-lawyer-b...
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by blitmap 8y ago
Well I have healthcare but my job keeps me out of area/network pretty consistently. The airport is the only reliable way to get a physical.
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by blitmap 8y ago
I wonder if Google could pivot to offering legal services for establishing municipal broadband. There has to be some way they can recoup the costs by acting as the legal 'spear' for cities that are unaware of how to offer greater
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by blitmap 8y ago
I've recently started rocking a mustache and beard because razors are expensive and I can't be arsed. I think it has to do with how easy it is for people to "read" us. With facial hair it's harder to tell if I&#x2
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by blitmap 8y ago
I think the key thing to keep in mind is that Flash gave you all of that from one vendor in a coherent, easy to make use of experience. We can certainly do the same things with JS and the technologies we have outside Flash, but it takes a
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by blitmap 8y ago
This situation sucks. On one hand, it might lead to higher wages being offered if you can't sell "free food" as a perk of employment. On the other hand, this makes me feel very libertarian and enraged that a local gov is try
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by blitmap 8y ago
Wasn't there some famous short story about a planet whose inhabitants jammed all frequencies as the final evolution of warfare? If quantum entanglement is the answer, others will work to just make communication impossible (if it can&#
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Ask HN: Is Spectre just as likely with RISC-V?
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