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Sure, why not? Trying to get inside the head of someone you don't understand or disagree with is always a valuable exercise. There's a whole movie (Trainspotting) trying to understand why people do hard drugs. People do all sorts
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> putting his assets on the line People put their time, hearts, and lives on the line when they commit to another person. The risk of losing some money is a pretty tertiary one. I'm not saying it's negligible, I'm saying t
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> If you win, great, but there's a huge potential to lose, big. There's a reason the divorce rate is so high Divorce isn't the same thing as "losing big". The latter is a relatively rare occurrence, which can hap
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It's not fine, because a system that incentivizes that behavior from its members means that you and I won't ever get invited!
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> No need to risk half of my current assets and future income Most people see being in a position of vulnerability with respect to another human being whom they trust as a wonderful thing, which gives them a great deal of every day happi
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> Marriage is about declaring to your social group and each other you’ve decided to strive and commit to something greater than yourself. I think most people can accept this belief while still thinking that there ought to be an out for t
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The worst thing about this shitshow of a thread is that those of us accusing the Rust leadership of being woke and those of us accusing the blog post author of being woke don't seem to have gotten each other's memos. If we can jus
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> N levels of parents get banned too I would simply never invite anyone. There has to be a moderate amount of "forgiveness" for people who can reasonably be thought not to have invited a deliberate spammer.
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It is absolutely bonkers than more than half of the water being used from the Colorado river is for livestock. How is there even a political route forward, given that no one is going to touch the third rail and implement a tax on meat? (O
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If it's like my SB8600 model you can access the spectrum analyzer as a tab in the main interface, no need for a separate port.
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> Looking at the modem's status screen, I could see that I only had a single upstream channel connected. Is this really a reliable indicator of a problem? I'm also on Xfinity, and see the same thing - 3 out of 4 upstream bonded
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It's a bit like `git` in that yes, it is a complicated tool, but you can do 99% of what most people need to do with like 5 commands. People make exactly the argument you are making about git.
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> without offering a better alternative On the one hand, I sort of agree with you, I think the disadvantages of current PGP tools are overstated. But I think there are some plausible alternatives depending on your use case. They just a
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> compression before encryption What's the matter with that? It should be secure with any modern cryptography primitives. (I mean, it's obviously no less secure to do `age -e myfile.7z` than it is to do `age -e myfile`.)
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Does anyone know of a similar workaround on Firefox for HSTS?
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> For better defense-in-depth, combine multiple methods. It really starts to sound like we are reinventing Linux distributions. A strong vetting process and barriers to entry are why Linux distributions remain free of malware in their re
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I was curious about this as well. The paper you link is providing an extension of the binomial coefficients. Binomial[-1,-1] = 1 isn't the result of an "assumption" per se, but rather the choice of a particular approach to
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> I pay <10€/month for mine > you can watch HD video I wonder... do you primarily watch HD video over this wireless connection, or are you watching it via a more traditional broadband connection? In the US, I pay ~$10 a month
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Do we know if this file is something downloaded from ASUS, rather than a bogus file created on the router itself? If the former, it might be interesting to make a backup copy in case someone can see what it is they did wrong.
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> Tailscale with an active exit node People seem to say "Tailscale" when what they mean, as I understand it, is "any VPN". Is there something Tailscale offers for this use case that e.g. Wireguard does not?
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By that definition of "disable", HP is disabling their customers' printers regardless of whether they use ink cartridges from another manufacturer. It's clear that that is not the intended sense, however, because the h
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That's fine. I'm responding to people who are making an argument along the lines of "Carlson had one of the most popular television shows, therefore he is not niche or controversial". My point is that this is pure non s
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I didn't argue that Carlson should or should not be cut. I argued that Carlson being niche and controversial was compatible with also being one of the most popular television shows.
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> Source Code Pro You nailed it - the reason I've stuck with this font for so long is that I really appreciate the beauty of a proper x-height more than I prefer the supposed readability advantages of tall coding fonts. As long a fo
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That's just not a good argument. Pineapple on pizza can be one of the most popular toppings but still niche and controversial. Right wing media is relatively consolidated: there's one major cable channel that markets to their in
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> Decriptivism allows the language to evolve as fast as people wish to evolve it. More importantly, taken to an extreme, descriptivism describes language in the way a map describes the territory. Any time a person speaks and is underst
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I'm thinking, mainly, of how these features are exposed in the UI and how users experience it. What matters is that users take (rightly or wrongly) a verified profile link to mean "I control this webpage". So e.g. if you coul
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> This is why mastodon , webfinger and ACME uss .well-known uri prefix This is not how Mastodon does verification (at least not the main method). Mastodon doesn't just link users -> domain. It can link user -> webpage, for exa
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> At the time it seemed like a good deal to Tolkien. A lot of money for something unfilmable with late-60s technology Heh. Unfilmable didn't stop United Artists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rin
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> Passkeys add in user verification as a capability so that you can use them for the entire authentication process rather than as just one of the factors. This typically means a biometric challenge or knowledge based challenge, such as P

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