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by bulatb 7y ago
I don't think the filter is literally random. It's a poor predictor of success, applied inconsistently. Just from what I've heard and experienced, I'd guess that if N = Q (percentage of qualified workers), everyone in N
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by bulatb 7y ago
Hypothesis: There's such a flood of qualified labor that employers can afford to arbitrarily shrink the pool of applicants without significantly worsening their outcomes. Their behavior indicates that just the top N% of the market is
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by bulatb 7y ago
Or modify a TIFF or JPEG or whatever to attack the parser. That ancient system with no modern crypto that can only do HTTP is fully patched, right?
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by bulatb 7y ago
I meant the second paragraph about security in general, not TLS [0] encryption, but I can see how that's not clear. HTTPS improves security in part through encryption. [0] What do you think of that S?
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by bulatb 7y ago
That's a good point and a dirty trick, but like you said, it's why we have HSTS and preload lists. I only serve HTTPS (as best I can) because I've never had a case where something truly justified the possibility my system wou
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by bulatb 7y ago
Offering HTTP allows MITM attackers to strip HTTPS from visitors who want it. HSTS can help, but the vector still exists. Optional security is not just an upgrade; it opens up a downgrade path from more secure to less.
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by bulatb 7y ago
Your static website may be nice and friendly, but if you serve it with HTTP, I could ask for your website and get something else . Maybe something less friendly. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22146260
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by bulatb 7y ago
> When we say "MITM" who is this man? Anyone in `traceroute`, even indirectly. Your state. A rival state. Your ISP. Your neighbor at the coffee shop. A rogue employee at a CDN. A poisoned cache. That little thing that no one
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by bulatb 7y ago
You walk into a random corner store for Tylenol and see the bottom of a cut-off box of cereal with pills inside. A cardboard sign in front of it says "Tylenol" and there's a logo clearly printed off a website gluesticked to t
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by bulatb 7y ago
Smiling at the runaway-recursive irony here (while agreeing with you). "Facts are not the most effective form of argument" might be a little less contentious. Evidence is neither necessary nor sufficient and sometimes counterprodu
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by bulatb 7y ago
This list of rebuttals to common objections was posted recently: https://grist.org/series/skeptics/ Not exactly what you asked for, but maybe it can help. For what it's worth, I strongly agree with everyone w
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by bulatb 7y ago
This HN thread has some links and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16103356
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by bulatb 7y ago
There's a kind of just-world moralizing people do that's like victim-blaming on steroids. Normal victim-blaming says if you do X, and you're aware that doing it exposes you to being hurt by someone choosing to do Y, it's
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by bulatb 7y ago
Oh, thanks. I was sad to see it missing.
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by bulatb 7y ago
I was mistakenly thinking of the in completeness theorems when I wrote this, but I guess it kind of works for this one too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...
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by bulatb 7y ago
This theorem seems to be like monads: Someone posts about it on the internet, someone doesn't understand and asks for help, someone comes along and writes a simple explanation that seems to make sense, then someone says that explanatio
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by bulatb 7y ago
Just a theory. A random example (which doesn't hinge on legal vs. right, although it seems to): It's illegal in some U.S. states to change lanes across a solid white divider when driving, especially if you're about to make a
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by bulatb 7y ago
For any situation, the statement "I want X" neatly partitions people in two. Group 1 treats it as a normative statement about the world: "I want X" means they should have X, and arrangements of the world in which they
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by bulatb 7y ago
Unless the comp is "name your price", an "unfilled job" that goes unfilled for long enough is just a job the market has rejected.
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by bulatb 7y ago
High-profile well-connected people, friends and peers of executives, and people in a right-place, right-time situation name their own price. ICs at FAANG get FAANG-level comp. Consultants gladly take dumb money's budget. "Cybersec
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by bulatb 7y ago
> If `str.dedent` was a thing Have you looked at textwrap.dedent?
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by bulatb 8y ago
What's your disagreement with the concept of economic growth? You say things elsewhere in the thread I rarely hear but broadly agree with, if I understand correctly, so I'm curious about this one.
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by bulatb 8y ago
You can ask them to delete your data, but unless their only legal basis for having it was your consent, they may be able to refuse. [0] They'd have to argue to the regulator that their interest in retaining it should override your inte
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by bulatb 8y ago
Proposing uncoordinated action makes no sense unless you basically deny the nature of the problem, which means you can't solve it. Workable solutions will be sidelined for as long as possible in favor of appealing fantasies. The effect
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by bulatb 8y ago
Imagine your neighbor's house is on fire. You run outside and see him throwing dirt on his porch with his kid's plastic shovel. You gawk at this decision for a second, then run back inside and call the fire department. When you co
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by bulatb 8y ago
The very best thing you can do on climate change, right now, for free, is stop suggesting people "do their part" by flying less or eating less or making any other kind of individual sacrifice. Erase that proposition from your brai
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by bulatb 8y ago
Not just the stock market. Money is a measure that became a target, with the usual results. Goodhart's law is always in effect.
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by bulatb 8y ago
I'm not sure exactly what GDPR means for the people whose job involves processing data, but I would think that independent of whatever rules apply to the employer as a data controller/processor, 2(2)(c) would except the employee&#
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by bulatb 8y ago
No part of the GDPR specifically allows you to remember things, but Article 2 (which limits the scope of the law to data processed as part of a filing system) does except processing for purely personal activities in 2(2)(c). https:/&#
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by bulatb 8y ago
The company just raised a series B. Might be part of a PR push.

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