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by chmod775 2y ago
Over in Europe this blanket saving of phone records beyond what it is necessary to operate would have been illegal in many countries, and is in general incompatible with the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundame
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by chmod775 2y ago
> People accumulate wealth and power, but only until they die. And their descendants continue right where they left off. It's not much of a difference to them simply not dying.
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by chmod775 2y ago
I'm not even from the US, which is a more expensive country by all accounts, and that sum is still laughable from my point of view. What's that gonna get you? A few months worth of clothes and basic supplies? Some quick googling r
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by chmod775 2y ago
> Kind of. This is JS code that will write "Hello!" to the body tag, bypassing protections that rely on find/replace: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/laino/8d2676f8fd6fe0de19d... Another one that u
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by chmod775 2y ago
In the context of this conversation, which is about running untrusted code, this has about a million holes. The only way DOM access can become secure is if either browsers add support for sandboxing in such a way, or you have your own sandb
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by chmod775 2y ago
> The most people seem to be able to do is to cargo cult / parrot, misunderstand, and misappropriate quips like “security by obscurity bad!" That is the point. It is a good rule of thumb for people who don't know much abou
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by chmod775 2y ago
Just today a delivery service wanted to send an SMS to validate my phone number, so I was forced to use a mobile phone number rather than landline. Landline often makes more sense, because usually they'd call to reach someone in the ho
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by chmod775 2y ago
I didn't even know some schools/universities had dedicated security (beyond doorkeepers checking IDs for certain buildings/nighttime security). Much less did I expect it's an ecosystem you could make money with. My unive
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by chmod775 2y ago
> Consider if you are in the middle of a calculus exam and need to evaluate $7 \times 8$ by calculating $7+7+7+7...$ and then proceed to count on your fingers up to 56 because even $7+7$ wasn't memorized. You're almost certainl
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by chmod775 2y ago
There's not enough actually rich people around to explain the revenue these brands make. It's not rich people for the most part, just people who want to appear rich. These brands exist to separate the 100k-200k household income de
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by chmod775 2y ago
An important observation is that it doesn't really matter what you start with, because you have two ways to "reduce" each Turing machine to one that can start with all zeroes: - You can "flip" rules/initial tap
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by chmod775 2y ago
If we're firing shots anyways, go with mobility scooter miles.
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by chmod775 2y ago
I don't don't see why a sizable bank account would make one desire to put on a clown nose. If you were poor and threw your money at sucker-bait, I might not bully you for it, because the price of the item is punishment enough alre
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by chmod775 2y ago
Counterpoint: It's not not about being an autodidact or an outsider. I was unlikely to meet any bad coders at work, due to how likely it is they were filtered by the hiring process, and thus I never met anyone writing truly cringe-wort
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by chmod775 2y ago
Already exists, but it's Nazis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX2cS8wvQHI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Sky
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by chmod775 2y ago
I'm not assuming anything. I was answering a question based on: > There is a whole industry of those bottom feeders the author referred to, who's business is precisely waiting for these sole owners to either die, or better yet
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by chmod775 2y ago
> So no one should ever buy from someone who is dying or ill? You can do that. However there's an issue with basing a business around reaching out to people with bad-faith offers the week their parents died or they were hospitalized
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by chmod775 2y ago
> but if a company can't find "high-quality," they must make do. At some point it isn't economical to "make do", because paying for in-training employees eats into margins. Especially if "training"
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by chmod775 2y ago
>Why are the buyers referred to in derogatory terms? Because they are taking advantage of the owner's impaired judgement due to their personal situation/ill health in trying to extract an unfair price. Such behavior is referred
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by chmod775 2y ago
> Size is a unitless dimension. A category of metrics, if you must. Just make size a category of dimensions and I'd underwrite that. It certainly doesn't refer to a single dimension. Mathematically valuation would absolutely be
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by chmod775 2y ago
If the goal of your prison system is rehabilitation, then the fair thing to do is assuming they changed. Possibly even if the only purpose of imprisonment was punishment. This depends on risk of course. You and society shouldn't be e
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by chmod775 2y ago
> "Size" is not only a metric Size is not a metric. You can measure size with a metric and you can measure value with another metric. Measuring both the same way only leads to nonsense. I think we're getting to the bot
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by chmod775 2y ago
Obviously not?
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by chmod775 2y ago
> "Size" is unitless, so I disagree with your rationale. You're going to have to expand that a little bit. > valuation is a very common size metric It's not a size metric. A world where things grow larger the more
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by chmod775 2y ago
> there's a host of other places across several countries who can match Zeiss for what is essentially bespoke builds. Ah yes. No development time involved here at all. They just built it. I don't know what ASML, TRUMPF, Zeiss,
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by chmod775 2y ago
There's a lot of expertise with lithography around the world too (companies like Canon build lithography machines), but we're not talking the usual levels of it. The EUV lasers ASML/TRUMPF builds don't even work the same
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by chmod775 2y ago
Both TSMC and ASML are just the tip of an iceberg. Each has thousands of supplier companies spread across many countries. Many of these supplier companies are peerless themselves in their respective areas. It's a lot less concentrated
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by chmod775 2y ago
Then I guess Rhodium is the largest metal and the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is the largest building in Britain. If you conflate value with size , both terms become near useless. Value can only mean something in relation to so
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by chmod775 2y ago
Nvidia isn't even in the top 50 of largest companies by any sensible metric.
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by chmod775 2y ago
PFAS stands for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances , so no. I don't think so. There's however tetraethyllead/alkyl-lead, which are compounds that are considered PBTs or POPs. Tetraethyllead used to be a fuel additive that i

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