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by chug 2y ago
Health insurance companies do actually care, unfortunately. They're incentivized to embrace higher prices since they have to spend at least 80% of premiums on payouts. If you have a fixed margin, well, you have to increase premiums to
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by chug 6y ago
That's a good point. I definitely have too much of a US-centric view on this as I'm not very familiar with the project and was assuming at least a few of the major people involved are living in the US or a country friendly enough
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by chug 6y ago
My guess is that RIAA will pursue it until they either win legally or exhaust and frighten everyone away from it and it becomes a much less powerful tool. It's not like DMCA notices are their only option after all (and I'm not sur
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by chug 6y ago
The problem with this is that DMCA isn't the only option the RIAA has by a long shot. The DMCA is a tool to get a platform to stop hosting content the rights holder believes is infringing. There's nothing stopping the RIAA from se
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by chug 6y ago
If it truly is a national security concern and not politics, this should be the obvious conclusion. How do we know some Facebook employee isn't siphoning data to the CCP right now? How do we know the US won't someday abuse the dat
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by chug 8y ago
Looks interesting! You mentioned in the docs that it would be simpler once abstractions develop and that made me realize it's similar to facebook/dataloader, just used across requests instead of batching up all of the queries per
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by chug 8y ago
I came across this last night ( http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/09/28/the-relative-performa... ) and went down the rabbit hole of Rust and its BTreeSet ( http://cglab.ca/~abeinges&#x2F
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by chug 8y ago
This implies women aren't capable of earning success in any way other than trading sexual favors. Also, there's a huge difference in hookup culture and casual flings vs being in a predatory relationship with a huge power imbalance
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by chug 8y ago
The title on this seems pretty misleading. This is really a guide on how to use the escapeshellarg when you should use escapeshellcmd (or the opposite). Of course, the API of system() is pretty awful, so there is an issue here in the form
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by chug 8y ago
It doesn't have built in support for it since it's just using dnsmasq under the hood, but you can install something like dnscrypt-proxy and then configure pi-hole (i.e. dnsmasq) to use it as its upstream DNS server.
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by chug 9y ago
I'm not quite sure you can just hand wave away the harmfulness. It's very possible that a lot of people would feel highly violated by it. It basically takes away your control over your modesty and to an extent even the autonomy of
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by chug 9y ago
It's more like running valet parking and leaving other people's cars unlocked. Yeah, you should update your process so that your drivers lock the cars, but oh man, that's kind of hard. What if we just tell people their cars a
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by chug 10y ago
It's not officially part of the Pi Hole project, but I've been using https://hub.docker.com/r/diginc/pi-hole/ for about six months on a Raspberry Pi (though they support other platforms) and had no
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by chug 10y ago
The only company I've worked at with an ESPP required you to hold the stock for 1 year before selling--not in the sense of tax incentives unfortunately, but you literally cannot sell before 1 year. I didn't realize there were ESPP
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by chug 10y ago
It's important to remember that this is putting all of your eggs in one basket to a certain extent though. Your income, your 401k match, and your ESPP are all tied to your employer, so as long as things are good, ESPPs can be a great w
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by chug 10y ago
I think at most it's an exaggerated premise, not false. There's tons of evidence that it does exist, though there is much debate over what exactly the percentage of the gap is. It's hard to find "the gap doesn't exi
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by chug 10y ago
One aspect is that arbitration agreements almost always block class action lawsuits which can be hugely advantageous to a company. If a group of people have their rights or contacts violated, each must now pursue it individually, at potenti
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by chug 10y ago
Exactly! In fact, that's embarrassingly concise given my rambling. The only major thing missed is that the hash input has to contain something that the attack doesn't know in addition to the message. Or in other words, the private
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by chug 10y ago
Authentication in this context means baking in a way to verify that what you receive is something you encypted and has not been altered. Or, in other words, it lets you know that the data hasn't been tampered with. As a practical examp
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by chug 10y ago
> Callbacks, promises, generators are all there to essentially make async code sync I think they actually do quite the opposite: they keep async code async. JavaScript doesn't really have a (non-terrible) way to make async code sync