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by couchand 6y ago
Slightly more accurate: The secret court has [redacted].
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by couchand 6y ago
Don't let them have you. Move to a different provider, you'll be much happier for it.
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by couchand 6y ago
... and those phone systems are a common nightmare for regular people.
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by couchand 6y ago
Here's the thing: either you're simply naive to the tactics of anti-vaxxers and unaware that your comments play into their hand, or you're actively advancing their interests. Yes, it's important to consider the risks of
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by couchand 6y ago
Yes, vaccines have side effects, just as any other medication or treatment does. Nobody has claimed otherwise. The reason your comment is harmful is because you make implications that have no basis in evidence, but which serve to advance d
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by couchand 6y ago
I would absolutely agree that those who are harmed need adequate remedies under the law. I also know that vaccines provide an immense public benefit. If the specifics of the tort system were causing companies to exit the vaccine business (a
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by couchand 6y ago
A business decision to avoid risk of costly litigation is not at all the same as actual harm. If you have any information on actual harm, please share it. Otherwise, please leave your FUD at the door.
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by couchand 6y ago
There's no true scotch, man.
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by couchand 7y ago
The author doesn't claim to make a universal determination. The supposed claims are introduced with "here's how I would psychoanalyse my own preferences."
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by couchand 7y ago
What? The Bily clock museum closed down? That's a tragedy.
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by couchand 7y ago
Hmm, New York Blood Center says, "Please be aware that we do NOT test for COVID-19. You should contact your health care provider if you want to be tested." [0] Where else should I be looking? [0]: https://www.nybc.org&
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by couchand 7y ago
The fanciest lock in the world does nothing if it's too much trouble for people to actually lock it.
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by couchand 7y ago
Is there really widespread antigen testing in NYC? I certainly have not heard about it here in Brooklyn.
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by couchand 7y ago
But they shouldn't have to have heard of ACME to use it. If they're hosting your software on a publicly-accessible server, the UX should be roughly: - user checks box that says they want certs issued automatically. - your softwar
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by couchand 7y ago
My working theory is that the Venn diagram of organizations self-hosting software on an intranet with private DNS and organizations that don't have an internal CA is almost entirely disjoint. Are the policy concerns you raise related t
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by couchand 7y ago
Such access is FAR LESS secure for most real humans' threat models.
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by couchand 7y ago
> Practically Signal offers little advantage over any messenger with transport encryption (e.g. Facebook Messenger): in both cases you pretty much have to trust the organisation itself. There's a critical difference you're pape
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by couchand 7y ago
You should support ACME.
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by couchand 7y ago
You absolutely can do client authn in HTTPS, but it's rarely done outside intranet apps and high-security banking.
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by couchand 7y ago
FUD. There are several critical flaws in your analysis (disclaimer: I'm an enthusiast, not a cryptographer). > The ratchet protocol that that approach relies on requires both ends to be online at the same time. This is simply untru
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by couchand 7y ago
And apparently principle zero is make scrolling janky for some godforsaken reason.
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by couchand 7y ago
Though both Result and Future types can be described as a monadic shape, it only works if you fix the Error type. Even then, you've lost the value in the Result entirely. The interesting and useful thing about a Result is the part of
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by couchand 7y ago
This is brilliant and simple and backwards-compatible. Well done. If I knew anything about the standards process I would write an RFC for it today.
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I Spent a Year in Space, and I Have Tips on Isolation to Share(nytimes.com)
87 points by couchand 7y ago|19 comments
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by couchand 7y ago
Then find better managers.
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by couchand 7y ago
There are so many anti-patterns here it's painful... If you're pairing, don't read your e-mail. Even if you're just in a solo work session, don't read your e-mail. It's incredibly disruptive and constant inbo
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by couchand 7y ago
I believe the discussion of encoding ampersands is as relates to printing them out in the text of the page, where you would indeed want to use the HTML entity encoding.
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by couchand 7y ago
TIL it was Steve Bannon that killed off Biosphere 2.
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by couchand 7y ago
> all you need is a hardware fault in a third-party hosting company with lousy support for your simple piece of software to be down for weeks. I suspect the author would reply that you can just replace the hosting provider. Since the in
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by couchand 7y ago
> If you want to thoroughly a regex, just test the regex by throwing a dozen strings at it. Don't bootstrap the program and construct valid input requests to test each of those strings (but do do that to test that everything can wo

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