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by crpatino 10y ago
not if you access the site from a laptop/desktop
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by crpatino 10y ago
Ok, not what I had in mind when I wrote my first comment, sorry about that. Have you tried providing written instructions? In my opinion, for her vectors of attack, it is much less risky to have her password written down in paper somewhere
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by crpatino 10y ago
Evolution is a two way street, and viruses are way faster to mutate than human beings. HIV is probably already evolving a bunch of different strains with variying degrees of mortality and morbidity. Those that tend to remain dormant for lon
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by crpatino 10y ago
With that kind of logic, you could build a perpetual motion machine in no time.
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by crpatino 10y ago
Ok, that's a reasonable position, though not one I completely agree with. It would be nice if we as customers had the freedom to pick up which upgrades to install, and to limit ourselves to security patches and (maybe, some) library de
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by crpatino 10y ago
Are you implying that software purpose is to provide developers with puzzles to tinker with... in detriment of their paying customers?
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by crpatino 10y ago
Hate to be the one pointing this out, but your relative is unfit to use online services now. You would not let her drive, would you? Even if the car provided her more automomy, the risk of her running into another car would be too high. Why
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by crpatino 10y ago
Dunno, I am still waiting for my damned flying Delorean. Instead, the rich all got dumb old-fashioned helicopters.
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by crpatino 10y ago
It is only efficient because of the tragedy of the commons; The "plastic cutlery industry" can rake in all the profits of the (literal) garbage they produce, but the whole society is left with the cost of disposing it. One would t
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by crpatino 10y ago
> Anecdotally I've heard of examples where (e.g.) washing china plates has a greater carbon cost than using disposable ones. Only if you use a dishwasher. IF you do dishes by hand, the only cost is water and soap. Strictly speaking
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by crpatino 10y ago
> Technology is neutral, though. The abstract concept of "Technology" is neutral, along with the majority of embodiments of such concept. It is the particular technologies the OP is talking about, - smartphones, social media, e
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by crpatino 10y ago
And chickens have two legs. But it does not make you a chicken, does it?
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by crpatino 10y ago
Security is not free (as in beer); there exists some level of security that costs $X. If the value of the thing you are protecting behind that security is $Y, then for every X such that X > Y, your security level is a luxury. Furthermore
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by crpatino 10y ago
There is no reason to believe that other sites will pick the same salt for each user, unless they are deriving it from either the password itself, the user id, or some other piece of user private info; which would be bad form anyways. If yo
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by crpatino 10y ago
A random X does not reduce the entropy of bcrypt(B), just fails to add any additional entropy beyond bcrypt(A)'s. Assuming C, where len(C) < 72, I don't know if it is possible at all to chose some value of Y such that: D:= C+Y
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by crpatino 10y ago
It's kind of ironic hearing you claim that there are no older candidates, then in the next paragraph you confirm having rejected candidates due to not knowing the particular tech stack your team uses. Even if there were legitimate reas
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by crpatino 10y ago
Selection bias. Assuming will power to be a trainable trait... It'd be clear our current society does not recognize this fact, and that it would lack methods to train in effectively. People that seem to have reasonably high will power
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by crpatino 10y ago
"Nature, nurture, or a combination of the two" is a gross mischaracterization. You have been given specific risk factors, of course you have to explore the specific mechanisms, but you have got a starting point. It is like saying
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by crpatino 10y ago
> There is no excuse for a situation where I have to put tape on my camera. And yet, we happen to live in a world where practically no customer has the needed expertise to verify for themselves if the LED reflects the true state of the c
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by crpatino 10y ago
Because of the asymmetry in laboral relationships. If you have a rare, valuable skill, employers will be willing to pay handsomely for your time, but they will demand a lot of your time. IF you are good enough, they will be even willing to
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by crpatino 10y ago
Value created has its own sets of problems. Customers with very basic use cases are not entitled to preferential pricing - i.e. Microsoft is not interested in offering big discounts to people who use the Office Suite as a "TV typewritt
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by crpatino 10y ago
It is more nuanced than that, but you've got the right idea. Some years ago I tried the Zone Diet(TM), and was able to loose in the ballpark of 20 lbs. For the first month, all carb-rich food was strictly banned, and that did have phys
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by crpatino 10y ago
Sorry about your condition. Please do take care of yourself. I am not going to pontificate about morals, but perhaps you should address sugar as if it was a drug (legal or otherwise). It is very easy to advocate for a "just say no&quot
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by crpatino 10y ago
> Why's that any different from eating say table sugar + celery? In principle it's not, except perhaps for a glass of water. Most sweet fruits tend to have much more moisture than celery. An unstated assumption that may come wi
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by crpatino 10y ago
That's what I thought at first. The interesting thing about the article is that it shows the native population was already pretty diverse by the time of first contact with the Europeans. Also, a minor nit picking. Even if slaves brough
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by crpatino 10y ago
So, it does not matter what physiological effects may be triggered by the lose of blood. Someone has already decided to label "bloodletting" as "unscientific", so no person that sees themselves as rational may investigat
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by crpatino 10y ago
It is not as bad if you can rely on a strong team (3.5 years there, no significant consequences in personal life). Some things that help: 1. Everybody is in the roll, not just the new guy(s). 2. The team is big enough for everyone to have a
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by crpatino 10y ago
There are 2 points that you seem to have overlooked. First is budget. 4 min per month goal is not arbitrary; management has come with this number based on the monetary cost of downtime, and (ideally) is committed to expend a conmeasurate am
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by crpatino 10y ago
And how is this supposed to be worse than hiring a series of youngsters, each not yet knowing how any company works, and then replace'em when they are just begining to get a clue?
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by crpatino 10y ago
That's nonesense. You can brutally kill cats and (smallish) dogs, but anything bigger will fight back pretty badly. Brutalizing any animal that is twice your body size is a good recipe for getting yourself maimed or killed, even in a c

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