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by csnover 6y ago
> I just wish that user would tell me what the real issue is. […] I hope I can fix whatever the real issue is. It is exactly what the parent already told you. That’s it. That’s “the real issue”. There is nothing more. Everything I’ve sai
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by csnover 6y ago
> rest assured that we do read what you're writing on these posts and they've spurred some internal process discussions. OK, that’s good to hear. Nobody from the company has reached out to me so this is the first time I’ve been
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by csnover 6y ago
Discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25919494 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25919360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25919235
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by csnover 6y ago
Their marketing blog does a great job of painting them as smart people with good processes. Sadly, I learned the hard way (by trialling their software and immediately discovering a handful of dumb bugs that should’ve been caught by QA, plus
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by csnover 6y ago
I guess I’m not terribly surprised. It fits a narrative, not of being overly protective, but of run-of-the-mill incompetence. Someone once used a DigitalOcean droplet to run an aggressive layer 7 denial of service attack against a service I
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by csnover 6y ago
Possibly this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24984862
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by csnover 6y ago
> This is not our position, and I feel it is disingenuous of you to say that. Every time I’ve seen someone bring up ZKE, you demur or say that most of your customers don’t need it because they are non-technical and their data is not sens
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by csnover 6y ago
Every file is written once (when you change it) and then a second time (when the client writes the same file into a backup chunk). Halving the SSD lifetime is not something I’d personally call meaningless, especially for QLC drives which
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by csnover 6y ago
Frankly, I’ve never seen a good take from Backblaze once I got past their marketing blog posts. Zero-knowledge encryption? You don’t need that[0][1]. Client writes every backup chunk to disk before uploading instead of holding the data in m
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by csnover 6y ago
> Those global warming enthusiasts who oppose this research seem more interested in political implications than in actually reducing warming. There are serious and legitimate concerns about albedo modification research which have nothing
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by csnover 6y ago
Is this kind of submission really a good idea? I have real concern that polling like this only succeeds at falsely distorting and amplifying the small[0] differences between people within a community. It draws battle lines and suggests that
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by csnover 6y ago
If you are concerned about the chilling effect of sites arbitrarily moderating user-generated content they find objectionable, just think about how much worse identity verification would be. Here on HN, people regularly create throwaway acc
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by csnover 6y ago
> But your point makes it clear why Section 230 is not important to protect the Internet I’ve only given evidence that businesses not privy to the Section 230 liability shield are doing exactly the same thing that you claim would be prev
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by csnover 6y ago
No, but if someone is going to make a claim that repealing Section 230 will solve a given problem, they’d better actually have some reasonable evidence that it will solve that problem, and not just cause a massive amount of collateral damag
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by csnover 6y ago
Every for-profit media company makes content decisions based on revenue. OANN, Newsmax, Breitbart, AM talk radio, etc. aren’t shielded by Section 230 at all and they have been some of the strongest amplifiers of conspiracy theories and
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by csnover 6y ago
Be thankful you only receive automated security reports about an open .git directory. There is some guy/company who goes around running a web spider connected to some shitty antivirus which automatically submits false abuse reports to
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by csnover 6y ago
Does it matter? I really feel like I am missing some key knowledge about why people care that their credit card number might be stolen—especially when compared to much more immutable private information like your email address, home address
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by csnover 6y ago
> That said, I have no clue how to solve the transperson distinction in sports. It doesn’t seem that hard: just create explicit performance classes instead of using gender as a proxy for a performance class. There’s already precedent for
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by csnover 6y ago
The irony is that Boeing are currently the only ones who produce an airliner with bleedless air (the 787); all Airbus jets still use bleed air.
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by csnover 6y ago
The specific unsafe condition I am worried about is that the power management electronics lack any sort of fault protection, and this ends up causing a shock, burn, or fire. I have a hard time imagining a situation where a wearable with a U
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by csnover 6y ago
I’m not a hardware engineer, but my understanding is that a USB device isn’t supposed to draw that much current without performing either negotiation or sensing. Including a note that the user must use a 1A charger suggests that the device
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by csnover 6y ago
Once you start looking at the actual numbers it becomes pretty clear that most of these arbitrage sellers could give every customer $20 and still make money. For example, the top search result for “webcam” on Amazon.com right now usually
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by csnover 6y ago
> The cost to the original company is a lost sale, a lost product, and $20 [lost] in exchange for a 5-star review. That may well be worth it for the company, so I'm not sure this scheme would actually stop dishonest reviews, only ma
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by csnover 6y ago
Why does Amazon even allow FBA sellers to be registered in another country like this? Forget about counterfeiting and taxes, what about basic issues of safety and liability? A family member of mine recently bought a wearable electronic de
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by csnover 6y ago
You don’t have to ask the user, there is a media rule for querying whether the device is currently using coarse or fine pointer input[0] (though, of course, it relies on the OS not lying, which is not a given). [0] https://develo
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by csnover 6y ago
> There is no reason to suppose that a youtube moderator is non-partisan, a high rung thinker, or emotionally detached from the subject they are evaluating. The other way to frame this is that there is a reason to suppose that, at this
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by csnover 6y ago
What does it mean to be a “comparable” alternative to YouTube? There are dozens of online video platforms[0], plus other places like Patreon and OnlyFans, and decentralised systems like PeerTube. If none of them work for you, you can get a
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by csnover 6y ago
> The universal existence of motivated reasoning, emotional reasoning, confirmation bias, and other cognitive distortions is precisely why no person or group can be expected to perform better at evaluating evidence and determining which
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by csnover 6y ago
It’s nice to think that everyone is on equal footing, but even ignoring differences in education and genetics, the universal existence of motivated reasoning, emotional reasoning, confirmation bias, and other cognitive distortions tends to
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by csnover 6y ago
This is just plain wrong. Section 230(e)(1) [0]: > Nothing in this section shall be construed to impair the enforcement of section 223 or 231 of this title, chapter 71 (relating to obscenity) or 110 (relating to sexual exploitation of ch

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