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by curryst 5y ago
I thought the same thing as you, but many students use their personal devices. I can't imagine the pain of trying to get all the students to set that up correctly, and the security implications of managing certificate stores is not so
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by curryst 5y ago
> I know this sounds mean but software developers are really embarrassingly bad at security, because security is inconvenient by design and developers strive for convenience. This is a common statement from security people, and in my vie
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by curryst 5y ago
I'm genuinely curious how they plan to handle that. Not a lawyer, but this can't possibly be legal, can it? It seems like negligent libel at the very least, and maybe reckless endangerment? I also can't imagine that the lawye
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by curryst 5y ago
> Does making it substitute for foreign language education, and thus effectively, relative to the status quo, discouraging foreign language education make any sense as a way to do that? No, not at all. Of the two, programming education i
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by curryst 5y ago
As someone upthread pointed out, Home Depot will rent you an F-250 (or another model with a slightly larger bed) for $20/hr. I buy a fair amount of "too big to fit in my car" stuff from Home Depot (mostly lumber), but I&#x27
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> That and given the police are more curtailed into accepting this, the whole criminal world will be less so inclined to follow those rules. After all, it maybe that some criminal organisation may be using this to identify police operati
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by curryst 5y ago
I typically let them leave a voicemail and then call them back immediately if I need to. A big difference between spam callers and normal callers is that normal callers are extremely easy for you to contact back. Spammers want to call you,
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by curryst 5y ago
I found this other article: https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Grid-Oper... They keep referring to the list in "firms" instead of facilities or something like that. It sounds like they qu
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by curryst 5y ago
I like the idea, but it would need some refinement. > Juries participating get rewards (badges, recognition, opportunities as judges / advocates, etc) There are also external rewards that need to be considered. For example, being a
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by curryst 5y ago
Many of the platforms have proactive DMCA applications that actively scan their own content. They have a non-zero false positive rate, although I have no idea what the probability is.
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by curryst 5y ago
I think it basically looks like Reddit. You carve up the site into fiefdoms and then have users self-moderate. Moderation that happens at the site layer largely targets fiefdoms rather than users. New accounts are easy to create, but new co
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by curryst 5y ago
The main advantage is that if you screw it up or an update borks the shell itself, it's easier to fix if it isn't your login shell. At one point I decided to set Elvish as my login shell, and it turned out to not function as a lo
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by curryst 5y ago
They were originally a segregation tool, which is a bad way to start. It was not uncommon for the government to use imminent domain to evict huge groups of black people to build white-only public housing. That continued up until the early 6
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by curryst 5y ago
> tube and knob wiring I was actually reading that properly done tube and knob wiring isn't much more dangerous than the current standard. The problem was that it had to be exposed to dissipate heat, which led to a lot of people wo
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by curryst 5y ago
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/22-flsa-hours-w... Under "Waiting Time". If you're forced to be there, they have to pay you. There have been several cases recently. There was a
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by curryst 5y ago
I disagree with using "the Auschwitz rule of interpretation". The first reason is that it's the rhetorical equivalent of comparing someone to a Nazi. It immediately escalates the discussion to a comparison with one of the w
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by curryst 5y ago
It's actually worse than that. Assuming you do have something illegal in those boxes, they've pulled a legal maneuver whereby you are forced to claim ownership. It's an end-run around the 5th Amendment right against self-in
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by curryst 5y ago
I strongly suspect that part of the reason sales taxes are easy to pass is because it's really hard to convert that into a dollar amount that you'll end up paying. For income tax, you can ballpark it by just multiplying your inco
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by curryst 5y ago
The main advantage is avoiding the traditional financial systems, as you note. One use of that is to launder money, as you note. Other uses include paying for illegal things (drugs, child pornography, or in some countries run of the mill
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by curryst 5y ago
There are 2 things that made that less severe. Firstly, it started with an understanding that it would be extremely temporary. There wasn't much concern (at least among the people I know) that life couldn't go back to largely nor
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by curryst 5y ago
Cash requires a known location and/or time, and may involve the client seeing your face if face-to-face trades are made. You still need to be local to perform the assassination, but the time and location are still vague. It's bas
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by curryst 5y ago
Sure, and your house might look a smidgen better if it were painted a slightly different shade of the same color. It's a lot of work for very little gain. Bandwidth is cheap. Human time is not. There are better ways to spend developmen
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by curryst 5y ago
I think there's a net benefit to both sides here. The insurers probably charge a lot, in part because the risk is so hard to estimate and changes constantly with changes as well as new CVEs. I doubt they're losing money. The in
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by curryst 5y ago
The core question here is whether we consider the app store on mobile OS' to be part of the OS, or a separate product. Apple believes the App Store and iOS to be one inseparable unit; you cannot have one without the other. They are t
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by curryst 5y ago
I don't see how this is dramatically better than existing systems that can fire a rope ladder on hooks onto the railing. I suppose there's a failure rate on those attaching, but you can realistically carry several of those on a b
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by curryst 5y ago
You can already do that with VPNs. Businesses already heavily leverage them, and consumers are generally not interested in the hassle. You'd also have to be careful with the implementation. If one computer can be connected to both n
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by curryst 5y ago
I think I understand your proposal here; the idea is to discourage consumption at the megacorp level, and increase consumption at the small business level? A couple of thoughts here. Firstly, revenue is a bad way to measure this. Low-marg
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by curryst 5y ago
There really should have been some kind of SLA clause in the contract that specifies the university gets back X% of their quarterly/yearly payment for each false positive they catch. Gives the vendor a good reason to avoid false positi
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by curryst 5y ago
The default text communication application on the phone silently converts messages into a proprietary format, and it only barely interoperates with SMS. If it came with some kind of proprietary voice system that only barely worked with And
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by curryst 5y ago
The whole thing will exit if any of those fail because of the double ampersands. Semicolons are the ones that ignore exit codes. Things like this are why I don't love bash. Whether a script will fail if a step fails is too important to

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