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by dlss 14y ago
I don't get this. While it's cool that you don't charge based on bandwidth or TCP connections, it sounds like you basically do when that bandwidth is associated with an "attack". Doesn't this make CloudFlare customers more vulnerable to a
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by dlss 14y ago
FYI this is a concern that companies using USD also face. (For example Apple will quote a USD price for a laptop that they will build using Yuan... even though the exchange rate between USD and Yuan is always changing). In fact, your USD pi
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by dlss 14y ago
Great post. Thanks for taking the time to write this up. I think you're probably not doing projects to help people, but instead projects that you think would be fun to do. If you start with a burning itch, or a person that needs help, you w
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by dlss 14y ago
I think this is a wrong question. The premise is that by picking and choosing which stories to cover you can make the world better for your world view. From this sort of logic you can make the case that Google shouldn't support all possible
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by dlss 14y ago
I wasn't saying that no lists of wanted persons was publicly available... just that no complete list of people a drone would kill on sight was available. Are you saying the people on this list would be killed on sight? (if so, thanks for th
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by dlss 14y ago
Sorry, that's what I meant. It was supposed to be a funny Star Wars reference :p
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by dlss 14y ago
This sounds right. I guess I would be in favor of drone airstrikes that froze suspects in carbonite so they could be collected for questioning. However, focusing on current technology, I think the scary part about these rules for airstrikes
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by dlss 14y ago
Same here. At least for me, it looks like buttons don't matter. Huh.
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by dlss 14y ago
Do you happen to remember which comment he's referring to?
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by dlss 14y ago
Yes exactly. key = f(data); upload(encrypt(data, key)); store_key(filename, key); Which is to say that every file has a globally 1-to-1 mapping to its encrypted version. I'm not sure how they are storing the (User, [(Filename,Key)]) data, b
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by dlss 14y ago
Maybe this is me having spent too much time thinking about econ, but I don't get why the analogy is backwards here. What is special about the person spending money? A car rental company is filling a large number of slots, and the renter wou
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by dlss 14y ago
This part was golden: Agency : How much did you pay for your last rental car? Applicant : I don't see how that matters. What are you charging? Agency : We like to know what you paid before so you get a fair rate. Applicant : I paid market r
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by dlss 14y ago
Why is this on the front page? This is barely even about Aaron Schwartz -- he wasn't disabled, friendless, or prone to drooling for example. Less of these kinds of posts, please. That said, I'm glad it was here if only to read jamesagilar's
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by dlss 14y ago
I think you're confusing "too late" with "physically impossible". I'm a 28 year old with more things I'd like to do than I can do (barring medical advances that drastically extend my lifespan). I wouldn't say it's too late to do them, just
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by dlss 14y ago
While brainless did commit the survivorship bias, I would consider you responding to what he said rather than what he meant to be attacking a strawman. In this case, lets consider all humans who ever considered suicide. Now, while it's tr
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by dlss 14y ago
Ignoring the fact that Person is clearly a subclass of Mammal, I like this. A couple comments: - the name LegalEntity feels better to me. (I think it's less likely to be confusing to the lawgrammers who'll be maintaing the code). - Once we
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by dlss 14y ago
> When you want to sue one, who will you sue? Okay, since I'm sensing this is about to become a type theory conversation, let's start with the function definition: sue :: Person -> Claim -> Person -> Maybe Money Now you're b
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by dlss 14y ago
yes? unless I read that wrong he's saying he'd have to work 4.5 months for his post-tax savings to equal $5k...
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by dlss 14y ago
Misleading title. If you are supposed to share files by putting them in multiple folders at once (in the style of symlinks), then deleting a folder should only delete the file if the folder contains the only reference. This is a real bug.
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by dlss 14y ago
OP doesn't seem to understand the ideas he's trying to communicate. Speaking as someone who loves advice, there are few things that annoy me more than bad advice. Your spending is a choice, yes. But since the benefit of a purchase (the pr
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by dlss 14y ago
"Piracy is almost always a service problem" - Gabe Newell I understand that HBO has some sort of proprietary online video watching service, but speaking as someone with no TV and no desire to pay for basic cable merely to enable my paying f
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by dlss 14y ago
> Figuring out if a candidate is a person, rather than a meat robot, isn't "irrelevant crap." I have noticed a strong correlation between people who don't get jazzed over something--hobbies, academics, whatever--are not people I want to
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by dlss 14y ago
Exactly this. He's hiring someone to do account management. The candidate has experience in account management, the rest of the team thought he'd be able to do it. The autor vetoed hiring for a customer facing position because the candidate
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by dlss 14y ago
I do use this feature -- I often select random blocks of text while reading. This feature means I often (5-10% of the time) have to click discard and then reply again to get my desired behavior. In related news nytimes.com used to have a si
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by dlss 14y ago
Why not just leave for a job at BigCorp?
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by dlss 14y ago
Yeah, it was really weird hitting the bottom of the article only to find a vaguely racist nonsensical byline.
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by dlss 14y ago
Exactly. A patent this broad is anticompetitive, and will cripple the future of the DRM industry. Clearly Myhrvold has made the world a worse place. The only thing I can think of that's worse was IBM's patenting the process of patent trolli
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by dlss 14y ago
1. I think there is something very cunning about a plan to force people to pay royalties on the method of collecting their royalties 2. If they set the price high enough (which they will for the same reason that music prices are so high), t
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by dlss 14y ago
I think the bigger problem is that the questions are currently in plain text, which, since they require a human to write and once solved are solved forever, makes the approach as implemented a sort of quixotic reverse captcha. If they switc
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by dlss 14y ago
Of course, that's true only if Utility(profit) > Utility(enemy's pain). I wonder if services like these count as consumer credit services (and hence are governed by all sorts of fairness laws)

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