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6y ago
Many companies does that, they buy the pallets and sell the stuff, sometime even on Amazon directly. There's plenty of Youtube video talking about it. There's even a shop near I live that even clearly advertise that they sell retu
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6y ago
> Don't go complaining about how you feel "undervalued". That's your interpretation, when I see that kind of complains, I don't see people that complains they feel undervalued, I see people complains that compani
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6y ago
Once everyone using your provider start filling up their connection, it won't be long until they implement one. What you got is a 200Mbps connection to your provider (and still that's probably a lie, it's probably shared befo
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6y ago
What I misunderstands is that Steve Mould video siphon support dual flush... thus the issue isn't whether it's dual flush or not but how it was made, which apply to both dual flush and single flush system.
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6y ago
> Apples policies probably result in developer harm, but anti trust law is to protect me as a user not you as a developer. Except that it does only as long as Apple decide to "protect the user", which is why antitrust laws are
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6y ago
I put free candy on my porch, anyone can take some, someone take them all, isn't he bad for doing so? I would say kind of ;). Thing is though, tax avoidance in the level Trump would have done is another layer way crazier. Most people c
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6y ago
> I could set my f2b rules to expire after days Why would you let the rule be shorter when the attack are more targeted? Doesn't make sense to me to lower it. > not see any performance impact from a big iptables blocklist. Wouldn
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6y ago
Hell I'm not arguing security by obscurity doesn't have an effect. I do believe it does hide security vulnerabilities that can be attacked, but it's still security by obscurity. >thus allows easier detection of worse attac
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6y ago
> No, if you want to compete with them, you just need to have a damn good product that billions of people use multiple times a day. * using billions of people clicks to infer what the best results for every single search query If crawlin
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6y ago
If you expect to be hit by that kind of attack (simple combination of username/password), then you should protect yourself from that kind of attack. It's never been easier nowadays to do this. You may answer that you could still m
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6y ago
EDIT: What happens to HN? It's my second post that get downvoted for no reason in this thread. This whole post is mostly question asking for clarification, how can they deserve to be downvoted? > So when you have SSH listening on so
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6y ago
What you just said it's the exact goal of security by obscurity. If you make something more secure by hiding it, it's security by obscurity. It won't be inherently more secure, the same flaws will still exist, it will just be
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6y ago
> There is a clear distinction between data I share publicly, data I share explicitly with US Facebook users, and data that I share in a limited setting not involving any US users. You lost me there. You shared it with Facebook users, wh
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6y ago
And you still fail to see how all of this make this much more easier to apply for Facebook than any startup? > If you’ve a hundred users in one country it’s worth your while having an instance just for them. What? No. We are on the web,
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6y ago
Sure but my point is that it's so complex that you need to seek a lawyer or else you may not be able to do it. That's what I always like about software development. It was simple, it was accessible... but now, you need a lawyer fo
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6y ago
What data? We are talking about ads. It's not the crawling data which help in targeting, it's what people click on, it's what people read, it's what people do. Being the search engine, if I search Asus computer, do you t
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6y ago
> I used the speeding analogy because it shares many similarities: That's so an obvious lie, seriously please be honest. You could use ANY analogy where there's no danger, which would then have more similarities, but still deci
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6y ago
> I think we will see them lose big in the courts. Thus you think their fight has no merits and you pretty much explained why they did this. If their case has merit, then the contract is null and void, thus no breach happened and they&#x
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6y ago
> The only things I can think of are how a user interacts with a page - I don't particularly think this is too concerning Except that many people don't want others to know how much they read something... I don't care, but
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> Personal suffering/sacrifice adds no value to the community, and in fact reduces it. What? How? If you see this extremely locally, like the community being, your country, sure, but I don't think that's apply when you con
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They do have exclusive access and control over the source of data that bring you that effectiveness though. I'm not saying anyone else should have access to Google data, but the fact that this is what make it effective and that essenti
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6y ago
> and embedded ML. I believe that's where they'll hit the hardest. They can keep GPU at the same competitive state, could even make it "easier" for competitors, but if they get a bit of advantage over ML, that's
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> It's a (seemingly) pretty simple matter of keeping track of how long someone looks at a video, and optimizing to show them videos they'll spend a long time looking at. It just push the creators to try to keep the viewer the l
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6y ago
Well that do bring a pretty interesting question. I publish a message on my Facebook wall, can it then be kept on Facebook US database? It just like an e-mail, any recipient should be able to keep it, isn't it? Okay now I send my age,
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> Disclaimer: I am not your lawyer, I have not prepared citations for your review, please seek legal counsel if you’re considering actions based on my opinion, etc etc. That say a lot....
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And you won't have to build one storage instances for the US, one for the EU, one for China, and one for every single country that decide that their privacy regulation are superior than others countries...? Facebook can have a pretty b
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6y ago
Sure but the interactions aren't occasional over Facebook, they are pretty regular, in fact it's the whole concept of the platform to constantly share that data to your friend group. Sure it could be only accessed when you friend
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I just went to the documentation there: https://wicg.github.io/native-file-system/ I get that from your comment you agree that this is enough to mitigate the risk they themselves bring up: >Another risk factor is th
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> Also as noted elsewhere, existing web features already allowed reading files and even entire directories; None of theses access are persistent though. > the writing files part is new, and you cannot choose system directories, or ask
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6y ago
> For years, I was profoundly puzzled by people that are willing to give hundreds -- if not thousands -- of dollars to (mostly women) they'll never meet for what's basically freely available offline. That's because you see
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