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by ecdavis 11y ago
There's a pretty big difference between communicating in and about the present vs. communicating about the past. I think what you've identified is the beginning of a distinction between those two activities in the technologies we
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by ecdavis 11y ago
> What is wrong with the statement "We won't lower the bar"? The implicit assumption in that statement is that the current hiring process is not discriminatory, therefore the only way to hire more people of <group X>
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by ecdavis 11y ago
The improvements in traffic flow gained through full automation may even offset the decreased speed limits.
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by ecdavis 11y ago
I don't know enough about the SafeNet HSMs to elaborate on that, but they claim: > This manufacturer-validated devicee identification mechanism enables a strong trust model whereby customers can be assured that they are communicatin
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by ecdavis 11y ago
Good point regarding the outcome of an attack. > If Amazon is a bad actor they trivially have access to the HSM because they could just write some software that pretends to be the HSM. I believe SafeNet HSMs protect against attacks of th
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by ecdavis 11y ago
The value proposition of an HSM is that sensitive key material never leaves the hardware in plaintext (or at all, in the case of the SafeNet HSMs used by Amazon). An attacker who compromises a machine with access to the HSM is therefore abl
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by ecdavis 11y ago
> not someone who has actual power in the company. Two men are named in the article. One is on the Audi board of management. The other is on the Porsche board of management. I understand where the cynicism comes from, I really do, but it
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by ecdavis 11y ago
It seems like the majority of people saying these are scapegoats didn't read the article that closely. It clearly says these two engineers were top aides to the former CEO. Regulator's aren't stupid enough to be fooled by a c
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by ecdavis 11y ago
I think it started as expenses/spending/saving but has now become rent/other expenses+spending/savings. Recently I've seen other "rules" emerge which are far heavier on the expenses. Fidelity, for instance
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by ecdavis 11y ago
I totally agree, but it goes further than just differences between degrees. There are huge differences between individuals and institutions as well. In every area, the best (and sometimes only) jobs go to the best people. Where an applicant
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by ecdavis 11y ago
> [...] making herself available as an expert for news outlets. If a story says something negative about artificial sweeteners, Flipse said she might contact the PR agency and ask, “Do you want me to do something about that?” What does &
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by ecdavis 11y ago
The 33/33/33 rule aims to provide you with enough savings to cover your current cost of living in retirement. It's based on the assumption that your cost of living won't drastically change in the meantime. That assumptio
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by ecdavis 11y ago
They don't lose anything in the short term, but look what tipping did to the restaurant industry in the long term. As tips become standard, businesses use them as a reason to keep wages low - in some cases lower than minimum wage.
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by ecdavis 11y ago
Playing devil's advocate here, but instantaneous long-distance communication is also a very recent development, historically speaking. Traditional investigation methods relied on tracking people's movements, who they associated wi
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by ecdavis 11y ago
Look at the publication date.
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by ecdavis 11y ago
I don't think fractional reserve banking really counts as a scheme or a conspiracy. It's not secret at all, completely legal and has been widely studied by economists. I think "banks create money out of nothingness" is a
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by ecdavis 11y ago
Interestingly, far more wood smoke is released into the air during winter than during peak fire season. If the stated aim is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions then from a cost/benefit perspective moving away from burning wood for heat
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by ecdavis 11y ago
> Companies which explicitly hold other people's money are usually held to higher standards in holding it (Solicitors, Banks, Estate Agents, etc). For example deposits are usually held in a client account, separate from other corpor
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by ecdavis 11y ago
Edge is only set as your default browser if you use the "express settings" during upgrade. http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2015/07/windows-10...
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by ecdavis 11y ago
The FAA and NORAD did indeed have protocols to deal with hijackings in US airspace requiring a military response. Those protocols broke down somewhat on 9/11. A lack of communication between the FAA and the military slowed down the mil
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by ecdavis 11y ago
Leaving aside the comments that others have made (i.e. carnivores love offal) there's also a wide range of alternatives to canned pet food that do not require forcing an unnatural diet upon the animal. I used to feed my cat kangaroo me
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by ecdavis 11y ago
Some commenters are pointing out that this is similar to "with" in Python.[0] At first glance - and using the example given of reading from a file - that may be true, but consider the final example given in the article. The Python
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by ecdavis 11y ago
Since we're posting Python snippets: cards = range(52) random.shuffle(cards) return cards
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by ecdavis 11y ago
From the article: > A grown man is knocked over by ankle-deep water moving at 6.7 miles an hour. The tsunami will be moving more than twice that fast when it arrives. Its height will vary with the contours of the coast, from twenty feet
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by ecdavis 11y ago
> And I'm not sure why you'd want to when you can easily look up things in the documentation or on Stackoverflow. Why would you memorise foreign vocab when you could just look up what you want to say in a dictionary or phrasebo
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by ecdavis 11y ago
I read Kindly Inquisitors by Jonathan Rauch[0] earlier this year which makes a fantastic argument against the limitation of free speech. It was written over twenty years ago. While I wholeheartedly agree with Rauch's position, I can&
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by ecdavis 11y ago
I've considered this before. It's a nice idea, but it suffers due to the arbitrary length and complexity requirements that many sites place on passwords.
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by ecdavis 11y ago
Investigating and reporting a bug should never be considered "singling out" of a piece of software. Personally, I'd be grateful if someone pointed out a critical issue like this in my code. It means I have the opportunity to
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by ecdavis 11y ago
FYI, I discovered this a week or two ago and when I tried to pay using PayPal something timed out and I was unable to complete the transaction. I tried several times, and I don't think it was a PayPal issue. Eventually I just gave up.
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by ecdavis 11y ago
I've commented about this before[0] but figured I'd add: it's not the fact that police carry guns, it's the way that they use them. To paraphrase my other comment, Australian police also carry guns and yet the number of

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