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by eganist 5y ago
> It's a one-man enterprise For this reason alone, I can't trust that they meet all the security considerations email providers now have as a consequence of all the services effectively delegating either secondary or primary au
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by eganist 5y ago
Worst case may be an unforeseen condition or outcome where she's alive but worse-off than before or without. But I agree. In the same position, I would do the same.
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by eganist 5y ago
Questions. > "We discovered the novel, disease-modifying therapeutic candidate SAK3, which, in our studies, rescued neurons in most protein-misfolding, neurodegenerative diseases." Grepping for Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (cjd) a
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by eganist 5y ago
> Of course this incident was inconsequential for Newsblur's customers. That in this case the impact for the customers was approx. zero doesn't change the relationship of Mongo+Docker <> Newsblur <> customers (i.e.
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by eganist 5y ago
> Is there any other profession were the professional, doing something wrong, would be called the victim? Would an engineer, having made an error when doing structural engineering calculations, be called a victim if the software used was
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by eganist 5y ago
> Everyone wants to be treated as a (software) engineer here, but the engineer's perspective in this situation would be the opposite: The victims are the customers, and the perpetrator, acting in negligence, was Newsblur. There can
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by eganist 5y ago
> I don't know why this is being downvoted. Multiple overlapping layers of security would have given newsblur a backup in case of accidental "footguns". Security specialist here. Startups are built by generalists. Good dec
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by eganist 5y ago
It's not all that great blaming the victim. They clearly made the right moves with at least some of their configuration decisions and leaned on the underlying platform not being bonkers (but alas, it was: https://github.com&
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by eganist 5y ago
> I had to use a Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter, a Thunderbolt 2 to FireWire 6-pin adapter and then FireWire 6-pin to FireWire 9-pin adapter. I was shocked that it worked so well. This same setup also works for other FireWire per
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by eganist 5y ago
> Not sure if you're being serious, and while it hasn't been tried AFAIK for the flight software specifically, but cost-minimization and outsourcing has been credited as the major sources of Boeing's safety problems for th
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by eganist 5y ago
I regret that this is the actual title of the article, but alas. Submitted it because this quote caught my eye: > “One thing Jonah was saying very early on that people thought was crazy — I thought he was crazy — was that platforms were
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OMG, BuzzFeed is worth 1.5B? WIN(theverge.com)
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by eganist 5y ago
Technically still a free man. No convictions against him as related to the extradition request.
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by eganist 5y ago
https://elpais-com.translate.goog/economia/2021-06-23/el-fun... Google translate.
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by eganist 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique
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by eganist 5y ago
Minimum 5k (inflation adjusted) or revenue lost plus punitives and attorneys fees, whichever is greater, plus a stipulation barring companies from performing automated takedowns if they slip from 99.999% accuracy. Some of HN's readers
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by eganist 5y ago
The article explores this a bit, specifically with ticks. > Ticks that cause alpha-gal syndrome are believed to carry alpha-gal molecules from the blood of the animals they commonly bite, such as cows and sheep. When a carrier tick bites
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by eganist 5y ago
This and Lyme are my main(ly irrational) reasons for never hiking outside of, like, Hawaii. And I'm sure a more seasoned HNer can scare me away from that, too. Any news on whether exposure treatments like those for peanut allergies hav
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by eganist 5y ago
> But that's also a billion+ users with much slower computers! So you need to compare the harm on both sides. Far more likely Microsoft would be legally exposed due to a skipped patch than a patch that slows machines down. Intel on
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by eganist 5y ago
Not speculating as to the reason why mtmail is being downvoted, but for those wondering, the reason the nazi Yellow Badge comparison is almost always off-limits is because there's really only one hard and fast rule as to whether the co
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by eganist 5y ago
> Deliberately going forward with something in spite of knowing for certain that it's not fit for purpose is called engineering malfeasance, not arrogance. An argument can be made for both. Malfeasance in that it was a significant a
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by eganist 5y ago
so basically just Iran Contra but not yet discovered.
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by eganist 5y ago
> What will be enough? If you make Election Day a federal holiday as important as Christmas do you still need to have such a large voting window and unrestricted mail in ballots? Even now, as is, most people have a two week window to cas
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by eganist 5y ago
The working class does get Christmas off, though. With limited exceptions. Which is my point. And the idea of making election day a national holiday is a baby step, one capable of getting the ball rolling on real change, like extended votin
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by eganist 5y ago
This is a good symbolic gesture, but making election day a federal holiday equivalent in standing with Christmas would have real and positive impact. But the latter never draws the votes in congress, so that should tell us how meaningless
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by eganist 5y ago
> It's very amusing you were actually able to show yourself laughing at anti-vaxers right here on HN, thus winning the argument against eganist completely. You should probably have called that out more clearly. I guessed what might
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by eganist 5y ago
> You should apologize to trhway. He's proven that his statement was correct with a comment he made here on HN in 2015 where he does indeed take a (very) pro-vax position. Done.
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by eganist 5y ago
Hey, I figure the downvotes were probably a consequence of tone, but your quoted post is a robust defense of your prior assertion about your position on vaccines. (in all honesty, I clicked the post a few times and wondered why you were lin
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by eganist 5y ago
> Sometimes when a package gets very popular other people step up to help, or take over. Other times the maintainer has a mental breakdown or just disappears. It sounds like this author is looking for a third option, one that doesn&#x27
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by eganist 5y ago
It seems like the reason is (paraphrasing) "because I can't meet the resulting burden of support." which is something I haven't really seen anything in the open source world manage, though that might be because I'm

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