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by elipsey 8y ago
Article states that social credit scores are kept for foreign firms: "[...] the violation was also recorded on the social credit system’s National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System."
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by elipsey 8y ago
I'm a bit hazy on the practical difference between PIC/PIE and ASLR binaries, in terms of both security and what is required to build. Would anyone care to remark on this?
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I would guess most of them. I don't think the population has grown proportionately with the tourist traffic. They used to only dock a couple of smaller ships at time, which had less impact on the town. It's the state capital, and
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by elipsey 8y ago
I grew up in Alaska in a town of about 30,000. The cruise ships carried ~5000 passengers, and they kept building new docks, so that there would be several at a time docked and anchored, each of which was bigger then our 10 story federal bui
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by elipsey 8y ago
I think "Savings Rate" here is meant in the technical sense, not in the sense of household finances. It's an accounting identity in macroeconomics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_identity
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This is a problem because you often can't just find a room to rent. Instead you have to lease an apartment with other people and be legally responsible for their behavior. It allows landlords to shift risk on to tennants because leases
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by elipsey 8y ago
Where is deep east Oakland? can you give me a landmark?
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We used to have one called the "The First Amendment to Bill of Rights."[1] Maybe someone could see if that's still on the books. Was there anything in there about whether the govt could kick the crap out of you while you do i
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by elipsey 8y ago
Bear stories are great. Except for the politics, this article feels like sitting around a campfire talking shit over beer and marshmallows. I grew up in Alaska, where we have been dealing with this for a little longer. Actually, most of us
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by elipsey 8y ago
Yes, I know this article too, and I apologize for the collateral annoying-ness of my comment. I knew I was stepping in one of those, but it’s not what I came in here for. The downside of being ill-advised in this way is exceptionally, asymm
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Yep, meds are terrible. My comment is for that small fraction of the population for whom "Just knock it off" is a dangerously wrong but appealing idea -- like curing cancer with coffee enemas. These folks have a high mortality rat
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PULIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: author trolls the mentally ill in standard way, says they're doing it for attention. If you have serious psych diagnosis like BP etc., please avoid this content; your loved ones know you're trying and o
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Thank you, I think I see what you mean: a manager recommends an employee for promotion OR a manager recommends an employee for firing. My reading of the question might sound ridiculous, but I have been in situations like that in the past. I
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I understand either of those, but not the case where an exec picks out some employee they don't know anything about and insists that they be either fired or promoted right just now.
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> If you're a VP and suddenly someone asks, "Hey, can you promote or fire Person X?" Why would anyone suggest such a thing? Absent new information shouldn't the default action be to humanely leave person X alone so th
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Anyone still running open source firmware? I gave up and cried when I noticed the version of Tomato I was using had been unmaintained for several years, and couldn't find any reasonable way to replace my router or my firmware that sati
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It's a... man bear pig.
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"It seems like by having the ability to change one’s [Instagram] password by email or by mobile alone negates the second factor and it becomes either/or from the attackers point of view." I believe I have seen this version of
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by elipsey 9y ago
Awesome. I've been wanting to finish that, but I scratched my CDROM. True story. Also, I don't have Windows 95 or an optical drive anymore. Is this one of those deals where the art assets are removed?
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by elipsey 9y ago
This is a good point, and easy to imagine a situation where a foreign citizen might fear retaliation from various bad actors were it know that they were exfiltrating assets to other countries. I think the question should be whether this is
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by elipsey 9y ago
I didn't mean to propose that, but I see the problem that land is _already_ owned anonymously. Also, we (in the U.S.) already do this in limited circumstances. For example, if I don't pay my property taxes for long enough, my prop
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by elipsey 9y ago
The complaint is against anonymous ownership, not foreign ownership. I didn't notice any statement in the article opposing foreign ownership in general. Cameron states "We need to stop corrupt officials or organised criminals usin
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It seems kind of strange to me that govt actors complain about money laundering while using their monopoly of force to protect the property rights of people (at least human people, not corporate “people”) who won’t even admit ownership. It
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by elipsey 9y ago
Ambiguous title. On my first reading I thought: do they mean animals? ...or missiles? ...oh no it's even scarier then the first two!
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It seems like this function should just be built in to the DE's, like windows (does mac have this too?). i guess doing it manually with (g)ufw isn't too hard, but it's another one of those things that i can't teach my pa
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by elipsey 9y ago
We were just talking about this at a lock picking meetup (lots programmers there too). The consensus seemed to be that if it has all the security problems of IoT plus all the security problems of doors... that would be a lot of fun for us.
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by elipsey 9y ago
I think what they meant was hardware standardization and commoditzation driven by PC clones allowed linux to target a cheap standardized hardware platform that IBM had no legal standing to control after Microsoft started selling windows sep
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by elipsey 9y ago
Thanks for introducing me to this column, it’s hilarious. “’With hashgraph every user participates in confirming transactions, so the process is faster.’ I realize that I am in many ways an ignorant rube, but I am constantly confused by the
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Thanks. I asked because I used to think people I knew were buying stupid shit, and at the same time a lot of my friends made fun of me for being a cheapskate. When I was younger I managed to have a very low income for a while, but perhaps s
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Do you mind if I ask what you mean by "stupid crap"?

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