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by emn13 9y ago
My guess that immigration is positive in the long run (I mean over timespans greater than a human life) isn't something to take seriously, I certainly don't ;-). But the argument goes as follows: - Long term immigration tends to h
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by emn13 9y ago
Panopticlick is a best guess, only. If you use exactly the same system twice, it should detect that. However, browsers and systems autoupdate frequently, and various other things that are fingerprinted are also not really fixed. For a sin
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by emn13 9y ago
The US is not alone in having a lot of illegal immigrants. It's hard to say to what extent the US is exceptional in their number (again, taking into account the size of the US). However, even if this is an exception, the number of ill
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by emn13 9y ago
I didn't intend to imply that immigration is good or desirable; it just is. It's a fact of life. I merely wanted to point out that the ratio of immigrants to natives in the US isn't particularly unusual. (I'd say it&#x
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by emn13 9y ago
That's a little misleading. Yes, in absolute numbers, the US absorbs more immigrants; but that's kind of a pointless statement - obviously the absolute number of immigrants is highly correlated with the countries size (probably b
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by emn13 9y ago
That's not at all the same, for (at least) 2 reasons. - Defaults matter; templates as defaults means most examples, support, tools, extensions, etc. will assume templating. - React without JSX doesn't actually affect the code stru
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by emn13 9y ago
He's definitely not wrong. Vue.js supports and promotes templates (e.g. right on the very "get started" page the homepage links to: https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/#Conditionals-and-Loops ) with yet a
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by emn13 9y ago
Yeah, even on that fair; jpg-unfriendly example jpeg still clearly beats flif above 22kb. And below 22kb - sure, FLIF is less bad, but it's still unusable. Also, the examples below 22kb are a little unfair to most codecs in practic
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by emn13 9y ago
And people today still use jpeg routinely, so I'm not sure any of that is really a killing blow.
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by emn13 9y ago
In that paper they're concatenating two hash outputs which obviously (right?) only makes it easier to reverse the hash - the attacker need only pick whichever hash he can work with quicker, and find the preimage for that. Given th
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by emn13 9y ago
It may have improved, but a few years ago at least zxcvbn was implmented by repeatedly trying various password "simplifications" at some kind of entropy cost. At the time it was quite easy to construct long (something like 60-cha
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by emn13 9y ago
Yet. But I agree that this talk of a deal sounds rather baseless. Sounds more like hollywood than real life.
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by emn13 9y ago
Unzoomably HUGE font. I don't think I've ever seen a title as large as this body text. Unreadable.
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by emn13 10y ago
Correct: the right to distribute a game with that branding and those mechanics is valuable if you have the means (such as any copy of the source) to do so. The source by itself is hardly (monetarily) valuable, pretty much to anybody. Blizz
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by emn13 10y ago
Most programming related workloads I can think of hardly benefit from avx2. Also, the additional power draw while using avx on intel is considerable, despite the clock rate drop; so perf/watt may not be as much behind as one might ini
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by emn13 10y ago
That's around 300 PPI, which is way more than enough; most photographs don't consist of super-high-contrast aliased lines, and thus will typically look OK printed at considerably less than 300PPI; depending on context you could go
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by emn13 10y ago
Nothing about free speech is straightforward. At least, that's my take: I don't believe free speech by itself has a lot of value. It's just noise, until you can interpret it; it's the message that matters. And in lots
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by emn13 10y ago
I think you're glossing over a major issue here: this is not merely Di Modica's attempt at imposing his vision of his work; it's also about SHE's attempt to import their vision of his work. That strikes me as being a
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by emn13 10y ago
...which doesn't make it any less irresponsible. However, judging by https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms17-01... it's likely somebody had some advance knowledge, somehow. Oh, and
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by emn13 10y ago
You realize it's much worse than that right? Because $10 billion is just the direct cost of those firms, not the opportunity cost or the social cost, nor even the manhours and software cost. The six-billion man-hours alone I&#x27
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by emn13 10y ago
Well. Driven to write about then ;-).
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by emn13 10y ago
Let me rephrase: why isn't the DMV and the NYPD liable for the damage caused by their actions? Of course you're going to get a bureaucracy Kafka would be proud of if it doesn't have to face any consequences for actions it tak
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by emn13 10y ago
The US justice system is a farce. Because let's be honest, there's precious little to motivate for law enforcement, prosecutors and judges to actually process your case quickly; and indeed there are various incentives to convict p
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by emn13 10y ago
I honestly don't understand how anyone that actually reads the economist can agree with the satire "according to the economist there is no problem that couldn't be solved without lower taxation, more deregulation, and more fr
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by emn13 10y ago
I'm not so sure: the thing is, those strings are not just a bag of bytes. They have semantics. Is it legal to include bytes that are 0? How about slashes in file names? How about byte sequences that aren't utf8 at all? These t
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by emn13 10y ago
To this day, user agent detection is the only (practical) way to avoid sending large polyfills to the 95% of clients that don't need them.
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by emn13 10y ago
I've got to say, this attack looks a little too obvious; that doesn't reflect well on lastpass.
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by emn13 10y ago
But then: why the color coding?
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by emn13 10y ago
You're missing the key point of my message. It's not rational to expect fear to be an unbiased estimator of risk. If you regard fear as a motivation, then it would be irrational to ignore factors other than risk. And that mean
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by emn13 10y ago
https://mozilla-old.badssl.com/ negotiates to TLS1.2 ECDHE RSA AES128 GCM SHA256 for me (FF54) which is fine. There may well be obsolete stuff that server does support; but as negotiated, that's pretty much as good a

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