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by ggggtez 6y ago
I'll not conclude anything, but I will say that engineering a virus is an order of magnitude easier than a vaccine. It's a pure mapping problem. There are thousands of known viruses that affect humans. But most viruses don't
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by ggggtez 6y ago
> Thing I keep seeing and don't understand is "Legitimate interest" as a separate thing to consent. I think it's like this: Legitimate interest means you've signed up to use the product. It then is assumed that y
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by ggggtez 6y ago
>DIRECTLY Even in your example, the effect from Open Source is at least two steps removed. The problem you are referring to has more to do with Moore's law than open source software. Let's take IBM in the 1950s. Renting the u
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by ggggtez 6y ago
You seem to imply that every tech worker is pro-tax breaks (they are not). In fact, it's perfectly possible to disagree with your company's policy on taxes, and agree with their policy on inclusivity! In fact, these tech workers
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by ggggtez 6y ago
This is bikeshedding to the extreme. Who cares if Github changes what words they use (from "master" to "main"). The poster claims that they personally were not asked about the change . Who cares what that person thinks?
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Oh, I see. Sure I guess. But it's not a DDoS either. It would just be a DoS.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Your comment doesn't make any sense. Open Source Software is a solution for the problem of companies writing bad software under the assumption that no one will bother finding bugs if they are too annoying to find. History proved that w
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by ggggtez 6y ago
> It's like you DDoS'd someones real life No... It's called "doxxing". DDoS is completely different.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
> Found their (current!) password for email, social media, etc (but not bank) from a breach from 2016 (!!!) When a friend of mine asked me to do a similar challenge, I actually forgot to check password dumps. Then again, I also didn&#x27
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by ggggtez 6y ago
In my experience, I told them I didn't remember, and they told me "yeah it's just a bunch of random letters..." but they didn't let me through and required me to go through different security confirmation instead. I
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by ggggtez 6y ago
I think the key to the Street address question is to actually first find their parents and then find the addresses that they lived at. There is a non-zero chance their parents still live at the same address. And if not, there are likely
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by ggggtez 6y ago
You're conflating two disparate issues. Privacy and Security should not be thought of an analogs. You're talking about security. I don't think that's helpful for understanding the issues at hand.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
I think it's worth pointing out that Facebook isn't the only platform, though I don't think every article needs to cover all social media equally. This article does a deeper dive on one particular company's issues (and
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by ggggtez 6y ago
> https://www.forbes.com/sites/andreatinianow/2020/07/01/bitco... 1.4 billion dollars of Ransomware vs a private company using it as a way to shuffle money around. I don't think you'll
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by ggggtez 6y ago
No need to assume that everyone who disagrees with you hasn't done their own research. I've read plenty on Bitcoin, thanks. Instead of sending a dozen articles and expecting someone to read it and figure out what point you are try
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by ggggtez 6y ago
In my experience, this is not true. The web version is missing features that the desktop version has. Zoom also uses dark patterns to try to get you to install the desktop app, even if you could join via browser.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Yet another article defending Bitcoin that only tackles strawman arguments and ignores the indefensible issues. 1) Bitcoin is environmentally harmful 2) Bitcoin's only practical use right now is paying off ransomware, or hiring crimina
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Here is my reading of your situation: 1) You posted a review which presumably got flagged as being spam/low-quality (maybe an automated system flagged it for having ALL CAPS or curse words, or who knows what). 2) You posted the same re
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by ggggtez 6y ago
I don't know about you, but if I learned that my doctor, with whom I trust my health, spent 4-6 hours a week in a class where they learned to say "Circle Circle Dot Dot, now you got the cootie shot" like a kindergarten rhyme.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
There is a point to be made, but you've made it all wrong. You could argue that the $2000 transaction is actually validating all previous transactions... which sure. I will grant you that. But by that reasoning, you need to amortize a
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by ggggtez 6y ago
I don't think that being a loving person requires you to be polyamorous. I think you can be sexually open and loving to one partner at a time, but accept that each individual partner may have an unknown time limit. This understanding t
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by ggggtez 6y ago
You don't have to think of sex as this deep emotional bond between two people. In one sense, you've been tricked into believing that that is the only way. So one solution is to accept that sex can be just that: just sex. It ca
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by ggggtez 6y ago
There are communities devoted to deep understanding of games. These tend to be in the Speedrun or Tool-Assisted-Speedrun communities. Both tend to be high time investments, but can reveal deep understandings of a game, including how to ex
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by ggggtez 6y ago
I get the vague impression that Dr. Seuss' estate asked eBay to do this, but maybe we'll never know.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
I respect eBay's ability to decide what is for sale on their platform, but I agree with the reporter: It's incredibly silly to ban a Dr. Seuss book when Mein Kampf is available. This is what people call "virtue signaling&quot
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by ggggtez 6y ago
> trials There is a key word that you are missing. In the trials . Not the full release. The citation is in the article itself. Please look at the table which shows the number of people in each vaccine trial, and the number who were hos
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by ggggtez 6y ago
You also seemed to miss this part of the article, which is very telling beyond just shaming someone > Besides the commit raising questions about Gab’s process for developing secure code, the social media site is also facing criticism f
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by ggggtez 6y ago
> We shouldn't call out and shame individuals for making a mistake like this. Yes we should . This individual is the company. He's the CTO. "Chief" Technology Officer. The buck has to stop somewhere. How can you po
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by ggggtez 6y ago
There was a time when I read Amazon reviews. At best now, I only look at the 1 star reviews to see if there are glaring problems. Any review with 4 or more stars causes "ad blindness" for me. I don't even see them.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Twitter isn't a monopoly, now you're just being silly. > Can you name a single high profile twitter ban that was due to promotion of white supremacy, sexism, or similar? Since you only asked for one, I'll give you probably

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