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by gist 5y ago
> If some random smart person put up the same article, everyone would congratulate them for at least the effort. Some 'random smart person' or 'some random notable smart person'? Perhaps what people react to is the im
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> what only matters is to what degree is it able to be enforced (and in practice) against companies that have no assets under EU jurisdiction This is exactly true. Now sure the nervous nellies will be all over what outlier things can hap
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> Paying ransom should be illegal. Perhaps instead it should not be legal to say publicly you paid a ransom but ok to pay the ransom. That would tamp down a bit the publicity that encourages more actors. That would be a quick and easy fi
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by gist 5y ago
I am curious what your thoughts are on other commenters making as if it is possible to prevent these types of attacks by just taking security 'more seriously'. My guess is that you know that no matter how much is spent with a larg
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by gist 5y ago
The essay is really just self serving to keep stoking the YC starmaking machinery (see lyrics to 'Free Man in Paris' by Joni Mitchell). Keep people dreaming and some of the crazy ideas will hit. People often forget that even Apple
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by gist 5y ago
Amazing the bad attitudes on this thread. Perhaps people in the creative arts should realize there is more supply than demand for what they do and stop being jealous that others are willing to take advantage of an opportunity to get notice
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by gist 5y ago
Who is the 'we' in that statement? You think this free market thing means get the government involved to prevent some kind of exploitation?
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by gist 5y ago
I don't get why everyone thinks this is so bad. It's great and free publicity for the photographers. They are trading their time for something that will bring them future business and will get them attention to get paid jobs. Whi
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by gist 6y ago
> just another way that medical care destroys people's future in this country, also had to liquidate a good part of my retirement). Is it right to blame medical bills rather than blame bad luck for your misfortune and/or lack o
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> Yes, there's also something about techies that get older that makes them more negative? Most ideas do not work and even most that work don't work as well (in terms of making money) as coinbase has. The only reason we are dis
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That was actually (and it says in the wikipedia) the Philly Police Department. Unrelated: Years after that event I met the news photographer who had strapped his camera to a microwave truck's telescoping antenna to get a shot in the ai
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Coinbase Independent Directors Have Close Company Ties(wsj.com)
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> So, everything is fucked. We have (had) a custom DNS system built into our custom ERP software (don't ask). It had an integration to our old (bind) nameservers, which was stragith up awful and we've been trying to replace it
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by gist 6y ago
> Oh I don't agree. I think there are downsides to putting a 'mod' tag beside usernames, quite strong downsides actually What are those 'downsides....quite strong downsides actually'?
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> It's not wrong, of course, but it's been repeated for many years and won't lead to fresh conversation. Assumes there are no new readers on HN and that everyone reads almost everything and nothing needs repeating. Also it
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by gist 6y ago
> they are finally learning that existing on someone else's platform sucks Suttons Law applies 'because that's where the money (ie audience) is'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Sutton
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> Many donors may simply never have considered the distinction between restricted and unrestricted donations. They may believe that donating money for some specific purpose is just how donation works. And to be fair, nonprofits don&#x
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> If restricted donations do less good than unrestricted ones, why do donors so often make them? Partly because doing good isn't donors' only motive. They often have other motives as well — to make a mark, or to generate good p
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> Plenty of companies seem to think that seeming like "a good company" is a sufficient business reason to do a post-mortem. 'good company' to what audience? Hackers and security people and 'nerds'. How big i
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by gist 6y ago
Agree but nobody wants to believe that. Since many of the people who see upside have a vested interest in that upside remaining even to the detriment of others.
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Posts like this often seem to be a waste of reading time. Even if the person is 'a somebody'[1] there is often no context to other details just outrage by the community believing it as truth in some way. And then the predictable o
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by gist 6y ago
> did we ever see post mortem from Solarwinds? Other than to provide misinformation (to lead people astray) what is the advantage to solar winds to do a post mortem? Why educate people? Upside vs. downside? A businesses purpose is to act
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Use case of DO vs. AWS or Google Cloud or similar?
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> 2. homework project > 3. call with engineer to discuss said homework project How much time does it typically take (or should take) to complete a 'homework' project? > 4. two phone screens with engineers > 5. onsite
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by gist 6y ago
> It's fair to say that Maddow has an opinion show, not a news show. With many of these shows is they are a bit of 'looks like a duck quacks like a duck'. By that I mean the format and the presentation look as if they are
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> Apple makes it clear in big bold letters that you're compromising security by using alternative booting technology. Can you give an example(s) of how you are compromising security? If I make my own boot drive and boot from it how
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What was the rational for Apple making the M1 Macs so difficult (for lack of a better way to say it) than the older macs. Example is currently you can't easily boot from an external drive [1] a feature that many people found very usefu
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> Ordinarily, the law would be on Citibank's side here. Under New York law, someone who sends out an erroneous wire transfer—for example, sending a payment to the wrong account—is entitled to get the money back. But the law makes an
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> But, it's important to also point out how bizzare this exception is, how did this even get included as the one and only exception? It's not really 'an exception'. The article most likely written by a non business p
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> Carl Hart is a neuroscientist and Ziff Professor of Psychology at Columbia University—he was the first tenured African-American professor of sciences at Columbia. This starts off reading like one of those spam emails of the past where

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