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Every company with sensitive data need to consider insider threat risk. Many compliance standards require background checks specifically because employees can lie. My point is simple, it's not as simple as "employee complete tas
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grayfaced
2y ago
That sounds akin to saying a security breach doesn't matter until there are consequences. Not many companies would be comfortable being in the position that they have not verified the identities of employees who have access to payment
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grayfaced
2y ago
And if you find out that your developers were actually in North Korea and you've violated sanctions, would you care then? https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-disrupts-n...
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2y ago
Hate it in concept (I can't speak to Pave specifically). Metrics are useful if the manager doesn't make hard targets, the data is good and the model is good. How do you model compensation packages? how does 20 days leave compare
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2y ago
Yea that's the fault of the scoring method (Count pipes). Character count would be better... either that or play within the spirit of the game and learn the tools for their intended purpose. I use a lot of awk/sed for quick one-
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2y ago
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamemechanic/2831/real-time Galaxy trucker has a good app and would recommend it both on mobile and in real life. Sidereal Confluence is highly complicated, high investment game tha
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In 2004, I was doing something similar on Tmobile. Flip phones internet was cheap. Could tether it via a cable to laptop and I also used an external antenna to improve signal. I would leave it up overnight downloading videos on p2p. I w
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2y ago
What you're describing might be intended. Your argument hinges on the assumption that oversight was supposed to stop this, but it could be they just have a higher level of acceptable collateral damage. Either way, it's the respon
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3y ago
CPI accounts for shrinkflation, so it's not hidden. Turns out data collectors pay attention to the numbers.
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3y ago
I disagree. The other platforms built their walls secure enough that they don't bother. Nintendo is aggressively defending a low fence. Most Nintendo cartridges will function a decade from now. Many discs for other consoles don'
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3y ago
It was also banned and blocked in Russia for several years. It was only unbanned when they agreed to cooperate with security services. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_Telegram_in_Russia
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3y ago
It's not about the research itself, it's about what happened after the discovery of danger. If their research discovers harm and they discontinue the product promptly, that should be a mitigating factor. If their research discov
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3y ago
Most adblocker users are unaffected because it's only had a limited rollout. I've both been affected and unaffected using same software in an inconsistent way.
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3y ago
Do you have evidence of this single named company engaging in stolen items? Or just felt like throwing out accusations?
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3y ago
> if you hold industry liable for damage done by people improperly discarding its products, soon you will have no industry If it's predominantly being misused, then they do have a moral obligation. They control the packaging, and t
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3y ago
And others would interpret it as "We could safely fire our nuclear weapons." And I'm not counting on the guys responsible for building the weapons to decide the more altruistic interpretation.
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3y ago
Bridge has a built in channel for communication that has very limited bandwidth. The bidding conventions are about maximizing how much you communicate with limited symbols and almost no attempt at secrecy. Effectively it'd turn the g
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grayfaced
3y ago
On a statistical macro sense, yes you have.
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3y ago
Intentionally putting others in danger is immoral to many. But morality is subjective. Putting the whole community at net negative risk so you can squeak out personal advantage is perfectly acceptable behavior to some.
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3y ago
But in the period of the article (2008) things aren't as rosy as you paint. Car fatalities are up on a per mile basis. Life expectancy is flat (and turning down recently). Electric outages are up. Work-from-home is counter balanced
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3y ago
Most review sites have a profit incentive that doesn't care about the quality of review. But I'll call out a couple that put in effort to be trusted. Consumer Reports does independent testing with their established criteria. But
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> And yet, today Firefox has single-digit-percent market share, and the dominant player is in some ways worse than Microsoft was. MS seemed to want to make the web stagnate, while Google wants to turn the web into (more of) a privacy-fr
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3y ago
AI is a tool. Someday it will be more then that, but for now it's just a tool. If we design it and train it to be altruistic, it may be do some of the things he claims. If we design it and train it to deliver stockholders profit the
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Define "porn company", it'd be a stretch to call reddit one, but if the existence of any adult content is all it takes then there are plenty. Almost all of the premium cable channels (Cinemax) were showing softcore porn late
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Discord could replace reddit for interactive feeds/discussion. But I don't think it could replace it as a repository of past discussions. It's quite common for me to add site:reddit.com on google searches. Also reddits use
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Low demand doesn't have to mean low purpose. I would split demand out into two: urgency and significance. I want significant work, but not urgent work. Constant urgency will burn me out. Some people may prefer urgent work over non-
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4y ago
and chat bots won't ever "forget" to try and upsell you on the things corporate expects. Every cashier will be advertising.
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It's interesting design decision to preemptively fail when the connect might later be ambiguous. However in memory allocation, Linux will gladly allocate memory it doesn't have, return success and then later when you attempt to u
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Operational doesn't mean confidential. Sometimes reliability is the most important thing. For example sending a message to parents that school will be closed due to snow.
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I wonder if it's more about the usage then the tool. Group chats that are used primarily for communication with a social group seems like it could be healthier. But using it as a feed of content from internet celebrities the opposite
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