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by hackuser 10y ago
> Whether it's understandable doesn't matter There is a wide chasm between provably misleading and confusion or lack of information on the readers' side. That's why those communications are regulated, afaik. > I&#x
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by hackuser 10y ago
> I believe state and local governments are unable to run a deficit. That's true in at least many places, but they still can borrow from the future by issuing bonds, or by pushing off massive costs like pensions. They underfund pens
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by hackuser 10y ago
Yes. The point is that corporations' new 'free speech rights' may interfere with that.
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by hackuser 10y ago
The principles you raise require a relationship where parties have relatively equal power. For example, if the CEO of a Fortune 500 company pushes a janitor for sex, you can say the janitor has the "free choice" to deny the CEO, b
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by hackuser 10y ago
> You can hold individuals responsible for misleading statements in financial disclosures notwithstanding the fact that individuals indisputably have free speech rights I'm not sure you can be effective if you do it reactively with
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by hackuser 10y ago
I don't agree. Is there some way you can back up that claim and be more specific? (Though I think you and I have had this discussion before?) All human institutions are 'rife with corruption' if the standard is some ideal, bu
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by hackuser 10y ago
I'd take a look at uMatrix, which is easier and more granular than NoScript (but lacks the more in-depth security features). It allows you to block/allow cookies, css, images, plugins, scripts, frames, and more on local/remot
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by hackuser 10y ago
Could you provide some examples? That's a serious allegation. I remember, as a volunteer, debating some privacy issue with a Google dev in Bugzilla. They made some crack about looking a gift horse in the mouth, but the discussion was o
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by hackuser 10y ago
I'm glad Firefox is doing this, but ... > Blocking third-party cookies can break some site that rely on third-party resources Can anyone name sites that require them? As someone who defaults to deny all cookies and manually enables
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by hackuser 10y ago
I wonder how many users understand the concept of profiles and the session isolation they provide, want to use them, yet find the command line too difficult to use.
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by hackuser 10y ago
Most innovation and progress now is at the city level (I'm not the first to say it). Name the last thing government achieved at a national level in the U.S. - there's health care, but that's now looking shaky. The priority of
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by hackuser 10y ago
An important detail: Comcast, backed by the local Chamber of Commerce, has threatened to sue the city over this law. On what basis? The corporation's Constitutional First Amendment free speech right to ask the question: http:/&#x
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by hackuser 10y ago
Close friend lowballed you on three days of work?
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by hackuser 10y ago
> I would suggest to use https://posteo.de instead. They offer anonymous payment by post (I'm just a happy user). I glanced at it. It may offer anonymous signup but it uses standard mail protocols. Almost every email Pos
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by hackuser 10y ago
Would you elaborate?
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by hackuser 10y ago
> If you live in a 5-eyes nation, don't use or buy services hosted or operated from a 5 eyes nation The 5 eyes spy globally. U.S. citizens are the only ones with legal protection and (limited) recourse for U.S. government spying, AF
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by hackuser 10y ago
> I have experience at Apple with Account Security and that's a clear violation of SOP It should be technically impossible. If it's a matter of choice for tech support reps, it's not secure for many reasons.
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by hackuser 10y ago
Also, learning information about individuals: Big clients, competitors, employees, critics, journalists, politicians, etc. etc.
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by hackuser 10y ago
IIRC those exist for law firms and they are called knowledgebases or knowledge management (which also are broader technical terms). I came across them years ago doing some research, though I didn't look into them deeply. Management can
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by hackuser 10y ago
> "No man is better than a machine, and no machine is better than a man with a machine." This concept also is popular in the military AI R&D world where the human-computer combination is called a 'centaur' (based
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by hackuser 10y ago
> i think it can probably be summed up with the sentence Hmm ... for anyone reading it, the article covers a lot more than the specifications for selling your dataset.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> The good news is that hedge funds are not advertisers and don't care about particular individuals This sounds disingenuous; it's not hard for the author or anyone else to imagine how Wall Street could use personally identifia
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by hackuser 10y ago
Unlike the vast majority of end users, many HN readers have inside influence over the technology threats - even if it's just lobbying for addressing them in your company and spreading the word to others. That gives us even more respons
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by hackuser 10y ago
> anyone who is actually really affected by these esoteric things They may seem esoteric, but they affect everyone. The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and the acidity of the oceans also are esoteric.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> My browser's disk footprint is already over 100MB. What's another X MB? Don't forget mobile and other platforms, where resources are more constrained.
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by hackuser 10y ago
Isn't that true of all of Tor? An extremely attractive target; arguably anyone with the resources, including most state intelligence agencies, would see high value in finding exploits (and not revealing them).
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by hackuser 10y ago
Is Rust harder to write than safe, readable C++ code? EDIT: Reworded it to be more specific
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by hackuser 10y ago
Good points. High-assurance can be very expensive in almost any area of IT. Speaking generally, when the asset is that valuable, the IT team should take responsibility for anticipating those problems - difficult, but not impossible. Sometim
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by hackuser 10y ago
No problem; I over-reacted a bit. Welcome to HN! We need more classy, intelligent discussion like yours, so I hope you stick around.
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by hackuser 10y ago
This blog post seems like a much better link to use: https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/arrival/

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