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by herge 12y ago
Wait, were the case files for Aaron Swartz classified or just never made public? What would be the reasoning for classifying his case? How was he a threat to national security?
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by herge 12y ago
Also, Daesh is a homophone with a french slang word for semen.
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by herge 12y ago
That's how Amazon packages its kindles.
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by herge 12y ago
What stops them from using SSL between CloudFlare and the 'oracle'?
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by herge 12y ago
Ugh, talk about an article needing a SavedYouAClick. So ApplePay might finally make mobile payments worthwhile, because of Apple's pressure on merchants. Which is nice because credit card fraud in the US accounts for 7-15 billion dolla
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by herge 12y ago
> Surely they'd never ban VPN. Wait until all file-sharing is done through VPNs. Or maybe they'll require people to pay for a "business" plan to use such a "business" feature.
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by herge 12y ago
Not really, you probably start with an entry-level sysadmin/devops position, and work your way from fire-fighting incident to firefighting incident. You just need an appreciation that any down-time in a system is a symptom of larger pr
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by herge 12y ago
Man, I really have the impression that my video-on-demand service has a better understanding of ensuring availability and risk-management than either my bank or any government service. Could you imagine say a utility company creating a titl
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by herge 12y ago
I'm going to guess you don't use the 'one-click buy' button on Amazon either?
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by herge 12y ago
The problem in the United States (where mit is based) is that a lot of benefits like health insurance and job security are tied to you working a full-time job with your employer. It would be more interesting to look at more socialist countr
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by herge 12y ago
Ecometrica (www.ecometrica.com) - Python/Django backend developer and Javascript frontend developer - Edinburgh, UK or Montreal, Canada Ecometrica is the company behind OurImpacts, the world’s premier greenhouse gas accounting and sus
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by herge 12y ago
I'm not sure but I bet that a country can issue bonds under any law it wants. It's just more likely to get people to buy bonds if they are under New York law (as opposed to say Argentinian law, where foreign bondholders would hold
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by herge 12y ago
For the emails and numbers, they can probably search for those in the messages quite effectively without many false-positives. I'm all for the expectations of privacy, but if you type something into a search box on a website owned by s
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by herge 12y ago
I worked in reinsurance, and there was the (apocryphal) story one year of how the government of South Africa had promised a million dollars to every player if their team won the world cup. On the flip side, the government looked for a reins
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by herge 12y ago
I disagree with the trowaway line "And without statistics we wouldn’t have modern quality control, so maybe we’d still be driving around in AMC Gremlins and the like. Scary thought, but not a huge deal, I’d think." In a world with
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by herge 12y ago
Banks will usually force their employees to take full weeks of vacation. That way, if an employee is skimming off the books a regular amount each week, they will notice that on the week the employee isn't present.
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by herge 12y ago
200 dollars is not a big emergency expense for someone who makes more than $100k per year.
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by herge 12y ago
> Particularly in NYC where surge isn't just long events like New Year's - surge kicks in during half hour rainstorms as well. Surge pricing also encourages uber drivers (who decide their own hours) that are about to end their
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by herge 12y ago
Are there these large armies of people who can afford and pay for taxis over public transportation at 1x but not exceptionally during a topical storm at 5x or 10x? A taxi is already a luxury good.
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by herge 12y ago
Maybe they serve meals when the flight crew wants to eat.
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by herge 12y ago
If the linked list has a loop, but you don't know it, how do you figure out the length of the list to allocate enough space for your array? How do you copy the list into the array without traversing the list? How do you traverse the li
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by herge 12y ago
How could you have a linked list with a loop in contiguous memory? Or in an array?
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by herge 12y ago
Right, but most of our economy is controlled by the price of labor. How have prices compared to the median wage? How much fuel could an average worker buy in 1960 compared to today?
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by herge 12y ago
How would you reverse a linked list with a loop?
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by herge 12y ago
I'd even make the effort of encrypting yourself any data you want to protect that you send to s3. GnuPG is not that hard to use with RSA.
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by herge 12y ago
Whenever I hear lightweight and complete, I always wonder if they handle one of the hardest things to do cleanly in web-apps: user authentication and access control of resources. Does Lotus support this out of the box?
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by herge 12y ago
Then you don't need shuffle, only play.
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by herge 12y ago
I heard that the only way to safely run docker is to have it secured by SELinux, which is available in RHEL and Core OS.
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by herge 12y ago
git reset HEAD^ Add --hard, --mixed, --soft for different effects. This command itself can be undone by going through git reflog and finding the appropriate commit.
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by herge 12y ago
> it allowed the high frequency traders to peek at the ballots others were sending in to the newspaper before they arrived, in turn giving them the ability to cast their votes using information not yet available to the rest of the market

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