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by ipsin 7y ago
Are they actually blocking Google somehow? No robots.txt, no 403 when using a Googlebot user agent to fetch the site page...
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by ipsin 7y ago
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml... It's prohibited from trying to sell you something or influence your vote, but Eliza doesn't do either of those things...
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by ipsin 8y ago
I feel that the FTC's story leaves a few things to be desired. Here's a timeline: 1) Circa 2009, scammy "PC Diagnosis" scam starts. 2) Feb 2012, class action filed against Support.com for scareware up-selling a subscrip
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by ipsin 8y ago
I'm curious how you're doing authorization in Envoy. Is it a JWT-based httpfilter?
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by ipsin 8y ago
I think most of what we've solved in math is not obvious. Some accessible examples would be Fermat's Last Theorem or the four color problem.
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by ipsin 8y ago
I-710 in Los Angeles is another freeway that's taken 60+ years (proposed in 1954), and at this point I don't think it's ever going to be connected to the I-210. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstat
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by ipsin 8y ago
US P2P platforms seem like a great way -- as a borrower -- to convert your non-dischargeable debt (credit cards, student loans) into unsecured debt. So: great for borrowers, terrible for lenders.
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by ipsin 8y ago
If I'm reading this [1] right, some TLDs can be renewed by a different party. In that case, "link rot" might become wholesale link poisoning. [1] https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/gtld-registry-
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by ipsin 8y ago
Has Intel offered an official "disable ME" patch? I'd like to close the door once and not worry about it again.
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by ipsin 8y ago
Given this news, I'm going to contact some other large mall chains (e.g. Westfield), in the hopes that they'll confirm that they don't give out license plate data to third parties. I'll be interested to see how they resp
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by ipsin 8y ago
They used computers during WW II for rangekeeping [1]. They were complicated and heavy electromechanical beasts. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_I_Fire_Control_Computer
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by ipsin 8y ago
From the decision: "This decision is narrow. It ... does not address other business records that might incidentally reveal location information" and "We hold only that a warrant is required in the rare case where the suspect
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by ipsin 8y ago
I thought the parent was taking it seriously, and I also think that part of taking that seriously is recognizing that someone who is that despondent might attempt suicide-by-cop.
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by ipsin 8y ago
Using the postal service might be lower-risk, but it's not risk free. If you try that, don't forget about the Mail Covers [1] program. If you're mailing a reporter at the NY Times, you're at risk if you use your own hand
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by ipsin 8y ago
I have this queasy feeling that the U.S. is killing people who aren't actually taking up arms against it. If doing so shaves a few percent off the error rate that's saving innocent lives, but it's also becoming an essential p
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by ipsin 8y ago
Wyden is a treasure. He's also, to my mind, the one who precipitated the Snowden leaks. Wyden asked Clapper if the NSA collected data on Americans. Clapper lied. According to Snowden's account, that's what set him in motio
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by ipsin 9y ago
This is an RFC 5233 subaddress.
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by ipsin 9y ago
Maaaany email address validators will reject Gmail addresses with + in them as "not valid". "Read the Friendly Standard", I know, but dots are much less likely to be rejected. Half the time I think it's because the
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by ipsin 9y ago
I really think it's just an indication of the flagging dynamic. If 20% flags vs upvotes kills an article, all "partisan" articles will be killed. Though I'm personally more interested in this as an article of criminal j
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by ipsin 9y ago
...and it's flagged...
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by ipsin 9y ago
I wonder if they're able to separate their cryptocurrency risk from the rest of their brokerage. I figure I'm insured to the $500k limit by their SIPC/FINRA insurance, but it'd be annoying if they lost millions of dolla
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by ipsin 9y ago
"launching cars into space" is a reference to the recent launch of a Tesla into space. https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16983744/spacex-tesla-falc...
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by ipsin 9y ago
The URL has an extra "Q" at the end. https://www.eurofidai.org/sites/default/files/pdf/EUROFIDAI_...
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by ipsin 9y ago
Former Santa Monica resident. The problem with Santa Monica feels like the problem with Silicon Valley. It's nice if you can afford to live there, but current residents seem hell-bent on blocking new housing. In particular I'm th
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by ipsin 9y ago
https://security.googleblog.com/2018/01/todays-cpu-vulnerabi... Yes, this explains why it was lifted.
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by ipsin 9y ago
While I don't have a phone phobia, I do hate how much time it takes to get a simple piece of information. A recent example: I wanted to book a suite at a hotel. The hotel is not tall, and it overlooks a very noisy bar on one side. Is
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by ipsin 9y ago
It'd be interesting to collect stats on all the commands people try to run, and to implement all the ones Linux users are likely to have wired into muscle memory.
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by ipsin 9y ago
I was a high school debater. The topic that year, if I recall, was "Resolved: the United States should embark on a campaign to restore political stability to Latin America". The last competition I was at, some of my school's
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by ipsin 9y ago
I thought Yonatan Zunger's essay Tolerance is not a moral precept [1] -- linked off his response to the "manifesto" -- did a good job of addressing this scenario. [1] https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-n
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by ipsin 9y ago
So "nicotinoids" means "chemically similar to nicotine", and... "neo-" means new. Some of the literature refers to nicotinoids and some to neonicotinoids. What I haven't been able to figure out is if ther

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