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First, we need to distinguish between homelessness and poverty on the one hand, and crime on the other. The two may overlap for some individuals (just as wealth and crime overlap for some), but they're by no means synonymous. The legit
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"Do most people have something to hide that is so shameful, so damning?" Have you ever complained to a friend or family member about your boss? Then the answer is yes. Have you ever said something really embarrassingly politically
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"At no point does the author mention the government and at no point does he mention making every aspect of your life public." That's correct. I made the root post for this particular comment thread, and I consciously expanded
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It's fine if it doesn't resonate with you, but that's evidently because your perspective is limited by your relatively good fortune. "Dystopia" wouldn't seem so contrived to residents of East Germany under the
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In the context of coding projects, the author's conclusion seems realistic. Given current events though, I can't help but wonder if there's a subtext about privacy and snooping. If so, then I would venture this observation: Y
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The article's definition of rich is a real stretch. The article says the top 40% pay all the taxes. But, the top 40% of households includes every household earning about $65,000 or more.[1] Remember that this is household income, not i
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As the article points out, it doesn't get us very far to use loaded, imprecise words like "god." Points 2 through 3 all depend on 1, which in turn depends on the word "god." So, for that definition of Christianity t
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> This is very true, and I can't believe some religions that people think are the same. They happen to use the same words, like "God", "heaven", etc, but the concepts are completely different and incredibly incom
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Your point is good. I'd solve the problem like this: Instead of whitelisting certain kinds of attacks and parts of the company for bounty eligibility, I'd create a very limited blacklist. This blacklist would consist of actions wh
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I've never understood this condescension and self-righteousness towards those who complain about a service yet still use the service. It's as if complaining about a business you patronize is childish or petty. Why does anyone thin
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At the time I wrote the above comment, I had access only to summaries of the decision written by journalists. That's still all I can find, but some newer journalism contradicts what I read and parroted above. According to some, the jud
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In summary: It was a fair use defense. To claim fair use, you must first admit to using copyrighted work. So the copyright itself isn't at issue here. The fair use defense in this case rests in large part upon the fact that the works w
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I had no idea people were using --force daily. I've been using Git for all my version control since 2008, and I don't think I've ever used --force. Now I'm curious: How does it fit into people's everyday workflow?
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But even this is necessary sometimes. Yes, it seems counterintuitive that a version control system should ever let you lose previously committed data. "What's the point of version control, if there's a chance you won't b
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I disagree for two reasons: First, software engineers exist in a broader culture. The connotations of the various words in our respective languages are not in our control. "Engineer" and "gardener" have very different co
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There are times when one must truthfully disclosed previous firings. E.g. a form that says "Have you ever been fired," and later has a warning that falsifying the form can result in penalties. These are the scenarios I was thinkin
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Yes, I read it very carefully. It does not discuss the role of the web developer, or how much power a developer has to affect rankings. The closest thing I can find is this: "Not every website can come out at the top of the page, or ev
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Agreed. I think most of us tell clients this when it comes up. But still, some clients view that response as a way to weasel out of "building a good site." Clients don't always understand the distinctions in roles. Some of th
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> You Were Fired. I don't think you can fairly say a person was fired simply because s/he quit following a dispute with the boss. Maybe the person would have eventually been fired, had s/he not quit. But that's pure
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In the aggregate, I'm sure this is true. If I were an individual criminal, I'd still be nervous. What if I'm the outlier, i.e. the criminal who gets caught despite an abundance of caution? Not that I'm disagreeing with y
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Anything in particular on that page you'd like to highlight? I'm putting myself in the shoes of a client who just wants "my site to be ranked higher." From this client's perspective, it's the web dev's job
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Even then, there are still possible information leaks. For example, conceivably when you package the drugs in your warehouse, local pollens and molds could find their way into the insides of the packaging. If the distribution of pollens and
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Exactly. There's very little incentive to participate as a seller on Silk Road if you have to take these extreme measures for every package you send out. It's not economical. If you're smart enough to devise these opsec proce
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As described in my post above, the police don't initially know who the seller is. But the whole point is to find out by working backwards from the package the police receive.
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I would love it if Google published an official answer to the perennial client question: "Why can't you get my site to the top of the SERPs for [insert competitive keywords here]?" My answer is usually along these lines: &quo
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> considering that the sellers might be cops Why wouldn't law enforcement pose as buyers, as well? This is a common tactic in narcotics enforcement. Entrapment often isn't an issue, as the seller took the first step of advertis
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> We can tell, well in advance, what's going to work and what isn't both in terms of the technical approach and the management process. Agree? Yes, those of with experience can usually spot this stuff early on. But that doesn&#
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Exactly. These types of social attributes are necessary for a software project to succeed. The problem, of course, is that you can't devise a system which will reliably organize an arbitrary group of people* into the kind of effectiv
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> figure out some way to qualify what makes good software engineering I doubt we'll ever be able to distill it to a formula. People ran successful software projects decades ago, long before any methodologies were formally described.
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I can imagine it went something like this: Engineer: "Hey boss, how long did you want the snooze timer to run?" CEO: "Oh, I don't know. Not too long, not too short." Engineer: "What does that mean? Like 10 minu

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