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by jcrites 6y ago
True, 10 years isn't a short time in a human life, and probably reprogrammed a lot of people's thinking during that time. It depends what timescale you consider. It's arguably brief on the scale of the lifespan of the US Cons
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by jcrites 6y ago
That is a good point that I had forgotten about, the law that briefly classified certain semi-automatic rifles as assault rifles. But that law is expired, as you note, and semi-automatic rifles are no longer legally or by militaries to be c
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by jcrites 6y ago
It may seem like a minor detail but there's a very substantial functional difference between "rifles" and "assault rifles": assault rifles can fire as fully-automatic "machine guns". There is no such thing
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by jcrites 6y ago
What do you mean by "assault rifle"? It's a term used by the media but it's often misused. The "scary black painted rifles" (e.g. AR-15s) that most civilians own are not "assault rifles". (Note that t
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by jcrites 6y ago
Some states only require the _owner_ of the device to consent to being recorded. I hope that's the law everywhere (especially private property) or else security cameras could not exist be legal.
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by jcrites 6y ago
FWIW it's definitely a term I've heard in the same context in multiple FAANG companies. You want to be able to show people what you've done.
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by jcrites 6y ago
With the help of Algolia's HN search, I was able to find the story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21671579 Apparently an organization called Shadowserver (a nonprofit security organization) claimed that the blog
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by jcrites 6y ago
Yes. There was an example on Hacker News of someone whose blog hosted by .in was shut down/seized because some freelance-style security project that detects malicious sites or botnets or something claimed it was evil. No notification o
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by jcrites 6y ago
Amazon was on Windows 10 in 2020 (and probably earlier; I don't remember when I upgraded while I was there).
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by jcrites 6y ago
I've found that if you are transparent as recruiters and treat them as partners , sharing the offers you've gotten at other companies, they will reciprocate. At one of the Big Tech companies where I interviewed and they ultimately
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by jcrites 6y ago
Probably not, though I'm not an expert on this. Your will can pass your property to anyone you designate, and even aside from wills you can place assets in trust for beneficiaries like your children.
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by jcrites 6y ago
Amazon Linux 2 could be a viable alternative. In addition to being available to run on AWS, it's also available as a container image and in various machine image formats: https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-2/#Reso
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by jcrites 6y ago
As an American, my entire circle communicates almost exclusively using services like WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram. iMessage shows up occasionally while forming initial connections, but I tend to move the conversation to one of these other
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by jcrites 6y ago
One of the sections that stood out to me about Jeff Bezos' letter to investors in 2018 was pointing out that, at the size Amazon currently is, in order to keep growing, they must make bets on scale of billions of dollars. Rather than
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by jcrites 6y ago
I have a house where my driveway slopes down to my garage. There is a drain at the center near where the garage comes down. Should I schedule some kind of repair to clean it out periodically so it doesn't flood? There haven't been
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by jcrites 6y ago
The local-part of email addresses, which is the part before the @ sign, may only contain ASCII characters, so the other variant is not a valid address. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Local-part You can pro
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by jcrites 6y ago
Hasn't that been done? Efforts like Amazon's Ion come to mind, or Google's Protocol Buffers & FlatBuffers. http://amzn.github.io/ion-docs/ https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffe
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by jcrites 6y ago
> And let's be frank, very few businesses are actually really doing representational state transfert. Every website on the Internet is doing representational state transfer. REST describes the interaction of humans using browsers to
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by jcrites 6y ago
> Over time people decided that for their purposes Fielding's requirement of HATEOAS was unnecessary. I'd argue that's wrong. HATEOS is critical to the concept, which describes how websites work . You visit Hacker News. Y
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by jcrites 6y ago
Dwarf Fortress sessions have been fun, but Oxygen Not Included provides a lot of the same type of satisfaction (unfortunately with no combat aspect, but much more complicated designing and building of systems) with great graphics and great
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by jcrites 6y ago
I don't actually know the reason. I'll see if I can find out and whether it's appropriate to share. It's possible that it's a redundancy thing (have multiple providers so we stay up if one goes down), a performance
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by jcrites 6y ago
As I recall, in this customer's use case, they wanted to deliver the data as email attachments that the recipient could download (recipients were regular people). I think they were selling ringtones or MP3s or something of that nature
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by jcrites 6y ago
Designing billing for a service can be really challenging. The ideal pricing structure exactly aligns the incentives of the customer with the costs of the service provider. As a service designer, it is challenging to achieve this and strike
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by jcrites 6y ago
Amazon runs virtually everything on AWS. There are probably some exceptions for exotic infrastructure, but the vast majority of compute and storage systems at Amazon run on top of AWS. There's probably a team using every single AWS ser
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by jcrites 7y ago
Previously discussed on HN (Nov 27, 2018): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18546272
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by jcrites 7y ago
Can you clarify what you mean by "pay a fair tax"? I would assume that Amazon (like most publicly traded companies) pays all the taxes that it's required to by law. > “Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall
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by jcrites 7y ago
> The documentation suggests adding the AmazonEC2RoleforSSM policy to the role of the EC2 instances Which documentation do you mean? The article mentions the policy AmazonSSMManagedInstanceCore, which is the same as what's mentioned
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by jcrites 7y ago
The article covers a lot of topics, but for folks looking for more information about the zero trust approach to service security I'd recommend BeyondCorp (a publication by Google): https://www.beyondcorp.com/
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by jcrites 7y ago
Pretty sure this was announced at the same time as Sign On with Apple originally, no? According to the Wayback Machine, the same terms were present as early as October 1st 2019 (maybe earlier; didn't look): https://web.archi
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by jcrites 7y ago
Good choice. Just to elaborate: double opt-in is expected behavior from customer-centric companies, and expected behavior from good actors in the email ecosystem. It's not necessarily required by law in the US, but it's a good pra

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