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by jdm2212 6y ago
> but went wrong because the Iraqi people are simply allergic to democracy There's an assumption in what you're saying that the "Iraqi people" is a meaningful entity with a collective will that is expressed through co
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by jdm2212 6y ago
If you're just interested in having some understanding of the past , books like that are great. If you want to predict the future, your analysis should be about 98% detailed study of the present, and 2% history. Much as you would cons
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by jdm2212 6y ago
My dad is a historian, and it's always pretty entertaining to run the current faddy "big idea" in popular history past him. There's always two parts to his response: 1. $bigIdea is not a result of serious historical rese
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by jdm2212 6y ago
People might've mistaken it for pedantry/condescension? I certainly didn't take it that way (gave it an upvote) -- though I have read that paper, and was thinking of it when I wrote my original comment :)
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by jdm2212 6y ago
There are degrees of security between "I personally built it from source using a compiler I personally built from source" and "Xi Jinping is CC'ed a plaintext copy of every message". The allegation here is that WeCh
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by jdm2212 6y ago
This is the real answer.
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by jdm2212 6y ago
The quarantine docs you linked make it look like this is configured per-customer, so if the author's email did in fact get quarantined, its because IT configured it that way not because of a Gmail bug. Also: > For a quarantined inbo
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by jdm2212 6y ago
Particularly given that the author thinks the sender is responsible for recipient -side spam filtering...
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by jdm2212 6y ago
The article says that the issue was on the recipient side, not the sender's side, so the title is wrong -- sending via Gmail is fine, receiving via Gmail is... well, supposedly an issue, but I've never had a resume land in my spam
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by jdm2212 6y ago
Desirable areas have lots of demand for both regular apartments and places for tourists to stay.
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by jdm2212 6y ago
I know a SWE joining a small startup whose base salary is 120k. This person is a new grad and doesn't have a CS degree. So, yeah... 120k is on the low side. I imagine they're averaging a bunch of different jobs together that aren&
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by jdm2212 6y ago
My FAANG total comp was >150k (2015, new grad, major US metro area), and that was just the regular offer they made to everyone if you didn't try to negotiate. You can definitely go higher, at least once the current coronavirus hirin
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by jdm2212 6y ago
Random Googler can't restore your account, but can file a ticket that might actually get looked at. Source: firsthand experience. I had problems with Google Fi when it was pretty new. I tried to work through the issue with their normal
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by jdm2212 6y ago
Zoom clearly does not give give a shit about privacy or security (or didn't, until they started getting bad press for it) which is why they route US traffic through China and also made wardialing stupidly easy. Not giving a shit about
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by jdm2212 6y ago
There are literally tens of millions of foreign-born US citizens. Maybe a few hundred of them are foreign agents. There's no reason to think Yuan would be one. Eric Yuan got interested in videoconferencing in college. Then he got a job
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by jdm2212 6y ago
This is the kind of paranoid-but-necessary reasoning that is appropriate if you're running counterintelligence at the CIA, or information security at an important defense contractor. For people who aren't professionally paranoid,
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by jdm2212 6y ago
Zoom is an American company, with an American CEO, listed on an American stock exchange, headquartered in the United States of America. Like many companies that are lax about security, it outsourced a lot of its engineering to save money. I
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by jdm2212 6y ago
FWIW this is from Zurich-based folks so they're presumably not native English speakers... and challenge is not exactly phonetic :)
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by jdm2212 6y ago
Definitely good for a few laughs :) Thanks! I loved that there's an "(inaudible)" in there at one point, and the audio called me a "stupid reporter" after a question. I guess it's easy to simulate Trump because
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by jdm2212 6y ago
NSO Group is not an "Elite Nation State Hacker Group". It's a private Israeli company that sells malware (and apparently malware-as-a-service). If they didn't rent those servers, it would be very easy for them to say to
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by jdm2212 6y ago
Worthing actually reading the article. NSO Group isn't like Cozy Bear -- it's not a code name for an unknown probable nation-state APT. It's an Israeli company that sells hacking tools used by the Saudis (among others). NSO G
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by jdm2212 6y ago
I tried reading the paper and it seems like as much an argument that "people get coronavirus at work and take it home on the subway" as "people get coronavirus on the subway and take it home"...? What am I missing?
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by jdm2212 6y ago
The SK/Taiwan/Chinese/Singapore approach to quarantine has been to isolate people away from their families if they're thought to be sick (i.e., in a hotel or military barracks). That's how you make quarantine actual
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by jdm2212 6y ago
NYC is younger and healthier than the US average so these are lower bounds for national average outcomes.
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by jdm2212 6y ago
The outcomes aren't just death and recovery. There's also the possibility of long-term heart, lung, and kidney damage. And the blood thinners used to prevent coronavirus blood clots can cause brain bleeding. Those happen in younge
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by jdm2212 6y ago
NYC is a younger, healthier city than the national average. NYC also has one of the best medical systems not just in America, but in the world. Roughly 0.2% of everyone in NYC has already died of COVID-19. So 0.2% is pretty close to a hard
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by jdm2212 6y ago
I was referring to the state -- but, yeah, it's even worse in the city :( and 2/1000 people * 1% IFR => 20%
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by jdm2212 6y ago
Roughly 1/1000 New Yorkers have died of coronavirus. At a 1% IFR, that suggests at least 10% of the state has gotten the virus. Probably more, because deaths are undercounted and many people who will die of the virus already have it bu
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by jdm2212 6y ago
My prior is that a similar number of units will wind up back on that market once demand picks back up. Demand might not pick back up, or Airbnb hosts might be more cautious in the future about going all in on Airbnb, but if people want Airb
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by jdm2212 6y ago
When the economy picks up and people start apartment hunting again, I suspect they'll also start booking Airbnbs again.

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