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by joshAg 14y ago
noscript is great for stuff like this.
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what do you call 1 queue and 2 coffee machines?
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by joshAg 14y ago
The issues with bad guys dropping the sig or delaying it also equally applies equally to ssl during the handshake. But waiting for the sig and the whole page to arrive combined wit the size of modern webpages is a problem I hadn't fully con
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"You're almost done setting up your internet connection! For your security, please add our CA to your computer. This handy-dandy program that you can download from our website or from a usb stick our installer has with him/her will automati
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by joshAg 14y ago
assuming you just want to browse websites and not transfer information that needs to be private, the extra rtt for establishing the ssl connection is the uneeeded overhead. for something like streaming a movie, that won't matter because the
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by joshAg 14y ago
wow, that is an annoying slide deck. a lot of the issues seemed to be dns-specific that don't exist with http (slide 110: "Attacker forges many UDP request packets from victim’s IP address to many HTTPSEC servers.", also exist for https (sl
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by joshAg 14y ago
https is the wrong solution. that is for preventing others from seeing what you're sending/receiving, not verifying the integrity of what is sent/received. well, it does do that too, but it adds extra unneeded overhead by encrypting everyth
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by joshAg 14y ago
And as far as i know, only in certain parts of the bay area. I wish i could get it in cupertino.
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by joshAg 14y ago
This might be a purely semantic argument, but I'd say in the example you provided, you have a skill shortage, not a talent shortage. If you provided training, I'm sure you could find enough brain-surgeons willing to train to be rocket scien
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by joshAg 14y ago
including: Brand / Company % of Respondents Category Lenovo 2.53% Consumer Electronics
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by joshAg 14y ago
If you want to be a software engineer, UCB probably has the most renowned CS program of all the schools you mentioned. At Cal the only differences between L&S CS and EECS are lower division classes. L&S CS and EECS students at Cal t
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by joshAg 14y ago
eos12i body: $675 on amazon [1] Tamron 17-50 lens: $500 on amazon [2] total: ~$1100 [1]: http://www.amazon.com/Canon-T2i-Processor-3-0-inch-18-55mm/d... [2]: http://www.amazon.com/Tamron-17-50mm-Aspherical-Digital-Came...
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by joshAg 14y ago
yes.
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But HR is the first gate. If they only let through mediocre people, then the true hiring managers are stuck with taking the best of the ones that get through. The only way to change that is to change how HR gates candidates.
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by joshAg 14y ago
What we remember as 2000 is actually closer to 2005: * Wifi, laptops, andcell phone are ubiquitous, smart phones are just beginning to emerge. * laptops are reasonably powerful compared to desktops. * Streaming media works fairly well. * Br
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by joshAg 14y ago
> This comment is one big logic failure. Well, yeah, because my comment uses rhetoric, not logic. > First, a claim that policy has been intentionally written to redistribute wealth upwards and then as evidence two charts that don't
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by joshAg 14y ago
> it was that people with more money tend to spend more money And somewhere between $100k/year and $100M/year this no longer holds. Instead of spending the money, it gets invested. Generally speaking, Someone with $1B spends about as mu
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by joshAg 14y ago
the tax law was found to be invalid by a court, so all taxes paid under the law had to revert to the rate paid under the previous law. However, only taxes paid in the last four years are subject to court rulings like this due to statutes of
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by joshAg 14y ago
That's not what happened, the tax law was found to be invalid by a court, so all taxes paid under the law had to revert to the rate paid under the previous law.
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> While I don't think these current retroactive taxes are intentional hard core redistribution of wealth (because there might be some technicality or specific quark we are dealing with here) it is none-the-less a soft beginning and a pe
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>> Still, all Californians will be chipping in: Proposition 30 also raises the state sales tax from 7.25% to 7.5% for four years, starting Jan. 1, 2013. > But not chipping in equally or proportionally. Only the very top tier hav
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by joshAg 14y ago
i totally agree that it's a tax, not an asset seizure, but i was trying to remain neutral; since he referred to it as an asset forfeiture and CA referred to it as a tax I just put both and left it up to the reader to decide which it was.
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by joshAg 14y ago
here is the relevant info i could find about the taxes/asset seizure the author is referring to: "Proposition 30 creates three new upper income tax brackets for the next seven years. For example, folks with $250,000 to $300,000 a year in in
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by joshAg 14y ago
yes. I use it to keep up on my webcomics (about 20), blogs (about 30), and a few other sites.
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because that makes it much easier to automate.
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That sounds about right. I grew up in sacramento, CA and commuted about 30 miles to high school (centrally located private high school that had much better test scores than the public schools less than 5 miles away from my house.). Many of
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by joshAg 14y ago
> With another minute of manual curation I had a list of 10 young women who went to my high school, their birthdays, profile photos, class schedules, the television shows they watch, the people they've dated, the parties they went to, w
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"Perhaps the most striking fact about One Hyde Park and the London super-prime property market is what it tells us about who the world’s richest people are. Many people think the greatest winners of globalization today are financiers. A dec
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that's what steps 3 and 4 are for, aren't they? Wouldn't that make it a written contract instead of just an oral one?
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by joshAg 14y ago
eternal september is what you're thinking of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September it's also why I've unsubscribed from almost all the default subreddits (i'm still subbed to default_gems and bestof).

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