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by kromem 8y ago
And no discussion of new franchises. It's generally not a good sign when a company decides to try and live on the graces of its past success and not continue striving for greatness.
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by kromem 8y ago
This 1000x. A well designed and properly isolated codebase is going to have limited technical debt in switching providers for various services. But the cost of maintaining vendor neutral code and avoiding making use of the unique product ad
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by kromem 8y ago
It's very strategic on Microsoft's part. They aren't the industry leader, so leading the conversation on regulation helps them to impact the market leader. It also let's them steer the conversation on regulation before i
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by kromem 8y ago
Except with a warrant, it's entirely legal (and has been for a long time) currently for a surveillance team to physically stalk you in areas with an expectation of privacy (TEMPEST, wiretaps, etc), and in public areas they don't e
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by kromem 8y ago
The time travel argument I've always found to be far more compelling than the extra terrestrial argument. For example, similarity of physical form (with exaggerated evolutionary aspects relating to modern society, such as bigger eyes&#
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by kromem 8y ago
Here's the secret: it's total BS. "Hustle" is almost always BS. And real hustle is a red flag. If people can't get what needs to get done within predefined work hours, it's either a reflection of incompetency o
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by kromem 8y ago
Wow. That "what's the worst thing that ever happened to you" question should make their legal team's skin crawl. What if the answer was about being bullied for sexual orientation (and in the process disclosing informatio
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by kromem 8y ago
Luckily you don't have to do anything to make that happen. Housing is going to correct in a serious way, and soon. Quantitative easing artificially keeping lending rates low screwed the housing market. That's in the process of cor
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by kromem 8y ago
Or, it could be both. It could have been a real attack vector that didn't actually infiltrate the companies in question due to having been caught upstream. But as "attempted attack" sounds far less sexy than "actual atta
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by kromem 8y ago
It's not like the early Internet was a haven of for profit companies in the early days. Early on most of the profit was in providing the access, not the content.
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by kromem 8y ago
Ehhh, not quite. Medicare reimbursement on a knee replacement is about $12,500. In the UK, the average price of a private knee replacement is £11,434. Those aren't exactly super duper far off from each other and in need of $45,000 pric
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by kromem 8y ago
Whenever you see a government that doesn't have a significant organized crime problem, it's because either (a) the government is the organized crime (Russia), or (b) the government has resources at its disposal that are an existen
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by kromem 8y ago
You always see high conversion rates for new ad mediums, and those rates reduce over time as marketers abuse consumer's attention. One of my favorite examples is Amazon reviews. Once you a time, those were legit and you'd see cons
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by kromem 8y ago
So when a friend talks to you about a product they recently used and loved and think you'd love as well (and I don't mean a friend on MLM payroll), you aren't interested in hearing about that recommendation? And I'm gues
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by kromem 8y ago
Good point - I totally forgot about that. So yeah - it mostly only matters for VPN/Tor traffic.
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by kromem 8y ago
Yeah, DNS over HTTP/2, (or the inevitable DNS over upcoming connection protocols) will definitely succeed. I think the big paradigm shift is "let's decouple DNS interactions from a specific transport" - and once you open
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by kromem 8y ago
Not in the case of Tor, but also not in the case of almost all/most cloud hosted services. For example, consider that Cloudflare proxies about 10% of the Internet. Well, if you request a site they proxy, and DNS is in the clear, it&#x2
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by kromem 8y ago
The areas in question are areas tied to physical activity. They've been lying in a bed for a decade. It's not surprising that activating areas tied to physical activities is difficult. I'm curious if the same fatigue would be
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by kromem 8y ago
You can not have empathy but not want your social structures crumbling around you. There are pure sociological benefits to socialization and relationships, and it may be that the effort of going out of her way to foster those relationships
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by kromem 8y ago
I think the thing most interesting in the interview was the S/O and friends. What's the value in those relationships to a psychopath? I can't imagine there's the same desire for consensual validation, etc that drives so
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by kromem 8y ago
The v2 library suffix on the package path seems rather hackish. Feels like it would have been better to use a different delineating character instead of a slash to make it abundantly clear at a glance that it's effectively a major vers
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by kromem 8y ago
Angular 6 and all future main releases will be supported for 18 months. As for backwards compatibility, as was described in the presentation on the new renderer they are working on, 600 apps at Google are built on Angular, so there is a gre
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by kromem 9y ago
Still based on cost. The housing itself costs more in the Bay area. Rentals/housing in the Bay area (or other desirable locales) are supply constrained. The only class of goods I can think of that are not based on underlying costs are
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by kromem 9y ago
How does any class of goods keep from growing in price relative to the purchase power of the buyer vs the cost of goods sold? Competition typically keeps pricing in check, and as long as there isn't a monopoly or constrained supply&#x2
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by kromem 9y ago
This is really more of a client issue than a server issue. In a distributed scheme, people I "block" or even content I filter out should only happen in regards to me fetching content from the distributed network. In particular, if
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by kromem 9y ago
You're right - it's going to bounce back. But don't hold on to those shares for too long. The mesh/decentralized/p2p networking movement is really interesting, and given the ever increasing power of user devices, th
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by kromem 9y ago
You can absolutely delete. You just append data that represents a delete, and the client doesn't show that item or shows it as deleted. Yes, it doesn't remove that data from the chain and a client could easily end up undoing delet
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by kromem 9y ago
To me it's an issue of cost vs reward. While I would love to see greater privacy awareness and consideration from all entities I use, the fact is that there are certain web properties that I find indispensable and without a privacy con
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by kromem 9y ago
It's basically what Secure Scuttlebutt is doing. Basically, if you have a cryptographic write only log of social activity, and can exchange that with others, you can create social activity/interactions that are only readable by yo
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by kromem 9y ago
How much slower are web requests vs a live server? I see that Up has a warming feature - is that sufficient enough to avoid slow requests for you? Does the reliance on Up as a service make you nervous for using them for production? How muc

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