lamontcg

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by lamontcg 3y ago
I was intending to make a point about security through obscurity, not to make an analogy with those systems.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> They may get you arrested for trying to get into your own home The AI algorithms that ban people from platforms like Google and GitHub do that, which I explicitly called out as needing more oversight. That is different from algorithms
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by lamontcg 3y ago
They need to take Spirit AeroSystems back in-house again. Shuffling the deck chairs around in the executive lounge at Boeing isn't going to fundamentally change anything.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I mean people can get through your front door using any number of attacks that either exploit weaknesses in the locking mechanism, or circumvent your locks via a carefully placed brick through a window or something like that. Even if you ha
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Now picture what would have happened if we had been willing to do challenge trials early on for COVID. Nothing significant would have changed. For example, on July 22, 2020 HHS announced $1.95B in funds for Pfizer for large scale manuf
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Yeah so they're mostly seeking people who are willing to trade a small risk of some horrible lifelong autoimmune condition for $5k right now. Not surprising two of the other guys in the study have been to prison. Either human challeng
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> There is no good solution. There's no good solution after the fact once the horses have bolted. You can address it up front with regulation and don't leave the barn door open all the time.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> The TARP bailouts showed all of us that bailing out banks in bad situations does little to help the average citizen anyway. Yeah, having money markets lock up, half the businesses in the company unable to pay their payroll (because eve
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by lamontcg 3y ago
We need some kind of anti-kafka internet bill of rights which forces platforms to disclose why you've been banned at a granular level of detail. This would make their job harder to keep up with spammers/abuse and might cut into t
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Instead, my subscription is probably pooled according to some black box formula and ends up paid to some of their top performers like Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, or The Weeknd. And Joe Rogan, which is why I cancelled my subscription and swi
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> The point of the article, which I hope you did in fact read, is that some sites force dark mode on the user You mean like just about literally every website (except a few that got shit for being 90s-era design) that forced bright backg
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I grew up on dark mode on an Apple II+/e/gs. The white background mafia didn't take over until the mid-to-late-90s and forced everyone to use it. I'm entirely happy with the dark mode backlash and getting back to my ro
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> and there's enough competition to force them to pass that on as reduced prices i found the bug.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> And how many nuclear reactors does one worker build in their lifetime? 2? 4? That's not a lot of opportunity for process improvement. And reactors are inherently too big and complicated. A wind farm, solar farm, or a road is intr
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by lamontcg 3y ago
you have no idea what the purpose of the simulation is. turns out the purpose was for them to study how the borg collective spreads across galaxies, and when we wipe out the borg we've ruined their experiment and they just pull the plu
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Go argue with the Richmond Fed, then, and explain to them how the Fed never cares about anything other than the PCE number and services is meaningless: https://www.richmondfed.org/research/national_economy/macro_.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
A lot of the loudest voices about RTO (e.g. Amazon) own a portfolio of commercial properties and they are the landlords.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Core services inflation is up and the Fed doesn't just care about only one number, and I'm not your guy.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
The threat is that your device is infiltrated right now.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
wat
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by lamontcg 3y ago
https://archive.is/j87ct
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Fed Rate Hikes Are Back in the Conversation After Hot Inflation Report(barrons.com)
22 points by lamontcg 3y ago|9 comments
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Not if I'm on your device and hijacking your already-authenticated connection. I just need to be careful enough to do it in the background in such a way that you don't notice.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Generally the threat model that TOTP protects against is not someone breaking into your device. The threat model that it protects against is someone compromising your other credentials. So, although not recommended, you could post your lo
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by lamontcg 3y ago
"supercore" services index was up 0.8% as well. it looks to me like consumer inflation bottomed out in june of last year and is on a six month uptrend and we're getting a series of higher lows and higher highs in the month-to
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Perhaps someone could rent out lizards. gig working app for lizards. disrupt the reptile economy. fund me.
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New study suggests the Atlantic overturning circulation "is on tipping course"(realclimate.org)
41 points by lamontcg 3y ago|14 comments
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by lamontcg 3y ago
The study published today ("Physics-based early warning signal shows that AMOC is on tipping course"): https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk1189 > They do not present a particular time period
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Yeah, the fees in this society are getting out of control, it's exhausting.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Yeah it needs to be made transitive. If you've bought a digital copy of the work from one distributor that should obligate the rightsholder to transferring the individual distribution rights (this needs to be nailed to the wall by the

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