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by libertymcateer 9y ago
> But 35 percent of the company has been quietly controlled by an attorney at one of Apple's own go-to law firms, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius In case no one here is aware, this firm has also been in other headlines recently: > La
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by libertymcateer 9y ago
I am using postgres and redis - they are both trivial to set up and cost about a few lattes a month for a fairly scalable solution. If I had huge traffic, a few hundred bucks a month would be totally adequate - and this is running on the to
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by libertymcateer 9y ago
No worries!! Also, don't let all the very tough feedback on here get you down. Tough crowd on here!
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by libertymcateer 9y ago
Yeah. It is like a spelling error in an essay about spelling. Not great.
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by libertymcateer 9y ago
>The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog . That was bugging the heck out of me.
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by libertymcateer 9y ago
Yes, there is a theoretical limit for temperature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_hot For all intents and purposes, however, it is preposterously enormous.
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by libertymcateer 9y ago
My sn is my name. I am the only lawyer named Liberty that I am aware of. More easily, my profile on my firm's website: lawyernamedliberty.com. I'm fairly easy to get in touch with.
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by libertymcateer 9y ago
I am one such attorney.
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by libertymcateer 9y ago
I read more in the article so I am updating my comment - the FBI's involvement is surprising and alarming. When in doubt, people, call your attorney.
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by libertymcateer 9y ago
Yeah I genuinely don't understand the point here. Who is protecting what?
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by libertymcateer 9y ago
> Survivorship bias is "Zuck did X, Y and Z, if I do the same then I'll be a multi-billionaire too!" This is also called "cargo cult behavior." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult#Metaph
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by libertymcateer 9y ago
> Based on this, it's hard not to state that current Node-developer are the new PHP-developers: Unsophisticated, completely unable to see when the tools at hand are lacking, and happy with a with whatever they can get running. Comme
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
I'm a software attorney - I negotiate software development, installation, support and licensing, deals, including agile software development, SaaS, PaaS, API agreements, SLAs - you name it. I was also in house counsel for a group of te
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
> I don't understand why is it dangerous, Because you may get fired. Before this devolves into a philosophical argument, I am not saying this is right, or that there aren't many valuable employees and skill sets who are less at
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
> You get up at the time your contract says and you go to home. Are you American? The vast majority of the American workforce is "at will." There is no contract. > he solution is simple, just stand up and leave and talk to y
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
This really couldn't be clearer, could it?
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
Please, don't undercount the number of "libertarian" crypto-geeks who think that regulation is the devil.
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
Ownership is a legal concept. The only solutions to this problem are legal solutions. It is a legal problem to begin with.
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U.K. Home Secretary Says Encryption on Messaging Services Is Unacceptable(uk.reuters.com)
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
> any more red tape other than certifying the new facilities That is a very substantial amount of potential red tape.
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
Headline is a dramatic overstatement. > In an announcement today, the Bay Area company said it was close to finishing a large-scale production facility in Oakland, California that can produce as much as 1 million lb (454,000 kg) of
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
Why this is not just a municipal plan is totally beyond me. Within months your privately held broadband provider is going to be selling your private info to the highest bidder. Why we have privately owned public communications lines is utte
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
> you realize if you piss off anyone doing this, they can have you sent to jail right? Are you talking about Aaron Swartz? There were complicating factors. Typically, no, scraping is not a criminal matter. If you need a lawyer, however,
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
Thank you for this very good tl;dr.
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
> The amount of waste, corruption and poor planning by the gov't [Citation needed.]
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
Right, and the point is that this gift will not achieve mass adoption unless there is better support. Edit: I checked your profile - I will likely be getting a bunch of your recommended reading material, and we clearly have a -lot- of inter
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
Communications software that has >40 days of lag between OS updates and a patch that allows the software to run on that OS is not commercial grade. I understand the value in doing the project nonetheless (research, reputation, education,
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
Is the implication that is because the software is free, the admins may be unworkably slow in releasing critical patches? Plenty free software is patched on time. Is this going to become a philosophical debate about freemium software?
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
Found it: the worm is called Dynacrypt. Check it out and let me know what you think. Edit: from the top google result on Dynacrypt: >While the ransomware portion of DynA-Crypt, as described in the next section, is a pain, the real proble
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
> who simply do not inform themselves about things that are outside their domain. And hopefully have the self-awareness not to have strongly held opinions in these areas (at least without sufficient evidence). However, I find that all t

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