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by lixtra 5y ago
> The missiles are not magic, there will be collateral damage. Solders on the ground could mitigate this I have no data about this but my gut tells me a drone could operate more safely than a ground team. The drone pilot is under much le
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by lixtra 5y ago
For some goods the customer can be asked to agree to a no-refund. This is happening here. For Germany, see https://www.it-recht-kanzlei.de/digitale-inhalte-widerruf.ht...
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by lixtra 5y ago
I heard this about brands. Do you have examples for copyright?
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by lixtra 5y ago
> other major cloud providers catch CSAM content on their platform by inspecting every file uploaded That is very unlikely. Most likely they compare some hash against a database - just like apple.
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by lixtra 5y ago
I don’t see it so strict. You can put vertical and lateral thinkers together in a team and get the best of both worlds, i.e. solve the puzzles that matter and provide a sane system that actually works.
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Congestion Avoidance and Control (1988) [pdf](ccr.sigcomm.org)
1 points by lixtra 5y ago|0 comments
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by lixtra 5y ago
Indeed, escaping is what they seem to do.
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by lixtra 5y ago
await $`dep deploy --branch=${branch}` … await $`mkdir /tmp/${name}` Code like this[1] looks prone to shell injection [1] https://github.com/google/zx
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by lixtra 5y ago
The one time I was involved in something on the top, I remember about 400 concurrent users according to google analytics. Our cheap server had no problem to serve the static site.
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by lixtra 5y ago
The >500k bump from the Rwandan genocide is not in their battle related graph. If you scroll further down, you see it in “Other forms of large-scale violence”. Taking the up to date death toll of Syria you could say that the situation is
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by lixtra 5y ago
The last message 6 years ago reads that the dev thinks the bug is fixed. Since then no-one complained. Do you know that the bug was falsely closed? Isn’t it more an example of a bug submitter loosing interest in their bug? Disclaimer: I d
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by lixtra 5y ago
Or the Rwandan genocide https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide
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by lixtra 5y ago
Some effects may take a long time to develop. Not related but a very slow biological process (prions): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27982991
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by lixtra 5y ago
The article claims that photoDNA is reversible to 26x26 images and claims that the hashes are therefore CP.
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by lixtra 5y ago
Did you miss the reference to John Boggle? Did he recommended to put the majority of your assets in a savings account?
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by lixtra 5y ago
The encrypted content should be served (and burned server-side) only to a POST request. No sane service can expect a POST request to be idempotent and therefore shouldn’t fire it (twice).
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by lixtra 5y ago
The nice tone of the professor’s emails (after the run-in) could be also proof of her goodwill. While student showed his lack of self control on twitter. This is just a different aspect of the same facts.
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by lixtra 5y ago
> He asked via email: «Do you engage in some degree of self-censorship? Do you think it would be too dangerous for me to open a Twitter account?» > Although he received no response, he began tweeting in mid-March. Note: Sometimes, sil
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by lixtra 5y ago
There exist also registered shares[1] for wich each owner of a share is registered in a shareholder register. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_share
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by lixtra 5y ago
Maybe it makes more sense to look at concrete examples. Twitter using the db as router (and rails in general), was a reasonable decision for the MVP. They got it fast and cheap. For social media kind of traffic it became inadequate at some
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by lixtra 5y ago
Your dad’s car was using 3 gallons per 100 miles. The computers do add some value.
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by lixtra 5y ago
I agree that convenience is key. For me that is not PayPal. I prefer to support some projects on Patreon.
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by lixtra 5y ago
The clean code may still have other issues. For example [1] give away if a certain email address is registered with the site or not. [1] https://phppot.com/php/user-registration-in-php-with-login-f...
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by lixtra 5y ago
Topology is often used to prove existence or non-existence. If you base that on a shaky conjectures you’re not any wiser. If you apply it to algorithms that means the difference may be that the algorithm encrypts your data safely every time
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by lixtra 5y ago
Yes, as long as you don’t upgrade your phone. At some point an OS upgrade will break the app.
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by lixtra 5y ago
> Again: Lockdowns are a basic application of germ theory. > The only way they could not work is if infection didn't pass from human to human but was transmitted via miasma or aether. A public measure and overall behavior are two
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by lixtra 5y ago
Basecamp? SAP?
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German court fines YouTube 100k USD for not reinstating deleted video(welt.de)
5 points by lixtra 5y ago|2 comments
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by lixtra 5y ago
> Lots of physicists ended up working in business. But usually still in roles that benefited from their studies.
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by lixtra 5y ago
My problem is her call for censorship of misinformation. Currently institutional judgment on misinformation relies on fact checkers, that in best case turn to published research, which is not perfect as you pointed out. Depending on the zei

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