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by logifail 3y ago
Firefox plus NoScript, with the added bonus that the page loads in 400ms.
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by logifail 3y ago
> "Americans are fat" is a (negative) sterotype Of course it could do with some context, and some might see it as offensive, but: "Is America really the most obese country in the world? Well, not quite, it ranks as the 12t
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Just for comparison, the US budget deficit will rise by approximately that amount($5 billion) per day every day for the next decade, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates: https://www.marketwatch.com/story&#x2
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> [..] creative work that deserves to be copyrighted As I've grown older I've become less and less convinced that any of our current legal frameworks actually protect the output of "creatives". Instead, it seems that
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> HS2 is a good example. Spending that much while not maintaining the (unreliable ) existing lines is pointless. I don't believe there ever was a solid business case for HS2, but Adonis gave it the green light and no-one since was
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by logifail 3y ago
...and - with apologies to all HN cat owners - I feel we might want to put building lethality into context by recalling that: "free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals [in the USA] annually&quo
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by logifail 3y ago
> any which say "We did this so we can hoodwink the public and snoop on russia and china" won't be included Ever since Snowdon we know it's actually "hoodwink the public and snoop on the public " Russia and
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> everything is also being done out in the open for everyone to see Well, everything apart from the secret stuff: "I filed a FOIA request "NSA, NIST, and post-quantum cryptography" in March 2022. NIST stonewalled, in viola
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> [without] the purported senders cooperation Thinking about forging mail, in the case of senders who control their DKIM signing keys (me, for instance), if you have the sender's cooperation then you have access to their private DKI
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> So DKIM doesn't prove that an email was actually sent to someone (even if its on their machine now), just that someone might have faked a scheme where they sent an email with a To in the headers to someone, but the RCPT TO was not
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by logifail 3y ago
The post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37723688 ) to which I replied, although perhaps I'm misunderstanding this bit: "I demonstrated to others that I could have a DKIM signed email sent through gmail that
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by logifail 3y ago
> You can set identities in gmail from which you can send emails Right, and there's a verification step in which you confirm you own (or at least control) the additional email address[es]: https://support.google.com/
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by logifail 3y ago
Q: If 2FA is enabled on a Google account, does SMTP AUTH still work? I've just tested this, I generated a new app password in my Google Account and used that to send Gmail from Python. Works fine when sending "from: <me@gmail&g
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> Philippines is the world's largest source of ocean trash [...] Here's a nice (well, actually horrifying) visual of the problem: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/visualized-ocean-plastic...
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> We're not talking about capital punishment here, we're talking about social media, and Facebook appears to have made the very reasonable decision that it's worth accidentally rate limiting some innocent accounts in order
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> In Finland and AFAIK all Nordics, all invoices must be VAT inclusive. If you are selling up until 15k EUR year you can do it VAT free, which is too small to be considered a professional business. Alternatively if you are selling servic
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> My recent experience with international flights indicates that business class is 5x of the premium economy seats, which are 1.5x already If you were to buy the cheapest (non-flexible) business class fare many months in advance, you mig
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> There are significant criteria they would need to fill to join, and everyone knows they won't do it any time soon; they were going backwards on some at the time of the campaign and are arguably further back eight years on. https:
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> considering surface friction is low enough for pieces to move Our experience - which include track layouts that occupy a good proportion of the ground floor of our house, a la Wallace and Gromit's The Wrong Trousers Train Chase -
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> If the average man's labor is worth $15/hr [..] Al-Fayed was either more than 700 times smarter, faster, stronger, and harder-working than the average man Wonder what the average HN reader's labor is worth, and whether o
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by logifail 3y ago
> The claim was that electric cars are heavier, but they don't appear to be much if any heavier than comparable ICE vehicles "Batteries are heavy. That’s why, generally, electric cars weigh considerably more than otherwise simi
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> The thing preventing it right now is that it's illegal Just like towers (condos or any other kind) are round here. Your local politicans are elected? So are ours.
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> it's about having higher density housing construction Umm, how would one go about selling that policy? Do enough (any?) people want that? FWIW, my wife and I have spoken at length over the last year about what it would take fo
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> These vehicles were chosen because they are approximately the same size as the Model 3. You can make whatever kind of vehicle in whatever size you want. What's the average occupancy in a Model 3? Like I said, our tiny car can ha
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> politicians who support funding rail, bike, and ped infrastructure My eldest (who travels to school by train every day) has children in his class who are brought to school every day in their parents cars. I know most of these kids, a
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by logifail 3y ago
> Curb weight: Ford Taurus: 3917 lbs / BMW 330i: 3536 lbs / Tesla Model 3: 3862 lbs. We have a small car (that transports four adults in comfort) that weighs almost exactly half what the Taurus does. It's also real
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> Why not parks and transit systems? Where we live the parks are always safe and almost always clean. The same for the transit network. There are plenty of apparently weathy places where that appears not to be the case.
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> How about less cars? More effective public transit is good for people and the climate Well, I'm about to renew the annual rail passes (which cover our entire local region) for two of our children, but this approach only works beca
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> Damages are well regulated so you can't sue for €1 million just because someone's bicycle ran over your toe. Counter-example: a website uses Google Fonts and the owner gets a letter from someone's German lawyer demanding
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> Society, at least in the classic European model, works just the same (..) everyone benefits from this kind of collective solidarity There appear to be a growing number of voters who disagree. https://www.theguardian.com&#x2F

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