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by marcoperaza 7y ago
> this irritates me even more that its been known since the 50's and we still put up with it. Throwing a label on it doesn’t make it a bad thing. Authority can be a gift. It helps people thrive by giving them the motivation to live
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
The problem is that the term "consciousness" has too many meanings, and any debate about it seems to devolve into people talking past each other.
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
> But a core part of being polite, is not hurting others through your actions directly or indirectly. ( or at least trying) The problem is wanting the notion of politeness to do too much work. Being polite, being nice , is just a mome
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
There is an intangible to living in a place where cars are regularly broken into vs. living in a place where they aren't. Think of the kinds of attitudes that people develop towards others in the two places. Trust vs. distrust, comfor
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
Is that a justification you'll be comfortable giving after the fact? "I know a took a risk with your private and sensitive [business/intimate] data that you trusted me with, and now it has been compromised, but you have to un
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
For one, a large number of native applications use the OS's webview widget, so you remain exposed to the outdated Safari engine even if you don't use Safari. You're also going to have to use outdated versions of various softw
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
The burden of using the current version is so low (op is in fact expending significant effort to not make the safe choice), that imposing any additional risk on others is unjustified. That kind of analysis—the burden of caution vs. the ri
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
10.9 hasn’t received security updates for three years and a half years. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222 Running an old version of an operating system that’s not actively getting security updates, let alone got
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
That is bad practice IMO because it makes it easy to accidentally introduce bugs and produces code that a reader will misinterpret, making it harder to find bugs. The better approach is to always compare against FALSE, because that avoids t
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
The advice in the article is too broad because there are times when the comparison is not meant in the truthy/falsy sense. For example, strcmp and friends return 0 if the strings are equal, less than 0 if str1 is lexically less than s
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
Most people would work in a toxic company for the right price. For an extremely awful job it might be very high, but just about everyone has a number.
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
Who does corporate income benefit if not shareholders and employees? The corporation can deduct the wages it pays employees, which is why they’re fully taxed at the individual earned-income level—this is the personal income tax. In theory,
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
0days are precious and expensive. The odds of being targeted by one are incredibly low compared to those of being targeted by an exploit for which there is a patch.
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
The iOS client regularly loses large swaths of messages, with no clue that they’re missing except a time gap. The only way to fix it is to log out and log back in. I imagine a large percent of users are just oblivious to the missing messag
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
> I mean actual free speech would just be an endless collection of penis videos. I agree with the main thrust of your post, but to nitpick, American free speech jurisprudence is not so daft. Where some restrictions are necessary, the pr
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
Tort law is going to catch up to software soon enough and people will be held accountable for negligently creating or deploying software that they should have known would cause harm. The fact that someone else down the chain should have kno
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
This is kind of a myth. There is such thing as tamperproof hardware components and they can protect against plenty of threats. Security isn’t all or nothing, it’s about understanding what the different threats are and adequately protecting
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
That’s just not true. Apple actively works to prevent jailbreaks and there are often multi-year periods where no publicly released jailbreak exists for particular phones. When one does appear, Apple patches it as quickly as possible—for goo
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
There is this long-standing bug on mobile versions of slack where large swaths of messages just disappear. The only way to get them back is to sign out and sign back in. This is supposed to replace business email?
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
In fairness, plenty of sunsetting legislation is simply allowed to expire. Also, repassage often only occurs in exchange for important modifications.
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
Someone else basically said it but to put it more plainly: broken gametes produce no-fertilization, no-implantation, miscarriages, and non-viable or infertile offspring. So only the good ones get through.
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
It’s a good question and it’s a shame you’ve been downvoted for raising it. The other answers don’t really get it to the heart of it. The question is why any company would deal with other companies rather than perform those same functions i
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
Out of curiosity, why not just omit the apostrophe for airline reservations then? I understand wanting your full, real name in many circumstances, but who cares about what the boarding pass says as long as you get to fly? I doubt the people
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
Anyone with a cell phone in their pocket is giving their real time location data to private companies. And I’m very happy that the government can’t just access it without a warrant.
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
I’m confused that HN is suddenly enthralled with giving real time location data to the government. There was actually a recent Supreme Court case that extended Fourth Amendment protections to such data.
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
The Court already reconsidered the third-party doctrine in Carpenter v. United States last year and ruled that accessing extensive cell site location records without a warrant is a violation of the Fourth Amendment.
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
For websites, I use the Dark Reader extension, which does an incredible job turning any website into a dark version. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-reader/eimadp... My main annoyance these day
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
And we have a process for determining which ones we act upon or not: the legislative process.
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
Here is a proper news article for those who can do without a dozen pages of drivel about the CEO's hairdo, flying lessons, and underwear shopping: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/18/fbi_raids_cybers
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by marcoperaza 7y ago
I live in a city right now, and sure, the grocery store is right there, but it’s also very expensive and has a tiny selection. I can get all of the same foods for much less in the suburbs and much more conveniently than carrying several h

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