mayniac

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by mayniac 8y ago
Yeah I do this. I also work in security. >why reuse at all? Because it's easy. There's many sites I create an account for once or twice and I never use again, mainly e-commerce. I don't care if someone logs in, at best the
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by mayniac 8y ago
Yeah some people I know go OTT and use password managers for everything. To the point that they don't trust any cloud based ones so if they want to log in to something and they haven't got an up-to-date copy of their password mana
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by mayniac 8y ago
>Meanwhile, in the real world, hardly anyone clicks on a banner ad ever. A perfectly polished targeted turd is still a turd. Don't necessarily need to click on the ad. If a user sees an ad just once it's in their mind, somewher
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by mayniac 8y ago
Further anecdote to support that claim: in my old job an admin who worked in the London office for over seven years, and had numerous raises and promotions in that time, was on the same salary as her newly hired graduate counterpart in the
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by mayniac 8y ago
I don't really see the point of this. Assuming you have equal or less cars per (adult) person in your househould, what advantage does this have exactly? Your car is likely going to be wherever you are. If it's going to be at work
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by mayniac 8y ago
Agreed: I've just looked around and it's closer to £100-200 cheaper per month, but it's hard to compare when you factor in anything more than just number of bedrooms and rough square footage. I did find out I'm paying ab
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by mayniac 8y ago
Quite reluctant to give actual figures so these are fudged. Salary of £45k, rent £1.2k/month, edge of zone 2/3, tube line within one minute walk, overground and another line quite close. Can't remember what area it is and I&#
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by mayniac 8y ago
My choice is between living close to work, living alone, or cheap rent. I can pick two. All three if I choose to live in a room which fits no more than a single bed. I'm counting 45 minutes tube/20 minutes motorbike as close becau
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by mayniac 8y ago
> In London, living on your own after university is basically impossible (unless you live very far out). Disagree, since I'm doing it right now 3 years after uni. I'm not paid amazingly, below average salary for London but abov
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by mayniac 8y ago
We had a decent council housing system in the UK which provided affordable rents. That and housing cooperatives/housing associations replacing landlords would be ideal. I agree with the person you're replying to, the vast majority
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by mayniac 8y ago
Just replied with a longer argument here > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16911880 tldr is that it's an IT policy not a university one, and every single employer whose email server you ever used has exactly the
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by mayniac 8y ago
If you've got an actual argument to make then please make it, I really don't have the time or patience for no-effort bait comments like >Define "sexual", define "harassment".
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by mayniac 8y ago
>That is the issue. Just because someone considers something offensive does not make it so. With a tiny bit of effort, so many things can be "considered offensive". A generous interpretation would be that a governing body must
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by mayniac 8y ago
I'm not going to because that's a really fucking stupid argument.
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by mayniac 8y ago
I have a few issues with that link. Namely that a traffic light system is a huge, huge , HUGE oversimplification of complex issues. While the analysis seems fairly transparent, I don't think many people will actually look into it pa
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by mayniac 8y ago
Next sentence: >Within two years, they plan to hit this “magic number,” after which they’ll quit their jobs and roam the world. If you stick to cheap areas like SE Asia and Central Africa then you don't need half of that. Throw in c
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by mayniac 8y ago
I enjoy them and regularly do both. I still wouldn't mention it in an interview since they're something almost everyone does (gaming especially in tech fields). If every candidate is similarly skilled/experienced then it main
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by mayniac 8y ago
Along with everything else people have already said: something you do in your spare time which shows some level of motivation. Hiring/firing managers I've spoken to in the past have been very, very wary of hiring people who either
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by mayniac 8y ago
Spotify has quite a few of the features you're looking for already. Why reinvent the wheel? It costs about the same as Apple Music, and I have very few complaints with the apps and desktop client. There's also quite a bit of IFTTT
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by mayniac 8y ago
>I'm not sure how to fix this. I don't think it's possible. Maybe you can build more amenities close to where people live, and stop people using cars as much as they do. Maybe you can build public transport services more i
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by mayniac 8y ago
I really don't mind Google as much when it comes to data collection. Primary difference between them and Facebook is that I feel Google has a lot more transparency with what data they hold on you. With Google I just deleted all my acco
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by mayniac 9y ago
Well leather isn't really water resistant to begin with: ask any biker. It'll hold up to a light rain, but anything more you shouldn't expose leather to unless it's been waxed relatively recently. And once it is wet, if
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by mayniac 9y ago
I struggle to believe this. I had 300 Facebook friends before I deleted my account a couple of days ago, and I didn't see that number decrease. Neither did I hear anything from the decent number of infosec friends who you would expect
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by mayniac 9y ago
It doesn't actually matter, unless he's KNOWS he's downloaded something illegal and KNOWS how to find it on his computer, or has opened it already and not deleted it. Basically all possession laws (really all laws in general)
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by mayniac 9y ago
Assuming they set up signal protocol correctly, which I'm sure they did since Open Whisper Systems partnered with WA to set it up right, they're likely just sharing details on users' contact lists. Considering Facebook owns W
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by mayniac 9y ago
>But nope. These same people deleting their facebook accounts are still using gmail, still using Apple's app store, and switching to using Discord or Slack or the like to talk and organize. I get what you're saying: Google stil
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by mayniac 9y ago
From what I can see, this would be fine under GDPR anyway, so long as when you buy something in a supermarket they ask you "is it okay if we send information of what you bought to Google?" Of course it's completely impractica
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by mayniac 9y ago
I find it interesting that they built this into Facebook rather than just using a third party option. If executives wanted a way to communicate privately and securely, why not use Signal? They helped implement WhatsApp's encryption, so
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by mayniac 9y ago
I do prefer the 4chan theory, since it satisfies Occam's Razor. That said, the frequency of new videos from multiple channels dedicated to nothing but these videos, as well as the monetisation, makes it unlikely. Also considering the n
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by mayniac 9y ago
/r/ElsaGate monitors this quite actively. The current prevailing non-tin-foil-hat theory is that some animators realised that they could game YouTube's suggestion algorithm, and that kids videos are an easy target. Kids also

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