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by mcherm 6y ago
> anyone know the standard term for that? I'm not sure what the standard term is either. I frequently use the term "tactile controls" to indicate controls that can be operated without looking at them. For what it's wo
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by mcherm 6y ago
Jesus Christ, dude, this is a forum for anything that good hackers would find interesting. Good hackers realize that there is a lot to learn from EVERYONE and that excluding or even just failing to listen Christians would be nearly as fooli
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by mcherm 6y ago
> This once again confirms that Zoom just doesn't care about having a secure platform at all. I disagree. I think it shows that Zoom (at the time this was created) lacked the skill necessary to create a secure platform. But their pr
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by mcherm 6y ago
What is the market share of those? Ideally measured two ways: in downloads and in dollars.
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by mcherm 6y ago
What you just read is an ex-Amazon employee who quite under protest over a principle and has since been hounded by reporters all trying to get him to say that Amazon or Jeff Bezos are the problem (and printing that even if he won't say
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by mcherm 6y ago
That's... really a perfect way to sum them up.
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by mcherm 6y ago
> I think it's easy for everyone here to estimate the actual amount of malfeasance by taken the number of times they've seen police behave inappropriately (dozens) and divide it by the number of complaints they've made (z
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by mcherm 6y ago
An interesting point that this article does not mention, but which can be found in other articles [2] or the order [2]: The judge issuing the order specifically stated that this court has reviewed and ruled on the the order so it is clearly
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by mcherm 6y ago
> Hell, a videotape of them discussing how to be corrupt, how they will profit from it, how to launder the money would not be enough. It hasn’t been in prior cases of this type, where they’ve got as far as someone looking at them. Can yo
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by mcherm 6y ago
I am sure perfection cannot be reached. I am hoping that we can recognize how far from perfection we are and adjust our systems to take account of that. For the criminal justice system in the US, one of the clearest implications is that we
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by mcherm 6y ago
> Why? The experience and intelligence of the recruiter has almost zero correlation to the experience and intelligence of the people you'd be working with. It shouldn't. A well-run company should refuse to work with recruiters
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by mcherm 6y ago
I get that she was actually a nice person who simply didn't know when .NET was invented. But I do not accept that she made a harmless and easily fixed error on the job requirements because of this. Frankly, I'm not that concerned
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by mcherm 6y ago
(1) My employer has switched to (nearly) 100% remote work at least through the end of 2020. (2) I've set up regular weekly zoom calls with my extended family. (3) I'm spending a LOT of time just staying at home with my wife and ch
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by mcherm 6y ago
> currently have 8,698 bookmarks across 1,544 different tags I'm at 17,614 bookmarks 2,530 tags. And it's incredibly valuable to be able to go back and find things, even things I bookmarked and categorized a long time ago. >
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by mcherm 6y ago
I'm not sure Hacker News is the most effective place for this kind of post... but best of luck anyhow. There are, of course, whole websites dedicated to doing this.
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by mcherm 6y ago
Yes. It would all be a lot simpler if browsers and other operating systems just implemented an API call for obtainAllMyPrivateInformation(). That's clearly what developers like LinkedIn (and TicToc, etc.) are looking for.
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by mcherm 6y ago
My own comments on the subject: https://www.mcherm.com/journalistic-ethics.html
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by mcherm 6y ago
It took me quite some time to get through, but I DID call the New York Times to cancel my membership and share the following note: https://www.mcherm.com/journalistic-ethics.html Interestingly, the person I reached was init
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by mcherm 6y ago
If a bank is in danger of running out of money, then (in the US, where I work in banking) the federal regulators step in and take over the bank. They sell off assets to other banks and pay depositors their money (up to the EXTREMELY generou
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by mcherm 6y ago
> also, how come the news of this change only came from a non-american news source? Well, did you read the first two sentences of the article? > Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg says users will be able to turn off political adverts on th
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by mcherm 6y ago
The article's complaints seem to be: (A) This bank has a tiny number of employees. They suggest that the number of PPP loans is in line with the number of loans the bank makes normally, but they do it with a lot fewer employees than We
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by mcherm 6y ago
We may be at the lowest levels seen in recent times, but I'm fairly confident it is not a minimum because it can go still lower.
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by mcherm 6y ago
In my opinion, your comment contains far more insight than the original article.
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by mcherm 6y ago
> I don't understand Banach-Tarski, but it seems like the common version which you just explaing must be wrong. It is not possible to double the volume of an object by cutting and reassembling. Well, it seems that you DO understand
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by mcherm 6y ago
I work for a major US bank. Regulators frequently (multiple times a year across different areas of the business) have detailed discussions with us about specific technology choices, especially regarding issues that could affect data integri
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by mcherm 6y ago
Now, that's a NEW piece of advice I haven't heard before. Thanks!
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by mcherm 6y ago
> The key substantive benefit of making such a claim, piling onto state law violations, is recovery of attorneys fees under Section 1983 (the article does not discuss this). Perhaps you should go back and read the article again -- it abs
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by mcherm 6y ago
> There is nothing praise-worthy about taking a stand now, you should have been out of there ten years ago or never started to begin with. That is a ridiculous position. perhaps it would have been wise to do this 10 years ago, or perhaps
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by mcherm 6y ago
> for whatever reason, you are seen as "soft on crime" if you attempt to prosecute police for carrying out crimes. I suspect that the reason is a very simple worldview that divides everything into good vs evil / us vs them
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by mcherm 6y ago
> I kinda get this, the "framework maintainers are superhumans who write amazing code and nothing I could write could get close to that" attitude. I don't think that's the actual message. I think the real message is

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