mcherm

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by mcherm 10y ago
Not only is it ridiculous to permanently ban someone from the platform with 3 minutes notice for copyright violation, this ALSO isn't copyright violation! In the US (I don't know enough about other jurisdictions) this would almost
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by mcherm 10y ago
Not only is it ridiculous to permanently ban someone from the platform with 3 minutes notice for copyright violation, this ALSO isn't copyright violation! In the US (I don't know enough about other jurisdictions) this would almost
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by mcherm 10y ago
Actually, your best defense is to be able to identify the troll (which is difficult!) because if you can show "bad faith" on their part in court that really helps your case.
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by mcherm 10y ago
Sort of. There are two claims someone might make. "X is common, and it poses a meaningful risk", or "X exists, and it poses a non-zero risk". Anecdotes do not help much with the first claim, but they do help with the sec
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by mcherm 10y ago
That's a fairly good argument. I would like to see some actual statistics the frequency of CPS overreacting in an unreasonable fashion. I certainly read many news stories about it, but that is misleading in exactly the same way as the
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by mcherm 10y ago
So long as you have the right and the ability to ignore that private company I agree... the company's choice in no way erodes your rights. BUT, if merchants stop accepting cash, and only a handful of financial companies control your ab
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by mcherm 10y ago
The features I use least are the ones I don't know about. Unfortunately I cannot list them for you because I don't know about them.
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by mcherm 10y ago
Sure, of COURSE asking him to sign an NDA is reasonable. But when he chooses NOT to sign it (for whatever reason, it doesn't matter why) what then? The law in DE states that he has a right to see the data anyway if he has a valid reaso
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by mcherm 10y ago
Your phrase: > largely ignored and we're doing just fine without it is a pretty good description of how it's going here. Let be be a bit more specific. We used to build lots of SOAP services, and maintaining the schemas that cl
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by mcherm 10y ago
> did you actually read the linked slides? Valid question. Yes, I did. I wish the final slide (which summarizes what each index type is good for) had been at the beginning also.
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by mcherm 10y ago
No, it really isn't. I agree roughly with the claim that you should plan your life based on the assumption that your stock options are quite likely to be worthless, but the comment you replied to is making specific and highly meaningfu
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by mcherm 10y ago
> Suppose you are using JSON to keep configuration files, which you would like to annotate. Go ahead and insert all the comments you like. Then pipe it through JSMin before handing it to your JSON parser. Excellent advice... except that
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by mcherm 10y ago
If a person has posted a completely bogus bad review, I, as the maligned merchant, have three choices. I can ignore it. I can post a response. I can sue the person. I think it is quite reasonable for Yelp to note when merchants use the thir
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by mcherm 10y ago
It is only your opinion that those actions are illegal. They would only be ACTUALLY illegal if a court ruled them to be illegal, but litigating these activities would be a threat to national security so a court must not review them. Since t
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by mcherm 10y ago
In a project focused on privacy, vague unclear statements of this sort convey a certain implication. There is, of course, no way to be sure what is intended, and that is rather the point.
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by mcherm 10y ago
Ether that you own (not related to the DAO) before the fork happens would be unaffected by the fork. But after the fork, suppose you accept payment for something. You can accept payment in cash, Bitcoin, Ether-on-left-side-of-fork, or Ether
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by mcherm 10y ago
I have the opposite feeling. Pinboard does what I want. It seems like it will CONTINUE to do what I want, perhaps for a long time to come! If it could run a little faster, I wouldn't mind that (but maybe that's because I have abou
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by mcherm 10y ago
If the hobbiest is CAPABLE of doing so, then they will.
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by mcherm 10y ago
> What restricts someone from constructing a tall building? Building codes. > ...I can do whatever I what with it right? Who can stop me [...] The United States is a free country right? You are dangerously close to setting the bozo bi
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by mcherm 10y ago
In the US system, money which goes in certain sorts of retirement plans (like a "401k") is not subject to income tax (at least not in the same way as the rest of your income). But the definition of a "401k" plan requires
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by mcherm 10y ago
You write: > Any reasonable person with knowledge of litigation knows that the only reason you attempt to hide things from discovery is that they are incriminating, aggravating (in the legal sense) and/or damning. I disagree with th
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by mcherm 10y ago
Yes, it is. Bitcoin transactions pay a transaction fee which the person creating the transaction can specify. It can be any amount INCLUDING ZERO. The theory is that paying higher transaction fees will get your payment processed faster. Rec
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by mcherm 10y ago
I call BS on that. It is true that banks will go a long way to try to satisfy banking regulators. But unless you have some evidence I am simply unwilling to believe that banking regulators can make up any restrictions they like without rega
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by mcherm 10y ago
I'm not sure whether we are redefining it... I suppose it depends on what definition you were starting with! My idea of "decentralized" includes things like "continues to function perfectly well if any one person or smal
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by mcherm 10y ago
> but they didn't halt trading until they were asked to, so clearly it wasn't totally in their interests? Not at all. This is a classic "coordination problem". It is advantageous for many participants in the overall s
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by mcherm 10y ago
Not particularly. There are other layers of security here - the sessions expire (so there's a limited window to exploit each one), the sessions are always transmitted via SSL (so you pretty much have to have an exploit on the customer&
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by mcherm 10y ago
Yes you can. The system I built uses a revocation list (propagated to all servers in the cluster) to invalidate the session. Just as if you were storing state on the server, it still requires a means of propagating the user's state to
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by mcherm 10y ago
The human brain stores information. I would not call it a database. Let's start with your statement: "If it can store and retrieve data, it's a database." One of the notable characteristics of human memory is that it is
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by mcherm 10y ago
> Immigration officers are trained to pick up on people violating the law and she certainly was. I question your statement that she "certainly" was violating the law. She and the conference organizers had researched the situati
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by mcherm 10y ago
That is just how the rules ACTUALLY work. If the other party does not show up then you get a "default judgement". This does NOT mean an automatic win. But it DOES mean (roughly) that the judge has to believe every claim you make (

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