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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
Yes, but the point is you wouldn't be aware unless he released the info. He gave individual users an option to protect themselves in the absence of a patch from MS.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
> Now that everybody knows that Wait, when did everyone become aware of that? I'm willing to bet the vast majority of windows users have no idea. _Some_ people only know _because_ he released the bug.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
No, it was only a 0day before he made it public. He is merely providing security-conscious persons information and a way to defend themselves from an exploit which MS has not fixed. He is turning a 0day into a known vuln.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
MS is acting 'totally unethically' by not patching this bug immediately and rewarding the researcher.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
> so he's causing microsoft and USERS problems they didn't have before. He's not causing problems, he's solving them.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
No.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
> To understand this you need to look at the career track of newly minted math PhDs and what one needs to do to secure tenure. You can pursue new mathematics without having a PhD. I think the most difficult/frustrating part about ac
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
> I believe that mathematics can be learned and appreciated by many, because mathematics is a language for articulating inner urges and perceptions that are common to a wide range of creatures, not only humans I'm not sure where you
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
I would pay to see Google, Oracle, Microsoft, etc be judged by FSF.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
> but the appearance/practice of being impartial increased sales opportunities. Is this based on any real data? Have there been any credible studies that show unbiased reporting = higher sales?
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
The fact that they tell you how many other candidates there are for the same position is a bad sign about their hiring process to be honest.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
That's why you have interviews... use them wisely instead of asking silly questions.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
By being good at what you do, not by giving cute answers to retarded questions.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
What difference in tone and focus are you referring to? Noam Chomsky seems like a much more 'European-style' (academic?) intellectual then the pop/celeb 'intellectuals' popular in America such as Sam Harris, Christo
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
Not really, there is nothing about being labeled a 'mystic' that means the person is less politically informed. The Catholic Popes are arguably in the same bucket but were and are some of the most politically informed and influent
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
> That said, if you're looking for concrete political understanding, probably don't read the work of a French mystic who starved herself to death. That's like saying 'probably don't concern yourself with Godel&#x
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
> I remember a lot of people buying The Road to Serfdom eight years ago. Not sure how that's relevant.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
There's a difference between using tax payer money to pay people in that country, vs paying outsourced labor somewhere in another country.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
There are so many ways. The Zapatistas have tens of thousands of members/supporters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_democracy
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
From my experience, most large companies have support policies that basically blacklist all forms of help that may incur cost for the company. What I found works quite often though, is drafting a formal letter (can be email) referencing you
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
What Uber has, that all of the other players don't is a platform, data, and experience operating such a service. All they have to do is add in the self driving cars, whereas all (most) of the other players have to build the whole platf
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
There is no evidence of Uber being better or worse than the others, but they are ahead in terms of using self driving cars as taxis. https://newsroom.uber.com/san-francisco-your-self-driving-ub... https://www.the
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
> As long as ridesharing companies need human drivers network effects ensure that Uber will remain at the top. I think it is the opposite... Uber's only real way to turn a profit while staying competitive is to get rid of the cost o
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
What about using some kind of DNA hash?
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
Both are pretty trivial to integrate, because you can essentially white-list the rules you want applied, but the documentation on how to properly do this is lacking for typescript in my opinion. There is also a lot of contradictory informat