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by mreome 6y ago
I would argue that if you're asking yourself "What is the worst that could happen if someone guesses the result of random()?" and your answer is "I don't know," then you're doing something you shouldn&#x27
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by mreome 6y ago
It's going to depend on your experience, for me I have often run into the exact opposite extreme... where the non-secure random is to slow for my uses-cases (games, graphics, procedural texture gen, etc) and a much faster but less st
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by mreome 6y ago
It's not that you shouldn't be using it necessarily, it's just that for many cases (games, procedural generation, graphics, many kind of simulations) it's unnecessary and slow. In my experience if someone doesn't
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by mreome 6y ago
There is a difference between generating these kind of IDs and writing the generator for these kinds of IDs. You shouldn't be rolling your own UUID generator if you don't fully understand the concerns/requirements in rega
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by mreome 6y ago
My counter would be that if someone "doesn't know whether they need secure randomness" then the problem is not that random() is not secure, it's the fact that someone is doing something they really should not be doing in
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by mreome 6y ago
I did not intend to imply anything in regard to your positions, my intention was only to argue my interpretation of, and issues with, the current system and discuss why I think alternatives are better. Apologies if any of my posts came off
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by mreome 6y ago
In my mind one of the biggest negative effects of the Electoral College is that it doesn't just provide more/less national voting power, but in many cases effectively strips voters of any power over the Presidential election. Un
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by mreome 6y ago
Part of my point is that states, and often congressional districts, do not really represent a "common culture and people" in a lot of cases. NY for example is a Blue state, but is Red by area. Those same boundaries can also i
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by mreome 6y ago
We're trying to represent a diverse set of people and industries by dividing them into a false binary partitioned by largely arbitrary state lines, many of which were defined over 200 years ago, and leaving the vote for the presidency
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by mreome 6y ago
This only holds if people still think they are a "Virginian" first and an "American" second. I've lived in several states, have close family in a dozen different states, and extended friends and family in almost eve
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by mreome 6y ago
I'm not disagreeing that right now there is strong ideological divide between a majority of people in rural and urban populations, that's patently obvious. But what is the justification for providing someone with a larger represen
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by mreome 6y ago
I think you're describing exactly what Maine and Nebraska already do: https://www.fairvote.org/maine_nebraska
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by mreome 6y ago
While I understand your point, the counter argument to this is "Land doesn't vote, people do." Why does someone deserve to have greater representation because they live on a larger plot of land in a different part of the coun
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by mreome 6y ago
Putting the whole sales tax discussion aside, as it's really an entirely different issues, I'm not sure what you think Section 230 does exactly. Yes, it does explicitly protect me and my sites . Without Section 230 I'm pot
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by mreome 6y ago
Parties are always going to support the incumbent as long as they will probably win, and in most congressional districts the votes are always solid along party lines. The incumbent doesn't have to be good, they just have to be not so
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by mreome 6y ago
I think it has a lot to do with the two-party system. Many (most?) congressional districts are essentially locked to one party. Unless the incumbent did something egregious enough for their supporters to turn on them, why would their party
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by mreome 6y ago
A violation of sales tax law can only be addressed by the government. The protections provided by Section 230 are from everyone who might not like something about you, your site, or your users. It's the difference between the govern
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by mreome 6y ago
Section 230 protects all entities with user-generated content, that includes Facebook and Twitter as well as Uncle Frank's Model Train Forum . The repeal of 230 would essentially cement those centralized sites as the sole platforms ho
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by mreome 6y ago
Just a nit-pick, but the suppression of speech by a private institution is still censorship , it's just not government censorship . I think maybe you were conflating it with the First Amendment, which applies only to the government a
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by mreome 6y ago
Trump was banned for inciting a violent, seditious, riot that left four people dead. That's not just "content you disagree with politically" Edit: I wonder why I got down-voted. My comment was not "off-topic or illegal&q
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by mreome 6y ago
Businesses can refuse service to any person for any reason, unless the business is specifically discriminating against a person for being part of a protected class . Hair color is not a legally protected class last time I checked.
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by mreome 6y ago
I've always been under the impression that the norms in Silicon Valley are often different from the rest of the country, so that's not surprising. My experience is limited to the North-East/East-Coast though, so it's pos
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by mreome 6y ago
I fully agree on-the-job training should be much more common, especially in larger companies, and in many fields you can end up with a better fit by just training someone in exactly what you need rather then trying to find someone who knows
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by mreome 6y ago
The argument could be made that you had a lot of valuable experience though. If I were looking to hire a new programmer, and had someone with experience as a reporter, I’d be thinking about all the places that experience would be useful. It
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by mreome 6y ago
I think the biggest cost isn't termination itself, but rather the paperwork/overhead involving with a new full-time employee combined with the risk of wrongful termination lawsuits. Even if such a lawsuit is entirely baseless, it
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by mreome 6y ago
I don’t think you can say it’s a myth if it’s a “cost of doing business” though. Companies are incentivized to reduce costs and risks that do not provide a return. If an employer can hire someone experienced with a solid track record, and r
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by mreome 6y ago
> Their use as some kind of magic lawsuit shield hasn’t been tested in any court, ever, by anyone. If nobody is even willing to take it to court to try to test it, then it sounds like it is working as an amazingly effective lawsuit shiel
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Flaws Exposed in 'A Million Random Digits'(wsj.com)
3 points by mreome 6y ago|2 comments
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State Department Announces Great Firewall for the US(techdirt.com)
8 points by mreome 6y ago|2 comments
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by mreome 6y ago
The question of it being "clickbait" aside, I find the title a bit odd. I can’t see any language that "You've Never Heard Of" as being a possible Python substitute. In my mind, one of the single largest reasons for

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