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901.
by mseebach 9y ago
Yes, things are complicated, but airlines manage to routinely take $100m devices out of service for days to months for servicing, so it seems like a bad excuse that a hospital can't plan around taking any given device offline for a f
902.
by mseebach 9y ago
So, the only possible explanations for disagreeing with you is stupidity or malice. It must be really nice to have so high confidence.
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by mseebach 9y ago
> One of the children had unknowingly disengaged the A310 autopilot's control over the aircraft's ailerons while seated at the controls . [...] With the autopilot active, Kudrinsky, against regulations , let the children sit
904.
by mseebach 9y ago
> A good firewall would protect from WanaCrypt No, unfortunately not - it spread using SMB internally on LANs, but travelled internet-to-LAN by "regular" phishing. It downloads its payload off the internet, but most good firewa
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by mseebach 9y ago
If that's the motivation, just use a non-existant TLD, or, even better, .local If the motivation is to have a killswitch, you don't want something expensive, because the attackers would then have to pay for it if they want to acti
906.
by mseebach 9y ago
That's sophistry. Being full time employed means just that. Obviously you have free time and that's great, but that's time to do not-work, not other work, and that's obvious and reasonable to the vast majority of employe
907.
by mseebach 9y ago
Your interpretation may be true, but it's certainly not literal, since they literally state their interpretation (in bullet points, for clarity) and that ain't it. (most of the Windows deployment under consideration would be enter
908.
by mseebach 9y ago
A combination of good, accurate clocks (remember that a $10 digital Casio drifts less than a second per day) and some functionality on the server side to detect and correct for drift. When the key window is 30 seconds, the key won't dr
909.
by mseebach 9y ago
That's how one-time password tokens like RSA SecurID and YubiKey works, and hardware/battery/cost wise, they seem to be well within scope for a car key.
910.
by mseebach 9y ago
I've was once "rejected" by the gate-machine when I accidentally gave them an old boarding pass - however, this was on EasyJet, an airline which actually runs on 21st century software.
911.
by mseebach 9y ago
From a different perspective you could point out that the innovative companies (in this context, Instagram and Snapchat) were indeed capable of significant (relative to the space, at lease) innovation (and getting extremely well paid). I
912.
by mseebach 9y ago
The art here is separating the baby and the bath water. If you replace "man" and "woman" in the text with "person with high social capital" and "person with low social capital", the present day releva
913.
by mseebach 9y ago
Well, that may be true, but we're specifically talking about Google and Facebook here. > I don't deny that there can be apathy I'm not talking about apathy, I'm talking about actually understanding and being OK with w
914.
by mseebach 9y ago
Never in the history of the world has there been an industry in which it was easier to set out on your own and make things the way YOU want to.
915.
by mseebach 9y ago
> It's not so easy when you've got people to feed and there are 100 people in line to take your spot. This is true for exactly 0 engineers at Google and Facebook. Every single one of them could easily find another job if they w
916.
by mseebach 9y ago
People working at New York Times and Washington Post lie to themselves that they're doing something important while working for a "cool" news company. They're ignorant to the fact that these companies make their entire r
917.
by mseebach 9y ago
"People" may pay lip service to remote work, but YC as far as I can tell were never ambiguous in their belief that being physically in SV is important for success.
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by mseebach 10y ago
Not much. Denmark patrols similarly huge and empty arctic Greenland with a 14-man strong unit. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_Dog_Sled_Patrol Sure, there's a bit more to it than that, but Denmark is a lot
919.
by mseebach 10y ago
The regime (which is what they are now) have shown that they are not deterred by having to persecute people in bulk.
920.
by mseebach 10y ago
I don't believe we've arrived at some kind of maximum level of understanding that means that we're better suited for making decisions with impact decades into the future. Sure, we've learned something things, but there a
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by mseebach 10y ago
Yes, unintended consequences are in play with every policy change (not just 'potentially') and they are never considered nearly enough, which is the reason there are so many bad laws (and regulations and whatnot) on the books. Pe
922.
by mseebach 10y ago
Yes, I agree that co-locating teams that aren't directly collaborating can be counterproductive. Loud sales teams, obviously, yes, but quieter teams will also have different patterns of buzz that will be disturbing to unrelated teams n
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by mseebach 10y ago
That's a goalpost on wheels. Anyway, it doesn't change the fact that the GP offered than even under the same regulations , public facilities perform significantly worse than private ones.
924.
by mseebach 10y ago
I think there are at least two different kinds of productivity. One is the kind where you need to progress through a non-trivial body of work with a well-understood end-state. Your primary, if not sole, output is code. This is probably wel
925.
by mseebach 10y ago
Basically, unintended consequences. That there's a risk that it accidentally outlaws something that will be truly beneficial to the internet. The internet is still young - it's arrogant to presume that we know enough about what th
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by mseebach 10y ago
Great example, because euphemisms were certainly never a thing in prostitution (and the word you're looking for is 'escort').
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by mseebach 10y ago
> the effort of disrupting which would be unavailable to all but state agents It's a good thing then that there is a long history of all state agents in northern Africa maintaining friendly and stable relations with European governm
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by mseebach 10y ago
> The person who commented on the "fake testimonial" did change his statement (check it out). It doesn't matter. That person almost certainly isn't a potential customer. I'm not either. Changing our minds is a wa
929.
by mseebach 10y ago
You quite frankly appear to have somewhat of an attitude. You come off as defensive and carrying a chip on your shoulder. Why on earth would you get yourself involved in a petty fight over people writing comments that aren't "usef
930.
by mseebach 10y ago
There's no analogy - what you're describing is literally a lawyer.

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