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by mseebach 8y ago
I think you've got it backwards, in a way: Borders is the taking-away of a right, in order to provide other "rights". The US, specifically, did not have a very restrictive immigration policy in the 19th century, and while int
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by mseebach 8y ago
No, it's not better than nothing. In fact, it's worse than nothing. Which is why they're not doing that. It's extremely difficult for classic news media to make money in the internet-world. They're not tracking you
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by mseebach 8y ago
It seems like a missed opportunity not to have a JSON (or other explicitly machine readable format) output option for easy scripting use through jq. Every time I need to craft a grep regex to get some trivial piece of information from one o
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by mseebach 8y ago
I heard a variation on this: it's not big data until it can't fit in RAM in a single rack.
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by mseebach 8y ago
Ironically, the opposition to the rollback ignores how in this case the regulation unintendedly encouraged and cemented said oligopoly.
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by mseebach 8y ago
Especially in terms of resentment, it seems risky to conflate "remote" and "part time", especially without very clear boundaries. This is exactly the fear many managers have about remote work: that it gradually slides in
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by mseebach 8y ago
If anything is mythological, it's this: > Regulations exist to protect the whole from the greed of a few. That's clearly one reason, and certainly the most commonly cited reason, but it's equally clearly not the only one,
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by mseebach 8y ago
The mechanism you're describing also made the non-populist politicians complacent, they forgot (if they ever learned) how to articulate why their way is actually better. See for an example the completely anemic campaigns fought by Hill
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by mseebach 8y ago
The easy solution is to keep the provided modem, and when there's an issue, just swap it over and replicate. Preemptively factory reset the modem, too, which is no big deal anyway when you're only using it for troubleshooting.
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by mseebach 8y ago
Parent is basically describing A/B testing, so seems solid enough. It does seem to presume a fairly simple functionality, though, it probably won't work well if each version takes you five months to build.
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by mseebach 8y ago
Yes, of course. "Added complexity" was meant in the context of already having decided that the AWS ecosystem is valuable (parent mentioned running serverless, so presumably that is the case).
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by mseebach 8y ago
The "commodity" distinction feel very significant here. Parent mentioned training videos, so probably very much not commodity. If you're selling something at $10/unit, it doesn't matter if your bandwidth costs are ¢
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by mseebach 8y ago
> Various people pointed out various cases where it's shown over the course of 20 years what happened Yes, and other various other people are pointing out that now there's a new law that changes a lot of things, perhaps what ha
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by mseebach 8y ago
The substance of this line of criticism is that yes, it's probably going to be fine. But if it's not, they can fine you at 4% of global turnover. They probably won't, but they literally can . "I read on a blog that
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by mseebach 8y ago
It's a good thing that this scheme is 100% secure against someone reselling these online for bitcoin.
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by mseebach 8y ago
Well, bias towards "infrastructure as code" and minimise the need to actually access the servers. Read logs through Splunk, configure through version controlled Puppet (or similar tools). The only machines that can actually SSH in
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by mseebach 8y ago
Airgapped exfil is a whole research field. Priority one is making accidental leaks or infections all but impossible. Priority two is making large scale intentional leaks as slow and difficult as possible. As long as there are human eyes on
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by mseebach 8y ago
Sometimes security is annoying, and sometimes security means you don't get to do what you needed to do. An event with hundreds or thousands of people should have rehearsals and spare speaker laptops, but if they don't, your need t
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by mseebach 8y ago
First, if USB sticks are out for data exfil reasons, 4G sticks (and anything else that isn't a HID device) are out as well. Second, such networks generally have an approved way of getting data on to them, typically involves handing you
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by mseebach 8y ago
> you could bypass this if you had admin rights but it would leave a trail A move I've seen being put in place at several locations, is removing local admin rights from all users. Those with advanced needs, like developers, gets a V
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by mseebach 8y ago
The problem was the phishing, not the subdomain. If your app allows users to run phishing operations, moving the content from user.foo.com to www.foo.com/user probably won't help much in parent's scenario.
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by mseebach 8y ago
Thanks, but it's not really a metaphor. The internet is literally infrastructure. Sometimes, when new and exciting infrastructure opens, such as the first metro line in a city, it's a destination in it's own regard for a brie
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by mseebach 8y ago
It means "nobody gets it for free". Nobody gets to say "oh, but I'm the king, I'm pre-redeemed, I can do whatever". Everyone has to work hard every day for redemption, and nobody is ever done.
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by mseebach 8y ago
Just like in the real world: You don't go out on the street to meet people, you use the street to get to the place where the people you're likely to enjoy meeting are likely to be. IRC might be one such place, but there are many o
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by mseebach 8y ago
I think a major factor is the fact that the internet is now mainstream. In the early days, you had something in common with everybody, simply by being on the internet. The place was silly with people absolutely floored by the idea that th
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by mseebach 8y ago
I have a vague recollection that he lost his shirt at some point, possibly building rockets. Possibly there was something in Masters of Doom[1]? I don't have it near me, so can't check. 1: Biography of id software, obviously heavi
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by mseebach 8y ago
Parent said simple, not passive. Non-passive RFID is still simple.
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by mseebach 8y ago
Several of the anecdotes are about not doing what Jobs wanted him to. Zuck doesn't hold a candle to Jobs' force of personality. I don't know if Carmack has FU money, but if he decides to part with Facebook, he'll have th
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by mseebach 8y ago
Yeah, that's not a controlled experiment. I can think of at least three benign explanations that is consistent with not listening. The experiment, the real, controlled (replicable!) one, isn't hard to do. You just need a couple of
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by mseebach 8y ago
That's a feature of anonymity, not the blockchain.

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