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by mwint 5y ago
Your marketing page is beautiful, kudos.
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by mwint 5y ago
The unsubscribe buttons on those emails mostly work, by law. My life improved a lot when I started taking the ten seconds to unsubscribe from everything, vs. just deleting.
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by mwint 5y ago
Hashing would make the content irretrievable; something like XORing with the password would make the password recoverable if you know the content.
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by mwint 5y ago
They were incredibly agile two years (!) ago when deciding to stop working. Reversing that has been a lot harder.
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by mwint 5y ago
What's a Ken Thompson attack?
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by mwint 5y ago
Basically, we’d be better off if the government had done nothing. Seems like that happens a lot.
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by mwint 5y ago
Cool, I remember hearing about this now. Looks weird, but if it works it works.
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by mwint 5y ago
4-engine airframes are nice, because you can put the test engine as No. 2 or 3 (next to the fuselage), with the rest conventional. If the test engine fails you can continue flying without much issue. Much bigger deal if you use a 2-engine a
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by mwint 5y ago
Sure, obviously it’s a trivially implemented idea. It’s also a contemporarily unique idea, which resulted in an ad we’re (still) here talking about. That’s what is hard to do.
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by mwint 5y ago
Broadly, it seems like an _ad agency_ is one of the last groups I'd want to (evidently) lie about or otherwise irritate. That said: this whole episode did just get Coinbase on the front of HN again, and I just learned the name of an ap
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by mwint 5y ago
FreeTaxUSA is strangely under-mentioned on these threads. I’ve used it the last couple years with a complex-ish situation. Not a single complaint.
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by mwint 5y ago
I did the opposite thing: everyone in my family kept ruining the standard length lightning cables by smashing them against something while using their phone, so I found a 10-pack of literally 4 inch cables on Amazon. Now their options are t
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by mwint 5y ago
Wage garnishment is a pretty effective way to collect civil judgements sans violence, I think. Not sure what happens if you have a civil judgement entered against you and then quit having income. (Not reporting income is probably a real Cri
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by mwint 5y ago
So you're saying that, in your region, it's possible to have a warrant (say, for failure to appear at your unpaid-ticket trial) and avoid jail by... running away? Indefinitely? They won't arrest you the next chance they get (
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by mwint 5y ago
You're drawing a false equivalence between "contracts between private parties" and "private properties" By and large, the government does not come take away your freedom for breach of private party contracts. There
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by mwint 5y ago
For sure. You may get a ticket the first couple times, then they'll take you to jail (where you cannot drive). If you insist on continuing to drive, that means you have to resist going to jail. Resisting going to jail is an excellent w
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by mwint 5y ago
More analogous to locking your window, so the robber can’t get in to do wrong.
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by mwint 5y ago
If the large news outlets took a couple days to educate people, they’d know how. It’s not that complicated.
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by mwint 5y ago
You’re just illustrating why this isn’t an issue requiring legislation - anyone can block requests to whatever origin they like. No need for heavy handed gov’t getting involved in technical matters.
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by mwint 5y ago
That CDN will know your IP and what site you’re from, and likely can do a decent job correlating visits with other sites. The internet is just not designed for privacy at a technical level.
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by mwint 5y ago
> any data what-so-ever sent to a 3rd party without my knowledge or consent is too much So do you want “we want to load JS from a CDN like literally everyone does, is that okay” popups on every website?
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by mwint 5y ago
Schrute Farms mode.
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by mwint 5y ago
Betting they're keeping the part on cars ordered with FSD, and those ordering FSD later will get a mobile service visit.
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by mwint 5y ago
Seems like a non issue? I’m guessing Tesla has plenty of data about failures on those components to know whether the redundancy is needed. And there’s a mechanical steering connection anyway. Sounds like the worst that can come of this woul
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by mwint 5y ago
If Starship happens, I’m guessing JWST-class telescopes become much more approachable.
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by mwint 5y ago
Reading the terminology being thrown around here, where could I go to get a basic understanding of what you’ll are talking about? It sounds like different modes of taking (or interpreting/visualizing?) an MRI.
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by mwint 5y ago
Apple would presumably fix the vulnerabilities, rather than exploit them themselves.
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by mwint 5y ago
Thing is, you don’t know whether the honk is for “you are slower than I like” or “your bumper is falling off”. Being honked at takes cycles to triage what’s happening; in itself that lowers safety.
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by mwint 5y ago
I’m having a hard time understanding how “I forgot to change gears and then hit the gas” can be classed a UX problem. Sounds like PEBKAC.
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by mwint 5y ago
This… can’t possibly end well, right? They’re going to get slapped down hard in court, right? They can’t claim ignorance. Or… are they allowed to do whatever they want until they get a C&D?

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