nickfrostatx

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by nickfrostatx 10y ago
> acting solely out of greed. That's a weird thing to complain about. In a capitalist country, how would you prefer companies act? Not greedy? The whole point of a free market is that everyone tries to maximize profit. There are a l
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by nickfrostatx 10y ago
Okay, so don't associate the SSN hash with the account. Come up with a mechanism to store anonymized SSNs to detect duplicate accounts.
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by nickfrostatx 10y ago
You can always drop out if you feel the tuition is too high. We can talk all day about how much it ought to cost, but clearly you feel it's worth it to stay enrolled.
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by nickfrostatx 10y ago
I agree with most of what you're saying, but I'm not sure about shifting the cost of textbooks to the school and charging for it through tuition. In my three years of school so far, I haven't bought a single textbook, and I&#
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by nickfrostatx 10y ago
They usually set the content type to that of an image so the browser won't execute the JS. They've messed this up in the past, see this legendary bug bounty report [1] 1. https://whitton.io/articles/xss-on-fac
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by nickfrostatx 10y ago
Given how important domain names are for security, it would be concerning if domain names get truncated. I could craft: evil.net/this-is-a-very-very-long-path/bankofamerica.com/account-settings/blah/blah/blah W
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by nickfrostatx 10y ago
One problem I have with this tool is support for pre-computed public keys or CSRs. The client prefers to generate a new key pair for every certificate. Automated renewal that works the same way for existing CSRs as it does for regular certi
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by nickfrostatx 10y ago
See also: http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com
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by nickfrostatx 10y ago
This is exactly the problem that Uber's rating system solves, but without all the arbitrary factors that tipping incidentally includes.
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by nickfrostatx 10y ago
The article admits that information from eight drives is "a hopelessly anecdotal number"... then goes on for several paragraphs to imply that these eight drivers are evidence to systematically disprove Uber's claims about rac
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by nickfrostatx 10y ago
Your comment was seen as pedantic and nonconstructive.
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by nickfrostatx 10y ago
The S3 Free Tier can be a good alternative as well. https://aws.amazon.com/s3/
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by nickfrostatx 10y ago
"Do you mind" would be counterintuitive. I see analytics and want to respond "n", for no analytics