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by nikanj 3y ago
I paid hundreds of thousands for a home and the city still controls many aspects of it
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by nikanj 3y ago
That tells you how pointless all the at-home energy savings are when everyone and their dog flies to a weekend getaway every month
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by nikanj 3y ago
Might* *Actually doesn't
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by nikanj 3y ago
That doesn't sound very american of you. A real patriot would solve the issue by buying a bigger car, so if you're hit, it's the other guy who gets hurt
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by nikanj 3y ago
Why? Because fuck you, that's why. Sue us, see whose legal budget runs out first -Every insurance company
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by nikanj 3y ago
CVEs are terrible nowadays. Any enterprising ”security researcher” can file one against your project, and the CVE aggregators will flat refuse to take it down. See for example CVE-2023-29827 or CVE-2023-35116
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by nikanj 3y ago
”They’re not allowing our spam on your phones!” I get so much SMS and email spam. I get so little iMessage spam. If getting green texts from Android users is the price I have to pay, so be it.
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by nikanj 3y ago
Crypto’s demonstration is 1) number goes up, everyone can become wealthy 2) you can buy drugs anonymously 3) all sorts of ransomware and blackmail
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by nikanj 3y ago
Fundamentally we are still not building more homes where more people would like to live, so my optimism is very limited
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by nikanj 3y ago
Talking to my younger friends, two salient points rise to the surface: 1) For men, the app is absolutely flooded with sex workers and bots. 2) For women, the app is filled with the small subset of men who haven't been repulsed by the s
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by nikanj 3y ago
They want taxpayer subsidies, obviously
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by nikanj 3y ago
They have been successful in building a reputation for rejecting people after a multi-hour lineup, and for parties only starting well after midnight. Honestly I’m surprised how that business model has been so effective this far, I guess peo
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by nikanj 3y ago
According to most contemporary ”4D-Shield AI Malware Protect” products, OpenSSH server _is_ a virus..
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by nikanj 3y ago
The name is a play on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_BackOffice_Server
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by nikanj 3y ago
Collusion only works if there isn’t enough supply for real competition. Just let them build, man
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by nikanj 3y ago
Big companies refuse to believe it's a better deal to get one $250k programmer than 10 $25k programmers.
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by nikanj 3y ago
> This is the one that sounds truly wrong - if your car alerts you of adjacent vehicles when it shouldn't, (a) you can probably turn off that assist and (b) you should tell the company because it literally sounds like a bug. My voca
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by nikanj 3y ago
The people who have to drive these cars have absolutely no power to change the design. The people with actual power to change the design don't drive Kias, they ride either expensive carbon-fibre bicycles or a German-made luxury car
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by nikanj 3y ago
As a landlord, I could rent to a tenant for $2k/mo with all the risks and wear/tear from that lease - or I could hijack the rent to $20k/mo, let the property sit empty for the predetermined time, and then force-feed the lease
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by nikanj 3y ago
Alas the USPTO is happy to grant patents on anything under the sun, so you’ll never know when someone shows up with a patent for ”simulating a television broadcast via decompressing stored video on a computer” or something similarly broad.
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by nikanj 3y ago
Not sure if bare minimum is the right expression, when so many of the famous pieces could be easily replicated by my 5-yo niece - who could never reach said ”minimum”
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by nikanj 3y ago
Every time I read about a multi-million dollar patent dispute, it always covers something like "Having two wireless speakers play the same song". Not the technical nitty-gritty on how to achieve a specific goal, just some really b
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by nikanj 3y ago
As if we millennials had yards
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by nikanj 3y ago
When you increase headcount you gain both muscle and fat. Every now and then you gotta trim the fat -Management
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by nikanj 3y ago
Etsy makes the same amount of money regardless which seller you order from, so they have little motivation to prevent sabotage amongst sellers
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by nikanj 3y ago
Honestly sometimes I think the answer is yes. Imagine how happy we could be, and how many fewer problems we would have. Add printers to that list and you're describing a paradise.
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by nikanj 3y ago
Mitre would probably still file a 10.0 CVE based on this report
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by nikanj 3y ago
That one is not part of everyone’s vocabulary
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by nikanj 3y ago
The fool-proof redaction method: 1) Print 2) Cut out the parts you want to leave out (blacking them with a market might leave an opening for revealing them via some contrast tweaking) 3) Scan Easy to explain, easy to implement, easy to reme
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by nikanj 3y ago
The 50 step manual fix is actually just generated by chatgpt and sounds plausible, but does not actually work. It's just a red herring to get page clicks / ad views.

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