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by nikcub 11y ago
In active mode the Stingray will broadcast a consistently strong signal to force targets to connect to it so that it can grab identifiers. Some detection methods rely on this, as well as fingerprinting the Stingray (they negotiate a drop in
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by nikcub 11y ago
I found last week that Namecheap enabled auto-renew of both the domain and whoisguard by default: http://imgur.com/hoGfojZ.png If you click-through the checkout with the 'Confirm Order' button at the top right awa
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by nikcub 11y ago
For those following along at home, that $50k is likely worth around $250M today. Early Uber investors are sitting on one of the largest ever venture returns.
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by nikcub 11y ago
I'll +1 to the other comments here of people who stopped smoking cigarettes and took up vaping. I didn't even intend to quit, and I know a lot of other people in the same situation. For some people, vaping is just far more pleasan
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by nikcub 11y ago
Which is why I quoted the third point, as it covers both the OP and the Women In Tech survey It would be an extremely narrow definition to attempt to carve out unwanted sexual advances, especially from a superior, in a workplace not being
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by nikcub 11y ago
That not wanting to be sexually harassed would make someone unhappy and miserable in a workplace is exactly the problem.
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I did: > The EEOC has defined sexual harassment in its guidelines as: > Unwelcome sexual advances .. > Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's work performance or creating an int
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by nikcub 11y ago
> It seems to me like the victim wasn't making it clear that she was uncomfortable The default position should be to assume that everybody is uncomfortable with everything unless otherwise stated. It's like a good firewall
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by nikcub 11y ago
The U.N, amongst almost everyone else, defines an unwanted sexual advance as sexual harassment: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/osagi/pdf/whatissh.pdf
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by nikcub 11y ago
The universal rate of sexual harassment of females is 31%[1] in Silicon Valley it is 60%[2]. The restaurant industry is notorious for sexual harassment and their rate of harassment from superiors is 66%[3] - about par with Silicon Valley.
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by nikcub 11y ago
Chinese growth was becoming less dependent on exports as global demand flattened out: http://www.usfunds.com/media/images/frank-talk-images/2012-f... The current growth slowdown is largely due to decreased do
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by nikcub 11y ago
Matt has covered it in his reply which i'll second - there isn't a lot you can do. The people affected tend to talk about it, which is why you hear these stories a lot. I've been surprised by the number of exits that are port
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by nikcub 11y ago
A 1x liquidity preference is standard, but it is common now to see larger multiples - especially in high-value later stage rounds, where the preference to those investors would also be stacked before earlier investors. So, yes, I doubt comm
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by nikcub 11y ago
"counterintuitive UI/UX decisions which make the app hard to use" Consider that it may be intentional, a way for Snapchat to avoid the Eternal September issue where parents and older people signup as part of a second or third
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by nikcub 11y ago
Those PE's made sense (to some/most) when the economy was growing 8-9% and revenue was following that growth, but now that it is down to ~3% with revenue following (or shrinking for a lot of the larger companies) those prices real
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by nikcub 11y ago
Many of these points can be summarised in one word: compartmentalisation Your personas are isolated and segregated. They share no information, hobbies, interests and at a tech level they don't share connections, machines, browsers, app
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by nikcub 11y ago
Thanks, I remembered it being extensible. Turns out that section is a char in the man code so it could easily be a new section or a switch to extract the examples. I might do some work on this - import the examples from tldr and bro and get
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by nikcub 11y ago
Both. First each project would have a documentation repository. This exists with gh-pages but it is a separate branch, which is confusing to newbies. Having a repo with just content would make it easier to open to contributors who are non-d
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by nikcub 11y ago
You can add a section 0 to man pages for example (tldr) versions. Man also already supports rendering HTML if that is the preferred format that contributors want to write. With a handful of commands i've got the tldr pages rendering in
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by nikcub 11y ago
Great stuff Blake. I can imagine an entire episode dedicated to trying to get Pricks onto Product Hunt. The double entendre's and puns write themselves.
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by nikcub 11y ago
I wrote about it here: https://www.nikcub.com/posts/analyzing-fbi-explanation-silk-... The FBI argument was 'leaky CAPTCHA'. The defense argument was that the application was hacked. The most likely scenario
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by nikcub 11y ago
I actually have an unpublished draft post on my blog titled "Is Megaupload as guilty as YouTube?". The idea of the post was to compare and contrast the internal YouTube emails[1] that came out as part of Viacom vs YouTube with the
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by nikcub 11y ago
It really grinds me that he is portrayed by some as an unjust victim of US gov malice and a champion for internet rights issues when he is nothing more than a thief, liar and conman. It doesn't help that people like Snowden, Greenwald
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by nikcub 11y ago
> Notably in that case, the Icelandic police did not even seek a court order, as they didn't need to since the server was owned by a US citizen. And the trial judge didn't allow Ulbricht's challenge to suppress that eviden
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by nikcub 11y ago
We're talking past the difference in email, the protocol, that can be secured - and email, the worldwide communication network, that is largely insecure[1] [2] [1] https://www.nicta.com.au/pub-download/full/
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by nikcub 11y ago
In marketing speak "NSA proof" is the new post-Snowden[1] "military grade encryption" Email is hard to secure and identified personal accounts are difficult to keep private. The "better" answer is to do what th
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by nikcub 11y ago
Yes it is complete bullshit. This account is full of minimizing Facebook's role in this when we all know that contacting the employer was a straight forward intimidation tactic that is unfortunately all to common in infosec (because it
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by nikcub 11y ago
Satoshi is two people - Wright and Kleiman. Kleiman was responsible for the public Satoshi writing, and he doesn't have any of his own writing samples online that aren't co-authored to make a stylometric comparison against.
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by nikcub 11y ago
You'd need to buy too many cards to find them by number, tho the combination of issuing bank, IBAN, card type, expiry date and [post|zip]code would likely provide enough bits to identify a source. The shops would combat this by narrowi
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by nikcub 11y ago
The sellers aren't anonymous, they have identities and buyers select sellers based on their reputations. There is a power law distribution in sales with reputable sellers capturing a large part of the market.

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