only_as_i_fall

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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
I feel we pretty badly need to revisit laws surrounding social media platforms in the US. I'm not sure what the silver bullet is here, but the way platforms have almost limitless latitude to filter and shape discourse on their platform
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
It doesn't make much sense if you think of the US government as a single entity with a single balance sheet. This, however, isn't the case.
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
We're so close to Canadian geese that just yell "fuck you" all day. The future is bright
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
What is "no community involvement"? Wouldn't you still want some zoning laws to prevent for example having a sewage treatment plant put up in your back yard?
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
You should get vaccinated so the rest of us can get back to our lives. People have known about the vitamin D connection since almost the beginning of the pandemic and it wasn't until the vaccine was rolled out in the United States that
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
As others have pointed out, the very reason they're facing this much criticism is because this bug was very foreseeable and avoidable.
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
And I don't think anyone would blame you as a person for making that choice, but I also wouldn't call you a highly competent developer.
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
Is your argument that the windows desktop is a good piece of software or that software developers who consistently create bad software are actually good developers? I realize most of the terrible bloat, adware, security holes etc are probab
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
If the only solution you have is a bad one than it is the best solution by default.
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
My personal opinion is that a large subset of adults is either unable or unwilling to accept that bad things can happen for no reason and there isn't always a solution.
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
Let's not confuse changing behaviors with giving up. I don't wear a mask outside anymore because the evidence I've seen seems to indicate that spread in outdoor settings for incidental encounters is extremely unlikely between
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
You'd have to actually have a reasonable chance of catching pedophiles though. If the system is as trivial to bypass as turning off photo sync it isn't a very good justification.
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
Unfortunately I don't think pretending that covid doesn't exist is going to allow society to function as it used to.
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
No. Used to only buy Lenovo and then super fish happened and I haven't bought one since. I'm sure it doesn't bother Lenovo one bit though as people who actually care about this stuff are a fraction of 1% of their market. Frus
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
No, because a much better system could be designed if we planned on using it for id verification from the start. Some easy improvements even keeping a number based system would be: 1) don't assign ID numbers sequentially and based on l
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
You wouldn't have to condition those things on it, but if 90% of people were easy to verify and the other 10% relied on existing systems, it would still be less burdensome overall and also easier to catch fraud.
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
Eh, I think the issue is that because there's no central system, every institution that needs to verify identity latches onto systems that were never intended for that purpose (such as ssn). The use of a bunch of different systems mean
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
This country badly needs a national ID system.
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
You could just be depressed
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
The minimum required amount of power to them.
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
This isn't about "abstract art of code", the original comment was that the guy literally didn't care about best practices or code style. Like it or not part of the job is writing code that the rest of the team can read a
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
I see this attitude a lot that after 5-10 years devs think they no longer have to worry about writing maintainable code. I respect that once you reach a certain level of competence you can probably coast by without thinking too much, but le
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
I think that it's a shift in trust. 10 years ago people worried about sketchy/annoying software and would avoid software that asked them to refill their printer ink 10 times a month. These days everyone lives in a walled garden of
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
Unless you count china in they group it may not be such a problem. If businesses in developed countries had to simply pay the cost of cleanup when importing from countries without their own laws in place, it would still be a massive improve
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
I don't disagree with anything you said, and I'm certainlynot an anti-masker, but was skeptical of the parent claim which seems to be "Research shoes masks are still effective even when spending the whole day in the same room
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
According to those same cdc numbers the hospitalization rate in that same population is ~40x higher than just the mortality. It doesn't matter how low the death rate is if the hospital system collapses.
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
Isn't the concern that children act as a massive spread vector such that breakthrough cases in adults may still overwhelm hospital systems? A couple months ago I would have maybe agreed, but the delta variant seems to really through a
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
Can you provide a source? My understanding was that masks were primarily effective at preventing high viral load droplets from spreading the virus during short interactions. I don't have any source to prove that to be the case because
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
This isn't actually about the content, but I will say I find this style of using external links really annoying to read. If you're going to sprinkle so many links through your article at least give me an idea of what they're
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by only_as_i_fall 5y ago
How does an sms hijacking attack typically work? I know sms isn't secure, but how does one go from having a password to bypassing the sms confirmation? Is it as easy as having the number and carrier?

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