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by othermaciej 14y ago
I think http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=8&qpcu... is more believable based on correlation with other sources of data.
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Safari on OS X has some good mitigation a these days, such as running the web content in a separate sandboxed process, which Friefox does not do. I suspect attackers either failed to find or did not want to burn their WebProcess sandbox esc
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Getting sandbox escapes from Mac Safari and iOS Safari requires completely different exploits. The code execution stage of a complete exploit could be shared, but it could also be shared with Chrome. So you'd think the same argument of iOS
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by othermaciej 14y ago
WebKit code execution against Chrome is also likely to work (in modified form, but same basic exploit) against desktop or mobile Safari. Desktop Safari sandbox escape is likely to be completely different from MobileSafari sandbox escape. An
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Safari's desktop share is somewhere between 5.5% and 15.5% depending on whose stats you trust: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Sta... Is it crazy to consider that significant?
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by othermaciej 14y ago
"All"? Not Safari yet (knock on wood). Which is a big change from back in the day when it was usually pwned first in this contest. Or are you saying it's not a major browser?
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Typically you get a much smaller number of RSUs than options. Though there's no strike price. So RSUs are often worth more if the stock doesn't move much, but worth a lot less if there is a huge run-up.
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by othermaciej 14y ago
iOS and Android are successful because they offer a great selection of powerful APIs, not because of the particular binary representation they use for applications. NaCl actually offers crappier APIs than the Web platform, and it runs in a
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by othermaciej 14y ago
We've tried this experiment - it's called XHTML. For a long time, adoption by authors of the strict error handling it offered was stymied by lack of support in MSIE. So it's not a full counter-factual. However, we have learned two things: (
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by othermaciej 14y ago
This post, if you read it to the end, doesn't reject the principle of being liberal in what you accept. Rather, it proposes being liberal in a formally specified an interoperable way - i.e. specs should explicitly define behavior for all in
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by othermaciej 14y ago
It was an overly subtle joke, took me a while to get it myself.
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by othermaciej 14y ago
In your previous comments you wrote: "The owners of the hotel were warned repeatedly by local law enforcement and an intervention of local hotel owners; specific measures were suggested to minimize the problems at this place and weren't tak
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by othermaciej 14y ago
I think it's a joke - "Wilt" and "Wither" both being opposites of "Bloom".
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Prof. Kerr doesn't explicitly mention it, but this amended version of the statute would likely have made Aaron Swarz's conduct in the MIT/JSTOR case not chargeable as a felony by removing or raising the bar for many of the felony enhancemen
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Orin Kerr's Proposed Amendments to the CFAA(volokh.com)
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by othermaciej 14y ago
This article didn't actually give useful information on how to make trillions of dollars or on how anyone else has done so.
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Offenses involving contraband or smuggling are usually strict liability offenses, so mens rea is irrelevant in most such cases. Even granting applicability of mens rea / actus reus analysis here, I believe your analysis is wrong. It's true
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Yes, "almost never" - it's rare enough that it makes the news when it happens. The action that should be taken based on the fact that wage stickiness causes unemployment is at minimum to avoid making them more sticky, e.g. by regulating wag
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by othermaciej 14y ago
> In short "you take a 5% cut in pay or I fire you and hire > the next person who walks in that door." It doesn't even > need to be said: "you will take a 5% cut in pay" implies "or > you'll have to quit and find another job
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by othermaciej 14y ago
If you look at the graph with the longer time horizon, you can see that Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia had stronger growth pre-crisis, a bigger bubble, a bigger collapse from the bubble, and a stronger recovery from the performance trough. O
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by othermaciej 14y ago
I don't think we have entered the long term yet, so how can you so confidently say what the long term effects are?
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Iceland is much smaller than either, yet it is the poster child for this thread. Using 2007 as the starting year for Latvia and Estonia is kind of cherry picking. See here: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/07/the... N
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Estonia and Latvia are doing pretty well with austerity: < http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-07-19/krugmenistan... ; It's understandable that regular readers of Krugman may not know this since he goes to great pains to deny the
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by othermaciej 14y ago
I tentatively don't agree with your Rindler horizon analysis. Inside an inertial frame, you don't see the Rindler horizon, because only the accelerating observer can see it. If you are in the accelerating frame of the observer, the apparent
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by othermaciej 14y ago
The "AR" in "AR-15" stands for "ArmaLite", the original manufacturer, not for "Assault Rifle". An AR-15 is not actually an assault rifle, which implies the capability of fully automatic fire (pull the trigger, spray bullets). The AR-15 is s
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by othermaciej 14y ago
The post you linked actually does look like crackpottery, and your endorsement of it looks like crackpottery too. Highlighting how your point of view is suppressed by mainstream science just makes it seem more like crackpottery. The basic m
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by othermaciej 14y ago
You are technically correct, the best kind of correct! But I think we both agree there is absolutely no sense in which anything in browser engines is UCS-2, and that browsers will not in fact replace characters beyond the BMP with the repla
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by othermaciej 14y ago
Safari uses UTF-16, not UCS-2. I believe this is true of other browsers as well. Otherwise this would render the replacement char, but it doesn't, it renders correctly: javascript:var x = '𝌆';document.write(x);
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by othermaciej 14y ago
What's complex about the design? The main page seems brutally simple compared to Google or Bing. And the search results pages do not seem to have more interactable elements than Google/Bing. What is your metric of simplicity here? Your one
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by othermaciej 14y ago
His argument would apply to tablets, where Windows 8 does run, about equally well.

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