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by patmcc 2y ago
Then the voters should kick the bastards out. That's the biggest check on the legislative branch, it has pretty fast turnover. Now, if you have a population that doesn't want to elect lawmakers who will actually pass laws...well,
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by patmcc 2y ago
I don't think anyone is arguing in favour of bribes for either local or federal officers - just that this particular ruling is not related (directly/legally) to the actions of the Supreme Court justices themselves.
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by patmcc 2y ago
Isn't that what they're doing here? Your browser requests the video stream, it gets one - and that video stream now includes ads baked right in. Doesn't mess with your browser at all.
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by patmcc 2y ago
Bullshit (what the cops told you, to be clear, not what you're saying. I'm sure they did tell you they don't have a way to track it). The cops could absolutely track it. License plate readers are built into most cop cars and
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by patmcc 2y ago
This is true, except we've allowed homeowners to control the supply. Imagine used car dealers lobbied to make new cars impossible to build/sell. Of course their prices would go up! Homeowners happily lobby and vote for policies th
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by patmcc 2y ago
"...as much as a town of 50,000 people" This is always so funny to me. Oh, something that can make enough chips for millions/billions of devices also uses as much water as a small town? That sounds perfectly reasonable. Don&#
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by patmcc 2y ago
Yeah, it seems like we should have stricter "obviousness" testing when patents are issued. At least based on some of the software ones I've seen.
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by patmcc 2y ago
They're short relative to other IP (like copyright), and short relative to inventions that have long R&D and cost recovery timelines. If $NEW_DRUG takes 5 years to develop, 5 years to trial, 5 years to market, and 5 years to profit
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by patmcc 2y ago
I'm going to take a stab here: you've never used cvs or svn. git, for all its warts, is quite literally a 10x improvement on those, which is what it was (mostly) competing with.
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by patmcc 2y ago
Is your bank one of the ones that uses email addresses for usernames? Because that's a great way to make it much easier for attackers to match up leaked creds. Consider switching to a (chosen) username or card number or something. If y
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by patmcc 2y ago
Yeah, agreed. But again I'm not arguing that SMS is the best second factor, I'm arguing that (used correctly) it's better than no second factor, which is what it's actually competing with in the real world. Generally
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by patmcc 2y ago
>>Frankly, a secure password alone, with no second factor, is "drastically" better than a secure password with ability to change that password by SMS, as is frequently the case (a quarter of the time, per that research). So
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by patmcc 2y ago
>>>and that doesn't scale except for high value targets Real-world activities (kidnapping, rubber hose, fingerprint stealing, whatever) aren't worth it for medium-value targets, true - but my point is that SIM swaps aren&
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by patmcc 2y ago
This is actually a pretty good comparison. It's like the $50 lock on your front door. A determined burglar can pick the lock or smash the window, no problem. But it's better than leaving the door unlocked.
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by patmcc 2y ago
It's pretty simple - there are people who don't have smart phones, plus people who couldn't manage to install/use a TOTP app. Something like ~10% of users probably fit in that category. So either you offer them no protec
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by patmcc 2y ago
You might have difficulty reading entire comments. Yes, SMS 2FA will fail against a sophisticated and targeted attack. It is still drastically better than NO second factor, which is the actual comparison in the real world. There are people
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by patmcc 2y ago
That assumes the attacker even has the phone number - best practice is to not display the full number, just the last 4 (xxx-xxx-1234) - so again, for the typical case, the attacker isn't going to know what number to sim swap. SMS is ba
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by patmcc 2y ago
I feel the need to defend the use of SMS for 2FA (in limited cases). SMS is actually a perfectly good channel for 2FA for most customers in most cases. Because most customers, most of the time, are not under a targeted or even semi-ta
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by patmcc 3y ago
This doesn't address the claim oblio was making - 'People are poorer than they were in 1990, especially the mid to lower classes' - real GDP per capita could double but it all be captured by the top quartile, for example. (I
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by patmcc 3y ago
Missed opportunity to title this the h8r's guide to k8s.
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by patmcc 3y ago
Right, but "I don't know" is a pretty safe hallucination (if it is one). My main worry about hallucinations is it means I absolutely can't rely on the output for anything important. If I ask what the safe dose for Tyleno
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by patmcc 3y ago
Sure, but what's the solution (if you're Cloudflare)? You can patent CNAME flattening, only use it defensively, and maybe you eventually go bankrupt and someone scoops it up (not great). Or you can NOT patent it...and some troll p
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by patmcc 3y ago
Having ~zero new drugs introduced does not seem like a great thing? Unless you completely revamp how drug discovery and research is funded and driven, anyway.
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by patmcc 3y ago
If Cloudflare starts trying to sue or shake down folks with their patents, this will be a very valid point. Until then it's a little silly; everybody holds patents for (at least) defensive reasons.
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by patmcc 3y ago
It'll only be impossible to hold for long periods of time. We can start the tax at $1, it hits $1mil after 20 years - and for 99.9999% of IP by year 20 it's either clearly worth zero or clearly worth >$1mil so it'll be an
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by patmcc 3y ago
I quite like being able to carry the things I (legally!) own, as long as my intent is innocent. I should damn well be able to carry lockpicks or an F0 or a pocket knife without it being assumed I'm a criminal.
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by patmcc 3y ago
Yes, they will owe you $x and you will still owe the hospital $x - but that's often not very useful, as they don't have any money (and you do). You may desire to transfer the debt onto them, but the hospital will absolutely not ac
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by patmcc 3y ago
Ignoring a court summons or lawsuit or something, sure, that's risky, don't do that. Last thing you want is a default judgement. A C&D letter? Nah, you're 100% safe (legally) to throw that in the garbage.
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by patmcc 3y ago
Just as an aside - as a general accounting principle, no, wages are not always deducted. The easy example is a car company, like Ford. If they buy a car factory, that is a capital asset, and the cost needs to be amortized over x years. If t
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by patmcc 3y ago
I'm still surprised Netflix hasn't bought a bunch of media companies with big back catalogs. I feel like it'd help with people complaining about lack of content and give them better negotiating power.

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