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by philsnow 4y ago
This sounds so close to Uber's strategy from the mid-20teens of having huge incentives / gamification for drivers (up to and including offering to finance car loans to get more drivers) but it'll all be okay because in Just A
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by philsnow 4y ago
What services aren't currently integrated with IAM / didn't launch with IAM integration?
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by philsnow 4y ago
> it literally took me a couple years of off-and-on effort (and hundreds of deaths) until I ascended for the first time. > But once you put that much actual effort into getting good at it, you stay good I had the same experience, but
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by philsnow 4y ago
Sibling post by Moru has it mostly right Additionally, I have it in my head that not bothering to fix menus shows a certain admirable pragmatism. "Frind pok" is not correct but it is correct enough.
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by philsnow 4y ago
Perfect spelling and/or beautiful layout on a Chinese restaurant menu is a bit of a red flag for me.
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by philsnow 4y ago
But the entire issue is that needing to enroll all your keys every time you gain access to a new service is directly at odds with keeping one copy/key in a second, safe location. If there were one more layer of abstraction where all N
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by philsnow 4y ago
Brogue is a spiritual successor to the original Rogue, where the goal is not to Kill Anything That Moves but rather to get the Amulet and escape by any means necessary. You don't get "experience points" for killing anything,
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by philsnow 4y ago
In my experience [0], doctors overwhelmingly recommend amniocentesis because it can be used to screen for a number of genetic issues and "wouldn't you want to know?" [0] all of my experience is with a certain HMO provider tha
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by philsnow 4y ago
> non-invasive cell free test From the article: > The initial process of polygenic embryo testing looks pretty comparable to the single-gene tests that have been around much longer. First, cells are drawn from an embryo a few days old
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by philsnow 4y ago
100% agree, but for most companies disclosing it once makes it a high-priority issue for it to never be an issue again; 0.1%-1% of the engineering org gets tasked with making some framework for logging, making sure there's no way to l
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by philsnow 4y ago
Having helped build the production secret management bits at Airbnb [0], I would encourage most people to buy, not build. It was a large task and I'm 95% sure we didn't add more value than the cost of all the people working on it
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by philsnow 4y ago
> Unrelated to the OAuth token attack, we also recently internally discovered the storage of plaintext credentials in GitHub’s internal logging system for npm services This isn't the first time GitHub has found logging of plaintext
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by philsnow 4y ago
> how many of you don't terminate SSL at load balancer? Oof, this just reminds me of the whole PRISM thing [0] where NSA was tapping inter-DC fiber links and Google wasn't encrypting (some of) the traffic between DCs [0] https
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by philsnow 4y ago
Exactly this. In Firefox, the suggested replacement is to use the force https setting, but that is for the whole browser instance instead of the domain of the current tab. If I disable force https to make some site work, I have to remembe
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by philsnow 4y ago
The reason to use https is because we assume there could be a malicious party between you and the site you're visiting. If we assume that, we should further assume that they will inspect SNI in your https request, see that you're
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by philsnow 4y ago
There's a corner case where users who have never visited your domain (either ever or just on that browser) do so for the first time over a malicious connection. In this case, Mal sends them a page that looks reasonable, they create an
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by philsnow 4y ago
> So how is your intuition for other spontaneous events? If your child is spontaneously struck down by Influenza, too bad - they live or die yes > and you're not bothered either way? of course I'd be bothered. elsewhere in
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by philsnow 4y ago
The difference is not in how common the occurrence is but whether the aid is extraordinary or ordinary. If instead of being sewn up with a violinist, the person in the thought experiment woke up with an embryo implanted in their uterus, the
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by philsnow 4y ago
I can think of many things you could be getting at, but.. what are you getting at?
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by philsnow 4y ago
What "dogmatic beliefs" are you referring to here, that innocent and helpless people deserve our protection? I don't think that's controversial. We're not animals. I'm well aware pregnancies are commonly spon
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by philsnow 4y ago
> For somebody who just had about 1% of their lifespan re-assigned Your use of the passive voice here makes it seem like the woman wasn't involved in the decision. Choosing to rely on contraception, which has a low but nonzero fail
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by philsnow 4y ago
I'm not astonished that most people don't agree; it's not easy standing up for what you believe is the truth when it's inconvenient or unpopular. I think a lot of people would agree, though, if left alone with nothing t
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by philsnow 4y ago
I didn't say they were dead, I said their doctors diagnosed them as brain-dead. This was actually a mistake on my part; "brain dead" and "vegetative state" are not the same thing. I should have said that they were
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by philsnow 4y ago
Those diagnoses aren't wrong , the patients' bodies spontaneously healed themselves. You didn't address my other cases. > I don't see how the fact that people are capable of error justifies a pretense that newborns
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by philsnow 4y ago
Thank you for your careful use of negligence and recklessness (vs the intentionality required for 'murder'). from GP: > > I would consider myself pro-life like many others here Just as a data point: GP/spoils19, you do
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by philsnow 4y ago
> Your characterisation of "someone whose belief trumps rational arguments" hits it quite well on the head. Those words were a quotation from your post :) It seems to me like a good definition of a certain kind of person who I
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by philsnow 4y ago
I had to look up the violinist thing, I'll summarize: it's a thought experiment where you wake up and somebody has sewn your body up to a violinist who has a disease and who needs your blood in order to survive. Will you allow t
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by philsnow 4y ago
After head trauma or a variety of other issues, some people enter a vegetative state, are deemed brain-dead by their doctors, and do not seem to be aware of themselves or anything. Are they no longer people? The machines keeping them alive
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by philsnow 4y ago
> If I'm giving someone a blood transfusion because their kidneys are failing and they'll die within minutes/hours if I stop, is it murder to disconnect us? No, similar to how it's not murder to disconnect somebody
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> I actually very much dislike labels such as "the right" and "the left" I do as well, because they conflate too many unrelated things together, and it's impossible to pin down something as amorphous as "the

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