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by pseudo0 4y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33399753
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by pseudo0 4y ago
A week ago, they were dropped by their ISP, Zayo, for an alleged violation of Zayo's AUP. There was a thread discussing this last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33307711
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by pseudo0 4y ago
QR code substitution does involve significant in-person risk for the perpetrator. Some patsy has to go around swapping the QR codes on restaurant tables, likely raising some awkward questions from the staff and ending up with their face on
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by pseudo0 4y ago
In a region where bribery is customary, trying to get stuff done without bribes is a case of tilting at windmills. I applaud the author's willingness to stand up for his convictions, but realistically his options are to either pay the
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by pseudo0 4y ago
It seems like the problem is that the author has a moral objection to paying bribes in an area where bribery is customary: > Obviously, they are playing “hard to get” to get me to pay some bribe and initiate the process. But after going
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Is the Whatsapp client really a black box? APKs are fairly straightforward to decompile back to Smali or a reasonable approximation of Java, or people on rooted devices can hook it with Frida. Of course source code would be better, but it w
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Use a < symbol instead of "less than", or change "a year after recovery" to "after a year" or something. The hospitalized part is pretty essential though.
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by pseudo0 4y ago
We can't bootstrap a transition to renewables without fossil fuels and petroleum byproducts. In the short term, we might even have to accept missing emissions targets in order to build infrastructure and production facilities that will
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by pseudo0 4y ago
I read up on this after the Cloudflare controversy. Since the site is down, I'm going off my best recollection, but here's a quick summary. Liz Fong-Jones was friends with the founders of Trans Lifeline, a suicide hotline for tran
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by pseudo0 4y ago
If I had to rank an oil worker, a nuclear sub designer, a tobacco salesman, and a Vice journalist in terms of their benefit to society, I don't think the journalist would like the outcome. They would have a slight edge over the tobacco
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by pseudo0 4y ago
> Cloudflare almost had their business collapse until they took proactive action against one of their clients. Do you have any proof of an actual business impact on Cloudflare? Some people were making noise on Twitter, but we all know ho
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by pseudo0 4y ago
It's weird how the "Christian nationalism" meme has been pushed by the usual suspects when US church attendance is at an all-time low, and religious influence on politics is a shadow of its former self. My guess is it's
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Police just stopped bothering to present crimes that fell into the categories that weren't being prosecuted. Why would they put in the time and effort to present a petty theft case if the DA's office is publicly on record saying t
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by pseudo0 4y ago
FYI you seem to have gotten stuck in the HN spam filter. Maybe email dang to sort that out? All your comments are showing up as "dead" and requiring someone to manually vouch them.
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Or maybe they will use that data to discover that IQ scores are noticably lower in the community and surrounding areas where an open-pit mining operation is leaching toxins into the water? Or maybe the data is used to determine the most eff
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by pseudo0 4y ago
I mean, we live in a society where big tech firms hire "machine learning safety" experts to prevent their algorithms from noticing the wrong patterns.
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Could an entity with sufficient resources just FOIA the data? It does not appear to fall into any of the FOIA exemptions or exclusions. The closest would be #6, which protects information that would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Yeah, that's for the decompiler. And I just saw your edit and agree that they are in a tricky spot. Their product is hyper-specialized and they deserve to get paid for the craft and expertise that they have put into their product, but
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by pseudo0 4y ago
It's not that much cheaper. $1,935.50 for a one year fixed or named license, then $2,709.70 per architecture. Let's say you need the typical four for x86 and ARM, that's over $12k per seat. A lot of companies would balk at th
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Around $3k for a one year floating license, then $4k per architecture, at least according to this price list: https://www.componentsource.com/product/ida-pro-hex-rays-dec...
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by pseudo0 4y ago
I don't think Ghidra has a proper FLIRT equivalent yet. That's one of those bells and whistles that may (or may not) be worth the license fee, along with in my opinion a more polished UI. Just to clarify, if I wasn't concerne
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Hopefully this works out for Hex-Rays, allowing them to invest more into developing IDA and expanding their low-cost product offerings. The general sentiment I have seen among people doing SRE is that IDA is rapidly losing market share to G
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by pseudo0 4y ago
The bigger issue was how Egypt unilaterally seized the Suez Canal Company (jointly owned by the British and the French). Egypt then banned Israel from using the Straits of Tiran for shipping, effectively imposing a blockade. Attempting regi
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by pseudo0 4y ago
> European Commission > Open Societies Foundation This is quite the array of influential backers. Too bad more information about the Nobel deliberations isn't made public, it would be interesting to see how much this factors into
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by pseudo0 4y ago
So any HNer who was curious and searched 'sodium nitrate' to see their personalized recommendations should get a visit from the authorities? Surely there is no way this could go wrong or be abused... The next generation of swattin
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by pseudo0 4y ago
How did you get to this part and still think he was serious? > "I am a Master of three martial arts including ninjitsu, which means I can wear the special boots to climb walls. I don't think any of you are working as hard as I
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by pseudo0 4y ago
It is a pipeline problem, but there are very strong social and political vested interests that really don't want to admit it. The whole DEI industry leeches off productive companies by setting impossible standards of 50% female softwar
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Canadian doctors and nurses do fine financially, but there aren't enough of them because Canadian healthcare is a command economy. The government sets a total cost it is willing to pay for healthcare and then sets the number of positio
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by pseudo0 4y ago
The government has a special program for "temporary foreign workers" that has historically been used to staff Tim Hortons and nursing homes. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/headlines/who
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by pseudo0 4y ago
This is a pretty misleading stat. It appears to be counting people who immigrate at a young age and are then trained in the Canadian system. That isn't expanding the pool of healthcare workers, unless there were somehow a shortage of a

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