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by pyre 10y ago
Nuclear power can be done safe, but we also have many examples of it not being done safe. Saying, "well it will be different this time. We will build systems to make corruption, laziness, and dangerous actions impossible!" i
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by pyre 10y ago
This is exactly what I do, but the fact that it's wide open and relies on you to use a different (and de-coupled) service for permissions was surprising to me (at the time).
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by pyre 10y ago
> Elasticsearch Yea. I found that surprising when it came time to use ElasticSearch for my own purposes. If you want security, you need to setup something between the ElasticSearch server and the clients to moderate.
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by pyre 10y ago
I'm not sure you would find anyone in agreement of a defence of the Iraq War that was along the lines of "It could be worse, just look at the Holocaust!" Pointing to something else and saying "it could be worse" isn
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by pyre 10y ago
Using that as an excuse for (or in defence of) your own actions is akin to saying "he's doing it, so why can't I?" though.
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by pyre 10y ago
The logic doesn't work because the two acts are not necessarily equal. Let's take another example: Would you equate the following items? - Torturing an animal to death for fun. - Killing an animal quickly and eating it. They both
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by pyre 10y ago
This is specious logic. You're saying that anything up to, but not including, getting eaten alive is ok because "it could always be worse."
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by pyre 10y ago
> If you actually care about living things, do something about the slave labor used to source raw materials for the computer you wrote that on. This translates to "if you can't save everybody 100%, then you shouldn't help
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by pyre 10y ago
> 'dal' means valley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_(landform) It's there in English too.
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by pyre 10y ago
Some people also like to live in communities where every house looks exactly the same with no variation, and where the local homeowners' association will send someone out daily during the summer with callipers to measure your lawn he
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by pyre 10y ago
> I'm happy to give up grime, drug trafficking, and violence for an internet tongue lashing. This statement assumes that if you did not make the choice that you have you would be assured to have these things happening right outsid
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by pyre 10y ago
It's what it's like when forest fires engulf a community. Here's a couple others: - http://s1.webmshare.com/m7gd8.webm Russia 2015(?) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPpOXH0ADSg Australia 2
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by pyre 10y ago
I meant a caching proxy that functioned as a mini Crates.io in the absence of actual crates.io being up. Depending on the crates.io protocol, just caching HTTP requests might not be enough, but also acting as a (offline-able) middle man tha
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by pyre 10y ago
What would be useful is a sort of "caching proxy" that could have various knobs to handle situations like: - crates.io is down - crates.io says this cached package doesn't exist. - etc...
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by pyre 10y ago
How costly is it to train a pilot? How costly is it to train an anesthesiologist? How costly is it to hire a pilot? How costly is it to hire an anesthesiologist?
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by pyre 10y ago
There are nuclear plants that generate isotopes for medical purposes.
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by pyre 10y ago
> Yes. It is irrational, because the likelihood of rape from a random stranger is actually extremely low. This is when averaged across the entire population. A 14 year old girl walking through a "bad neighbourhood" alone at nig
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by pyre 10y ago
> GNU would still be looking for a kernel. Linux came about before there was commercial interest. Linux (or GNU/Linux if you will) would have existed. Whether it would be in the same place it is today is another story.
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by pyre 11y ago
When you're on the ground floor you are more likely to be targeted than when you're on the 40th floor.
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by pyre 11y ago
Not necessarily. Opting in takes effort, and people aren't really seeing any reward, so they would be less likely to take the effort.
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by pyre 11y ago
Based on this logic, he should have been killed rather than arrested. No future victims!
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by pyre 11y ago
On the flip side, things like this[1] play out in severely rural areas. It always annoys me when people in rural areas paint a picture of how much "better" it is to be living there. [1]: https://broadly.vice.com/en
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by pyre 11y ago
Google's datacenter-to-datacenter links probably weren't going over the public internet, so they didn't feel the need to protect against man-in-the-middle attacks on physical lines that they owned. If you connected two comput
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by pyre 11y ago
If authority figures that broke laws were appropriately punished, then it would be easier to trust in the rule of law. When police officers, politicians, judges, etc can all get away with things that "regular" people would not get
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by pyre 11y ago
Is the git binary where the vulnerability is... or is it in one of these: $ ls $(git --exec-path)
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by pyre 11y ago
Really? Talking about how homebrew is pretty painless is "Apple fanboyism at its best?" Sure it's another thing to do, but look at any thread about running Linux on a laptop. How many people are like X laptop runs great you
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by pyre 11y ago
Not all Mac apps are of the "drag to your /Applications folder" variety. Some still come with an installer they expect you to run, and prompt you for admin rights.
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by pyre 11y ago
I'd say that the people doing it (and that enjoy watching it happen) are trying to downplay it (to themselves as well as others) by calling it a "prank." It toes the line of actually ordering a hit on someone. The intent is
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by pyre 11y ago
> you'll note the article mentions a loophole of calling a non emergency number, then asking to be transferred to emergency services. The "loophole" is to get to the emergency services for the area they are targeting. You
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by pyre 11y ago
I think Real Estate Investment.

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