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by pyre 11y ago
This can't apply generally though. For example, how many workers that manufacturer yachts are going to be able to afford them? What about cruise liners or oil tankers? What about (e.g.) dental supplies? Should all employees in the manu
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by pyre 11y ago
Well, the "shareholders" here include employees and customers. From that perspective, some of the shareholders are gaining something from getting a paid day off (arguably even the customers are gaining from having happy retails
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by pyre 11y ago
It's one of those things where the starting line just keeps moving forward. I remember several years ago when people were lamenting how the day after Halloween was when stores immediately started stocking Christmas supplies and decor
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by pyre 11y ago
This: > "don't accept ' or 1=1 -- as a password" (the way that it's stated) implies that one should be checking input for possible SQL injection attacks and dropping the request, rather than sanitizing input so t
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by pyre 11y ago
Depends on how often a person needs to go out and service those parts. With a drone fleet, they can be serviced from a central location. If one dies in the field, then they can replace it with a backup while someone goes out to retrieve the
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by pyre 11y ago
Also, the people making the decisions/laws (politicians) are usually the least likely to be directly affected by any of the downsides of the technology. E.g.: How many Congressmen / Congresswomen have been directly affected by t
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by pyre 11y ago
> The primary reason for not introducing it here is the US is opposition from privacy groups, despite having been used successfully abroad to counter terrorism and organized crime. No offence, but do you really think that giving the abil
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by pyre 11y ago
> 3) What about all the things you don't want found? Old contracts, xgirlfriend notes, company transcripts, etc. Welp, I hope you remembered to encrypt your disks, well, that would mess up 1) & 2). Whatever. Smaller encrypted si
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by pyre 11y ago
> I don't think it's reasonable to have the government give money directly to individuals in the tribe. Well, in some tribes there is economic inequality due to local corruption. So this isn't really a one-size-fits-all so
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by pyre 11y ago
Do you believe that all those people that signed confessions to witchcraft during the Inquisition were truthful? What about all of the people that are tortured that don't have anything to do with terrorism? What sort of reparations do
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by pyre 11y ago
Ok, so if 4chan is a gender-neutral site, then why is the assumption that everyone is male until proven otherwise?
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by pyre 11y ago
> Every conversation I've had on 4chan I have no clue what gender the other person is, And yet I'm pretty sure that most people interacting with other anonymous people on 4chan assume that they are interacting with a male until
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by pyre 11y ago
Well, at the same time most politicians are more concerns with stoking the flames of ignorance and hate as it's a tried and true method to get votes. So these people remain with their ignorance opinions because public figures are encou
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by pyre 11y ago
Changing your location can also change your (car) insurance rates. Mine doubled just to to changing my address to where I currently live (from a more gentrified area).
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by pyre 11y ago
My point is that things that are "easy" for the tech elite are not so easy for the general public. People have a hard time figuring out how to (e.g.) "program the VCR" let alone use the computer.
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by pyre 11y ago
> Also, the sea ice itself is much fresher than the ocean, so it's melting temperature is much closer to 0C than you might expect It's not just about the sea ice melting, but also the sea ice forming . How does sea ice become
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by pyre 11y ago
> "security" Why the scare quotes? Just because it doesn't provide 100% security doesn't mean that it provides no security.
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by pyre 11y ago
Show me a way to prevent people from getting viruses and malware that doesn't involve the equivalent of requiring everyone to know how to service the entire engine on their car by themselves.
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by pyre 11y ago
Think of it as a SHA-1 or an MD5 that is generated using a private key, and can be verified using the public key (and the content of the data that was signed). It verifies that the signer had access to the private key, and that the data sig
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by pyre 11y ago
> 4.3MB Interesting that the update in question is also 4.3MB?
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by pyre 11y ago
You could rephrase that as: > A test update getting accidentally pushed out is more likely than a compromise of the Windows Update system.
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by pyre 11y ago
It's better because you can back things up, but people tend to have a bad track record on backing things up unless it's part of their job description. > an application failure won't prevent you to 1. keep your data (beca
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by pyre 11y ago
> It's only in the summer that arctic air temperatures rise above freezing Which "freezing" are you talking about? 0C (32F)? Because sea ice has a different freezing point. > In my view the ice is probably mainly meltin
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by pyre 11y ago
> root cause of failures like this is a principle fundamental to Evernote: data owned by an application, rather than data accessed by an application Not really. It's not like MS Word reading your .doc find can't corrupt it leav
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by pyre 11y ago
Well, the teacher helped the "slacker" student improve their grades... must be a great teacher!
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by pyre 11y ago
Well, a really good question is whether or not ABnB is recording all of these claims. If several people file similar complaints even without "proof" a pattern starts to emerge. If they are not recording these complaints, but ign
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by pyre 11y ago
You can already get a hacked up public chat via Slack. There's a package (which is all set to run on Heroku) that automates the process of sending an invite to the Slack organization so that anyone on the public web can do it. I notice
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by pyre 11y ago
> The "crazy responses" you see are people irritated that a group of hyper-sensitive people who have placed a disturbing level of importance on their gender identity (and the gender identity of others) harped on about this non-
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by pyre 11y ago
So what you're saying is that parents (e.g.) punishing their children for playing with the wrong toys ("Boys can't play with Barbies") is something that is desirable in a society because the only other option would be
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by pyre 11y ago
Yes, people should not be disparaged for their choices, and in general we want to offer the ability to choose. The real problem is are people growing up in a society where they are being subconsciously funnelled towards a particular choice

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