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by ridaj 5y ago
It's not about security. It's about wasting reviewers' time. I too would be annoyed if someone was submitting, say, whitespace-only changes, or similar cleanup, non-functional changes - I still have to review them and my time
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Well that's a great argument that it isn't perfect, but the real question is whether it's an improvement. Is it better than the state of the art, which is everyone dropping a shit ton of completely untraceable cookies? For ex
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The same point applies though: if if you think a large percentage of your colleagues shouldn't have been hired, that's one thing... If not then you have to just make do with your actual coworkers. To the point of the root comment,
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Well sure but that's not an argument in favor of libertarianism as an answer to the dangerous working conditions for ship crew either. A government that is focused on property rights, just like the flags of convenience under which most
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Let's assume this was true. Are you saying colleagues with lower IQs shouldn't have been hired? If so, I would be careful about coming to work thinking that many of my colleagues shouldn't have been hired. If that's actu
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I think maybe I have a different takeaway. The point is to make yourself non-critical. That does not necessarily mean copious amounts of documentation or beautiful diagrams. I don't mean to read too much into your message but there is
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Yes. There's a lot of this on HN it seems. Of course the argument doesn't hold up to evidence... Places like Somalia, Haiti, Yemen, etc. are great concrete case studies to understand what really happens in places with minimal or n
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We often take maritime shipping for granted as it is a very old industry, but these very large, heavy and powerful boats are insanely hazardous workplaces, and there are both the incentives and the deregulation to transform them into death
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Much of it driven by cult cargo SEO, throwing everything and the kitchen sink into the page in completely unproven hope that it'll somehow game the rankings
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There are items made in China by Taiwan-based companies, which are marked as such, but stuff actually manufactured in Taiwan is marked as made in Taiwan
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It would probably chase a few of them off that day. And then they come back the next. There would likely need to be much more concrete repercussions (imprisonment, fines, asset seizures) for it to actually matter...
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Agree with everything there. For now Republicans play the demographic hand that they're dealt with today. So do the Democrats in other ways (with all the respect due to African-American voters from Georgia, I think their opinion matter
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The pipeline sector is also heavily regulated and in some ways quasi governmental. In particular the government intervenes in its cyberprotection. See https://www.cisa.gov/pipeline-cybersecurity-initiative
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Of course there needs to be consequences for thieves but that doesn't absolve people (particularly in critical infrastructure) from the responsibility to implement reasonable protections. If everyone keeps their doors unlocked in town
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Well-designed survey results are objective and reproducible. There are margins of error as with all measurements, and maybe these margins are wider than in some fields and narrower than in others, but asking people for their opinions isn&#x
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That's especially visible when comparing with the "driving person", who is floating in a loose open trench-coat that flits about as they dance
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The Wuhan wet market episode, in retrospect, was almost certainly a superspreading event rather than a patient zero situation. The virus's effects are so variable from person to person (lots of asymptomatic carriers, people who just ge
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Why do so many people responding to this seem to assume the plus sign is to fool spammers? Of course it's not useful for antispam. It's mostly meant to make it easier to trace where a (legit) email comes from, for example to set u
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You're right, it does not structurally need to be centralized and there are small trusted networks that are volunteer-moderated. They are a minority of what people actually spend time on when they use social networks these days though.
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Another reason it doesn't work is that networks used by humans need policing to be usable by anyone but the most advanced and psychologically resilient users, and there isn't an economic model that funds this at scale with complet
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Regardless of where the logging is, the can be bugs, and there will be bugs given sufficient amount of time and complexity. It's all about planning for recovery.
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For example, your app logs clicks on the "submit" button, but there's a bug in your UX and the button is clickable/tappable multiple times while the form is being processed, instead of being disabled while being processe
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Seems likely that the enforced schema would then break things when someone updates the "live" schema without updating all of the checks littered through downstream tables...
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I would personally add: - Having informal metrics and dimension definitions: you throw together something quick and dirty and then realize there's something semantically broken about your data definitions or unevenness. For example you
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I also see it very often in internal survey open answers as the answer for why you enjoy working here. These are anonymous, there is no incentive to lie.
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That may be your point of view, but can you hire a lot of people with this attitude? Companies in tech successfully attract talent on the basis that they provide an opportunity to "have impact in the world". I work in tech and I h
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Technically I think it's possible to install whatever you want: as part of the developer program, you can pay the dev fees (which you might not care about, if you also don't care about the cut) and run whatever you want to build,
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IMO there's confusion in this writing between ownership (legal concept) and possession (facts on the ground). The two can get out of sync. That doesn't mean blockchain is an irrelevant tool for tracking ownership - although I pers
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It was the wrong long-term solution for sure. But I think it forced publishers to reevaluate their priorities with respect to bloat and loading times, whereas prior attempts at quietly calling attention to the problem apparently didn't

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