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by rnovak 11y ago
But the merchant pays for their merchandise in USD. why would a merchant choose to accept this "currency", considering it's not valuable to them?
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by rnovak 11y ago
The whole point of my comment was that anecdotes are by definition not universal. Maybe you missed that?
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by rnovak 11y ago
To counter your anecdote with one of my own: Literally everyone I know, including my 93 year old grand-parents own a smartphone and at least a laptop or desktop. Every. Single. One. That includes my technologically challenged siblings. An
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by rnovak 11y ago
a simple interface that WORKS , absolutely. I tried in February to switch to the Nexus 6P. I literally had to restart it TWICE on day one. How is that even reasonable ? for 650 dollars, that's a joke. I'll get downvoted to hel
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by rnovak 11y ago
> I'm not going to dive deep into the topic of why I consider "just using standardized crypto" unsafe and prefer rolling another custom end-to-end encryption layer on top of it. please , by all means, enlighten us. > I
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by rnovak 11y ago
You understand that a secure pen-drive (which is what I think you're talking about by 'pinlocked') has a HSM (Hardware Security Module) with hardware implementations of standardized encryption algorithms, right? You literally
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by rnovak 11y ago
It doesn't matter. In order for OTP to work, you first have to invent secure communication. It puts the horse before the carriage. Oh, and now you have to maintain perfect secrecy/privacy of a 4gb file. Solved one problem (theor
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by rnovak 11y ago
> Let's consider we've produced exactly 4 GiB of random key data and distributed it between the two users if you have a method of securely distributing 4gb of key, why on earth wouldn't you use that to transmit the message
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by rnovak 11y ago
You mean other than the fact that it's still running on top of a kernel, BIOS, and other firmware that was ALL written in C or Assembly? Yeah, totally safe /s.
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by rnovak 11y ago
If it was "embarassingly basic", wouldn't it have been found way sooner? not YEARS down the line, even DECADES ? Since you mention ruby: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/89191 Wh
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by rnovak 11y ago
I totally get that XML is intimidating, it certainly was for me for a long time, but eh...it solves more problems than it creates (at least in my professional opinion). But... I'll be the first to admit that Java isn't the perfect
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by rnovak 11y ago
Well, I don't have that much experience with Python, but by your own admission: packages with a C++ module normally... Sorry, but 'normally' doesn't cut it for me (or the organizations that I work/worked f
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by rnovak 11y ago
Because with JVM languages, and their "horrid" backwards compatibility (that everyone always loves to bash), I can declare dependencies on libraries written in Java 1.1, and it will JUST WORK . From what I understand, there'
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by rnovak 11y ago
If by the same problem you mean that you have to understand a library in order to use it properly, I guess so, but I don't see how that's unique to Java. I don't see any difference between having to understand annotations a
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by rnovak 11y ago
Well, for starters, Spring basically has eliminated XML configuration with Spring-Boot. Add a couple annotations and you're done (as in, fully done, no web.xml's, no application-contexts). (Granted, I don't really like this,
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by rnovak 11y ago
I'm sorry, but do you just disregard overflow in your applications? Just because software is on the web, doesn't mean it doesn't have to care about logic errors
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by rnovak 11y ago
You haven't lost anything if you haven't pirated your content (since they said they'd "put it back", as quoted from your original post). It's an inconvenience, I'll give you that.
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by rnovak 11y ago
Unless the only time your students can access your course would have been the next 24-48hrs (which I highly doubt), you/they are not being screwed over . You are not entitled to anything on their platform, and this seems like an
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by rnovak 11y ago
I'm guessing he's referring to something like TLA+, which is a "mathematical" language for formal specification/verification of software systems.
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by rnovak 11y ago
Please explain how a direct action (racism/sexism/discrimination) is even somewhat close to the indirection required for "eating a cheesburger => deforestation"? As Bill Engval says: Evel Knievel couldn't have ma
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by rnovak 11y ago
If you go into it as a means to an end, then yes, it probably would be a waste of time. But....if you actually approach it as an opportunity to expose yourself to new ways to think about problems, I don't think that would ever be a w
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by rnovak 11y ago
In my experience (and this is only my experience/observations) it is extremely unprofessional to bring up a coworkers salary in your own negotiations, for several reasons. Many companies still have policies against coworkers sharing
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by rnovak 11y ago
> Be profoundly, intolerably nice > I don't think this is a good behavior Being nice/personable isn't a good behavior?
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by rnovak 11y ago
wouldn't it only fly into space if it's velocity was in that direction ? And....wouldn't it interact with everything along it's path? I mean..it wouldn't be quantum tunneling correct? (I've only taken rudi
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by rnovak 11y ago
I host several spring webapps myself on a $10/month VPS running Ubuntu 14.04 (LTS) Some notes: - Default MySQL install listens only on loopback interface, so isn't exposed to the network (and if it's not in your case, you can
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by rnovak 11y ago
Just as an FYI since you keep bringing it up, I'm fairly sure that payment processors are absolutely liable for illegal items purchased through their gateways. If you'd like an example, Banks won't even OPEN an account in s
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by rnovak 11y ago
while I agree that the author of this piece needs to make sure they're submitting DMCA takedowns to the appropriate place, I still think that a company trying to bill themselves as an academic institution shouldn't be allowed
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by rnovak 11y ago
IANAL, but DMCA applies to penalties, not to the issue of whether or not they're infringing copyright. Though, I will note that Udemy does have a designated agent in regards to DMCA Safe Harbor, so the OP may want to check that they su
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by rnovak 11y ago
I understand that "copyright abuse" is frowned upon. (and I'm not arguing against you, I just find what they're doing to be completely unreasonable). But this is the exact opposite. This is a company flagrantly copying s
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by rnovak 11y ago
Thats not the way copyright works. If you think it is, please, let RIAA know you've stolen some records and let's see how much they charge you. Last time I checked, users are sued for thousands of dollars per infringing instance,

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