rpearl

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by rpearl 8y ago
don't put work email on your phone
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by rpearl 8y ago
All the ripple effects of this are so poorly thought out. There'd be environmental effects--all that takeout is going to come in disposable containers instead of reusable plates. There'd be delivery congestion--personal delivery a
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by rpearl 8y ago
Car manufacturers are perfectly free to not sell cars in California. Turns out, they want California business. There's no "more fair to other consumers" here, nor is there any "imposition" by California on consumer
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by rpearl 8y ago
(Used to work there; haven't in several years.) Such a feature was a pretty bad phishing and social engineering vector, particularly when you could render html out of that folder, but even when html was dropped that there were social e
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by rpearl 8y ago
they invalidated keys based on when the attack became non-functional (due to the pastebin getting removed at 12:27 UTC). But the window in which any packages could potentially have been similarly compromised is from the point the attacker h
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by rpearl 8y ago
key invalidation time was 2018-07-12 18:42 UTC How did you produce this list btw?
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by rpearl 8y ago
the attacker used generic sites (pastebin, stat counter sites) and there is no reason they did not access them through tor. Why would it be possible to track them down?
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by rpearl 8y ago
"exposes" here is quite a strange term, because their entire business is selling that same data. The only difference is that it was briefly available without a price tag.
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by rpearl 8y ago
> That's not to say there aren't collusions and conspiracies and bad doings by people with power, there most certainly are, but the fact these succeed are problems of a system You are describing a "cabal intent on keeping
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by rpearl 8y ago
I don't know why you keep missing the mental leap here: Yeah, people at the company--and outside it--did not want a CEO willing to spend money to actively remove the rights of a group of people. That is the thing they did not want. The
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by rpearl 8y ago
What? His donation (of public record) specifically against same sex marriage--indicated that he was not a good culture fit. People (inside and outside the organization) chose to point that out when he was promoted. This really doesn't
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by rpearl 8y ago
Usually nimbyism refers to residential property clashes: people who don't want more housing "in their backyard" because it blocks their view, don't want lower income housing because of worries about crime or property val
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by rpearl 8y ago
no.
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by rpearl 8y ago
I really had no trouble navigating Tokyo stations and I don't speak a word of Japanese besides すみません (excuse me/sorry to bother), so I'm quite surprised to see this comment! Google maps and other transit apps are really good
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by rpearl 8y ago
it is a waste. Bitcoin is an unqualified environmental catastrophe that is literally erasing any progress we've made to combat climate change. Burning away the future, turning useful energy purely and directly into waste and profit by
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by rpearl 8y ago
I am admittedly somewhat biased, since I have a Bachelor's in CS from CMU, but I'm not really seeing anything problematic here. (Not to mention, many CMU students will take on minors as well, though I'm totally blanking on wh
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by rpearl 8y ago
The sender of the email needs to do dns resolution properly and securely (for instance, using DNSSEC to have origin authentication), and the domain of the email needs to have sole control of the ability to add DNS entries. If those hold, th
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by rpearl 8y ago
If you're arguing that no computation should be proprietary, ever... okay. Not opening that discussion right now. But, assuming that one does, ever, want someone else to do a proprietary computation on one's data, it'd be rea
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by rpearl 9y ago
> Until A's transaction is included in a block, B can not do that. This is just not true at all? for B to refer to A, it needs to know the transaction id. Transaction ids are sha256(sha256(raw_transaction)) and a raw transaction con
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by rpearl 9y ago
The fact that real estate is so fundamentally an investment here (in the US/in the western world) is a deep underlying part of the problem. I agree - this person made the right decision, from their point of view, and it will be a go
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by rpearl 9y ago
https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core > Mycroft AI, Inc. maintains a device and account management system known as Mycroft Home. Developers may sign up at: https://home.mycroft.ai By default, mycroft
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by rpearl 9y ago
There were several opportunities for liquidity for people with options prior to this point (not to mention extremely early employees should have had an extremely low strike price and should have been able to afford exercising prior to this
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by rpearl 9y ago
The goal of the legislation in question is specifically to help individuals that have been coerced, against their free will, into sex trafficking. It is not about voluntary interactions between consenting adults. The legislation might be mi
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by rpearl 9y ago
no, we can talk about the fact that using fraud to fund legitimate activity isn't entrepreneurship, now.
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by rpearl 9y ago
So he lied in order to start the company in the first place and managed to exploit the lie into a profit. This is still fraud. The fact that it paid off isn't relevant to the fact that it's fraud.
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by rpearl 9y ago
In most (all?) states in the US cyclists are legally allowed to take the lane when it is unsafe to stay to the right.
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by rpearl 9y ago
Pretend you are walking; move your feet at walking pace and have that be enough to move the pedals without too much force. You'll still go 3-4x faster than walking, but it'll be the same amount of effort.
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by rpearl 9y ago
I just can't imagine anything being more "flexible" than Anki, which is agpl python with a robust plugin ecosystem backed by a local sqlite database.
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by rpearl 9y ago
sonic.net is also doing gigabit in the bay area, including expanding to the east bay. We have it at my home in San Francisco and it's been rock solid so far. It was slated for December 2017 but we got it even earlier, in October.
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by rpearl 9y ago
The thing is (at least in the US), it's not the case that these places "don't matter". In fact, they matter disproportionately more . Living in a populous state, say CA as the most popular, costs voters power. A CA elec

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