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by sellyme 5y ago
Your claim is fundamentally "It's logistically easier to attack software, so such attacks will happen more often". This is absolutely true, but it's also proportionally easier to defend software. It's insanely eas
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> The state space of a complex piece of software is vastly larger than that of a building Not really, we've just gotten very good at constructing buildings thanks to millennia of experience. We're terrible at writing softwa
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by sellyme 5y ago
> A given piece of software can be bullet-proof today and a catastrophic hole can appear tomorrow. Only because you didn't notice the catastrophic hole today, and that's true of everything. When a building collapses the constru
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by sellyme 5y ago
> An inherent safety factor built into most projects would mean that a slight reduction in steel content would not necessarily lead to disaster. On the other hand, it can lead to disaster, which is why that safety factor exists. We&#x2
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by sellyme 5y ago
I don't know why people still bother using Fortran, Magic the Gathering obsoleted it decades ago.
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Again, the opportunity cost of buying a pizza with that USD instead of buying BTC would be exactly the same.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> If you wouldn't be comfortable with the Trump administration defining "hate speech", you shouldn't be comfortable with Trudeau defining it either. I disagree with this. I wouldn't trust the Trump administration
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by sellyme 5y ago
The critical difference between spending BTC on a pizza and the Monty Hall problem is that you only receive additional information once you no longer have any option to change your mind. If Monty Hall asked you if you wanted to change doors
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by sellyme 5y ago
Well yeah, that's the exact kind of needlessly aggressive and divisive rhetoric this is meant to prevent.
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You seem to be under the impression that anyone here has an obligation to make sure that you're adequately convinced. You clearly won't believe that most drug transactions are done in cash unless you see incontrovertible evidence.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> The possibility that they might object to this status isn't even considered. Presumably because, as you quoted: > 22 percent of this year’s offers are going to White students — a number that is largely consistent with the past
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by sellyme 5y ago
This is what you are doing: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/game Don't be surprised when no-one wants to take you up on inane requests.
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by sellyme 5y ago
As the comment you're replying to points out, that same opportunity cost applies to literally any non-essential ~$20 purchase they made with any currency in that time period.
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I don't recall anyone describing Vista as "the last good Windows" back in 2013.
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> This really stood out to me. If I bought a washer here in the US and it broke after two years, I expect I’d be on my own. You probably would be. The US has by far the weakest consumer law of any Western country. Possibly the most egreg
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> But lifetime is evidently not as long as the device lasts, as we see with Microsoft. Plenty of XP machines are still alive out there and they have long been out of support. This will vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but where I
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>Does it come with any guarantees of lifetime for those patches though? This guarantee is called "consumer law". The requirement of a patch means that the product you paid for was broken. So yes, they absolutely have a legal re
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by sellyme 5y ago
The very first line of your source references Australia as an example of why ranked voting would not give third parties any influence. This seems like an odd choice, given that Australia currently has five different parties in Parliament, a
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by sellyme 5y ago
> the whole point of the product is to connect it to the internet Correct, this is one of the reasons why it is not a very good product. Its entire selling point is detrimental.
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> People who pay money for products and connect them to the internet are stupid and have money? If you can buy a $3k treadmill, you have money (although about $3k less of it, in fairness). If you think your treadmill needs to be connecte
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by sellyme 5y ago
> If Greenland ruled the world we would all be discussing some nonsense about how easily sleds glide over ice. This criticism only makes sense if you believe that Greenland could realistically have ruled the world with no significant dif
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The "with its neighbors" there is important. The waste described is that in spending a century warring with the country next doors opens you up to being rolled over by someone from another continent who spent that century developi
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> I'm sure that's a youtube thing That's a human thing. Has been happening for centuries.
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Oh the intent is pretty obvious (heh) - shorthand for "at this stage no further investigation was necessary to be confident" - but I just find the more broad interpretation amusing.
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by sellyme 5y ago
Somewhat of a deviation from the topic of this article, but I enjoyed this terminology from the Facebook bug analysis: > After a few iterations, it became obvious that the computation of Int(1.1^53) as an input to the math.pow function i
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by sellyme 5y ago
735 and 775 are pretty useful too. They clearly communicate why a page wasn't available and what the user can do about it (get a proper browser, and fuck-all, respectively).
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> Yes there are a few that were not possible back then. "A few" is underselling it somewhat. I would posit that >95% of popular modern websites contain functionality that was not plausible in 1996.
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> For example, compare Google Reader at its peak MAU, to the current #1 open-source RSS reader app. What's the current #1 open-source RSS reader app? Google Reader at its peak was by far the best RSS reader I've ever used - and
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by sellyme 5y ago
They absolutely are, but "if you use Gmail then Google has access to all your emails" is not exactly a shocking security violation.
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It doesn't. That's an input field, you can edit it and go back to -4000.

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