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by shawnz 5y ago
It doesn't matter what messages laypeople received from the media. All that matters is if those laypeople were capable of discovering the same facts which congresspeople had access to. Congresspeople were also subject to those messages
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by shawnz 5y ago
If it was intelligence that any investor could have gathered themselves, that's not non-public. It doesn't matter that the government are the best investigators.
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by shawnz 5y ago
What non-public information about companies' preparedness would they have? Couldn't any investor research a company's pandemic preparedness? What special information about that does Congress have access to that we don't?
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by shawnz 5y ago
What nonpublic information do congresspeople have about how pandemics might impact the global economy?
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by shawnz 5y ago
It would not delay transition to cleaner technologies if you take action to price in the externalities through taxes. Then, we could have both safe and efficient oil, and it wouldn't increase consumption. That is the best outcome for e
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by shawnz 5y ago
I am not saying we should make oil cheaper. That is the point of the taxes. We should be raising the price through taxes, not by blocking the state of the art technologies.
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by shawnz 5y ago
Perhaps the government should actually subsidize the pipeline to eliminate those extra sunk costs compared to tankers/trains. It would basically be like paying for carbon capture (except you're actually paying for it to just be tr
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by shawnz 5y ago
Sure, but if they can sell conservatives on blocking the pipeline, why can't they sell conservatives on a carbon tax? If anything, I think it's more likely that the carbon tax could be seen as a bipartisan win between those option
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by shawnz 5y ago
> And there's always, like, this premise of, well, it's gonna get shipped anyway. No, it's not. Like, that's the whole point. No, it's not. Your industry is on its way out. And that's the point. And we all k
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by shawnz 5y ago
You could get the safety and efficiency advantages of pipelines while still creating the same cost increase through taxes. Blocking pipelines is not a logical way to achieve that cost increase. That would simply make oil more expensive beca
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by shawnz 5y ago
What's the problem with keeping the more effective technology (pipelines) and instead using taxes to disincentivize the externalities? Wouldn't that be better for everyone?
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by shawnz 5y ago
I don't understand what you are proposing here. In terms of actions that we take to curb the use of oil, I am saying those actions should not unfairly discriminate against pipelines vs less safe transports like trains. If we take steps
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by shawnz 5y ago
> But the solution here is obvious; stop using oil. Sure, but will we see rail transportation of oil blocked in a similar manner? Otherwise we might just be making our current uses of oil less safe and efficient for nothing. I think this
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by shawnz 5y ago
"Inclusive" still has a meaning in this interpretation. It means that the certificate is valid on the moment of the end date, as opposed to ceasing to be valid on that moment. That is what they mean by "both ends of the inter
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by shawnz 5y ago
One advantage is that you're creating a separation of concerns, so that it would be easy to change third parties if necessary.
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by shawnz 5y ago
I agree it was a good idea to get rid of the XUL-based UI and XUL addons. But I think allowing addons to apply some limited CSS changes to the new UI could be a good compromise. It would be significantly less powerful than what could be don
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by shawnz 5y ago
That simply allows you to create firefox themes. OP's changes are not possible with the firefox theme engine
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by shawnz 5y ago
Which of these do I use to send encrypted messages to darknet vendors based on well-known public keys shared through Reddit etc? This is the number one use case of PGP for me and it doesn't seem to be solved by any of these other tools
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by shawnz 5y ago
Right, so shouldn't they have instead redirected to a provider which didn't have the issue, rather than another provider having the same issue?
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by shawnz 5y ago
Didn't DDG have the same issue?
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by shawnz 5y ago
That page is referring to their password breach detection feature though, not password sync. The sync pages have language which indicates that the encryption is only end-to-end if you use a passphrase. See: https://support.google
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by shawnz 5y ago
A browser-integrated password management API could make for a smoother transition to a future automated auth technology based on public keys, like WebAuthn
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by shawnz 5y ago
No, because adding the floating icon requires injecting code on the page to create the icon. So then the page has a way to interfere with your password manager's UI. That is the problem with the content script approach. Although if the
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by shawnz 5y ago
This isn't really what I want: This allows the extension to communicate with a native app, and that's often used to implement password managers. But actually I would prefer if extensions don't use native components at all, es
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by shawnz 5y ago
But also there will also be more attention directed toward these low-hanging vulnerabilities, so perhaps password manager vendors will adapt too.
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by shawnz 5y ago
Interesting to know, this doesn't fully solve all the problems with this approach for me but it might be helpful for some family members. Thanks for the information
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by shawnz 5y ago
I think the only reasonable way to achieve Tavis' conclusion would be for browsers to start providing actual password management APIs for extensions. I agree that locking in all my passwords with my browser vendor would be unacceptable
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by shawnz 5y ago
My mistake, I just quickly googled it and misinterpreted some documents I saw. In fact it doesn't
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by shawnz 5y ago
I would probably write it from scratch to avoid bringing in a big dependency which requires a FFI to use it just for a simple protocol like HTTP. What languages use libcurl in their idiomatic HTTP library? As far as I can see, only Rust use
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by shawnz 5y ago
I think everyone's opinion of how to achieve the greater good could be construed as just a "personal itch". I am not sure there even could be a singular "greater good" which would be best for everyone. Furthermore i

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