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by sho 6y ago
Well, that is a decision every institution needs to make by themselves, of course. At least now there is a visible price tag attached, rather than trying to hide behind misuse laws ("it's ILLEGAL to access our systems in that way!
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by sho 6y ago
Devil's advocate: ransomware is good. The financial incentives around it directly encourage this variety of hacking. It's an involuntary "bug bounty". And IT security becomes something more than a "nice to have&quot
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by sho 6y ago
Honestly it's not a ridiculous assumption. Right now, in web-startup-land, it's a very high percentage. Exceptions would be the unix tool users - vim/emacs - and I suppose they would be expected to temporarily embrace VSCode
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by sho 6y ago
Well, anecdata I suppose, but I know plenty of startups where developers are exclusively mac. Not the showstopper you might imagine.
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by sho 6y ago
From my experience with microservices, this is kind of a utopia that never happens. What actually would happen is that everyone else's service is dependent on the new feature that the problematic service delivered, so they're all
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by sho 6y ago
Did I say it's good? I know exactly what it is. It's a radical expansion of fed credit. What are the consequences? Well, do you think things are better? USD expansion is not going to be a big issue for a while. Your spongebob capi
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by sho 6y ago
OK. Look, I'm not arguing, conceptually, against you. But there is a very big problem and it will need to be addressed. Sanders is doing what he can. Maybe this is not the best approach but is doing nothing better? Yeah, this act sucks
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by sho 6y ago
I guess you have not heard of Quantitative Easing?
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by sho 6y ago
It is a very difficult question. It is money vs. society. If you can earn more money for yourself by impoverishing others, but the total wealth and stability of society goes down, is that a good thing? No I think it is not. There's a c
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by sho 6y ago
Yeah, it doesn't fix everything perfectly forever. But it's a shot across the bow.
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by sho 6y ago
All excellent ideas, and inevitable, IMO.
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by sho 6y ago
What a defeatist attitude. Instead of snarkily poking holes, where's your better solution? Because there has to be a solution. Inequality is reaching levels where it's dangerous. No, it is not good nor stable for 1% of the populat
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by sho 6y ago
> you didn't pick these people, you're not marrying these people, you're working with them on a temporary basis then moving on To be perfectly honest you're reinforcing the practise rather than arguing against it like
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by sho 6y ago
I love how commenters on HN and elsewhere often make the blithe recommendation to "lawyer up" as if normal people can just speed dial some white-shoe senior partner and get them on a $10k/m retainer stat . Unless you are sit
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by sho 6y ago
You could be right. Actually I have no idea about the aileron's use in turning at high speed - i would have thought they were, just more subtly? That's the limit of my knowledge :P I do know however that they are used symmetrica
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by sho 6y ago
I concede this is ridiculously pedantic, but the system you're talking about is called "gust supression", and uses the flaperons (not the ailerons) in coordination with the elevators. The ailerons are only used for turning an
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by sho 6y ago
The only moral problem I have in your anecdote is the lying about it. With every fibre of my being, I could not care less about torrenting game of thrones .
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by sho 6y ago
> That said, there are other forms of active defense against missiles Ah yes i'm reasonably well aware of some of the EW/optical suites being deployed. Was just wondering if anything kinetic was, er, on the radar. Totally agree
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by sho 6y ago
What prospects do you think there may be for active anti-missile tech like Trophy on fighters? The demonstrations I've seen of that system were mind-blowing and it doesn't seem too far-fetched to put on a jet. I find active missil
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by sho 6y ago
You say cynicism - I say finally recognizing the emperor has no clothes. The fed now buying junk bonds - directly propping up the LBO/PE industry - crossed a fundamental line for me. Not only is the USG propping up its productive corpo
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by sho 6y ago
> Nuclear has had its time, and today it's just not a competitive way of making electricity anymore I just don't agree with this. The tech has not been there, and even as that has slowly changed, the regulatory environment has
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by sho 6y ago
> what can go wrong when you [..] rely on government oversight > this sounds like a traditional government project problem I don't know why you're trying to turn this into an "obviously govt can't do anything"
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by sho 6y ago
Well, my first feedback is that the home page takes an astonishing 2 minutes 15 seconds to load, and when it does generates console errors from a blocked script (matamo.js) every few seconds. I'd look into that.
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by sho 6y ago
I heard a great thought experiment once: would you rather have a stanford degree without the education, or a stanford education without the degree? 20+ years of experience have taught me that anything but the first choice is utterly insane.
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by sho 6y ago
There is no way, full stop, that the USA can track random trucks in China. Even if they could, of course they have nuke-hardened storage - we call them "mountains". And that's 15 we know about, who knows how many more there r
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by sho 6y ago
Lol, no it is not possible. That is not how any of this works. You see to think the location of China's nuclear arsenal is on Google Maps or something. It is not. In addition to its estimated 10-15 road-mobile DF-31 ICBMs, China has 6
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by sho 6y ago
> slow, hard-to-scale Ruby and Rails I'm sure the tech teams at Shopify and Sephora, both of which regularly do 50k+ requests per second, or maybe Airbnb, Github or Hulu will be super eager to hear your opinions about how Rails is s
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by sho 6y ago
Do you honestly think the USA would be willing to suffer even one city nuked for any reason at all, let alone to protect some small island in Asia most americans couldn't even find on a map? In my estimation there is absolutely no way
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by sho 6y ago
What exactly is your point? That no evil enterprise is that bad so long as it employs people? You will find yourself defending some pretty bad shit with that argument.
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by sho 6y ago
> telling to shut up because they used the word "privilege" is not very conducive to conversation I don't like it because it's an all-purpose "shut up" card itself. It discounts opinion and argument not beca

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