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by smithza 6y ago
I haven't heard this. Can you point to examples of this?
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by smithza 6y ago
This is a false equivalence. The clearest reason is that zero of these cases resulted in sedition. This argument is distracting, it is classic whataboutism. In no way is it the case that moderating the app stores and shutting down access to
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by smithza 6y ago
Difference being that Facebook moderates content. This was the Apple complaint against Parler. Parler has publicly touted itself as the 4chan/8chan of social media apps. It is more that the culture of Parler is being rejected by the Ap
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by smithza 6y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful counter arguments. I concede that there is a false extrapolation into the internet at large (or private institutions at large). I argue in his favor though that these social media platforms are, for many, their ma
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by smithza 6y ago
This is one way they make money. Robinhood is free because it makes interest on the money you ACH transfer in that sits while you make your decision on what to buy. They have a big bank account holding all of the user's funds and get i
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by smithza 6y ago
An interviewer proposes this scenario: There is a school bus full of ping pong balls, all the way to the ceiling, filled from back to front. You are asked to estimate the number of ping pong balls while explaining your line of thinking. Que
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by smithza 6y ago
Sometimes it helps knowing a source is biased. Reading National Review, for example, allows you to assume the opinions held are relatively conservative. Reading the Bulwark, you know there is a progressive bent. Proceed with your own though
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by smithza 6y ago
This is helpful, and something I agree with mostly. Of course the difficulty is what you nodded towards in point 4: "Do the one thing the modern world discourages you from doing and slow the hell down". We lead busy lives and need
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by smithza 6y ago
Can you point to cases where this is common in mainstream news outlets? We are talking about exceptions, not norms. The 1619 Project and its revisionist perspective may have had misleading conclusions (or premises) but it was not committi
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by smithza 6y ago
US imposed individual sanctions and explicitly named hackers from the GRU after the DOD investigated 2016 election hacking, effectively authorizing their arrest if stepping on western soil. This will be handled diplomatically through the St
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by smithza 6y ago
Absolutely not. Nor should anyone nod towards the bastard child of the two called spacemacs ... Emacs FTW :)
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by smithza 6y ago
Airgaps are certainly intended to protect against every skill level hacker. The ideal strategy is the multi-layered, Swiss cheese approach. A slice for RBAC (LDAP, AD, MFA, etc.); a slice for email phishing filters and user awareness traini
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by smithza 6y ago
This is something I doubt. Zero-day exploits are the kind that software vendors have no awareness of and therefore have no fixes in place (think mimikatz). FireEye is the sort of company who, upon discovering one in the wild, would disclose
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by smithza 6y ago
Airgaps are certainly intended to protect against every skill level hacker. The ideal strategy is the multi-layered, Swiss cheese approach. A slice for RBAC (LDAP, AD, MFA, etc.); a slice for email phishing filters and user awareness traini
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by smithza 6y ago
Honestly, system user education/awareness goes even further. Iran nuclear facilities used an airgap but it was social engineering that was the weakest attack vector for Stuxnet to exploit. Same with the South Korean Winter Olympics; a
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by smithza 6y ago
SpaceX is a defense contractor that is disrupting the market considerably. While much of the existing industry is slowly adopting modern development strategies (design, manufacturing, etc. in SW and HW), SpaceX is leading the agile front he
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by smithza 6y ago
There is nothing in the article about customers personally benefiting from this. SpaceX could take the money and put it towards ground infr., etc., customers only seeing reduced payments due to NRE/maintenance subsidies. It sounds like
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by smithza 6y ago
I don't think the logic holds up here. It is conceivable that SpaceX could have entered into the market to disrupt the relatively lo-tech GEO options without FCC subsidy options (I think you agree here). Hughes (a GEO provider) themsel
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by smithza 6y ago
I find it very interesting that the sources and "further readings" are more often than not SO or stack exchange links. It is just a recognition that the collective knowledge, as informal as it is on forums, is often used as refere
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by smithza 6y ago
Loosely coupled code could well have unit testing and mocking covering >90% with great results. We should not conflate unit and integrations tests here. I have also found regression testing to be a great way to declare and interpret inte
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by smithza 6y ago
My wife and I have decided buying used clothes when we cannot afford sustainable, ethical clothing sources, is the best way to boycott unethical clothing sources.
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by smithza 6y ago
It is fun considering I was not yet born yet when this came out. Most all of the SW languages I use are older than I am... python, C++, Java, JS, perl, elisp.
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1% of PPP Borrowers Got 25% of Total Loan Money(nytimes.com)
4 points by smithza 6y ago|0 comments
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by smithza 6y ago
PIP : Performance Improvement Plan I assume this to mean that it is an element of an individual's PIP, a formal process to set guides for getting someone to commit to a higher level of achievement.
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by smithza 6y ago
Think of Red Hat employees. Most of them are paid to contribute continually to Open Source (linux kernel, numerous libraries, etc), then they sell product and support licenses. The problem is that few developers are helping to maintain Open
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by smithza 6y ago
I have thought of Milton Friedman's work with the Negative Income Tax [1]. It sounds difficult to implement administratively but tries to solve this problem of incentivizing the workforce to move up and provide a means of paying taxes
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Starlink Packet Routing(caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)
84 points by smithza 6y ago|36 comments
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by smithza 6y ago
These news articles are fallacious appeals to ignorance. We are not ignorant of the very blatant oppression in China. The Hong Kong issue is just another example of communism seeking to squash autonomy and basic human rights. You say '
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by smithza 6y ago
This is the point exactly. China brings in 10% of the NBA's revenue[1]. I am arguing alongside you that we can really effect change if we use our economic leverage and not merely our political leverage. We cannot stand for these abuses
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by smithza 6y ago
The BLM movement is important; I have no interest in distracting from this problem. Lebron was explicitly asked about the CCP and their human-rights abuses after an NBA manager unpopularly criticized the CCP. The NBA would rather not talk

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