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by smsm42 2y ago
It is reasonable. Many totalitarian governments hide crime statistics. Many badly run police forces discourage reporting certain types of crime, like theft or robbery, to not mess up their stats. Of course, at some crime level, the differen
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by smsm42 2y ago
You can. If you do that, you'd likely be sued by the owner of the real Iron Man trademark (well, they'd send C&D first and if you don't stop they'll sue). But it's not likely you'd suffer any prosecution fr
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by smsm42 2y ago
People that pretend they are animals (usually not real ones but anthropomorphized fictional versions). In different people the pretense can go to different depths, from occasional light cosplay to complete lifestyle change. Sometimes there&
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by smsm42 2y ago
That's what a lot of people don't get about introverts. Yes, I interact with people, and yes, I leave the house. I just interact with certain smaller set of people which I am not eager to extend on each opportunity (it may happen,
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by smsm42 2y ago
Only if you claim that you own copyright that you don't, and even that probably won't be prosecuted. E.g. see: https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/51541/has-anyone-bee...
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by smsm42 2y ago
SF has had some cleaner parts - including north parts of Embarcadero, Presidio, etc. but the center and Market St. areas can be pretty scary to a person who's not used to it. As a large ugly dude, I didn't really feel _that_ threa
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by smsm42 2y ago
That depends on how many X employees actually live in SF and how many commute each day back and forth from the same South Bay. When I worked in SF, I regularly shared a train with the latter crowd, and there are a lot of them. I'm not
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by smsm42 2y ago
I'm mostly reading political tweets, and for the last year or so I have never noticed that - the comments can be of very varying quality, as always on an unmoderated forum, but I don't remember too much offtopic. Maybe it depends
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by smsm42 2y ago
I don't think SF is an example of the place where the link between paying a lot of taxes and get the environment around improved is as obvious as you seem to imply.
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by smsm42 2y ago
If by "everywhere" you mean "major megapolises with crime problems", then yes, everywhere. Otherwise, no, not everywhere, and yes, in a suburban location a chance of a shooting happening under your very office window is
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by smsm42 2y ago
You can't seriously bring 2009 as a proof the situation now is the same. In Internet terms, it's like arguing current politics with examples of the time of Charlemagne.
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by smsm42 2y ago
They don't have a better product, not for a long time, but they do have a famous product, with which most of the people are familiar with, unlike the competitors. They have been matched and over-matched long ago, but since virtually no
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YouTube's war on ad blockers continues, now making ads unskippable(mashable.com)
8 points by smsm42 2y ago|1 comments
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by smsm42 2y ago
Taking into account only the federal income tax brackets, this is true. But tax cliffs exist, e.g. see: https://smartasset.com/financial-advisor/tax-cliff so accounting for all taxes and other factors, there could be a
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by smsm42 2y ago
> people are just correctly pointing out Rust would have helped this bug So would a unit test or a fuzzer. But it's obvious this does not solve the actual problem, only a particular instance of it. It should be as obvious that menti
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by smsm42 2y ago
I remember that too, it was never said explicitly but heavily implied like "he'll return things to normal and then pass the torch to the younger generation" and such comments. I remember being slightly surprised by it because
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by smsm42 2y ago
> combination of said bad binary data and a poorly-written parser that didn't error out correctly upon reading invalid data By now, if you write any parser that deals with any outside data and don't fuzz the heck out of it, you
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by smsm42 2y ago
> this is not the fault of Microsoft, Windows, etc. Partially, it is. The expected lifetime of unprotected Windows machine connected to the Internet is in minutes, and I think there's some fault of Microsoft and Windows in that. And
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by smsm42 2y ago
Yes, but if they used an up-to-date version, they'd probably be using Crowdstrike by now, because everybody else did.
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Windows 3.1 saves Southwest Airlines during CrowdStrike outage(tomshardware.com)
26 points by smsm42 2y ago|30 comments
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by smsm42 2y ago
They've been called that way before they made Jun 19 the International Bluescreen Day.
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by smsm42 2y ago
> The update proved incompatible with the latest stable version of Debian, despite the specific Linux configuration being supposedly supported. > The analysis revealed that the Debian Linux configuration was not included in their test
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by smsm42 2y ago
Turned out unicorn farts are not a good source of energy, nuclear energy is a good source but is scary because scary, and the rest is way too hard (and slow) to scale to the energy levels we need. Yes, I know some tiny country managed to pr
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by smsm42 2y ago
> Literally anyone can just spin up a competing service. I don't think it's true, except in a very reductive meaning of "there's no legal or physical barrier to somebody making a competing service", which is true
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by smsm42 2y ago
Kinda both I think, with an addition of principal agent problem. If you found a formula that provides the client with an acceptable CYA picture it is very scalable. And the model of "IT person knowledgeable in both security, modern thr
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by smsm42 2y ago
I have mixed feelings here. On one hand, I am kinda glad marketing companies got targeted, because they deserve some taste of their own medicine. On the other hand, if being creepy is what it takes to get a job here, it's that literall
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by smsm42 2y ago
Behave better like make Puerto Rico not suffer from the bad weather events? How do you see that happening? Or make their local government (or for that matter, the federal government) less corrupt and incompetent, so they could better prepar
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by smsm42 2y ago
> it is axiomatic that the government cannot do indirectly what it is prohibited from doing directly Turns out SCOTUS decided it isn't, and the government is free to do exactly that as long as they are using the services of an inter
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by smsm42 2y ago
Just yesterday listened to a lecture by Moshe Vardi which covers adjacent topics: https://simons.berkeley.edu/events/lessons-texas-covid-19-73...
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by smsm42 2y ago
The problem here would be that there's not enough people who can provide the level of protection a third-party vendor claims to provide, and a person (or persons) with comparable level of expertise would be much more expensive likely.

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