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by srockets 2y ago
s/abuse of power/imbalance in power/
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by srockets 2y ago
It bears repeating that Tesla isn't in the same category: their main value is in their stock price, not stamped metal and batteries, or even the knowledge in assembling those into vehicles.
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by srockets 2y ago
I'm afraid that if your threat model includes the five eyes, then you shouldn't be on the internet. A more reasonable and defendable threat model is the more common threats of identity fraud or common phone and credit scams. For s
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by srockets 2y ago
I trust AWS' infosec organization with all my private data much more than I trust the GHCQ.
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by srockets 2y ago
This is a very well known policy for Walmart, and a constant pain for AWS (other companies have similar policies towards GCP/Google). AWS emphasizes that they're not just a vendor, but a partner: your growth contributes to their g
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by srockets 2y ago
There's quite a chasm between trying (and failing, but I digress) to increase diversity of the workforce and those imaginary quotas.
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by srockets 4y ago
It's as if for-profit health isn't really useful for quality of treatment.
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by srockets 4y ago
Note that Amazon themselves only register com and org directly: for most other TLDs they resell Gandi.net or other registars.
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by srockets 6y ago
No, for that you'll have to move to the Caymans.
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by srockets 6y ago
It is an Atiyah moment in the our response to this: both men earned the right to have those publications silently ignored, not being made into an attraction.
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by srockets 6y ago
Having European data subjects is enough ground to ask them to abide by the GDPR. But assume they won't, then you'll have to go to a European court, which could rule whatever, but it can't do much to a company that has no mon
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by srockets 6y ago
The only answer for backups is Tarsnap.
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by srockets 6y ago
It’d be fun once they’ll have EU presence.
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by srockets 6y ago
A friend used to work for a call center handling AOL cancelations. They had a goal of keeping 85% of the callers subscribed.
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by srockets 6y ago
Poe's law?
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by srockets 6y ago
A model of farming is capturing the sun's energy in the grown produce. This is why farming takes so much land: to get more of the sun. Growing in warehouses or vertically forces you to substitute the sun with artificial lights: even i
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by srockets 6y ago
I would like to think there are other definitions for a successful business than it being a single vendor.
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by srockets 6y ago
> They don't really out-compete, they just use their existing vendor lock-in to gain an advantage. For the customer, the biggest advantage of AWS' SaaS offerings over a 3rd party's (hosted on AWS) is the billing. AWS Marke
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by srockets 6y ago
Don't minimize the current threat by thinking it isn't as dangerous.
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by srockets 6y ago
You can't offset human lives as if they were carbon emissions.
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by srockets 6y ago
And yet they make a point to also take ICE's money as well.
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by srockets 6y ago
If they can, then either Facebook boldly lied about implementing end-to-end encryption[0], or found significant attack against the Signal protocol, which is considered quite safe. They do have access to the metadata, i.e. whom you messaged
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by srockets 6y ago
Unlike commodities, there is no upper bound on the utility of health: people would pay as much as they can afford to have their health. Hence there's no rational (as we define the term in economic theories) reason to aim for lower pric
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by srockets 6y ago
Most US work visas are limited to a single specific employer. Some can be transferred to another employer, once that employer extends an offer - but this transfer has costs in processing time & fees. In other words, some visa holders i
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by srockets 6y ago
AWS Route 53 is a Gandi reseller for most TLDs. As far as I can tell[0], only .com, .net and .org are registered directly with Amazon. -- [0] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22The+registrar+for+this+TL...
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by srockets 6y ago
“Only domains Active at Cloudflare via a Full setup (Cloudflare hosts the authoritative DNS) are eligible for Cloudflare Registrar”[0] -- [0] https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/36001991067...
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by srockets 6y ago
I don't think good hygiene is achievable in practice – some phishing websites are extremely deceiving. I wouldn't bet on myself, a technically capable professional, being able to distinguish some of them, especially in a planned a
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by srockets 6y ago
I don't think the motivation behind Go's and C's austerity is the same for both language, so I wouldn't lump them together in the same argument.
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by srockets 6y ago
Like the OP approved subset of C++, the design of Go is anachronistic on purpose, and makes a point to ignore most of what we have learned about programming language design since the 1990s. Go goes further and puts the blame on its users, w
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by srockets 6y ago
I can’t be the only one to misread the title as “Broadwell”, and scratching my head extra hard at the reverse timeline (Broadwell was an Intel design produced from ~2014-2108)

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