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541.
by strbean 6y ago
Correlation more often is the result of causation than it is of "handy wavy arguments about human nature".
542.
by strbean 6y ago
> Unless you're implying a set of companies are all in league with each other to reduce churn/competition for talent They have been caught doing so in the past. [0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-T
543.
by strbean 6y ago
> “They need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots,” Trump said in an interview with Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo. “If they don’t get those two items, that means y
544.
by strbean 6y ago
If only there were some way for people and institutions to learn from the experience of others... What a specious argument.
545.
by strbean 6y ago
https://www.archives.gov/research/vital-records
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by strbean 6y ago
> Hedge funds aren't run like they were in the early 2000s. It appears that they changed how they were run the instant Trump was elected. Funny how that works!
547.
by strbean 6y ago
Looking at the chart in the article, CLEARLY one of those factors made a massive shift right when Trump got elected! Suddenly everyone realized it was bad and they shouldn't do it.
548.
by strbean 6y ago
In the US we have such a lame standard of anti-trust. For example, you could have two businesses with 100% market share in an industry, and have a contract between the two stating "we will not provide benefits, or salaries exceeding $X
549.
by strbean 6y ago
That presumes a small number of options. They could just support a large number of processors and we're all good.
550.
by strbean 6y ago
Cool. That doesn't in any way counter the arguments you replied to regarding asking kids for credit card info.
551.
by strbean 6y ago
Curious about your axe to grind with SCTP. Is it just that you feel the features of SCTP would be better implemented a la carte by applications? Are there other issues? I haven't really used the protocol, the extent of my knowledge was
552.
by strbean 6y ago
In Latvia, we say "on average, all have no potato." Then we are sad.
553.
by strbean 6y ago
But we didn't have any option to use UDP from the web stack prior to Data Channels. I guess worries about security trump "make the web stack do everything" though.
554.
by strbean 6y ago
Having an unreliable transport option is essentially for real time networked multiplayer games. But really, why the hell did it have to take almost a decade to get data channels, when you could jump through a bunch of hoops and essentially
555.
by strbean 6y ago
I don't see it. All the spinoffs will presumably still use federated Google sign-ins. They can simply contract with the Ads spinoff to share user data.
556.
by strbean 6y ago
Monads are just monoids in the category of endofunctors! /s The issue is pretty much a language barrier. All these articles talking about benefits of / interesting ways to use monads are written by people who speak the language, a
557.
by strbean 6y ago
That still involves heating though, right?
558.
by strbean 6y ago
They'll just unplug the mouse and plug in the drive to see what happens!
559.
by strbean 6y ago
Interesting. I know for a long time "HIPAA reasons" was another justification, which is just downright crazy.
560.
by strbean 6y ago
It shifts and distributes the burden of trust. There are mountains of scenarios where we shift from "we rely on trusting this one person / entity" to "we rely on trusting at least one of these N people / entitie
561.
by strbean 6y ago
"Sorry, we can't accept an email. You'll have to fax it to us. Why, you ask? Because security reasons..."
562.
by strbean 6y ago
So get a regular iPhone, disable the lock-screen timer, slap an app on it that mimics the unlock screen. No specialty hardware needed.
563.
by strbean 6y ago
The cascade is not inheritance. The cascade is deciding the order to apply rules/stylesheets in, and which rule applies here: html: <div><a>Blah</a></div> css: a { color: red; } div
564.
by strbean 6y ago
> it takes me 2 hours to try to get the code to compile in the first place And then the tests won't pass on master!
565.
by strbean 6y ago
One feeds into the other strongly, though. The odds of an adversary de-anonymizing you go up the more activity the adversary can see. Also, we should look at your anonymity on a per-site/session basis, and if de-anonymization on one si
566.
by strbean 6y ago
I don't understand this bit: > But there's a third issue: websites can easily determine whether you have allowed JavaScript for them, and if you disable JavaScript by default but then allow a few websites to run scripts (the wa
567.
by strbean 6y ago
People with tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars are buying iPhones from random third parties?
568.
by strbean 6y ago
Part of the point of security research is that practically 0% of consumers are capable of doing this research themselves and making informed purchasing decisions. Security researchers hold businesses accountable when consumers can't. I
569.
by strbean 6y ago
> Silicone Valley mostly provides the last 5% Typo? Or are we finally acknowledging the contributions of the porn industry? :)
570.
by strbean 6y ago
Sounds like they are talking about Re -- effective reproduction rate -- right?

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