themartorana

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by themartorana 10y ago
"It's impossible to get rid of strong encryption..." Isn't this the fear, though? Once backdoored, it's not strong. Once codified into law, strong encryption is gotten rid of for law-abiding citizens
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by themartorana 10y ago
What's most frustrating is that every person that pushes for further intrusions and further dismantling of privacy and liberty hold themselves exempt for any number of reasons. I'd also like to know where they draw the line? What&
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by themartorana 10y ago
The pull back from DDT has had all kinds of devastating effects. For instance, bedbugs are an actual fear now, for the first time in ages. But there has been outrage about the effects of wealthy nations that drew the benefits of DDT before
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by themartorana 10y ago
Even in an iOS fashion, in the way backgrounded apps work. I don't need tabs consuming memory in the background, and if I did I could white list it as able to run in the background.
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by themartorana 10y ago
The end game of government is all dark-room. Bills are written in secret by lobbying groups, treaties are negotiated and signed in secret, the TSA can arrest people through secret laws, more and more government lawsuits are in secret, we ca
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by themartorana 10y ago
All contraception is very effective if used properly. Condoms have a generally 82% effectiveness [0] when improper use is figured in (98% if used perfectly). But hey, the pill is also only 91% effective when improper use is taken into accou
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by themartorana 10y ago
Actually, not if you're a government. The last time they didn't follow the letter of the law, we started torturing people again because we were really hungry. Most of our laws that exist at extremes (no torture, Geneva Conventio
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by themartorana 10y ago
It surprises me just how quickly the major world governments all started violating sovereign laws and spying on/surveilling their own citizens. Effectively, everyone is now monitored all the time by their own governments bereft of
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by themartorana 10y ago
Me too!
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by themartorana 10y ago
It's not a bad question. For me, imprisoning somebody should be a last resort and something we strive to avoid at all costs. In that light, does then taking advantage of someone in a (literal) captive situation, with no recourse for be
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by themartorana 10y ago
WebForms changed the game. ASP was a sub-subset of VB, but WebForms with C# made websites full-scale eventful and stateful programs for the first time. I had never felt such power and freedom programming for the web. Yes, some people would
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by themartorana 10y ago
Guilt is the fuel for the machine. Without it, we might be so much happier as an economy, and no one wants that. https://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/202207935/Alan-Watts-Money...
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by themartorana 10y ago
"ALEC has proven expertly capable of devising endless ways to help private corporations benefit from the country’s massive prison population." Gross. "That mass incarceration would create a huge captive workforce was antic
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by themartorana 10y ago
The original Ruby on Rails videos that used TextMate won thousands of programmers to OS X for that pretty.
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by themartorana 10y ago
I am such a mechanical clock/watch geek (WIS) and this is truly spectacular.
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by themartorana 10y ago
$9.4B revenue, $18.9M in CEO salary, $830M in operating income last year. So tired of the threat of killing the incentive to innovate.
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by themartorana 10y ago
"At the time it was granted, the award was potentially worth as much as $82 million overall to the company’s top five executives. But it would be worthless if the company—whose star product is the EpiPen—fails to achieve at least 90%
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by themartorana 10y ago
Are dam projects ever a good idea? I'm not being flip or sarcastic. When I think of dams, I think of catastrophic failure which almost always ends in thousands of deaths. I think of how quickly untended dams will fail. I think of what
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by themartorana 10y ago
Two years ago and a day, I could read this and understand the gravity. Two years ago my daughter was born, and now I can't read this, or see commercials from CHOP, or anything else similar without my eyes filling with tears. I don&#x27
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by themartorana 10y ago
While you were off murdering people you weren't really a threat to the US Government. The second you proved you could break into hardened computer systems, you became a direct threat to the US Government.
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by themartorana 10y ago
These buys aren't straight revenue buys. For Google, it would be buying an enormous database of personal information, and only Google could tell you if that would be valuable to them or not.
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by themartorana 10y ago
Anyone that knows anything about the Apple App Store knows this piece is a little uninformed. 1. The two apps were probably reviewed by different people, and approvals from Apple have always been all over the place depending on the reviewer
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by themartorana 10y ago
It's unfortunately true that you need to get them to accept a slightly stunted quality of life. But expecting him/her/them to do that without leading by example and also making sacrifices is the highest order of duchebaggery.
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by themartorana 10y ago
Not that it matters now, but I appreciate you doing that in the face of indifference or outright criticism. If it were me or my family in need, you stepping up would be huge.
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by themartorana 10y ago
It's heartening when your security software takes the easy way out. Of anything.
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by themartorana 10y ago
Yeah this is the thing. Especially for projects built in off-time, this feels like people expressing "I code for others for money, but this I gave up my time for because it makes me happy." It's pride in work. Nothing wrong w
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by themartorana 10y ago
I put it up on our blog, but many S3 deployment SaaS operations or even self-hosted solutions will invalidate CDN caches automatically based on files deployed to S3. We use http://deploybot.com but there are many others.
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by themartorana 10y ago
You mean amazing, super-scaled CDN Cloudfront with support for free SSL certificates, S3 bucket origins, API-based invalidations with S3 deployments, and so many more features than I can mention here? I'm sure you meant that. Edit: we
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by themartorana 10y ago
Is your opinion of exaggeration one that comes from being a farmer? Because I know a few farmers, and the fear is real.
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by themartorana 10y ago
From the New Oxford dictionary, "A person who informs on a person or organization engaged in an illicit activity." So yes, he is in fact the textbook definition of a whistleblower.

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