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by vageli 7y ago
This is one for the new york times [0]. [0]: https://mobile.twitter.com/nyt_diff
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by vageli 7y ago
My apologies, I had hoped to communicate that my comment was specifically about implementation details.
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> How about we just use different domains? > .org is gone, use .com or .net or any of the other hundred of domains. What about all the broken MX records?
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> The iPhone is a PDA is a toaster. Splitting the software from the hardware is like splitting the coils from the chrome. The consumer just wants perfectly consistently browned toast, while not dying from electrical shock or setting her
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I am aware of the principle. But why would the TOTP seed be encrypted by multiple parties versus a system requiring k of n users to respond with a TOTP response or something else?
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Often times people add comments in-line with things to prevent the comment from becoming stale should the referent change (because the inlining encourages modifying the comment if the referent is modified), whereas it may be hard to determi
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> Are there any tools out there where the TOTP seed is encrypted and multiple parties (X person key system) are requested to auth to grant access? Do you have an example of such a system? I would be curious to read about the motivating u
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by vageli 7y ago
Imagine if we applied the same mentality to the law.
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> and would make it easy for people to download damaging apps which Apple would then get blamed for because they added an official channel for installing them. Do Android users blame Google or the phone manufacturer when they download a
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> Having jars only work with specific oracle JVM versions is not at all unusual. I think that underscores the point? That even legitimate JVM versions were not substitutable for each other.
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by vageli 7y ago
This is likely a reference to the Epimenides paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimenides_paradox
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> Porn is legal if everybody involved is above age and gives consent and is capable of giving consent at the time and that consent is properly recorded and the resulting content is not judged criminally "obscene" by some judge
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by vageli 7y ago
> I think baddox's comment does not necessarily imply all humans in the world. I interpreted it as all humans in a given jurisdiction. Ah I had not thought of it in this way but that makes sense. I can't disagree that all peopl
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> It uses more real estate than a pure switch, but requires no open holes through the case. This is at odds with the (apparent) consumer preference of smaller everything.
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I have no horse in this race, but switches are constantly manipulated physically, and can see more abuse and stress because of that.
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Many apps seem to fail (rather, they insist you regrant the lost perms) if you manually remove the permissions, does this also happen with Bouncer?
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> I don’t think it’s silly to suggest that maybe all humans should have the same protections against their rights being violated. Don't different countries have different views of rights? What happens when those rights are at odds?
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> Queues introduce entire other dimensions of complexity. Now you've got to monitor your queue size (and ideally autoscale when the queue backlog grows), and have a dead letter queue for messages that failed processing and monitor t
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> I cannot make a choice that's truly my own when confined in a system and without my choice being effected by the system. More simply put everything is predetermined. To follow this line of thinking—is not then sentencing predeterm
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> Custom furniture is art, not engineering. Out of curiosity, could you expand on this? Is it because of the scale or something else?
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> Your description here is what I would characterize as an accurate description of how most laws "just growed" in most communities. > That is, at least up until the time that the special interests got involved. Then they mad
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by vageli 7y ago
The original point was around genetic testing services. [0] As an example, take 23andme. I know that they take pains to use language that would disabuse a reader of the notion that they were providing medical advice. [1] It seems that 23and
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by vageli 7y ago
Entities that bill insurance. Here's some pretty plain language about it: https://personcenteredtech.com/2013/05/16/am-i-a-hipaa-cover... Like I said, most people are very surprised to learn this fact.
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I actually am on the compliance team of a HIPPA covered entity, and your link does not disprove my point. > Most Health Care Providers—those that conduct certain business electronically, such as electronically billing your health insuran
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> Many systems don't actually delete data; they set a "deleted" flag that often causes the system to behave as if it did from the customer's point of view, but the data stays in the database for perpetuity. > That
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> These organization often sell genetic screening services, and I don't see how that is not providing medical services. HIPPA only matters if the organization deals in medical insurance. Most people are surprised to learn this fact.
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> That's an anti-feature from a legal discovery perspective. Unless everyone is extremely conscientious about every word, you have 15 years' worth of chat logs and emails with offhand comments, jokes, etc. All of which can be t
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> Weird that this is being downvoted. What is the US government going to do, create a China-style great firewall? Even the (right-) wingnuts would be sharpening their pitchforks. So, if I want access to EU market I can avoid GDPR and oth
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> I am a childless tin-foil hatter so I am asking out of ignorant curiosity- is there any way to avoid tracking on your child? Does refusing to agree to Google/Gaggles/MS/Etc's ToS, EULA or Privacy policy mean the pub
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> How is this legal? I'm not doubting the school's intentions but this is a massive breach of privacy, a sort of dystopic 1984 scenario. You might also be surprised to know that your employer can also log everything you do with

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