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by vageli 5y ago
Sending a single request to a website is not illegal. Hammering a website with thousands of requests per second with the intent of taking it down or making it inaccessible is. I agree it's not cut and dry but intent matters to some ext
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by vageli 5y ago
I don't see how the thing being overwhelmed matters for determining if a DDOS took place. For instance, I think many people would characterize the Church of Scientology's attack on the IRS [0] as a denial of service of sorts. [0]:
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by vageli 5y ago
Something written on a pipe would be an easter egg, likely tolerated.
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by vageli 5y ago
Signal runs without issue on my M1 Macbook Air.
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by vageli 5y ago
> So you can in any moment "be totally free" in virtually any society as long as concerns for freedom in future moments are irrelevant to you Okay so I am in prison. Am I still totally free in that moment?
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by vageli 5y ago
And if you are arrested after making one of these illegal choices, are you still free?
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by vageli 5y ago
> What % of energy used in bitcoin mining is from coal or other fossil fuels? > What's the delta amount of fossil fuels burned compared to bitcoin not existing? How does that compare to other ways of sending money digitally? How
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by vageli 5y ago
Your joke is someone's dream.
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by vageli 5y ago
Reminds me of the time when Berkeley deleted their online content. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/03/06/u-california-...
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by vageli 5y ago
As long as the content is presented to a human for consumption, I think it will be possible to duplicate it, even if it is just recording the screen with a camera or something. Even "unpublished" works can be recreated by those wi
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by vageli 5y ago
Eh, that book was riddled with spelling errors and could have been a blog post, in my opinion.
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by vageli 5y ago
A type of shared killfile might work, kind of like how some people or groups of people curate the lists of ad domains in ad blockers.
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by vageli 5y ago
This is solvable by just clicking on the link they send to the contact of record.
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by vageli 5y ago
Why do we keep our ballots private when casting votes? I thought it was to remain free of coercion in the voting process.
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by vageli 5y ago
> However, if companies have working hours, why couldn't websites? What a funny thought. You may be surprised to hear that some websites _do_! I was trying to search for the page but can't find it at the moment, but I've e
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by vageli 5y ago
This article [0] states the contrary: the recording _can_ be used as evidence in a criminal trial, but it seems the actual act of recording it is still criminal as a separate matter. > Posted: Dec 5, 2019 / 05:44 PM PST / Updat
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by vageli 5y ago
> Cannot prove it unless the victim was in a state that allows one party consent audio recording and was recording audio. Although Florida is the only southern state that requires all party consent for recording audio, and I presume the
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by vageli 5y ago
Tangential but I really love the look of your site, especially the footnotes displayed adjacent to the text. Did you create the layout yourself? I have been looking for a theme like this for a paper discussion website.
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by vageli 5y ago
> It is more about having a slightly more sophisticated and realistic view of the world than a binary "they are good/bad" That was not my take on treeman's comment. They didn't say distrust everyone, but that mot
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by vageli 5y ago
> Too little too late for that. > Invoking Godwins law, cause it seems apropos: > "As we say in Germany, if there's a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis"
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by vageli 5y ago
In those situations you get a third-party in for forensics, you don't typically ask the people who breached how large the breach is (why would you take them at their word anyway? aren't they incentivized to downplay, etc).
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by vageli 5y ago
> So the price of BTC on Binance goes to the moon, and the price on CME collapses. How long could this arbitrage oppportunity exist? It doesn't sound all that reasonable, in my opinion.
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by vageli 5y ago
> i vividly recall multiple times where my connection had cut out during "terraform apply" The issue could be at least partially resolved by using automation (like atlantis for example) to apply your plans.
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by vageli 5y ago
They don't have the right to my attention. If they were to cancel my service due to lack of payment (for example), do you think they would engage me in a dialogue to discuss it or just send me a notice in the mail?
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by vageli 5y ago
> If they buy up the bank charter, doesn't that mean the whole company then becomes regulated like a bank charter? Wouldn't it make more sense to just continue using their services? It likely would remain its own entity, simila
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Capital Gains Tax Rate Set at 25% in House Democrats’ Plan(bloomberg.com)
29 points by vageli 5y ago|40 comments
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by vageli 5y ago
I would personally quit out of principle if an employer asked, let alone demanded, to see an offer I received from another company.
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by vageli 5y ago
It seems akin to a petty gatekeeper in a large organization—encroachment on a domain under their control is viewed as an existential threat.
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by vageli 5y ago
Paribus used to do this. There's earny as well and I'm sure many others at this point.
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by vageli 5y ago
> Does anyone know the specific reason banks find the adult industry risky? Likely higher instances of "friendly fraud", and chargebacks.

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