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by wepple 5y ago
Everyone commenting that this isn’t wrong/illegal/bad. But it sure is a sign that an organization no longer believes they can sufficiently innovate. Is this inevitable?
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Language-Agnostic Code Review(flawed.net.nz)
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by wepple 5y ago
So you fundamentally agree that if we have social consensus, it’s totally OK to prevent the spread of ideas or messages (“speech”) as we have done with cigarettes? That was my entire question, to the folks who argue that there is never ever
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by wepple 5y ago
Your first argument is essentially that if the general public believe an organization to be bad, they can remove their support for that organization. Why is YouTube any different? People can and do go to other platforms. You’re differentiat
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by wepple 5y ago
This is really interesting, and I’d like to read the paper - do you have a link? EDIT: here: https://www.poverty-action.org/publication/impact-community-... That summary is really hard to draw conclusions from; “Howeve
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by wepple 5y ago
The examples you’ve provided are very complex multi-dimensional topics. The idea of harmfulness is indeed a spectrum, and my example is at one extreme end of the spectrum in order to illustrate that “content moderation should never ever occ
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by wepple 5y ago
There are folks out there that believe some level of content moderation is useful, and I’d like to understand their argument. If my conclusion is that it’s not robust, so be it. But let’s run a thought experiment. Let’s say an idea shows up
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by wepple 5y ago
Can anyone recommend a good book on the balance between free speech versus disallowing harmful ideas to propagate? Or even one book from each side of the argument? I don’t think I’ve even begun to comprehend a robust position on what might
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by wepple 5y ago
> But the plane is taking that trip with or without you. Really? You think airlines will fly half-empty planes long term?
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by wepple 5y ago
> But if Facebook was running our diets, their algorithm would long since have "optimized" its way to junk food for all of us. I really, really like this comparison. If we fed our bodies in the same way we let tech company algo
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by wepple 5y ago
Permethrin on your clothes ( not on your skin), and deet. But you’ll still get them if you’re outside, and should do daily tick checks anyway.
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by wepple 5y ago
Password hashing. Because you’re not storing clear text passwords, it can be tricky to upgrade later if you’ve chosen something bad like md5. You either have to force your entire user base to reset, or you do an over-time migration when peo
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by wepple 5y ago
Get your AuthZ design right early on, or you’ll forever be plagued with APIs that fail open or aren’t protected, and it’s so very hard to change later on. The best advice I’ve seen on this: https://research.nccgroup.com/2020
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by wepple 5y ago
Yeah. Here’s a 2016 write up when Pegasus (presumably a different deployment) was leaked and reversed: https://citizenlab.ca/2016/08/million-dollar-dissident-iphon...
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by wepple 5y ago
I respectfully disagree. If we can raise the cost from $100k per target to $10m per target, even SA will reduce the number and breadth of targets. They do have limited funds, and they want to see an ROI. At a lower cost, perhaps they’ll jus
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by wepple 5y ago
I didn’t say “real”, I said “real world value” Just because DeFI exists, doesn’t mean it solves a problem that anyone actually has in a way that is measurably better than our existing systems. I get that you’re passionate about this, but yo
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by wepple 5y ago
This type of comms internally is simply a respectful notification that you won’t see someone on campus or be able to book in-person meetings. Someone as high profile as Urs making this kind of move and not letting his team know would crea
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by wepple 5y ago
As a kiwi who hasn’t seen family in a couple of years (my daughter has never met any family member), quarantine is a possibility. Sure, nobody is about to have a vacation in NZ voluntarily, but that’s not what we’re discussing here, is it?
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by wepple 5y ago
Until someone unambiguously shows real-world (not a proof-of-concept) value of blockchain beyond crypto currencies, I’d be happy to never hear the word blockchain ever again. I don’t care what Mark Cuban thinks, I hardly know who he is beyo
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by wepple 5y ago
It’s not beside the point. MFA substantially raises the effort required of the attacker. Malware on a workstation with VPN access is a far higher bar than just being able to log directly in to a VPN with stolen/guessed creds.
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by wepple 5y ago
It’s a weakly supported clickbait article. A may survey of 1000 people reported that 39% would consider quitting if their work didn’t provide flexibility. I’m no statistician but the red flags are n=1000 and “would consider”. This is a hu
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by wepple 5y ago
> https://coderscat.com/ - some fun projects I wonder if they wished they’d hyphenated that domain
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by wepple 5y ago
You honestly think a cyber truck will come without OTA? Don’t Tesla use it across every single vehicle?
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by wepple 5y ago
> As a serial entrePAYneur I don’t follow > core foundational member of multiple payments companies If you’re building a payments company, your product is literally doing the payments yourself! > with each better than the last, So,
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by wepple 5y ago
I’m willing to bet SaaS ransomware will be up next. Imagine a user is tricked into adding a browser addon (common), and the malicious addon encrypts all the data in a salesforce, Dropbox, and online mail account
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by wepple 5y ago
You’re right, I got my wires somewhat crossed there; I was trying to describe fungible as a lack of inherent uniqueness. That was a poor example.
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by wepple 5y ago
I’ll add that whilst I’ve provided a somewhat technical definition, as to the logical reason someone would pay that amount of money: no idea whatsoever. I guess they’re hoping that these things retain and even increase in value. At some poi
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by wepple 5y ago
Digital data (IE an image) is fungible; it can be copied at near zero cost. NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) use the blockchain to “claim” ownership by being a single non-replicatable representation of that digital data. In reality, it’s value is
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by wepple 6y ago
What’s your budget & what are you protecting? Without that info, I think one of the only universal recommendations (whether you’re a trillion dollar FAANG or 2 person startup) is buy U2F keys for everyone* and enable them everywhere. Al
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by wepple 6y ago
This is wonderfully written, and really hit me in a way this topic hasn’t before.

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