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by will4274 6y ago
Hard disagree on principle. We have two types of court - criminal for locking people up, and civil for dealing with money. For locking people up, we require beyond a reasonable doubt. Better ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be c
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by will4274 6y ago
No, this has American politics inside out. Red states are typically shall issue and blue states are typically may issue. To the extent that it's about introducing discretion as an means to accomplish a specific policy objective by stea
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> It is also something you call disabled people when you want to be really insulting Is it? I know some folks will point to a dictionary, but we live in a post truth world. It's odd to me that I've seemingly encountered every o
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by will4274 6y ago
Won't they blame Dell/Toshiba, not Microsoft? In my experience, users think of the vendor as being entirely responsible for battery, even when the software may be using it inefficiently.
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You mean 32 bit Windows. 64 bit Windows only has one calling convention.
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Tomato tomato. The members of the inquisition called themselves the inquisition, so we call them the inquisition. Today's progressives call themselves progressives so we call them progressives.
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JWT/JWE/JOSE RFCs have some secure hybrid RSA schemes, with mature libraries. It's typically RSA-OAEP and an AES session key
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by will4274 6y ago
I'm on the nerd side too, but I was quite surprised. Sampling isn't the only source of error in election polling - people also change their minds. In this election, people decided who they were going to vote for historically early
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by will4274 6y ago
I don't think the bodies and the movement are the only factors. The camera zoom, cropping, and background music is also relevant. I find a zoomed crop slow-pan camera shot on an 11 year olds crotch in jeans pretty strange. After having
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by will4274 6y ago
> Historically, it was somewhat common for men to say to each other here "You must be smart and competent because you have a lot of karma on HN." Repeating parent... Do you have an example? Like a link.
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by will4274 6y ago
> the leader board of HN Fwiw, the [hacker news guidelines]( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ) ask that you avoid commenting on voting (like this one). > Please don't comment about the voting on co
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by will4274 6y ago
Should be a headline from The Onion - Famous satirist uses 'satire' in public; crowd (including Pxtl) unaware; takes him literally.
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FTA > In 2013, the Obama administration also proposed to delist gray wolves, saying that the species had rebounded to the point where they were no longer at risk of extinction and should be managed by state and tribal governments Do you
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I mean. The endless hearings about Clinton's emails? The endless hearing about Benghazi? Obamacare? The endless hearings about Trump and Russia and election interference? Going futher back - McCarthy and communism, Howard Hughes and a
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by will4274 6y ago
At best, it's hyperbole. It's certainly not "highly erroneous." The most useful websites, with the largest user bases, will also have the largest developer bases, and change the most frequently. That's just kinda ho
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You come off as responding in bad faith. The argument is not specific to YouTube; YouTube is just the example. You're reaching to find something that technically incorrect, even though the point is fairly clear. There's an obvious
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He clarified in his original post. He said: > they're too easily hijacked by partisan politics and often fail to have any meaningful impact. When somebody says "I think X because Y", please don't fire back with "
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by will4274 6y ago
You said: > If you had a genuine interest in an issue that you wanted to raise in public awareness or do something to combat it, the route of the conspiracy theorist is an awfully dumb way to do it. I said: > What is the right way to
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by will4274 6y ago
> I don’t need old white dudes yelling at me that I am living my life “wrong” I don't think the author of this article is white. Does that make you more receptive to his argument that folks who use their cell phones are living their
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> And? Is the claim made more meaningful by these specifics? Yes? It's a different claim. Somebody doing X and a culture where many people turn a blind eye to and enable X aren't the same thing. > People who regularly meet a
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by will4274 6y ago
Building particle accelerators is the status quo. I first looked up a list of upcoming accelerator projects on Wikipedia more than a decade ago. A proposal to continue the status quo is rarely novel. An argument against the status quo bring
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I see two issues with what you're saying. First, it's not just that some rich people are pedophiles. It's called a conspiracy theory for a reason - there's conspiring going on. The CEO of the Ritz knows that his hotels o
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by will4274 6y ago
I actually thought the comment you replied to made a good point, but I think I can explain it differently (with examples), which might make it easier to understand. I browsed some conspiracy sites back in the day, including 4chan and /
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by will4274 6y ago
> Guns are not banned in any country. Wikipedia indicates that a few countries (e.g. Laos) ban all private citizens from owning guns. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_of_gun_laws_by_nati...
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While that's true, it's irrelevant to my comment. PKCE is layered on top of the either of the two strategies I described and solves a totally different problem (untrustworthy user agents).
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The insight that people care about outrage is not particularly novel. You yourself care about outrage - it's the reason you left the comment you left. If I care about outrage, on the other hand... What? I'm like you and most other
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> I remember that OAuth forced the user to include client secret in app's binary. When extracted, everyone could impersonate the app. If you don't understand the problem then don't downvote This isn't correct. Native
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> using JSON is a step up from using form params Why? It seems to me that I'm either writing Json.Serialize(loginParams) or HttpForms.Serialize(loginParams). Both are human readable and weakly typed. From a developer perspective, th
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> MS accounts ask for a crapload of information. The only information you need to provide for a Microsoft Account is recovery email or phone, name, and birthday if you reside in a country with a law governing minors on the internet. What
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Phone, email, messenger, basically any collaboration software? My university assigned email addresses by initials - e.g. if you name was John Anderson Smith and you were the 167th person with the initials JAS, you'd be jas167@example.e

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