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7y ago
That immigration is a positive for America. Are you seriously asking?
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> But do you suspect the methodology, the results, or the conclusion were "faked" or inaccurate? Yes. As other commentators have noted, the methodology is terrible (counting a single immigrant cofounder as a "company found
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> X-frame-options is obsolete. Most browsers complain loudly on the console or ignore the header. The deny option seems to work just fine. My default browser (Firefox) doesn't complain. MDN doesn't indicate any browsers have dr
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Referrer-Policy is nice, but browsers should just default to strict-origin-when-cross-origin and end the mess.
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7y ago
Let's get Congress to do it - fix the collective action problem. Pass a law that says that all American companies are forbidden from serving traffic to countries which require their citizens to install compromised roots on their person
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7y ago
What does MapReduce have to do with the rest of your post? MapReduce is used in distributed computing - I thought shooters were basically always single servers to keep the lag reasonable. (I see two flagged posts asking the same question)
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7y ago
> It provides no perceivable security benefit to me (and if someone did hijack my email account, then they know my address anyway). I think you're over focused on targeted attacks. Consider: some company gets hacked. Hackers take th
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7y ago
I'm not sure this is necessary anymore now that Google added DNS over TLS ("Private DNS") in Android 9. Just choose a DNS server with your preferred blacklist built in and configure it with native Android. Much better perf th
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? Care to explain?
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Certainly. And for men vs women, old vs young, and others.
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7y ago
> If the major company needed to fire 20k people and was legally unable to do so due to grandfathered in formerly-government-employees then they should have raised this, brought it up with the government, made it a national conversation,
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7y ago
France has a suicide rate of 12.1 per 100k (WHO 2016). With 130,000 employees, we'd expect 15.73 suicides per year without harassment. The number of years is unclear - the article mentions privatization in 2003, massive debt by 2005, a
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In the example I choose (#2) most compilers totally specify the behavior. And the question was (right from the article) "what the return value would be?" In order for a function to return, it must be run. In order for a function t
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I'm well aware of what undefined behavior is. I still know it's undefined behavior and can read my compiler manual to answer the question of how the code behaves. "I don't know" is simply wrong.
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No, it isn't. The correct answer to #2 is "According to the standard, the result is implementation defined, but on my target platform, 0". "I don't know" is the wrong answer.
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7y ago
Actually, free speech is an ethical concept, not a legal concept. The first amendment is a legal concept. Free speech means means enabling the free exchange of ideas. Free speeches as a concept applies to private platforms and organization
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7y ago
The TPM menu - if the legacy UX is still around, I can't find it on the latest Win10. Looking through the deprecation notes, it looks like some language settings were de-duped in a 10 update https://docs.microsoft.com/e
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> Duplicate menus for the same thing adds an extra mental burden. I think you'd see that Microsoft gets this. Win8 was all dupes. Initial Win10 release removed most of the dupes and they've removed more with each Win10 release.
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The article describes the missing security features. Did you read it? The lack of nonce makes replay protection impossible. The lack of c_hash opens up vulnerabilities in connect flows where the service incorrectly assumes the two tokens re
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7y ago
> Some sort of botched code rewrite where values doesn't retain their meanings? Yes, exactly. It's supposed to catch the rewrite where somebody turns (a * 100) / b > 95 into (a / b) * 100 > 95 and suddenly, the
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I dunno. It's also pretty weird to borrow 95% of a spec, miss out on a half dozen important security features, not acknowledge the relationship between your work and the spec, and not contribute back to the community that funded the sp
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Title: Google warns its employees that Pride protests are against the company’s CoC Actual content: Google employees who wish to attend Pride and simultaneously protest recent decisions made by Google (YouTube) must not walk with the Google
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> It’s no different than a restaurant server delivering shitty service to a black family because they stereotyped that people with kids and black people tip less. Come on now. Stereotyping is an affirmative action, failing to consider ac
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Or we'd see a bump in automation and a reduction in the number of jobs available. When you raise the price of something (labor), corporations will reduce their consumption of it.
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> narrow view I'm not sure a personal attack like this is appropriate. Your anecdote is no more valuable a data point than parents. My own (anecdote) mirrors OP - front page stories from major American publications like the WaPo and
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This article is a study in the death of old news. It leads the reader towards a simple clickbaity conclusion "Sinclair bad, meteorologists good" but it doesn't come close to providing enough information to the reader or show
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> last-century technology I imagine you don't like Polo much either, but I still find this to be a bit of an odd critique - some sporting events go back thousands of years. In my experience, the intersection of sports and modern tec
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OpenID Connect implementations use iframes for logout, because that's what the spec says. Iframes are a third party context. The big Identity companies (Ping, Oracle, Microsoft) wrote the OpenID Connect spec. Google may be the odd man
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Basically all cloud authentication services. Try signing into a bunch of apps and then signing out - with third party cookies disabled, you'll find you're still signed in to most of the apps, because the browser refused the (third
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The whole point of open source is that anybody can read, modify, and run the code. If you remove "anybody", it's just another proprietary license.
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