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by will4274 5y ago
> This is the first time I've ever heard of the WaPo being aligned with the US military industrial complex Did you not hear about the US 2003 invasion of Iraq? WaPo news stories in the lead up were certainly aligned with the US mili
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by will4274 5y ago
It requires an incredible amount of arrogance to say how somebody else should identify.
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These articles are uniformly terrible. They all and this one complain about stateless authentication systems and describe stateful systems as better. Probably, at small scale. Choose stateless systems for greater scale and reliability when
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You said it. One example I find somewhat relevant is the Boston bombers. They were young people in America, with little connection to their local Muslim community. But, like many young people, they were obsessed with identity. They joked ab
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You know.. I call people their nicknames and preferred pronouns. But... I have a name like David Goldsmith - common first name, two common syllable last name. People call me Dave, David, Davy, Goldsmith, and this one Indian coworker of mine
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by will4274 5y ago
> JS code is more expressive than WASM, so if you’re aim is to minimize costs you still save bandwidth using JS over WASM. Dubious, given that WASM is bytecode, unlike JS. Do you have data to cite?
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by will4274 5y ago
Why did they apologize? I have to say, this smells political - if Excel and Sheets are just two pieces of software, then there's no reason to apologize for liking one more than the other. For somebody at the partner level to apologize
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by will4274 5y ago
As somebody directly involved in this space, that's a pretty bad summary. The spec for first party sets (not an RFC, just a draft) isn't in a great state. Google is going to implement it anyway, Microsoft is supporting, Apple basi
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> Conde Nast managed not to destroy Reddit after buying it. I would have said the exact opposite. The Reddit community was destroyed. People no longer recommend Reddit for interesting discussions or speak excitedly about its communities.
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I think the expression in this case is "getting water from a stone" - what's the point in suing somebody who doesn't have anything to give you anyway?
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> The Bill of Rights wasn't even part of the original constitution I see this claim frequently, but I still judge it as "mostly false." Multiple states refused to ratify the constitution without the bill of rights. Without
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by will4274 5y ago
Care to explain or just snark? As best I can tell, Brookings would not be eligible since the rule change in 2001 but was grandfathered in before this (domain goes back to 1996). It's not clear why they weren't purged with the othe
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by will4274 5y ago
It's disappointing to me that you and your social circle weren't educated in your own country's government and history. Can I ask which underfunded school district you attended? In most American schools, for "social stud
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> Consensus minus one, on the other hand, is another way of saying 'Impossible'. No it isn't. Some 30% of decisions are made unanimously in scotus, and this is hardly an outlier. Requiring unanimous consent makes things wa
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Does Facebook actually need to inflict the distress or just be complicit? Cause I have little doubt that "conduct that is heinous and beyond the standards of civilized decency or utterly intolerable in a civilized society" takes p
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by will4274 5y ago
Meh. I find "accessibility is the trump card" arguments as blase as "security is the trump card" arguments - such arguments reflect badly on their speakers - all is tradeoffs. In the linked case, I'd argue that spec
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by will4274 5y ago
In the Play Store. Kinda a key detail. You can still sign your own packages on alternate stores or from your website.
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Many Taiwanese would tell you, it was for the reason you say, back in 1949, but today, it is for the reason I said.
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> Fracking is immensely damaging to the ecosystem. Not really. Energy is a dirty business, and also one filled with politics and propoganda. Fracking, much like nuclear, was targeted mostly for political, not technical reasons. It's
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> After all there is reason why it is called "Republic of China". Surely one of those reasons is that if they changed the name, the "People's Republic of China" would invade?
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Is Senator Leahy a Republican?
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Alan Woodward seems to be the BBC's go-to person for scare quotes about the internet. In your article: > "It's shocking," says Alan Woodward, a security expert based at the University of Surrey. "This is the Balk
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by will4274 5y ago
The cancel issue you described is no longer present in the current version of win10. The unfortunate fact is nobody except us geeks uses Yubikeys. 99% of users prefer platform keys. So it's not hard to understand why software defaults
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by will4274 5y ago
Some of these authenticator apps store their state in your phones TPM (or "secure enclave") already. All you're really saying is you want them to ship the authenticator apps to desktop platforms as well as mobile..
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What don't you like about the Win10 + Edge implementation?
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Apple, Google, and Microsoft all support FIDO in their OSes and browsers.
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Your phone's passcode is something you know.
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Yes, and everybody attends college in state. Look, I understand most hacker news readers do banking online, but the notion that banks are limited to a single state requires either that people rarely go out of state or never need to go to a
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> Until 1995, US banks couldn't operate in more than one state. I can't think of a worse example of regulation. People obviously want to be able to access their money when they travel 30 minutes away. Your example undermines yo
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by will4274 5y ago
And this is what Apple already does, e.g. with federated identity - you must offer AppleID, you can offer others as well. A scheme like this enables iOS users without being anti competitive.

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