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by Programmatic 9y ago
Given Google's current track record for AOSP with bringing active development into Google Play and deprecating open source components, I am skeptical that it will be good for openness.
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by Programmatic 9y ago
I was thinking the opposite - the safe withdrawal rate accounts for a 3% inflation rate for your 7% safe investment figure, so your nest egg grows over time for the same equivalent $3,333 in perpetuity no matter the year. The $5,000 would g
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by Programmatic 9y ago
I think that actually increases your exposure, as a monthly snapshot will likely be as good as any other month's snapshot and just as damaging (or not) if it got out. If all providers sell your data, that means that purchasers of aggre
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by Programmatic 10y ago
I like seeing more awareness of this! It's always depressing to hear people say that they don't care or that it's not a big deal. There are various third party applications that will allow you to use Exchange protocols withou
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by Programmatic 10y ago
As someone unfamiliar with this, can you please elaborate? Would the host be fingerprinted on every subsequent usage of the authentication token, and using what methods?
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by Programmatic 10y ago
It would require more financial resources from each individual, reducing the number of people that could make it across. From a pure threat/security perspective it's a win.
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by Programmatic 10y ago
Per my other reply, the case he was dissenting about was not about being compelled to provide the combination for a lock. The dissent simply contained a supreme court judge's opinion regarding combination locks. If you can find actual
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by Programmatic 10y ago
I am well aware of what "dissent" means. Fortunately, this is a supreme court justice talking about a case that was not about a combination lock. Unless you can show something that says that you can be compelled to open a combinat
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by Programmatic 10y ago
The courts can compel you to turn over something that you have. Something that you know is protected by the fifth amendment, in particular for combination locks. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/487
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by Programmatic 10y ago
So, the final tally is asked for $11k, jury awarded $200k in compensation and $2.7 million in punitive damages. The trial judge reduced the final verdict to $640,000, and the parties settled for a confidential amount before an appeal was de
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by Programmatic 10y ago
Sorry, I was talking to the larger context: GP: you also have punitive fines - that's why that lady got $2M or so for the coffee burning her at McDonald's. OP: "crazy lady gets insane punitive windfall for being too stupid
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by Programmatic 10y ago
It's not just a PR effort. She asked for $11k for medical bills. They refused. """ After four hours of deliberation, the jury found for Liebeck. She was awarded $200,000 for compensatory damages, reduced by 20 percent
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by Programmatic 10y ago
People can and do engage with others more or less, so I don't think intro- or extroverted in that sense is fixed. But the understanding of introversion and extroversion these days tends to be more whether you gain or lose energy in gen
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by Programmatic 10y ago
It is despicable to me that citizens can be denied their right to access legal remedy by companies that won't deliver services to individuals without them agreeing to binding arbitration. Access to courts seems like it should be the co
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by Programmatic 10y ago
I think the fact that advertising persists in such widespread forms is pretty good proof of its efficacy. Study after study shows that even if you think you're immune from advertising you still gain a positive outlook on a brand just f
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by Programmatic 10y ago
But it's more than that. If it's illegal to spy, that means you can't disseminate the fruits of that spying far and wide. You need to resort to parallel construction and carefully safeguarding your sources. This allows a mass
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by Programmatic 10y ago
I don't believe the end justifies the means, nor do I believe that data will be as useful as meatspace intelligence. Terror will continue anyhow. The war on encryption and privacy persists despite the fact that terrorists haven't
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by Programmatic 10y ago
I'll admit that I was apparently ignorant on the topic and had a misunderstanding of the ideals of the alt-right. After reading for a while, I have come to a similar conclusion given the idea(l)s of NPI, Spencer, and so on. As with any
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by Programmatic 10y ago
In a venn diagram of neo-nazi's and alt-right, I'm sure there would be plenty of overlap, if not neo-nazi's being a subset of the alt-right. But to categorize the entirety of alt-right as neo-nazis is itself not useful, as yo
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by Programmatic 10y ago
A protocol to have the site sign a certificate provided by the browser on signup/authentication would be nice. A UI to allow signing of pending certificate signing requests would allow you to authorize additional devices on demand, or
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by Programmatic 10y ago
Doesn't that yield a whole class of problems though that we're trying to solve with obtuse solutions such as "let's make that character set in red so people don't get phished"? How is that any more internationa
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by Programmatic 10y ago
I'm not sure how feasible this is, but wouldn't it make sense for .com/.net/etc to be latin alphabet only and allow other domains to be localized with unicode? I wouldn't really have a problem with 新浪首页.cn, and I do
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by Programmatic 10y ago
I don't quite "get" how: "the power of decentralizing technologies to affect current and future political outcomes — and even the internal structuring of nation states — is growing exponentially." means "the es
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by Programmatic 10y ago
Do you have any hypothesis on the potential forces at work?
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by Programmatic 10y ago
Pragmatically there are reasons for some people to run Windows 10 vs. other operating systems, even if you don't/won't recognize them. Tools like this allow people to run Windows 10 in a "good enough" state and spre
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by Programmatic 10y ago
I'm curious about how most folks get and/or negotiate a sabbatical? I'm getting to the point that I would really love something similar but would not want to derail my career in order to take one if possible.
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by Programmatic 10y ago
I largely agree with that sentiment, but it is difficult to separate oneself from the rest of a society that has made unhealthy choices. The market is driven by the masses and we participate in the market. The salad bar may be unlimited, bu
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by Programmatic 10y ago
;)
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by Programmatic 10y ago
I think the solution would be to create a system where: 1) we have a minimum amount to hit before the marginal shipping cost is $0, 2) build the shipping cost into our margins, and 3) advertise that the marginal cost is $0.
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by Programmatic 10y ago
To be fair there it's likely that there's a bit of victimization there as well if it's harder to go into one field vs. another due to social norms. You get it from both sides, too! "You're a man, why do you want to

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