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by boveus 2y ago
> Cross-site scripting (XSS) safe front-end frameworks like React are good because they prevent XSS. XSS is bad because it allows an attacker to take over your active web session and do horrible things What? React is not "Cross-sit
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by boveus 3y ago
> In the US, 14.5% of men are 6ft or taller. Among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, 58% are 6ft or taller (4x increase) 3.9% of men are 6’2’’ or taller, among F500 CEOs, 30% are 6’2’’ or taller (7.6x increase) 10% of F500 companies are r
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by boveus 3y ago
> If you increase the capacity of the road system however that's accomplished and more people use it that's a win. This ignores the cost/benefit of constructing more car infrastructure in heavily urbanized areas and the co
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by boveus 3y ago
> More lanes helps because now more people are able to get where they want to go! I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but no one wants to get to the 5 or 6 lane highway. They are using the highway to get to smaller 1-2 lan
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by boveus 3y ago
The main problem with global emissions is with developing countries who are increasing their emissions while at the same time taking up a greater share of global emissions than developed countries. See: https://www.cgdev.org&#x2F
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by boveus 3y ago
> How different would the situation be if the US midwest and south were on the hotter side of the scale, rather than the cooler one? If the effect of global warming were felt equally in the US and that somehow caused the US to halt 100%
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by boveus 3y ago
People on HN have conversations about things they didn't read every day.
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by boveus 3y ago
I have always struggled with just how difficult it is to retain long form text over HTML. Even if you block the ads, the hyperlinks and strange font choices can make it difficult. The solution I figured out was to use a Kobo e-reader with
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by boveus 3y ago
You have a somewhat justifiable position, but you lost me when you started talking about social media posts. In your proposed rationing of "climate relief" it shouldn't be focused on people's thoughts. It should, inste
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by boveus 3y ago
I assume there is some particular combination of factors at play here: The US has a very advanced military and intelligence apparatus which operates globally. The US has an enormous area that it operates in domestically (large areas of both
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by boveus 3y ago
I would put my money on a junior enlisted / junior officer not paying attention when they type the email to book their hotel over a government conspiracy to generate a Casus Belli to invade Mali of all places.
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by boveus 3y ago
XSS and SQLi can happen independently of the memory safety of your chosen programming language. You can use relatively safe frameworks or ORMs to generate HTML and interact with your DB, but there will sometimes be complex use cases that r
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by boveus 3y ago
It would be beneficial to your understanding if you read the article. The title is slightly misleading. > Even though the dataset used for the unofficial record goes back only to 1979, Kapnick said that given other data, the world is li
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by boveus 3y ago
>It encouraged workers to vacation with groups of relative strangers as opposed to their friends and families. This can actually work out well. I experienced something similar in the US while on vacation. I was traveling with someone f
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by boveus 3y ago
Buc-ees somehow manages to have gas stations with over 100 pumps[1]. I am usually skeptical of claims that the free market will sort it out, but it is easy to underestimate how powerful financial incentives can be. I don't think it w
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by boveus 4y ago
I believe that is the point the OP was making. If you're ROI on employee X is 3% of the investors' dollar, the investor would simply buy a bond since the ROI on the bond is higher. Because of this discrepancy it no longer makes
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by boveus 4y ago
This isn’t a new thing and there are demonstrable problems caused by private equity becoming involved in rental housing in Atlanta: https://www.ajc.com/news/investigations/dwellings/apartments... It isn’t sur
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by boveus 4y ago
It is difficult to determine if researchers are measuring the effect of caffeine itself or the effect of individuals taking caffeine to recover from the effects of caffeine withdrawal. This is a common weakness in studies that show purport
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by boveus 4y ago
I am not attempting to take a side in either direction here, but I noticed something interesting about the format of your reply in contrast with the person you're replying to. The person you were responding to broke their post up into
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by boveus 4y ago
Do you use periods in your email address? For Gmail the email "myemail@gmail.com" is interchangeable with "my.email@gmail.com". Some services that rely on simple email auth do not make the same distinction (Such as Slac
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by boveus 5y ago
30 minutes is not arbitrary in the context of search and rescue. When someone has fallen overboard on a Naval vessel in most parts of the world's oceans their survival time is as short as 30 minutes: https://ussartf.org&#x2