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by clinta 2y ago
What if there's another backdoor lurking in your VPN software? Why are you more confident in your VPN than SSH? Of those two pieces of software, which do you think has more eyes on it?
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by clinta 6y ago
I would prefer to see these things enforced by culture and norms rather than laws and licenses. I don't want to have to parse legalese as part of my role as an engineer. I don't want companies to have to hire more lawyers to verif
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by clinta 6y ago
He actively discouraged mask use. Fauci and the Surgeon General said wearing a mask was more likely to get you sick because you would touch your face more. "You can increase your risk of getting it by wearing a mask if you are not a he
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by clinta 6y ago
OCR is only an issue if it is an image PDF that came from a scanner. I'm in the staffing industry and deal with automatic resume parsing tools. They have no problem with text PDFs that are saved from the source.
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by clinta 6y ago
Just wait until the CIA is considered the foreign affairs authority, and all information that disagrees with them is considered misinformation. The US government will be able to engage in as many coups as they want and Google and Facebook w
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by clinta 6y ago
Regardless of what the science says, Fauci believed masks worked, and he engaged in a deliberate misinformation campaign with the goal of preserving PPE for medical staff. People who have admitted publicly to engaging in a misinformation ca
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by clinta 6y ago
Sure it does. But lying about that as the reasons and saying masks don't work is misinformation. And that is what the government health officials said. They intentionally engaged in a misinformation campaign. And now they are considere
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by clinta 6y ago
This is not what happened, not in the US anyway. Fauci, after the recommendations changed, admitted that masks were discouraged to prioritize them for first responders[1]. So we have government health experts publicly saying they engaged in
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by clinta 6y ago
This may be the only way to scale a service that is free to users. But once you are selling a product to paying customers, those customers need to be at a different tier with real customer support. Those paying customers are already incredi
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by clinta 6y ago
Reducing the options to divine or arbitrary is a false dilemma. Math is discovered/invented by humans, but it is far from arbitrary. A slave will appeal to society because society has the power. But if the society does not listen to th
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by clinta 6y ago
> "Rights are a societal construct" doesn't mean that nobody has a right to believe different things from society. Unless society doesn't recognize your right to believe differently, no? The is-ought problem does not
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by clinta 6y ago
Having an opinion doesn't make that opinion fact. But if you say that one opinion is in any way superior to another opinion then you are recognizing that there is something to measure those opinions against. There is some truth that we
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by clinta 6y ago
What grounds would a slave, living in a time and place where slavery is legal, have to argue in defense of their freedom? If you are willing to recognize that society has had an incorrect view of rights in the past, you must recognize that
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by clinta 6y ago
Everyone who works on Linux must rebase and squash commits so that every commit builds and passes tests, and does a single thing. More about how Linux uses git: https://www.mail-archive.com/dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net...
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by clinta 6y ago
In a decade there will be threads wondering why only big chain restraints are left. And they'll blame capitalism and cry for more regulation never realizing how their regulations are what made it impossible for independent shop owners
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by clinta 6y ago
Politics is discussing when it is justified and appropriate to use violence. For enforcing laws, collecting taxes ect... All peaceful human interaction falls outside of that.
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by clinta 6y ago
I think you're lumping contractual EULAs with technical limitations and they're not the same thing. If I bought a system that I am technically able to install anything I want onto, I don't think courts should enforce a EULA t
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by clinta 6y ago
Not all jobs or service contribute to society. But if you invest in a company that provides goods and services that people don't want, that money is lost and you lose your ability to invest further. When government provides a service t
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by clinta 6y ago
Do you mean supply of credit? Because additional money wouldn't drive demand for credit, it would drive supply as those with money look for places to lend it. If you are saying an excess supply of credit leads to financial crises, I ag
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by clinta 6y ago
Investing in companies is contributing to society. Government is not society. Investing in Walmart so that the rural poor have more access to affordable goods is virtuous. And a whole lot of the contributions to government are absolutely no
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by clinta 6y ago
>Drunk people are banned from driving when they're drunk, not when they're sober. But they're not just banning gatherings of sick people when they are sick, they are banning healthy people from gathering too. So maybe we d
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by clinta 6y ago
Where they are allowed to compete yes, they will compete on service. But in many places it is illegal for hospitals to compete at all due to Certificate of Need laws. In places with CON laws, if you can't prove that your hospital will
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by clinta 6y ago
Because very few people pay for their healthcare. Insurance coverage separates the consumer from the cost of the service making little incentives to market on price. Additionally hospitals and insurance companies both benefit by overchargin
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by clinta 6y ago
So should we ban all driving? Because that is the analogous reaction to prohibiting any gatherings.
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by clinta 6y ago
Those who "hoard" wealth do not do so by filling a swimming pool with gold coins like Scrooge McDuck. They invest in companies that provide jobs and the goods and services that the rest of us enjoy. Yes that is virtuous.
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by clinta 6y ago
Isn't that the case with most languages now? Pydoc and rustdoc do the same thing.
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by clinta 6y ago
What does that mean for the open source software I release with no implied warranty? Do I need to forbid residents of Kansas from using my software? Are as-is used car sales illegal in that state?
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by clinta 6y ago
Fair point. Though in many large environments the number of people with access to the IPMI console is greater than the number of people with physical access who can swap out a CPU. I'm just trying to speculate what might be driving dem
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by clinta 6y ago
This method prevents the user from trying to recover with a backed up encryption key, or booting live media. Instead it makes it clear that this motherboard is compromised and cannot be safely used.
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by clinta 6y ago
Having such a prompt doesn't really alleviate any of the concerns in this article. I still have to worry about that when buying a second hand CPU, except now I'm even less sure, because sure the CPU came out of a Dell, but maybe t

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