mattstreet

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by mattstreet 7y ago
"I've never had the opportunity to work with physical labor" Yes you have. You could go out today and find a job doing physical labor unless you are significantly physically disabled. It's not like there is an educationa
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by mattstreet 8y ago
Sure, that money actually paid people to do work and those people were then able to stimulate the economy, pay for their education, all that good stuff. But that same money could have been spent to actually do something useful and it still
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by mattstreet 8y ago
Is it? They already charge the amount they think meets the perfect balance of "as much as possible" and "not so much that less people buy".
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by mattstreet 8y ago
I believe you can buy hubs that are single speed and then if you flip them are fixie, might be cheaper to put that on a cheap bike than having a kid...
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by mattstreet 9y ago
I'm a bit rusty, but I believe the way NTP works (at least the reference version which is commonly used) is that if a client sends too many requests in a short time, they are ignored except to reply with a "back off packet" w
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by mattstreet 9y ago
You're going to encrypt publicly accessible sensitive data with a 9 digit number ? This is not even close to the current level of security. You don't get to make millions of guesses when some dumb website or clerk requires your SS
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by mattstreet 9y ago
It doesn't matter what any court says when we don't do anything about officers violating someone's rights.
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by mattstreet 9y ago
You don't have rights if you're within 100 miles of the border.
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by mattstreet 9y ago
And then someone uses you in an DoS amplification attack instead of going after you directly.
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by mattstreet 9y ago
Basically don't offer hackers any data amplification attacks, never respond with more data than it took for the attack to make the request.
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by mattstreet 9y ago
Cisco Systems matches to 4.5% of your pay.
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by mattstreet 10y ago
Or we could feed people real food.
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by mattstreet 10y ago
Probably a good decision to switch to NSAIDs (at least when possible) please don't flush meds again though.
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by mattstreet 10y ago
How is this inflammatory? Also, welcome to capitalism.
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by mattstreet 10y ago
Then it should also be noted that you really shouldn't use telnet to interact with HTTP or SMTP either. Telnet has issues if you send control characters, which wouldn't be used for either protocol, but might exist in embedded data
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by mattstreet 10y ago
If we actually included the externalities of coal, the damage to property by acid rain, the health effects, the tearing the tops off our mountains to strip mine - then we could see things like scrubbing sulfur out as efficiency improvements
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by mattstreet 10y ago
Those in charge are seeing just how much they can take.
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by mattstreet 10y ago
Then the ransomware would just encrypt the files more slowly.
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by mattstreet 10y ago
People have had 50 years to start solving the problem on their own.
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by mattstreet 10y ago
So it's only plants that God made that are automatically safe?
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by mattstreet 10y ago
You'd think it would be up to the FDA to decide if something has a medical purpose and just the DEA to enforce that.
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by mattstreet 10y ago
Here's the part that made his point clear: "in jail for life" - it's the law that causes the danger.
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by mattstreet 10y ago
How is modern marriage hugely risky compared to what it used to be?
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by mattstreet 10y ago
If we can't avoid ruining a planet we evolved to live on, do we really deserve a plan B?
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by mattstreet 10y ago
So are the owners of pay phones liable?
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by mattstreet 10y ago
Yes, teacher's stuff containing a ton of other people's SSNs and other personal info and sitting around for anyone to access without any barrier! Totally cool, just hope no one does an rummaging!
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by mattstreet 11y ago
Full decomposition ends up putting the same minerals into the soil that your ash contains. So the ash is already just as "biodegraded" as the body ends up, just mixed it in to soil.
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by mattstreet 11y ago
Why are you debating vaccines when you don't even know the basic facts about them such as they don't end up protecting everyone, which is why herd immunity is so important? Like maybe read just a tiny bit about them first?
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by mattstreet 11y ago
That's not how vaccination works. Even if I get all my vaccines, there is a chance one of them didn't work for me. Then when people start getting sick and spreading it because not enough of us are vaccinated, so do I. They work by
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by mattstreet 11y ago
Why is that such a priority for people? Why can't we just worry about taking better care of the people we have NOW?

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