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by mdc 11y ago
I've never been caught. Does that make me good at cyberespionage? I think there's more to it than that. You might argue necessary but not sufficient, but I'd even disagree with that. The fact that the NSA was outed by Sno
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by mdc 11y ago
Being bad at defense doesn't necessarily imply being bad at offense. Security is hard because you have to win 100% of the time. Being good at cyberespionage means getting a win now and then. I'm not saying the US is good at it,
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by mdc 12y ago
"Airbus did not anticipate that a pilot would stall a plane and fly it directly into the ocean" Stalling and flying into the ground have been two common failure modes since flying began and they often happen in sequence. I would
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by mdc 12y ago
Or he's never had a home in the full sense of the word.
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by mdc 13y ago
That kind of implies that everything we create inherently belongs to the government, "they" let us use it for the period of copyright, and then it's theirs again to sell off. I can make a case for copyright ending and creati
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by mdc 13y ago
Do you really believe that DRY in coding precludes redundancy in implementation?
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by mdc 13y ago
Stephen King wrote a book called On Writing that is part memoir and part guide to writing. It's not intended to be a full writing course, but it's a great intro to the important bits presented in a really entertaining way. I also
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by mdc 13y ago
A sieve would just be a one-step funnel. If your engagement involves more than one step (sieves in series) then it's a funnel.
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by mdc 13y ago
I don't think jasonjei was being dismissive of real ADHD. He was just pointing out that it is often over and mis-diagnosed. Many kids are considered misbehaving or diagnosed with a medical problem because they can't sit still fo
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by mdc 14y ago
The article mentions blocking invites, not messages themselves, so there's not really any content to use as a basis for spam filtering.
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by mdc 14y ago
Not at all. I wasn't saying the .com namespace was crowded. I was responding to someone who thought it was and who thought the appropriate solution was increasing domain registration prices.
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by mdc 14y ago
It seems like this solution means that if you want to have your own domain, either you must be rich or the website must be profitable. You're basically saying that only the rich should have access to domain-branded blogs and other non-comm
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by mdc 14y ago
He says it slides but "gets nowhere near 4x". That's clear enough to preclude 5x.
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by mdc 14y ago
You'd get a very strong puff of air. The air leaving the end of the barrel doesn't have a lot of momentum so it diffuses pretty quickly in the ambient air. You could shape the outlet to get a more focused jet, but it's still going to be a
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by mdc 14y ago
This system externalizes the risk of telling the truth. Too many people excoriate journalists who say things they don't want to hear, so too many journalists pander to their audience. This will let the journalists continue to say what the
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by mdc 14y ago
I think you mean the circumference of geostationary orbit is 265000km. Diameter is about 36000km.
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by mdc 14y ago
There's nothing wrong with ethanol as a fuel per se. It has the potential to be a great sustainable fuel made from farm waste and other sources. Unfortunately, the bulk of it now is being made from subsidized corn. This pits all of us wh
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by mdc 14y ago
The USPS thought the fake postage was real after the fake package came out of its properly-stamped wrapper once it was already in the USPS process stream. It's always easier to pass a fake at a point where everyone assumes the fake has alr
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by mdc 14y ago
There's a difference between not having a smart phone and having a smart phone that actively misleads you.
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by mdc 14y ago
I didn't realize you couldn't reuse the Legos from the specialized kits. I better go tell my kids who have built all kinds of crazy contraptions over the years. Frankly, I think having a bin full of parts that used to be a few different k
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by mdc 14y ago
That's typically the strategy for blogs. Links in a blog post are known good and don't have nofollow. Links in comments have nofollow to deter comment spam. That works for blogs where the site owner is creating the main content and the c
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by mdc 14y ago
In addition, she's part of a larger A/B test being run by the industry. Music producers have a nearly unlimited supply of cookie-cutter musicians who they can produce in different ways to see what works. They're expendable, so when they f
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by mdc 14y ago
We use Fogbugz for all our internal project tracking. The consensus among our engineers is that this downtime is understandable and we'd rather deal with it, even in a mission-important web app, than pay more every month to insure redundan
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by mdc 14y ago
I agree. I think this change is motivated by two things. First, it's a planned obsolescence by the manufacturers finally admitting a small health issue and offering a solution. Second, it's a move by the TSA to combat opt-outs and other
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by mdc 14y ago
I don't think too many of the authors actually held the position you describe. You describe a situation where authors understood LendInk and didn't like the way it changed lending, but if you read the complaints from authors that accused L
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by mdc 14y ago
If you listen to Marco's podcast, he'll occasionally say something like "I want to talk about this topic but Siracusa just talked about it on his podcast and did a great job so I'll be quick about it." It think this review-review is Marco's
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by mdc 14y ago
>it has no other reason not to send a bottle into the US Except to serve it's customer, because if it doesn't meet import requirements then the customer's package will never arrive. I understand it may not be legally obligated so there
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by mdc 14y ago
Right. huhtenberg's analogy was flawed. His analogy to selling liquor only works if you remote-access a computer in Sweden and then buy Minecraft from that computer. Then when you copy Minecraft from the remote to your home system, you'r
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by mdc 14y ago
I use TrueCrypt to create encrypted files containing the sensitive data I want on the cloud. TrueCrypt is free and quick to install, so I can pretty easily access the files from any computer if I need to.
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by mdc 14y ago
I think that Dilbert cartoon is very apropos. Facebook employees seem to treat their site as one big Skinner box and they're trying to see how far they can go.

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