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by rpedroso 1mo ago
How many customers are using Google Password Manager? How much revenue does it generate? What would it cost to add E2EE? How would it affect the UX? How much revenue would it generate? What projects would have to be de-prioritized to fund t
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by rpedroso 9y ago
Suppose that we eliminate net neutrality. Further suppose that, in a few years, I start a video streaming service called "Notflix". Because ISPs are no longer required to be dumb pipes, they've started charging their customer
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by rpedroso 9y ago
IANAL and I don't have an answer to this, but I would be deeply alarmed if this were the case. I can understand them making the case that anything on your personal is searchable (though I disagree that this should be allowed). By askin
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by rpedroso 9y ago
Pai makes a lot of questionable arguments: The FCC’s regulations weren’t about protecting consumers’ privacy. They were about government picking winners and losers in the marketplace. If two online companies have access to the same data ab
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by rpedroso 9y ago
I primarily write python web-based APIs for a web application + 2 mobile apps. Just the other day, I was dealing with an endpoint that had to update hierarchical data (i.e. a collection of trees). Due to the circumstances, normalization was
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by rpedroso 10y ago
I write python professionally and I use vim exclusively, but I have pylint + jedi plugins and could not imagine working without them. I'm also not convinced that depriving new programmers of real-time syntax checking actually helps the
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by rpedroso 10y ago
They're programmers, the fast idiot is a computer.
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by rpedroso 10y ago
There are a few problems with this explanation: 1. FDR did not propose a wage cap until 1942, 3 years after the Great Depression had ended. It was a temporary wartime fundraising effort (and was quite popular with the public). In fact, heal
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by rpedroso 10y ago
I have no suggestions for the latter two, but number of commits / user / repo is doable in vanilla git: git shortlog -n -s
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by rpedroso 10y ago
> The Electrician was functioning as an Electrician, not as a government agent. I don't think your example vindicates Best Buy, but rather, simply repeats the central question of the case: was the Geek Squad employee simply functi
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by rpedroso 10y ago
I think the correct tradeoff is to judge the malfeasance of the product based on what security precautions were reasonable at the time the product was created. Granting that "reasonability" is a very fuzzy standard, it seems obvio
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by rpedroso 10y ago
One unfortunate side-effect of traffic capacity expansion is that usage increases to compensate: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Economics/Faculty/Matthew_T...
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by rpedroso 10y ago
The underlying assumption is that a multitude of users would switch to devices produced by such a manufacturer. This, I think, overestimates how much most users currently care about security. As it turns out, there are more secure devices i
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by rpedroso 10y ago
That's a good point, and thanks for the recommendation!
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by rpedroso 10y ago
Public auditing of voting terminals strikes me as a place where open source of government-used software matters.
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by rpedroso 10y ago
Well, notwithstanding all the ordinary people who got blood tests done by Theranos that were later invalidated.
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by rpedroso 10y ago
For those who prefer CLI git: I've used gitk a fair bit, but lately I've been gravitating towards tig, which implements a tree view via ncurses.
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by rpedroso 10y ago
Actually yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_cannabinoids They typically cause more severe side-effects than traditional marijuana. There have been a few rounds of subway ads related to synthetic marijuana.
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by rpedroso 10y ago
To clarify, PEP 8 nonetheless recommends that lines be limited to 79 characters, and even recommends capping docstrings and comments to 72 characters. The python standard library follows those guidelines. The 100-character allowance is for
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by rpedroso 11y ago
Yes, it is a feature of the default browser stylesheet, but many websites override it. DuckDuckGo, for instance, keeps all of its links black and uses the :visited pseudo class to show the checkmark. Even if it's default browser behavi
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by rpedroso 11y ago
Little details like checkboxes next to places I've already been are super helpful and I miss those little touches in google. Google does do this, and in a less subtle way -- it applies the classic, purple styling to visited links. St
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by rpedroso 11y ago
As the article mentions, the polygraph results are still occasionally used in court. Regardless of its utility as an interrogation tool, there are serious concerns about the scientific validity of its output. The use of polygraph output to
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by rpedroso 11y ago
Carbon neutrality does not mean that atmospheric CO2 is not released at any point, but rather, that any release of carbon is offset in some way. Offsets might include planting trees, purchasing carbon credits, etc.
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by rpedroso 11y ago
I honestly take issue with the way you phrase your argument. You refer to the poor with phrases like "these people", trivialize their ability to survive without a week's paycheck because "they've done without before
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by rpedroso 11y ago
Yeah I figured I would be off by a fair bit off when it came to the income tax math. I'm not sure whether there would additionally be some tax burden due to NY state income tax and NY city income tax. You're right that $2000 is hu
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by rpedroso 11y ago
The minimum wage in New York is $8.75. Someone working 40 hours/week for 52 weeks/year, which is a generous estimate due to how many minimum wage employers hire and schedule employees, would earn $18,200 every year. After 15% in f
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by rpedroso 11y ago
Certain politicians in Iceland wanted to ban a particular subset of pornography (hardcore, violence, etc). I don't remember hearing that any progress was made on that legislation, but I could just be uninformed on that front.
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by rpedroso 11y ago
There was some concern about the security of the product: http://2014.hackitoergosum.org/bittorrentsync-security-priva... These concerns were amplified by the difficulty of auditing a closed-source product. Their argument t
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by rpedroso 11y ago
The main reason I bought Spotify premium (other than access to the full mobile platform) was to ditch the ads. I don't mind ads so much, but Spotify ads are particularly annoying. I seemed to get a lot of ads from fledgling hiphop arti
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by rpedroso 11y ago
If you want to enforce this more stringently, you can even prefix methods with __ (double underscore). Python will mangle the name: __mydef -> _myClass__mydef You can, of course, still access the method, but it's very usefu

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