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by spoondan 5y ago
There’s no need to speculate that Melinda had special knowledge. Epstein was convicted of procuring a child for prostitution in 2008 and was subsequently a registered sex offender. Bill admits to attending dinners with Epstein until 2011.
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by spoondan 5y ago
Kimono is 着物 which transliterates to “wear-thing.” It’s the word for clothes, not just the traditional robes, and it’s not etymologically related to a word for Winter in any language. Japanese has many -mono words based on verbs: tabemono 食
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by spoondan 5y ago
Similarly, awesome is great, but awful is terrible. And terrible and terrifying are bad, but terrific is awesome.
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by spoondan 6y ago
Maybe. But a possible contributor for the 1918 flu pandemic's relative obscurity is that it overlapped with World War I and was followed within ~20 years by the Great Depression and World War II. It occurred during one of the most turb
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by spoondan 6y ago
No. If Alice reports Bob, the report only includes the most recent messages from Bob to Alice as forwarded from Alice's local copy of their chat. No other messages are made available to WhatsApp. None of Bob's other messages t
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by spoondan 6y ago
No. WhatsApp does not keep delivered messages, and, by default, messages are end-to-end encrypted and cannot be read by WhatsApp.[1] As shown in the screenshots of the reporting feature in the article, reporting causes your phone to send (f
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by spoondan 6y ago
But it isn’t a good point absent the bad assumption that the mentally ill are more dangerous. It only takes one bicyclist that’s fallen off his bike to kill you. So what?
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by spoondan 6y ago
I appreciate that they decided to apologize, but I find this statement lackluster at best. A better, more earnest apology would properly address the major concerns Jeremy raised. This touches on just two of the issues and then only superfic
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by spoondan 6y ago
No. Look at the cookbook application ( http://weboob.org/applications/qcookboob ). It incorporates multiple sources of recipes behind a single, consistent, tailor-made interface. This pattern repeats in the other applica
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by spoondan 6y ago
For the specific problem of easily setting up Python environments, you may wish to look into pipenv: https://pipenv.pypa.io/en/latest/
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by spoondan 7y ago
“Mendaciously pretending,” is over the top. Even if you don’t agree with the author’s point, even if you think the tested users are idiots or unrepresentative, there’s simply no justification for calling the author a liar or suggesting he’s
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by spoondan 7y ago
There’s an important point to be made here about the gap between theoretical and practical security. Overly elaborate password policies (excessive complexity demands, passwords expiring, no reusing last five passwords) end up causing annoye
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by spoondan 7y ago
It’s interesting to me that these kinds of things are not catalogued and advertised like other vulnerabilities. This is an exploitable information leak using an endpoint that many other services likely have.
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by spoondan 7y ago
There may be situations where 15-30 direct reports is workable, but that is a very large number of reports. Academic studies generally settle on a maximum effective team size around seven, give or take a few[1]. In my own experience, I saw
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by spoondan 7y ago
About 15 years ago, I built a system like this for a web application. I defined a series of core extension points such as the request router and authentication and authorization providers. Modules provided extensions that connected to the c
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by spoondan 7y ago
I think your issue isn’t with universities and certainly isn’t with me. Reading between the lines, I think your complaint is with the systemic over-valuing of university degrees by parents and industry. That pushes people into universities
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by spoondan 7y ago
This is a very strange article and premise to me. A university education is not vocational training. A CS education includes courses in programming, but learning to program—indeed, learning CS—is only a part of the education you are signing
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by spoondan 7y ago
I’ve never met anyone that assumed a time estimate was a, “hard deadline,” but every time deadlines are questioned, someone says, “You’re assuming it’s a hard deadline.” Can I convince you this isn’t a productive response? Nowhere in the co
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by spoondan 7y ago
You don’t need a deadline to establish priorities and ensure the team is focused on those priorities. Nor does a deadline actually prevent procrastination. We all have had homework due that we have rushed to finish because we were watching
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by spoondan 7y ago
Hmm. That’s neat. But usually someone has a bank card or other membership card with a support line on it. Is there some reason to not just call one to report the found wallet? The times I’ve found a wallet, I’ve called one of those support
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by spoondan 7y ago
I don’t see what legal or technical argument you’re making. Technically, of course you can identify IP ranges owned by certain entities and restrict their access. That’s trivial, so what do you mean when you say the internet doesn’t work li
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by spoondan 7y ago
This is wrong. CUE has optional closed schemas marked by a double colon. The V3 entity you’re talking about is explicitly declared to be a closed definition and therefore disallows unknown fields in entities that claim to accord to the V3 t
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by spoondan 7y ago
Are property crime stats adjusted in any way for wealth, inequality, or cost of living?
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by spoondan 8y ago
The ability to apply the same argument to another situation has no probative value. Any policy has its pros and cons. One can support vacancy taxes/fines without supporting other taxes on unused possessions.
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by spoondan 8y ago
The “set” command lets you override the positional arguments but starting at $1. You cannot directly set $0. But you can set BASH_ARGV0, and the value of $0 changes accordingly.
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by spoondan 8y ago
Webex Teams includes what used to be called Cisco Spark. Spark is a Slack clone.
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by spoondan 8y ago
It’s funny. I know the front-facing camera followed demand and was at least partially meant for things like FaceTime and taking photos with friends. But it also fed back into and catalyzed the normalization and popularization of selfies and
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by spoondan 8y ago
I agree it’s likely the office is bugged. But a pocket WiFi device the watch has previously connected to is a perfectly plausible way for him to have had Internet access.
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by spoondan 8y ago
There’s a strong argument against disclosure of internally discovered bugs (security or otherwise) that have no evidence of user impact. Internal efforts to find and fix bugs improve actual quality/safety but, if indiscriminately annou
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by spoondan 8y ago
In my experience, it’s typical for senior leadership at a large company to have a carefully orchestrated departure. No internal announcement would be sent until after a press release is prepared. The set of people that know would be kept ex

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