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bentruyman
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Comment #41629625
Oh true, I didn't consider that. I guess parents have no agency over their children.
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Comment #41629615
Who manages the exposure to the devices a children has? Where did they get these devices from in the first place?
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Comment #41628411
Where are all these poisoned children getting the cash to buy these things?
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Comment #41064642
If you read the third sentence of the PR, it says: > During the transpilation process, no type checking is performed, and types are discarded
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Comment #40710877
This example makes no sense to me. An attacker is potentially logging on to the computer and submitting empty passwords to get in. And this is what we're trying to prevent at the e…
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Comment #40709753
What kind of side channel exists if the behavior is: if password is required, zero length input is always invalid. This seems kind of like basic UX. I mean I wouldn't expect the pa…
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Comment #40577782
Is this what passes for discussion on HackerNews these days?
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Comment #40375254
Can you name a single accessibility feature where this has happened ever? Kinda seems like you just made up some fake reality.
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Comment #39695885
It's not an absolute statement, you'd have to have a childish interpretation of the article to have that takeaway. Not every generalization needs a "well actually".
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Comment #38720728
Sure, numbers don't matter. Just 40M homeless, give or take 39.4M.
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Comment #38646561
I just find it funny when engineers trivialize solutions that they themselves wouldn't employ. Like yeah, I'm sure your phpbb solution was a proper vulnerability reporting and tria…
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Comment #38644914
Ah yes the typical engineer response of "just ".
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Comment #38644555
Do you think Ubiquiti has hundreds of people on staff to watch their forums to triage every issue within seconds of it being posted? I'm curious what level of support would be sati…
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Comment #38031482
That's not the argument being made. Nobody said that.
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Comment #37990343
These people say they don't want all this power centralized to certain individuals, will in the next breath claim that government should seize assets after a certain amount. They w…
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Comment #37988780
There really aren't that many billionaires. Most of what we refer to as billionaires are people who have a large equity stake in companies they run. So are we saying once your equi…
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Comment #32102727
PayPal's current market cap is ~$80B. Is Stripe actually worth only $6B less than PayPal?
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Comment #16831123
> As a web developer for 11 years, I can state that web development is devolving to chaos of IE6 era. This is a poor comparison. The problem of the IE6 and below era was that Micro…
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Comment #16814562
Autopilot is the correct term here – seems like most folks unfortunately don't know what it actually means. So I wouldn't disagree with you.
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Comment #16814443
Where's your evidence that any of the people who've crashed in these Teslas were "victims"?
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Comment #16747401
There are certain browser APIs disabled in the browser in incognito mode that can be detected. How else would you implement incognito mode?
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Comment #16601714
Read the article.
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Comment #16555628
Seems like a stupid move? This is a pretty common pattern and we rarely ever hear of stories like this.
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Comment #16478351
> We should be doing more to support emotional support animals in general to help those afflicted. Did either you or the parent commenter read the entire article or the interview a…
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Comment #16424510
Couldn't you just, you know, not purchase those products or services?