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bootsmann

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About bootsmann

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    Comment #48882980

    An easy trick nowadays is to simply log out of the accounts. Most social media websites really want you to log in so they become unusable when you log out. Its a good defense in de…

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    Comment #48857593

    Its also an interesting way to discover what that part of the brain is for, right.

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    Comment #48698400

    The US doesn’t have this leverage either, Trump is just uniquely willing to hurt his own country for his own idiosyncrasies. It is pretty established at this point that Americans w…

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    Comment #48591904

    Their options are probably insane sunk cost, hard to steal an engineer who has Xm in potential gains if they choose to stay.

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    Comment #48467234

    DMA is killing innovation by, checks notes, not allowing Apple to lock out competitor products from competing on an even playing field?

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    Comment #48451780

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    Comment #48451699

    Its honestly so annoying, every 3 years we have to vote against the same garbage proposal because the SVP is unwilling to accept the will of the electorate.

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    Comment #48451625

    Immigration is being controlled, EU immigrants require a work contract to come here (and consequentially 80% are employed with the rest split between spouses, kids and students). I…

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    Comment #48451540

    It is a population cap, you can read this proposal its like 5 lines of text.

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    Comment #48451509

    > more people with certain skills (if you're filtering based on that) This is how freedom of movement works, yes, and it's a key reason why our country is so rich.

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    Comment #48449715

    I can sell the tomatoes in my garden for twice the price of those in the supermarket and still make massive loses.

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    Comment #48436731

    > the research doesn't mention anything about the socioeconomic environment in which each of the children grew in. The main trick behind randomized control trials is that you can d…

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    Comment #48423436

    SpaceX needs 4 profitable consecutive quarters to be included. If you have a lot of faith that they will achieve this I recommend you buy day 1 so you can ride the highs when the p…

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    Comment #48423414

    Read the quote you posted again

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    Comment #48327215

    S3 is strongly consistent, if you need it anyways you can just use s3 keys to deconflict and store the workflow state.

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    Comment #48314686

    Advisory locks are preferred for this anyways because holding a lot of SELECT FOR UPDATE doesn’t scale too well. Edit: Actually I checked this again and apparently the advice has n…

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    Comment #48254633

    You’re going to need to strongly source this one, sounds completely made up.

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    Comment #48204090

    Is it really a false positive if railway lets people run abusive services on GCP and then GCP consequently shuts them down?

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    Comment #48170529

    You need a separate pin because windows lives on the encrypted disk so you need to decrypt it before you can boot completely.

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    Comment #48170470

    fTPMs also have similar issues. The real takeaway is that if your threat model includes actors capable of executing attacks against BitLocker you need to put a password/pin on it i…

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    Comment #48124140

    This is what the Digital Euro is supposed to be.

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    Comment #48123974

    I think Mastercard and Visa are deathly afraid of having their nice duopoly regulated more tightly (as is already done in the EU) and therefore they consequentially put in a lot of…

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    Comment #48107583

    The reason why it is done this way is that “social media” is much harder to delineate and also not what is generally considered harmful.

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    Comment #47926013

    The price you pay for anthropic must include the price of training new and better models which is incredibly costly. If you use the models someone else already spend money to devel…

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    Comment #47910010

    Can you model the flow of the attack you want to mount here? Is it the following: Issuer revokes the wallet of Alice and then publicly says “This ID is Alice btw” and then verifier…