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marginalx

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    Everything comes with a risk, and people usually take it with a decent understanding of how to mitigate it mostly. If we start thinking along the lines of technology has risk and w…

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    Comment #48947608

    They also have a new CEO at the helm.

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    Comment #48686450

    "In all fairness, fake reviews and just people lying on the internet" is not the same as a corporation who builds a feature that lies regularly. Imagine how would you feel if Amazo…

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    Comment #48223304

    They have been so incredible how they let you know well in advance and work with you before blocking your GCP account and never, I mean never just randomly shutdown like the other …

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    Comment #48213026

    Who is the "You" in "you haven't addressed the root cause"? If you are asking Railway to spend effort doing this rather than simply moving away from GCP, I'm not sure why they woul…

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    Comment #48181563

    Problem is the bots can create any number of github accounts and continue spamming. Though this would be a good simple defense to start with.

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    Comment #48147642

    Clearly for commercial oriented opensource software, security through obscurity is one way to keep the pace in the short term. Not an option for proper open source software. Will t…

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    Comment #48007323

    I think the fear of being located isn't based on the fact that someone can decrypt an encrypted transmission, its simply because someone can trace that a particular location is tra…

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    Comment #47805979

    Precisely the reasons for lack of adoption I would say.

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    Comment #47794155

    Is most of that due to mobile? The real migration challenges are in the server side/consumer home internet space which I'm not sure if there are clear stats around the adoption the…

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    This doesn't give me a clear idea as a layman on how to interpret this information. Is it ok for the layman to believe that may 1st 1985 the variations of -5 to 5 were around 86 me…

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    Comment #47704762

    I don't quite understand the temperature color scale of -5 to 5, what is the baseline here on -5 to 5, is it relative to global average of that day? Or a period of time?

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    Comment #46709402

    @huntergemmer - assuming you are the author, curious about your experience using .claude and .cursor, I see sub agents defined under these folders, what percent of your time spent …

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    Comment #46534267

    I urge you to understand what he is going through, he started the project, made it available freely, as more effort was required he added a premium offering to keep the whole thing…

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    Comment #46139675

    Are you saying executives cannot make mistakes ever (ask because you didn't qualify your statement)?

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    Comment #46114678

    I feel like you are making a contradicting point, on one hand you say its all disorganized but "organized enough" to allow the govt to force install their app, but not enough so it…

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    Comment #46113706

    This is quite dismissive of the audience, how do you suggest this app protects the people from believing whatever someone says?

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    Comment #46113683

    So, if you have tons of ways - you vote for the way that could lead to potentially the most exploitation of the population? No one is saying it "will" be exploited, but the potenti…

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    Comment #46113636

    Nothing in this app stops scammers, scammers use land lines/voip to make calls.

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    Comment #46113625

    All good goals - but this can be done by the government forcing the private companies (Apple/Goog/Samsung) to build tools, reporting, support services around helping with both Scam…