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You can't just actually shed all your low value users and then poach the high value users, because then you're only competing for customers who are already large and have already l…

It matters because while the choice of excuse doesn't really matter to the surveilling end, they still need to make the excuse with the fig leaf of plausibility. The worse their ex…

> Kinda like saying "Throwing the British's tea into Boston harbor will only make us subject to harsher terms." I mean, that it... quite literally did? Yeah, you can externalize en…

"We now have a complete, futureproof free software stack with decades of backwards compatibility! It just has win32 in the middle." (2019, from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…

x86 bytecode isn't the native instruction set on any real hardware you're running games on either, just one of the lowest-level publicly exposed interfaces.

Indeed, the Romance cognates of "library" even usually mean bookstore (or maybe bookshelf...etymologically it's just a thing that does something vaguely related to books). Most lan…

> I had a very visceral negative reaction to this story, and found it disappointing that someone would hold that opinion. But I suppose it's a lot easier to take that stance when i…

I think by the time you're building a system that needs to generate (and persist!) billions of identifiers per millisecond, you're solidly past the point where all your design deci…

The turn-off with Coke is usually the carbonation. The appeal of sugar is quite primal.

The trouble is that a bank is not lending against the nominal value of the stock as collateral. That number is almost entirely fictional. Taxation of capital gains at time of sale …

People seem to get the weird idea that borrowing against their stock holdings is some special thing rich people get to do with products that the rest of us don't have access to. It…

Which of your security layers isn't a trade-off?

Stocks are a financing mechanism. They're useful for the economy independent of the price discovery aspect in the much the same ways that lending is, except that instead of receivi…

If you make it expensive enough to pay ransoms outright, throwing money at security starts looking more appealing. A ban on paying ransoms isn't the right tool for this. Fine them,…

> This is not an approach any other app on any platform has historically used, and it doesn't seem sustainable if every app you install has to modify your hosts file to use a hack …

The latter sounds absurd, nearly as ridiculous as the English it was translated from.

Nobody cares about every part of GitHub working correctly. I mean, ok, their SREs are supposed to, but tabling the question of whether that's true: if tomorrow they announced a dis…

The legal system does nothing to fix the harm done by murder to the person who's now dead, either.

The Latin alphabet variant modern English uses has uses only ~11 kinds of strokes, where is this 26 coming from?

Arbitrariness of the sign is a principle that requires so many epicycles to present as "true" that it's more of a warning against overgeneralization than an insight with any signif…

Nearly all the security value of 1fa is that it keeps your users from picking the own passwords.

From ChangeLog: * telnetd/utility.c (getterminaltype): Change the name `user_name' to `uname', as the former shadows a precious and global variable name.

> and the people worried about this aren't the ones bringing the real revenue. It's this one. If you're in a position to refund a "cost accident", then clearly you don't have to en…