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Information won’t sway someone who’s views aren’t based on information.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773812

Rather, trading periods are for a limited time after reports are released. Before employees accrue too much non public information.

Non-paywalled gift article. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/opinion/self-driving-cars...

There exist certain classes of prime numbers that should not be used for some cryptographic operations because algorithms exist that reduce the computation required for factoring a…

The definition of organ in this article is closest to the body part definition. The use of organ here relies on a less common definition: roughly a constituent part of some larger …

It likely contains a bug but is an uncorrupted file. Corrupted to me means the file was changed or modified in a way from it's intended state and likely won't run anymore.

Yes, driven by local data collection. More tightly packed ground stations and the availability of atmospheric measurement at various altitudes will improve accuracy.

The article discusses the length of the bottles placed end to end. Although I agree the title isn't clear.

Lyft likely cost customers' funds though a poor process like this in the past. One could create an account, hail rides and add their own payment method while still being associated…

If law enforcement ever busts a scammer and discovers a tool like this was essential to the scam, that would generate lawsuits.

True. Expected to remain solvent would be more clear.

What is the recommended upgrade path for macOS' system install of git? I have upgraded my brew install, but am unsure of what to do with the vulnerable system install.

Couldn't Twilio also close and cease providing service to any accounts that initiate chargebacks?

There must be a threshold above which making an engine move is allowed. Because if there's a checkmate move, it will be the best engine move and needs to be allowed.

Gardening leave.

Close. The federal reserve (or any central bank) will lend money to other banks at a rate just below the target rate, and it will borrow from other banks at a rate just above. Beca…

> The whole idea of a hash is that a tiny perturbation makes the output completely different. That would be a cryptographic hash you are describing. Not all hash functions share th…

1Password had a blog post [1] addressing this concern. Essentially you still have the benefit of one-timeness, but not second factor, and need to compare that to what your security…

Hash is applied correctly here. A hash function is "any function that can be used to map data of arbitrary size to fixed-size values." The properties of being a(n) (essentially) un…

Could you please share any you recommend?

>I think the effects of memory bugs on security are often overstated. How often?