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Assuming these people actually exist, don't you think they should have a little more backbone? If you can't handle any criticism of your ideas, how can you be an effective advocate?

Fun story about this: in college we had to make a barcode reader out of a simple phototransistor. To scan the barcode, you had to slide the device along a piece of paper. The barcode scanner had to be isolated from ambient light so that we'd get a good reading.

However, our project was to read a lot of information via the barcode (a paragraph of English text encoded as Code 39 or similar, can't remember the exact details), so it wouldn't fit on one line of paper. Lots of teams decided to implement complex heuristics to determine when to ignore readings when lifting the barcode reader off of the page and to scan the next line.

But we decided to use boustrophedon to generate the page with the barcodes on it so that we never had to lift the barcode scanner off of the page. You just had to scan left to right, then down one line, and then right to left.

Switching costs for consumers is low. There is really no difference where I live between Uber and Lyft, and I could see another two or three competitors doing the exact same thing.

Another industry that has low switching costs for transportation are the airlines. They had to implement rewards programs to keep customers loyal, and that still hasn't stopped the race to the bottom in terms of price.

They were already in the crosswalk when the car hit them. What should they have done, precisely? This victim blaming that happens to cyclists and pedestrians after they're hit is shameful.

I think vehicular manslaughter is a reasonable charge. If you can't not plow into pedestrians who have the right of way, you are negligent.

It isn't just cyclists, but pedestrians too. The best way to murder someone in America is to run them over with your car and say it was an accident. The other person, being dead, can't testify otherwise.

There's a particularly egregious example of an NYC taxi driver killing a child when the pedestrians had the right of way[1]. No charges other than a minor traffic ticket.

[1]: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/cabbie-mowed-m...

So a VC funded startup is not "a random stranger", but doctors are the government?

Honest question for people who think this stifles freedom: do you also think taking down ISIS recruitment videos is anti-free speech? Should we not do that either?

Online radicalization is real. The challenge of how to deal with that and offer considerable freedom on the Internet will be a challenge for our society.

If you think Nazism, a racist, hateful ideology opposed to the existence of many groups of people, is equivalent to being black in America, we have nothing to discuss.

> I get the whole "companies can choose not to host whatever they want" argument, but in order to do anything on the internet, you have to interact with companies.

If I switch what you said around a little bit:

"I get the whole 'people can choose to interact with whoever they want' argument, but in order to do anything, you have to interact with people."

So you're saying I have to interact with Nazis? I have no choice? Hardly.

People run these companies, and they're free to do business with whom they choose. Some ideologies are beyond the pale, and refusing to tolerate them is a perfectly reasonable choice.

HipChat has a free tier.

I write down what I learn sorta like Marcus Aurelius did in his Meditations. I find it useful to revisit them every so often, not just to remind myself what I learned, but to see what I thought was important.

https://www.seancassidy.me/meditations-redux.html

Both Bitbucket and Gitlab have free private repos.

I wouldn't let any password manager touch my browser. Giving attackers access to your password manager's APIs via JS or DOM elements is how most (all?) of the dozens of severe LastPass bugs have happened.

I use pass, written by zx2c4 of WireGuard fame: https://www.passwordstore.org/

My favorite thing about it is that it uses standard tools I understand, and I can back it up and version it with git.

For an opposing anecdote, I do not have this problem at all. Firefox is always snappy and uses less memory than Chrome on my Macbook.

Why are you talking about due process when there's no crime that has been committed?

This is about calling out shitty but legal behavior. The VC didn't even deny he was lecherous, just that he didn't do anything illegal. That's tacit confirmation that it did happen.

I agree. It sounds like they had some ML people who were itching to implement something and this is what they came up with.

This reminds me of the joke about the economist who refuses to pick up the $20 bill on the ground because surely someone else would have already picked it up.

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The engineers we're looking for are serious about security, performance, and UX. We're trying to build a useful, secure app that solves real problems.

We are a fast paced startup that knows the value of a healthy work-life balance.

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In Washington state, ranchers are subsidized. They are allowed to graze their cattle on public land for free, and when wolves kill their cattle, Washington state Fish and Wildlife uses helicopters to kill the wolves at over $1,000/hour cost to taxpayers.

They are killing the Profanity Peak pack as we speak because a rancher refused to not let his cattle graze unmonitored right next to their den. Why should I have to pay because some rancher refuses to move his cattle to some other land he also doesn't have to pay to use?

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/profani...

> "Is everyone really going to open a separate application, unlock the vault every time they want to use it (due to timeout), Ctrl+F for the URL, and then Ctrl+C out the username and password every time they want to visit a site? Also, is everyone going to create a correlated entry every time they make a new account?"

This is not how pass or KeePass work. I recommend you try them out and see if they're really that hard to use (hint: they're not).

If you really like browser integration, I also sometimes recommend using the built-in Chrome or Firefox password managers with good master passwords. They're actually easier to use than LastPass and its insecure ilk.

Haven't used it, but it looks like there are a few apps for iOS: https://mssun.github.io/passforios/

KeePass is a good solution, too. It also has iOS apps.

It's a risk, albeit a small one. Individual passwords are easy to change if compromised. I have personally never miscopied them. Both pass and KeePass will automatically clear your clipboard a little while after copying the password.

However, losing every single password at once, without your knowledge, direct to an adversary due to a LastPass vulnerability is a much more severe problem.

Here's a question you should ask yourself: do you want malicious webpages or malvertising to have direct API access to your password manager?

This is the case with all password manager browser extensions. A desktop-based password manager without the browser extension does not have this risk vector. And, as we've seen with the dozens of extremely critical LastPass bugs, they're not even particularly good at securing said API. Other products may be less bug ridden, but they share the same risk vector.

I use pass[1], and I recommend it if you can stand copying and pasting. It's really not much of an inconvenience for the dramatic increase in security you get.

[1]: https://www.passwordstore.org/

The argument is pretty straightforward.

According to this paper, vegetarian philosophers argue that livestock live lives not worth living because of the cruel treatment they receive. The paper then argues that wild animals receive worse treatment from nature. Therefore, their lives are similarly not worth living. Reducing suffering is the goal, and not living is better than living, so reducing the number of wild animals is best.

There are a number of good arguments to this. One would be that humans breeding livestock increases the amount of suffering, whereas wild animals are not bred. Another is about directly benefiting (eating) from this suffering verses not benefiting. Yet another is that active harm from cruel treatment is different from passive harm by "not helping" the wild animals.

This might be true, but AWS's support is not good. To get good AWS support for when their ELBs aren't working, or when half of your EBS volumes have multi-second IO latency, you need to pay for premium support, which is 10% of your bill.

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/pricing/

At best, this make it looks like sama is talking without considering his words carefully.

At worst, it confirms many people's fears of how those in Silicon Valley view the world.

Are you seriously suggesting that a large portion of the crypto/security community is so inherently biased that you can't trust their expert opinion on the field that they're expert in? Who do you trust?

It's much easier to remember TicketBleed than CVE-2016-9244. It also conveys severity.