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pyre··on How to Run Your Own Mail Server (2017)
Isn't this like saying:

> "I've never personally experienced a BSOD in Windows ME, so obviously it's incredibly stable. Those other people are just doing something wrong."

pyre··on BeyondCorp: How Google Ditched VPNs for Remote Employee Access
Sounds like the difference between "authenticate, then access this application" and "authenticate, then access our network which has this application accessible on it."
pyre··on Scammers Using Fake News to Screw with Bitcoin Investors
The ratings agencies didn't benefit from the "pump" in this case. They just did a poor job of assessing the risk by buying into the idea that the risk was lessened by pooling the toxic assets together. If the ratings agencies were not "pumping and dumping" then who are you claiming are the pumper-dumpers?
pyre··on How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”
> In Amsterdam, people cycle in -10°C when there's 10cm of snow on the ground

I assume that the parent post meant 0°F which is around -18°C.

pyre··on Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organisations?
There has to be a demand for all of that cocaine. If they flood the black market with cocaine the value would drop and so would their profits per kilo.
pyre··on The ‘app’ you can’t trash: how SIP is broken in High Sierra
> (Now you can install kernel extensions)

This is wrong. There is no "now." Kernel extensions have been installable in macOS since 10.0, IIRC. The real "issue" here is that Apple has provided a mechanism for installing Kernel extensions into a protected bucket, but no way to uninstall them.

The fact that this whole thing isn't very well (or at all) documented even for developers (the ones writing the kernel extensions), seems like it's not the most ideal of situations.

pyre··on Mapzen Shutdown
https://mapzen.com/blog/migration/#documentation-and-blog-po...

Says the blog posts will be archived.

pyre··on The lucrative business of America’s opioid crisis
The original comment practically said "they are Democrats, and the media is liberal-controlled, so obviously they get a free pass."
pyre··on Show HN: Sundown – an alternative to Markdown
... which makes Markdown even _less_ like your software. Also less relevant to marketing efforts as people up-thread are saying. Some of the use-cases that you're covering with your software were never covered by Markdown, nor were they ever intended to be use-cases for Markdown. So you're not going to find people that are currently using Markdown that will need Sundown for those use-cases.
pyre··on Poverty in Japan
> the Japanese going from point A to point B, (as polite as they are normally), just shrug and move on

I imagine this is more of an urban vs. rural issue than anything specifically Japanese.

pyre··on The U.S. Flooded One of Houston’s Richest Neighborhoods to Save Everyone Else
As others were saying, the developers actively wanted to exclude disclosure the flood status of these plots to potential buyers. Eventually the city "compromised" with them to hide a one-sentence warning deep in the paperwork.

Now granted, this did not prevent the homeowners from doing their own due-diligence, but I really think that the city officials that agreed to this, and the developers that lobbied for it should all be taken to task for their actions (and I think this regardless of what happened during the hurricane).

pyre··on The U.S. Flooded One of Houston’s Richest Neighborhoods to Save Everyone Else
I have a feeling that at _some_ point, a politician is going to see all of this land that the city owns and get dollar signs in their eyes, and it will eventually be privately-owned and built-up again.
pyre··on Twitter Sidestepped Russian Account Warnings, Former Worker Says
There's a difference between speculation and confirmation.
pyre··on What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?
But then you can't replace "tar.bz2" or "tar.gz" with "<something else>.gz" since ZIP does both container and compression.
pyre··on What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?
Being the (T)ape (AR)chive format, it was designed for tape backup, which doesn't really have random access. IIRC you would basically cat the output of tar to the tape.
pyre··on What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?
> Support for some features of the current SQLite format might deprecated, then removed, over the next many versions. Or perhaps a subtle bug is introduced that renders certain ancient versions unreadable (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15531489) and sticks around for long enough that you end up in a situation where you need to invest very significantly in software archaeology.

At this point, you've side-tracked into an argument that anyone could make against any software.

pyre··on What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?
> The same is not true for SQLite's format.

That's not entirely true. Anything that comes with Python installed has SQLite bundled/compiled in. It's just the library, not the cli, but still.

pyre··on Please Stop Writing Secure Messaging Tools (2015)
If you really cared about the author's credentials, then why didn't you even bother to do the most basic of Google searches before coming here to complain about not knowing immediately who the author was? I mean you didn't even get the author's gender right. What exactly are you contributing to the conversation here?
pyre··on How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block
I imagine because China has spent more time on the required infrastructure to make this happen. Spain is trying to stop something that is set to happen on Oct 1, so they have a finite amount of time to suppress the information.
pyre··on Modern terminal-based text editor
> This looks like it's aimed at being a better nano, not a better vim

I think that's the point. Seeing as nano replaced pico, and micro seems aimed at replacing nano. Also putting the SI prefixes in order of increasing size goes:

  pico => nano => micro
If someone eventually writes a replacement for micro, it will be called milli, I imagine.
pyre··on Equifax C.E.O. Richard Smith Retires After Huge Data Breach
Hiding behind bankruptcy only works if the subsidiary has no assets. Patent trolls work this to their advantage by creating a company whose only asset is the patent. If they lose / the patent is invalidated the company's only asset is worthless. They therefore have no assets to pay their debts.
pyre··on Why Is Python Growing So Quickly?
But significant whitespace means that I can't write code like this:

   sub (@) { return map { "@{[ $_[0] . $_ ]}" } @$_ };

Disclaimer: The majority of the programmers that I have known in real life that have a significant (and very vocal) dislike of Python's whitespace requirements have all written code like that above (this is my from-memory reproduction of actual code that one of them wrote). Python sucks because it's "restricting" them from being "expressive" with their code.
pyre··on From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones
So, you're stating that I'm not allowed to have an opinion that disapproves of the actions of Harvard in this instance?

No one is stating that Harvard had an obligation to accept her. People are expressing their dissatisfaction with Harvard's actions. That's still allowed, right?

[As a side note: If all private individuals/institutions impose additional hardships on ex-cons, then it's highly hypocritical for any of those individuals/institutions to complain about the recidivism rates. You may as well just send them all away for life in prison for any crime and be done with it if your plan is to hamper their efforts to move on after prison.]

pyre··on The Sex Scandal That Toppled SoFi’s C.E.O
Well, your only defence of the company against the parent of this thread was that they got you the best rate after shopping around. I'm pretty sure that "they don't have the best rate" is not an issue that the parent poster takes with the company, so I find it kind of odd that this is your rebuttal.
pyre··on The Sex Scandal That Toppled SoFi’s C.E.O
Personally, I don't know if "has the best rate" is strong enough to warrant the moniker, "a new kind of finance company," but that's just me.
pyre··on Chelsea Manning: The Dystopia We Signed Up For
Unless Chelsea Manning is trying to convince us to trust her with our private data, I don't see where the irony is.

It's similar to a reformed/retired safe cracker is telling us which safes are hard to crack. The safe cracker would be in a position to know about how difficult it would be to crack safes.

The major difference being that the safe cracker possibly stands to benefit from lying to us in an effort to make their job easier (convince us to get safes that are in reality easy to crack). In the situation with Chelsea Manning, I'm not sure where you think that she stands to benefit from us following any advice that she's giving.

pyre··on Chelsea Manning: The Dystopia We Signed Up For
Based on the commenter's first comment in this thread, I'm assuming that they already know who Chelsea Manning is. Unfortunately the content of all of their comments seems aimed to inflame/offend rather than discuss.
pyre··on Detailed study of fatalities and litigation involving police use of stun guns
> where the medical examiner listed the stun gun as a cause or contributing factor in the death

This is the operative phrase. There are many cases where someone gets hit by a stun gun and dies, and the medical examiner rules the cause of death as "unknown" or "inconclusive." I remember hearing these claims a decade ago. The whole point being that cops and Taser International didn't want the devices to be associated with the deaths, so they were trying as hard as they could to make sure it was never listed as a cause of death.

BS like: "this guy just happened to have a heart attack at the moment he was hit with the stun gun, but the stun gun in no way contributed to his heart attack."

pyre··on In Defense of Electron
I think that Slack is the top-offender in the "people love to complain about it" camp (for Electron apps), not necessarily Atom.
pyre··on AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and 1920X Unboxing
Apple's stuff doesn't show up in a Pelican case, but it does have decent-looking packaging that is also minimalist.
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