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Comment · 4 hours ago
It's rather ironic that making too much cheap energy makes energy more expensive. I suppose it must work the same way as rent control, where making prices lower makes prices higher.
Comment · 4 hours ago
Except the poorest people traditionally had the highest birth rates.
Comment · 4 hours ago
There are, no kidding, five or ten breaches on front page HN in the last three days. All php2shell, do you think?
Comment · 4 hours ago
And there will be a word you can type into a backup yubikey to make it an identical clone. I.e. a password.
Comment · 4 hours ago
Makes sense. Big business rich people are universally That Guy.
Comment · 5 hours ago
If you put a phone number into Grindr's "forgot password" feature it tells you whether there's an account with that phone number or not.
Comment · 5 hours ago
I would expect it depends on the language. Less unchecked memcpy, more forgetting to check the user is an admin.
Comment · 5 hours ago
How about /48

Oh wait that's the standard recommendation so it's already exactly how you said

Comment · 5 hours ago
Have you got your address tattooed on your forehead or why's it so important to keep it?
Comment · 5 hours ago
So how does an ipv4 host address an ipv5 host that has a 64 bit address
Comment · 5 hours ago
Actually, the difference is how much the ISP gives a shit about you. On a residential connection, they do not.
Comment · 5 hours ago
> our definitions cannot be enforced by technology

... that's why the proposed law doesn't try to?

Comment · 5 hours ago
Is there already a limit? If I reload your web page 5000 times per microsecond, am I committing a crime right now under the current law?
Comment · 5 hours ago
Is a human commanding the computer to do the action?
Comment · 5 hours ago
The proposed text makes it illegal to (not criminalises) running a stealth bot that causes harm that was predictable. This seems reasonable to me. It's legal if either the bot identifies itself, it's harmless, or it should have been harmless (you can't put up a web server that crashes on every 404 and then blame me for crashing it).

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