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New comment by cornishpixels in "Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive"

cornishpixels — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:38:02 +0000

And so long as people use that logic, we'll never live in that society.

New comment by cornishpixels in "Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive"

cornishpixels — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:32:25 +0000

A "petty battle against CloudFlare DNS users"? No. They require a standardized DNS extension in order for their services to operate properly, and CloudFlare is waging a petty battle against the standard.

New comment by cornishpixels in "Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive"

cornishpixels — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:30:53 +0000

It doesn't even matter whether the copyright owner likes it or knows about it or not. Selling a used book is legal.

New comment by cornishpixels in "Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive"

cornishpixels — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:28:35 +0000

Meanwhile, all the copies of those same books which were purchased by libraries are now sitting on library shelves, unable to be loaned out.

The copyright holders have already gotten paid.

New comment by cornishpixels in "Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive"

cornishpixels — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:24:27 +0000

That's pretty clearly exactly what they're arguing.

New comment by cornishpixels in "eBay port scans visitors' computers for remote access programs"

cornishpixels — Tue, 26 May 2020 06:09:02 +0000

Yeah... that's very rare.

New comment by cornishpixels in "eBay port scans visitors' computers for remote access programs"

cornishpixels — Tue, 26 May 2020 06:08:17 +0000

They are open ports which are accessible to the Internet at large. Or at least, any site you go to. If you don't like that there are various means to close off those ports to your browsers (Windows firewall, network namespaces, etc).

New comment by cornishpixels in "Ask HN: Has anybody shipped a web app at scale with 1 DB per account?"

cornishpixels — Tue, 26 May 2020 06:06:29 +0000

How is it not? Uniqueness would cease to matter between different tenants. They're unique by virtue of using a different database.

New comment by cornishpixels in "Today’s Javascript, from an outsider’s perspective"

cornishpixels — Tue, 26 May 2020 05:18:47 +0000

IMO this is a symptom of a larger problem with the entire web 'ecosystem' (HTML, CSS, JS primarily). It all tries (or tried, anyway) to be simple and easy and forgiving - which means that simple things are easy, and moderately complex things are insanely difficult.

I honestly think the only real solution is re-doing all of it 'from scratch', to make everything (a) stricter and (b) more normal/consistent.

(I think the extant transpilers/preprocessors tend to try to be too 'thin' of a wrapper around CSS/JS: they do give some nice quality of life features but still don't really clean up the mess that is JS and the DOM.)

New comment by cornishpixels in "Ask HN: Has anybody shipped a web app at scale with 1 DB per account?"

cornishpixels — Tue, 26 May 2020 04:21:03 +0000

You can always take a multi-tenant system and convert it into a single-tenant system a lot more easily. First and foremost, you can simply run the full multi-tenant system with only a single tenant, which if nothing else enables progressive development (you can slowly remove those now-unnecessary WHERE clauses, etc).

New comment by cornishpixels in "eBay port scans visitors' computers for remote access programs"

cornishpixels — Mon, 25 May 2020 18:11:26 +0000

Open ports which are accessible to the Internet at large are not "machine internals". If you do not want someone to access your systems, then you should configure your systems to not allow that access.

New comment by cornishpixels in "eBay port scans visitors' computers for remote access programs"

cornishpixels — Mon, 25 May 2020 18:09:05 +0000

> This makes sense as the programs being scanned for are all Windows remote access tools.

Wait. VNC is a Windows remote access tool? LOL.

New comment by cornishpixels in "eBay port scans visitors' computers for remote access programs"

cornishpixels — Mon, 25 May 2020 18:07:26 +0000

You're assuming that the 'bad guys' pay attention and look closely enough to even see that this detection exists and figure out how to bypass it.

New comment by cornishpixels in "Ask HN: Production Lisp in 2020?"

cornishpixels — Tue, 19 May 2020 13:59:35 +0000

Knowledgeable developers are part of every language's ecosystem.

New comment by cornishpixels in "Your mobile data sold, without your knowledge"

cornishpixels — Mon, 11 May 2020 01:39:48 +0000

In Soviet Russia, your cell provider sells this data.

Wait, no, that's America. I was thinking of America.

New comment by cornishpixels in "Ask HN: Advice for passing a FAANG background check with a criminal history"

cornishpixels — Fri, 01 May 2020 03:02:05 +0000

I believe most if not all states seal juvenile records by default.

If so, then a court would have to unseal it.

As an example, in Texas, juvenile records are automatically sealed in most cases, and can basically only be released to the subject of the record, or a prosecutor in a future case.

New comment by cornishpixels in "Ask HN: Advice for passing a FAANG background check with a criminal history"

cornishpixels — Fri, 01 May 2020 02:50:54 +0000

> I did have an arrest warrant out for me and I turned myself in

Sounds like you technically were arrested.

> aren't allowed to use ... sealed court records against you

That's... basically what sealed means.

> California companies aren't allowed to use

Generally the law applies based on the employee's state of residence, not where the company is based.

Anyway... just answer their questions truthfully, but don't disclose anything about sealed records. I highly doubt they'll ask or care about arrests.

New comment by cornishpixels in "Stripe responded to my concerns about user tracking"

cornishpixels — Fri, 01 May 2020 00:18:42 +0000

The fragment is, at the very least, exposed to JavaScript. It's also has several problems which are explicitly called out (for the query string) in your own link: Shoulder surfing, cache, history

New comment by cornishpixels in "Biggest companies pay the least tax, shows new research"

cornishpixels — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 19:36:16 +0000

Except we don't need to "solve the problem of high taxes on small business". We need to solve the problem of low taxes on big business.

New comment by cornishpixels in "Biggest companies pay the least tax, shows new research"

cornishpixels — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 19:30:51 +0000

"91 profitable Fortune 500 companies paid $0 in taxes in 2018 under Trump's tax law" https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-tax-law-fortune-500-com...

"The 379 profitable members of the Fortune 500 paid an effective federal tax rate of 11.3% last year" https://www.axios.com/fortune-500-companies-corporate-income...

Amazon, in particular, made over $10b in 2018, but the US government paid them over $100m.

ETA: And for comparison, I made $36k last year (missed a lot of time for health reasons) with a family of 3 (= negative profit, I'm still in debt from it!), and my tax rate is ~8%.