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timetopay | 2 years ago | on: A former Gizmodo writer changed name to 'Slackbot', stayed undetected for months

SCIM adoption isn't near where it needs to be. I guess yeah, this is the correct answer. We live in a world where SSO is considered an enterprise feature, I hope one day that it's considered default.

timetopay | 2 years ago | on: A former Gizmodo writer changed name to 'Slackbot', stayed undetected for months

One thing that SSO isn't great at is deactivating live sessions. Often, you either solve this with short session times (annoying to users), making a note in the de-provisioning steps document (not foolproof), or using a third party vendor (costly).

timetopay | 3 years ago | on: ‘Breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers

Of course it doesn't imply anything directly about the drug, but it does implicate the pharma industry in willingness to distribute drugs that have long term side effects.

> Every day is a new day, every event a potential surprise...

This is a thought terminating cliche, and has no bearing on pharmacology and societal impact.

These drugs are about to be very heavily prescribed, and widely introduced - when, in fact, they should be slowly rolled out to those who need them the most. People who should be given this drug are those whose weight is so severe that it has immediate effects on negative health outcomes.

There are going to be people who want to drop a couple of BMI points in time for Summer without eating and exercise, and any doctor (or person) who enables this use in the short term (the next 5 years, at least) is irresponsible.

In fact, your example of penicillin is a perfect example: who cares about any potential downsides to a drug when not using the drug has the downside of death?

timetopay | 3 years ago | on: I still use Flash

That's a lazy excuse IMO. There's a lot you can do, like letting small developers have up to 100 achievements, with more requiring talking to partner relations.

timetopay | 3 years ago | on: On the supposed “nihilism” of the Mango Markets arbitrageur

> one of the advantages of cryptocurrencies as the foundation of a separate financial system is that systems are, by necessity, subject to adversarial hardening

This is what the law is for.

> Perhaps it is true that Avraham committed illegal market manipulation (or some other violation of the law). However, does it really make sense to call for prosecution and imprisonment?

Yes. They broke the law. Laws should be fairly enforced.

> Furthermore, if there is any core ethos of crypto, it is one of independence from the authority of the state.

No, that's the core ethos of a lot of people in cryptocurrencies. It turns out that there are a lot of "investors" in cryptocurrencies who do not feel that way :)

timetopay | 3 years ago | on: The PocketReform is a made-in-Berlin Linux handheld

I don't think what people actually want is a "linux phone". IE, something that runs a semi-conventional linux userspace.

I think what they want is a privacy protecting smart phone built on open source components. Also, Android is based on a driver and BSP model that is quickly going to be replaced with Fuchsia/Zircon

timetopay | 4 years ago | on: BYD has reportedly received 10 GWh of orders from Tesla for LFP batteries

uncharged battery fluid may be inert, but once you put all of that energy in there, the story changes drastically

that said, LiFePO4 is a pretty safe technology at this point

timetopay | 10 years ago | on: Is there a place for fakery in art galleries and museums?

The question if video games are art or not has been pretty solved, and the question has moved on to emulation accuracy versus impacting the original experience. It's a very tricky, subjective thing, especially in a medium that is often designed to be mass produced. That's a step further away from movies where a unit is produced for a platform based around a common standard with multiple implementations, but for console games and other fine tuned implementations, it's a tricky question.