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 Discussion on question by WoJ: Why is…

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WoJ
Jul 1 01:29
@ItalianPhilosopher while I do not agree with you regarding the "close because responses will be opinions" (to me this is the core of politics, and it is interesting to listen to everyone's opinions on the topic), you have perfectly described our attitude to war and army
WoJ
Jul 1 01:29
Thank you for the comments and answers so far, but I am surprised that it is almost closed for "opinions". Isn't this a key part of politics? (and the reason I asked the question here)
 

 Discussion on answer by Philip Klöcki…

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WoJ
Jun 17 18:34
@PhilipKlöcking Thanks. I of course got the point (the paper is repeating it about 74 times :)) but as an ex-physicist I have a very hard time with graphs that are infographics but try to pass for some kind of mathematical evidence. I also missed the fact that the "sedentary" red guy is just another representation of "more or less effort" and not the starting point (I though "k, so if I ma the red gy and go through the green curve I get what, vs going though the red one"). But the overall document is good.
WoJ
Jun 17 18:34
The WHO paper is nice, except for Figure 1: I am looking and looking at it and cannot make sense of the graphs.
 

 Discussion on answer by Philomath: In…

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WoJ
Feb 8 17:05
This is an excellent answer, +1. I will try to make one from the other side but frankly this one is brilliant.
 

 Discussion on answer by David Robie: …

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WoJ
Jan 17 11:25
@DavidRobie So saying that Wyoming has a stronger growth than Canada is not true, even though 6.3 > 1.5. I do not know how you measure "growth" in the US, but at least in Europe it is in percentages. And percentages are compared to other percentages to state which country had the largest "growth" (or if the growth was sustained yer by year, etc.)
 

 Discussion on answer by Kate Gregory:…

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WoJ
Dec 31, 2024 00:43
So just to be clear - if someone says "go to the grocery store and buy some butter", they will be back with salted butter, right? (I now understand that salted butter is the default in recipes, just wanted to make sure it is also the case in everyday life)
 

 Discussion on answer by Steve Jessop:…

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WoJ
Oct 4, 2024 18:50
I like this answer very much because when I read NY and GDPR I was about to say "check if you care" but you perfectly set the conditions, consequences etc. +1 (for reference, I am an EU citizen)
 

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WoJ
Jul 30, 2024 04:08
the Book of Revelation is a mathematical eventuality → what does this mean?
 

 Discussion on answer by Dale M: Is si…

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WoJ
Jul 11, 2024 07:57
@JimmyJames: no, because they did not willingly sign a document that they knew would be filled in. If you sign a blanc-seign, it means that you agree on the (lack of) content, it is a contract like others (that can be challenged, and this is why you have witnesses etc.). Just to be clear: this is a extremely rare case, not your go-to contract! :)
WoJ
Jul 11, 2024 07:57
@JimmyJames What stops someone from checking that later and/or how could prove I didn't check it? → you have your copy, co-signed by the other party. Something added/changed on only one of the copies was necessarily done after the signatures exchange.
WoJ
Jul 11, 2024 07:57
@JimmyJames: at least in France - yes. We have the concept of signing "in white" (blanc-seign = signing off a space that has no text). You are bound to what someone will put in there (there used to be limitations about losing money but they are not enforced anymore)
 

 Discussion on answer by jay613: Can I…

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WoJ
Jun 28, 2024 21:11
@TooTea I've been charging my phone in the bathroom a few times, and I welcomed the 120W
 

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WoJ
Jun 1, 2024 09:29
@Frank this is not unheard of, though. It really depends on the people. My son is preparing for a national exam to business schools and since he is talking like a book the whole day, I noticed that he has many of these unusual expressions. I am following him with a dictionary, just in case :)
WoJ
Jun 1, 2024 09:25
@temporary_user_name yes, I am French and was just juggling with examples. I translated "yet" as "encore" (he is yet to arrive → il n'est pas encore arrivé) or "néanmoins" (he is tall and yet a=cannot reach the shelf → il est grand mais ne peut néanmoins pas atteindre l'étagère). The example you provided is very good, I just did not think of it (yet :))
 

 Discussion on question by je je: Is p…

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WoJ
Apr 25, 2024 14:39
@yshavit this is the best piece of advice, worthy of an answer IMO
 

 Discussion on question by Dev15: Comi…

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WoJ
Mar 27, 2024 20:17
What is a "dissertation proposal"?
 

 Discussion on question by Ccass: Can …

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WoJ
Mar 23, 2024 14:56
@KateGregory whoa, this is crazy. I have spoken so many times at conferences in the US (coming from France) and it never occurred to me that I could be turned away for that reason. I guess I was lucky then.
 

 Discussion on question by AbysmalMath…

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WoJ
Feb 11, 2024 21:46
@PrimeMover - as a French I have never heard magma being used as jumble. The etymology is Latin "thick liquid".
 

 Discussion on answer by ohwilleke: Do…

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WoJ
Nov 18, 2023 18:08
(...) to the extent that the company is profitable enough to make those payments - is this usually part of a contract, or an ad-hoc bonus? In other words, does the contract says "and there will be a bonus, we do not know how big", or is it an unwritten, volatile agreement?
 

 Discussion on question by Mat: Are th…

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WoJ
Oct 22, 2023 22:17
Rendezvous is not a French word. Rendez-vous is.
 

 Discussion on question by S...: How d…

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WoJ
Sep 19, 2023 21:05
@Elec1 you quickly double-tap to send a dash. tap tap tap tap-tap tap-tap tap-tap tap tap tap
WoJ
Sep 19, 2023 21:05
Man, there are weirdos in this world... I would start responding with nonsense until he finds another guinea pig.
 

 Discussion on answer by xenoson: Can …

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WoJ
Aug 3, 2023 13:29
@xenoson: you have access to hashes, not passwords - which makes retrieving the hashes way, way less problematic if they are correctly constructed and passwords are checked for compliance at creation time. But I am getting what you are saying.
WoJ
Aug 3, 2023 13:29
@xenoson: I mean there is no way to hide them from me you mean that you have access to the plain text version of the passwords?
WoJ
Aug 3, 2023 13:29
@xenoson That's why I teach them it needs to be >20 chars of random This is bad advice. See the NIST recommendations on digital identity for instance. Passwords (memorized secrets) must be easy to remember and not complex. A few random dictionary words are perfect - the length must be >15 to break old cyphers.
WoJ
Aug 3, 2023 13:29
@xenoson I know all email passwords of my users - no other way what do you mean by that?
WoJ
Aug 3, 2023 13:29
@KeithLangmead the vast, vast, vast majority of services are web, and the password is transmitted in cleartext (hopefully protected by HTTPS, but still plaintext). There are some marginal systems that do it client since (Kerberos as you mentioned).
WoJ
Aug 3, 2023 13:29
Despite being downvoted, as a security professional, I like this answer. The service may know your password, it may store it in a secure way, and the company has access to any data that you did not send encrypted yourself. Their "encryption" may be faulty as well.
 

 Discussion on answer by Doc: Does Avi…

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WoJ
May 7, 2023 13:34
@7caifyi I have hope for the staff to still be able to speak English and half of the place will not be speaking English or Spanish so hopefully they will do as the other do (including the special ones in the exit row)
WoJ
May 7, 2023 13:34
@7caifyi I do not expect the people in the exit row to react rationally when faced with a super stressful situation. I do crisis testing and people just lose their minds and rationality when this happens. So there will be a lot of chaos and the language is the least of my problems at that point.
WoJ
May 7, 2023 13:31
@7caifyi cool down. I was just commenting on your "Really a moderator condoning irresponsibility?". What has the fact of being a moderator has to do with him condoning or not my point of view?
WoJ
May 7, 2023 13:05
@7caifyi he is not condoning irresponsibility (as a moderator), just moving a lengthy discussion to chat.
WoJ
May 7, 2023 12:41
@7caifyi are you absolutely sure that the person who will be sitting will have the state of mind to react appropriately? That she has been tested in crisis situations to react accordingly? No. So putting these people there is irresponsible. I much prefer having me there (who will know what to do and, having been in similar situations, will have a hope to reacting correctly) than a major in Spanish who will lose their mind and block the evacuation.
WoJ
May 7, 2023 12:41
@7caifyi you are there to open the door - which itself is difficult in stress. This is why I always look at the 3 pictures of how to open it (and count the rows if I am not in an exit row). When there is stress nobody is going to do Spanish poetry - they will yell "abrir!" (or whatever this sin in Spanish, this was not my string element in high school), and "opeeeeeeen the fucking doooor!" which I will understand. By this logic, you will not understand that you need to evacuate from another row because you do not speak Spanish.
WoJ
May 7, 2023 12:41
I always had a "monologue" kind of interaction in such a case (with other airlines). They would ask "do you speak English", I nodded and then they proceeded to explain what I would need to do in case of an unexpected "rapid unexpected disassembly" (to use the words of the poet). I wonder if nodding after a "hablàis Español?" wouldn't be enough.
 

 Discussion on answer by Ottie: Why do…

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WoJ
Dec 9, 2022 15:41
The "stratification" as you call it is a real problem in France. You expect children that are 14 to make life-changing choices. Their brain is not ready for that before an average of 21 (front cortex maturity). The recent changes in high school (lycée) that created an objective mess also helped to weaken the power of this choice. But still.
 

 Discussion on answer by gerrit: Why d…

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WoJ
Nov 9, 2022 21:06
The text on the sign means "you have priority" and was placed by foreign invaders of the country.
 

 Discussion on question by user136954:…

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WoJ
Oct 6, 2022 19:39
I guess you are in the US (based on the wording of your question) so I do not know. In France this would simply be illegal, on many layers.
 

 Discussion on answer by Weather Vane:…

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WoJ
Aug 16, 2022 20:46
a criminal trial isn't about what is obvious, but the truth fair enough - good answer (+1). The movie Twelve Angry Men was about such an obvious case as well.
 

 Discussion on question by ratouney: I…

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WoJ
Aug 11, 2022 11:32
this is exactly why I said that asking about the security of GitHub is not interesting, outside of knowing whether the servcie itself is secure (and it is, to the best of my knowledge).

Making the decision to outsource something to a 3rd party is part of the risk analysis of the operation (it includes all kinds of elements, legal, IP, privacy, subcontractors to the 3rd party, ..). Thi swill not be done by information security who can only speak of information security.
WoJ
Aug 10, 2022 15:17
@ToddWilcox: not everyone agrees that there is no vulnerability in a GitHub private repo → this would be very good information, especially for companies that use this feature extensively. Please share, the infosec community will be very gateful.
WoJ
Aug 10, 2022 15:17
@ToddWilcox: there is no infosec risk. There is a compliance/IP risk, yes. From the perspective of information security, Github is fine (= it is a SaaS that does not have any serious known vulnerabilities). I agree with the training part (which is not an infosec training per se - it is the same as sharing confidential information via other means than web) but if you ask an infosec professional they will respond that it is fine - it i snot up to them to decide whether a site is legally sound to share data)
WoJ
Aug 10, 2022 15:17
@ToddWilcox: I am not sure I understand what OP would gain from posting at SE InfoSec? There was no breach, vulnerabilities, ...
WoJ
Aug 10, 2022 15:17
In addition to the other answers - do you know what your contact with GitHub is? Do you know if they can access your data and make use of them for [whatever]?
 

 Discussion on answer by Dale M: In wh…

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WoJ
Aug 2, 2022 22:37
Left and center-left Europeans are often willing to see the hijab restricted because they see it as sexist and coercive. And right-wingers frequently see the hijab as a symbol of militant Islam and cultural pollution by immigrants. This is not the case, at least for France. "Left" in Europe tends to protect Islamic signs of religion (including hijab), earning in France the name of "islamo-gauchistes" (created of course by the "right") and the "Righ" opposes hijab for all the reasons you gave (sexist, coercive, militantism, ...).
 

 Discussion on question by Someone: Is…

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WoJ
Jul 3, 2022 16:52
@O.R.Mapper: ah ok, that's clear now. We have roundabouts with only the "roundabout" sign, or with both of them.
WoJ
Jul 3, 2022 16:52
@O.R.Mapper: I should not have said Europe, indeed. I just checked and at least in the French sites about Germany, it is clearly stated that the priority is on the roundabouts. I am not sure I understand your second sentence. A sign 215 means "roundabout" → you have priority on it in Germany, but not in France. No need for a yield sign, right?
WoJ
Jul 3, 2022 16:52
@Harper-ReinstateMonica: if someday you are in Paris, I invite you to have a look at the roundabout around the Arc de Triomphe (place de l'Etoile, now apparently called place Charles de Gaulle goo.gl/maps/3M8qczR8BXpxrGkQ8). This is quite a show, especially when someone in one of the inner lanes decides to leave at the next exit (and to add to the excitement, there are no lanes). It is a shame there are no cafés around to sit an enjoy the spectacle.
WoJ
Jul 3, 2022 16:52
@Someone: so a roundabout is not treated as a set of road crossings? In Europe, each entry of a roundabout is a road crossing and therefore by default the ones entering have right of way. Except that in 90% of the roundabouts you would have yield signs at the entrance of the roundabout. A famous case of the 10% is the roundabout around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris (the ones entering have right of way). Another example is Place de la Loi in Versailles.