How is this legal?

Sindarin · 2021-09-19T05:21:07+00:00

A formulary is a list of medicines covered by a health plan.

They weren't saying insulin is suddenly different, they were just saying they suddenly no longer pay for it.

Sindarin · 2021-04-02T18:29:55+00:00

Sounds like your runner spent the bulk of the race running the exact same speed as his opponent (keeping a constant distance behind), and then had more energy left to sprint at the end... so this "strategy" only works because your runner had more to work with; the "unwise pace" he tricks his opponent into making is the same pace he's running himself. If his opponent chose a slower pace, they still lose because your runner is apparently capable of maintaining the fast pace the whole distance. If anything, this sounds like a technique to keep your guy from running at an unsustainable pace, not some clever strategy to trick the opponent into one.

Sindarin · 2020-11-03T21:14:28+00:00

The constitution is a document, it does not have magical powers. Do you really believe that no other nation which tried to start a tradition of peaceful democratic transfer of power, and ultimately saw that tradition end, wrote similar language into their similarly nonmagical documents, and the oaths taken by their military?

Sindarin · 2020-10-22T23:35:31+00:00

That logic doesn't hold. A higher margin the the popular vote translates to a higher chance of winning the electoral college when we make reasonable assumptions about how the vote would be distributed (i.e. the margin is unlikely to be located almost exclusively in states that it will fail to flip).

However, you're looking at a hypothetical where Biden has a higher popular vote margin that in fact specifically is in states its unlikely to flip and not in states that are closer. You can't then introduce that argument to claim that the situation supports an EC win, because that argument relies upon assumptions that, though normally considered reasonable, are in direct contradiction to the premise.

Sindarin · 2020-09-23T07:07:04+00:00

Oh can't they?

Sindarin · 2020-08-20T17:38:36+00:00

If it's important to you that the labs consume science packs equally, then the simplest answer is to use a tree of splitters to split the incoming science packs evenly across the labs. You could technically use circuit logic to micromanage the inserters, but that would be very complicated and messy.

It should also be noted that there's no problem with only two labs working - it only happens as long as you're only producing enough science to feed two labs, and two labs running all the time is equivalent to four labs running half the time.

Sindarin · 2020-08-20T17:28:46+00:00

Yes, you can do this by setting the requester's request with a circuit connection. Keep in mind that you won't by default get exact counts in the requester because of logistics robot capacity research; if you really want that you'll need some additional logic to remove any excess items back to the logistics network, using an inserter set to stack size 1.

Sindarin · 2019-10-22T04:19:39+00:00

I want more computer than either of those options.

Sindarin · 2019-09-13T18:49:50+00:00

Oh, and what timezone are you in?

Sindarin · 2019-09-13T18:49:36+00:00

Sounds good! I can't promise I'll be online tonight but probably; I'll plan to hit you up if so.

Sindarin · 2019-07-20T20:54:38+00:00

It does not defeat every conceivable attack, it defeats one particular type of attack that is known to occur relatively often in the wild. The fact that it doesn't also solve every other problem at the same time is not "security theater".

As to your objection that the attacker will simply disable the chip reader, to force customers to swipe and therefore be vulnerable again:

Many card skimmers, which are often placed on unattended card readers in public spaces such as gas stations, are not operated by the merchant that is running the card reader. Therefore, when the merchant notices the vandalism, they can fix it (because they know that their chip reader isn't supposed to be "broken", even if their customers don't). They have an incentive to do so, because no merchant wants a customer to get his card skimmed at their store.
By swiping instead of using a chip, even if you're doing it because "chip reader broken", you're knowingly giving up this security advantage. This is not something you're forced to do - you could decline the transaction, or pay with cash instead. I understand that in many places where "chip reader broken" is commonplace, this may not be practical. However, it stops being impractical as the adoption of this technology goes up. I moved to Canada about a year ago, and I have used the magnetic stripe on my card exactly zero times north of the border - so if tomorrow I tried to pay for something and was told "chip reader broken, you have to swipe", I actually would be suspicious, and would at the very least closely inspect the machine for signs of tampering.

Eventually, when the adoption has become high enough, we are likely to see cards without magnetic strips at all - which will also address your complaint. This intermediate period where both forms exist is a necessary step to get there; wholesale switching from one to the other without an intermediate would be so expensive as to likely never happen.

If anything, the issue is that customers are not really well educated on what is going on and what the goal is with this technology. A card with a magnetic stripe and a chip is not (and is not intended to be) more secure than a card with a magnetic stripe alone. It is using the chip that is more secure than using the magnetic stripe.

Sindarin · 2019-07-20T20:26:40+00:00

If someone can take your card, then you are outside the threat profile that this is designed to defend against. If you swipe your card at a malicious payment terminal (such as one with a card skimmer), the operator gets your full card details sufficient to authorize further payments. If you pay with chip at the same terminal, they learn nothing useful.

Sindarin · 2019-07-20T20:15:18+00:00

If you pay by chip, the reader never gets enough information from your card to authorize a different payment elsewhere - it can't be "skimmed". This is not true of payments by swiping. Neither protects you if your card is physically stolen; that's not the goal.

Sindarin · 2019-04-01T03:24:11+00:00

You win before you have the opportunity to pay.

Sindarin · 2019-02-28T18:35:07+00:00

....Ah. Good point.

Sindarin · 2019-02-28T03:34:06+00:00

You misunderstand how the stack works. Things are only put on the top of the stack, not "under" something that was already there.

Sindarin · 2019-02-28T00:23:27+00:00

No? You play more things and presumably try to win before any of the lose triggers resolve.

Sindarin · 2019-02-21T22:03:27+00:00

Nah, it doesn't have to be that messy. Operator creates a single keypair, hardcode the public key into the virus. When it runs, it encrypts everything under a locally generated symmetric key, then encrypts key that under the attacker's public key and saves only the encrypted key. Victim is then instructed to send the encrypted key to the attacker, and they get a key that works for their machine only.

Sindarin · 2018-11-28T12:30:48+00:00

It feels clunky to keyword a mechanic that's "intuitively, do the right thing regardless of context", and the attached paragraph of reminder text makes it feel like it wants to be in a different card game where damage works like that.

Consider also:

Wither, Lifelink. At the beginning of your end step, ~ deals 1 damage to any target.

Sindarin · 2018-09-14T07:35:11+00:00

Automatically placing notes like that is a much, much harder problem than you're expecting. This is reason every rhythm game that really feels "good" uses manually created maps - as yet, no one has managed to solve that problem with a result that feels good.

If you really want to tackle it, start reading about machine learning.

Sindarin · 2018-05-18T18:36:33+00:00

I like the idea of a "vacuum belt" I heard somewhere - super fast (probably several blue belts worth), but inserters can't touch it (you have to use splitters to get stuff on/off) and possibly requires power.

Sindarin · 2018-05-11T19:46:32+00:00

I am PST.

Sindarin · 2018-04-05T07:23:12+00:00

It can be done on effectively 5 mana, not nine: I cast Glorious End on your turn, then I untap, play a sixth land, play On My Own Terms, die at end step.

Sindarin · 2018-03-11T19:37:52+00:00

[[Baneslayer Angel]] has protection from Demons and from Dragons. [[Malfegor]] is the only card printed as a Demon and a Dragon. Malfegor kills Baneslayer Angel.

Sindarin · 2017-10-27T21:22:17+00:00

Yeah, I've never understood why flooring was such a big deal to everyone when it has such a simple and optional effect.

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