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An allowlist is a directory of specific elements that are allowed, e.g. email addresses, IP addresses or URLs etc.
An allowlist has the same meaning as a whitelist in computer and tech industry.
An allowlist has the same meaning as a whitelist in computer and tech industry.
Allowlist like block list are much more intuitive and descriptive than whitelist and blacklist and don't have subliminal racist associations- blacklist = block and whitelist = allow.
by mlhiss July 7, 2020
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We are about to enter the crashabout, don't assume the other drivers, bikers and pedestrians have a clue as to what to do.
by mlhiss July 9, 2020
Get the crashabout mug.1, Low wage/sub-living wage job for which there is little potential for advancement in the job, accumulating wealth, or in one's life.
2. A job with high risk to health and welfare, lack of concern for the safety of the worker especially during a pandemic or times when labor and public health/environmental laws are not being enforced. The job has very limited benefits except to the employer.
2. A job with high risk to health and welfare, lack of concern for the safety of the worker especially during a pandemic or times when labor and public health/environmental laws are not being enforced. The job has very limited benefits except to the employer.
He was desperate when he took the dead end job during the pandemic, but he had no idea how quickly and badly it would end for so many of his co-workers.
by mlhiss July 9, 2020
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Get the cnf mug.The Green Banana Spring *"Green Banana"is a 425-foot blue hole spring/sinkhole that is located in 42 Nautical Miles west of Sarasota County in the Gulf of Mexico on the Continental Shelf in 155 ft of water. The hole is noted for high biological diversity and marine life. Seawater chemistry in the hole is unique and interacts with groundwater in different aquifer layers.
by mlhiss July 26, 2020
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The authorities assured us that cultural erasure was a myth and that the minorities cultural practice of living in tight close knit compounds only coincidentally looked like forced labor work camps because of the security towers The authorities noted that these primitive people preferred being assimilated in the dominant culture because it gave them unlimited opportunities to work, and an extreme sense of security.
by mlhiss July 29, 2020
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