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by Buge 7y ago
When the government pays for things, it distorts the economics, because the true cost of that thing is being hidden from the consumers. By including the cost of enforcement in the cost of the service itself, the market can balance better. F
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by Buge 7y ago
By forcing airlines to allow horses, that means the airlines have to expend effort for that. That means they have to raise prices. That means all airline fliers are paying for it. I don't see a reason why all US citizens should pay for
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by Buge 7y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20703699
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by Buge 7y ago
We can make EV useful if we add an Expect-EV header similar to the Expect-CT header. And ideally add preloading to the header too. This allows EV to have real benefits without requiring any user alertness.
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by Buge 7y ago
You're arguing search engines should disincentivize gaming SEO? That seems to be exactly what Google has done here.
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by Buge 7y ago
Kind of funny, since some people claim The Intercept has an anti-Obama and pro-Trump bias. https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/90qn1h/ecuador_wi... https://www.reddit.com/r/po
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by Buge 7y ago
That's not really the last sentence in the article. There's an ad break, then a bit more stuff.
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by Buge 7y ago
It's a direct quote from the whistleblower: > The whistleblower said: “There have been countless instances of recordings featuring private discussions between doctors and patients, business deals, seemingly criminal dealings, sexual
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by Buge 7y ago
Are you aware that Github, Twitter, and Facebook also logged passwords? https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-says-bug-exposed-accoun... https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05&#
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by Buge 7y ago
Reminds me of the time my aunt got an SMS saying reply 1 to post happy birthday to my dad's wall, she replied 1 and it posted 1 to his wall. https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/2qbg9j/reply_1_
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by Buge 7y ago
Off topic, but I found it interesting that there was a parody of "My Way" by Frank Sinatra about Ebay. Weird Al made a parody of "I Want It That Way" by the Backstreet Boys titled "Ebay".
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by Buge 7y ago
My idea of ranting crazy person's website doesn't have facebook share buttons and a popup asking me to subscribe to a newsletter. For reference, here are my ideas of a crazy person's website: http://timecube.2enp.c
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by Buge 7y ago
Vaguely related: I noticed that the old reddit UI would display self posts as "self.subredditname" and link posts to foo.com as "foo.com". I realized there was a potential confusion if your tld is the subreddit name, and
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by Buge 7y ago
What laptop is that? Because this laptop has a lot of very weird ports (I'm leaving out USB-C): 2 micro USB-B ports, one with quick charging 3.0, one with USB OTG so the laptop can be used as an external mouse and keyboard for a differ
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by Buge 7y ago
>As for disabling asserts in the code you ship: That is such a quaint 1980'ies thing to do, and people should have stopped doing it long time ago. Sqlite makes all its asserts noop in release mode[1]. Chrome disables DCHECK() in rel
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by Buge 7y ago
>Pearce's practice is in Harare, and he specialises in buildings which are low cost, low maintenance, and have low environmental impact. His projects try to make best use of locally available resources, and include Harare Internatio
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by Buge 7y ago
For both A and B, why do they need to check all locations? Wouldn't finding a single location be enough to prove that it's happening? Also in A and B you seem to be saying it's difficult for them to see whether all the locati
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by Buge 7y ago
Insults like this are very annoying to read. If you think the moderation is too strict and is hurting HN's environment, then say that. There's no need to be so mean about it.
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by Buge 7y ago
The original one would match "==", your suggestion would not. To get a clean regex they should switch to .*=.* I don't think they should spend any time contemplating whether a regex will backtrack, because it's
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by Buge 7y ago
It's meant to match any number of any characters, then match an equal sign, then match any number of any characters. But it's very badly written. It should instead simply be written .*=.* BTW, your comment got mangled by
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by Buge 7y ago
> blaming bad drivers for accidents instead of fixing the system. I had to read that several times before I realized you weren't talking about computer device drivers and computer systems.
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by Buge 7y ago
Yes, but then why do they need to reverse engineer anything? Can't they use a capture card?
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by Buge 7y ago
Netflix serves a tremendous amount of video, a large percent of total internet bandwidth. They spend a lot of time optimizing their video compression, which can be seen from their tech blog, and papers they publish on video compression tech
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by Buge 7y ago
>After starting with a large raw file, the finalized version ready for release is around 30% smaller, around 7GB for a 1080p file. Huh? Are they recompressing it? How else would it shrink? If they're recompressing it, why don't
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by Buge 7y ago
>e.g. only blocking actual criminal content, which is all youtube have done before this, right? Youtube has always blocked porn. Youtube has had a other restrictions as well, for example at first all videos had to be under 10 minutes. In
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by Buge 7y ago
How big of an outage do you want? Here's one from 7 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20298719
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by Buge 7y ago
Both of these Google outages made it to the HN frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077421 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20338263 Both of these AWS outages made it to the HN frontpage (a
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by Buge 7y ago
If that's the problem, then gibrown's solution >Just start banning certain creators from showing up in recommendations if their content crosses the line. also won't help, because it's not the creators that have conten
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by Buge 7y ago
> PewDiePie, a skinny, fast-talking Swede Is he really fast-talking? He seems kind of slow talking to me, when I watch his videos I use 2x speed.
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by Buge 7y ago
I think there are 2 things that make math different than writing in this case. 1. I expect the main reason for needing remedial writing would be English as a second language people. That is, smart people who got a good education, but that e

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