Hizonner

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by Hizonner 1y ago
You may be talking about that, but I'm not. I was talking about the task-specific memory footprint. I didn't say anything at all about the rest of the computer. And even that wasn't meant to be taken literally. I kind of
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by Hizonner 1y ago
> Customers demand JS-heavy sites by virtue of the features/interactions they ask for. You have examples of these requests, no doubt.
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by Hizonner 1y ago
Not being able to do a 64kB task with 2GB of memory is "technological progress" how, exactly?
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by Hizonner 1y ago
... except that the complete collection of everything the UPS app needs to execute or display, in order to actually fulfill its function , summed up throughout all of its operation in every possible mode, probably fits in 1MB. If there&#
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by Hizonner 1y ago
Well, there's a shock. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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by Hizonner 1y ago
I'd be happy to talk about doing something similar with Windows or iOS...
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by Hizonner 1y ago
> So billions of dollars of capital invested by Google on R&D results in all of the IP being seized with a $250m/year annual obligation? Yep. Billions of dollars of capital knowingly invested in an illegal enterprise results in
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by Hizonner 1y ago
So don't allow that. Chrome (and control over Chromium) go to a newly formed, independent nonprofit. The nonprofit is not in any way under Google's control. Google receives zero compensation. The nonprofit is funded by Google at s
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by Hizonner 2y ago
> charges me £0 You haven't figured out that there are hidden charges? They're not giving you an account because they love you. They're giving you an account because they're making money on your deposits and/or t
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by Hizonner 2y ago
Your bank verifies that against the copy of your ID that was collected in person when you opened the account (unless you're using some fly-by-night FinTech "bank", anyway). At a minimum , the bank has already collected, and
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by Hizonner 2y ago
OK, but what model would you suggest? Apple has no adequate way to actually verify who anybody is without (a) forcing them to physically visit one of a small number of offices (it can't be every store), and (b) probably charging a si
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by Hizonner 2y ago
I think I would have banned that particular seal for being so damned ugly. They had earlier ones that weren't that bad. Actually an awful lot of official seals are hideous designs. You'd think they'd try to do better than t
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by Hizonner 2y ago
Those businesses also have control. They just don't like the option of control they have, which is to stay out of those countries altogether. > This is something you should send to your government that makes those rules. My governme
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by Hizonner 2y ago
> It doesn't have to be your bank if you don't want, "If I don't want"? I would get no choice at all about who it would be, because in practice the Web site (or whoever could put pressure on the Web site) would
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by Hizonner 2y ago
Nice try, but the burden of proof for your assertion is still on you.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
> It has to be acknowledged that some things, like social media and pornography, are harmful to children. It only "has to be acknowledged" if it's true. The "evidence" for either of those, but especially social m
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by Hizonner 2y ago
You mean without giving them any personal information other than where to find your bank account .
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by Hizonner 2y ago
The ophidian lubricant has entered the chat.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
... is negative.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
That's about extending due process requirements to the states. That's why it says "any State". It has no effect at all on anything Federal. Federal due process comes from elsewhere. And all of this is 100 percent Feder
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by Hizonner 2y ago
It doesn't add any other value whatsoever, so I'm having trouble with that assertion.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
> Non-citizens may or may not actually legally merit due process, and to whatever degree they might, they only merit it while "within" the "jurisdiction" of the US. And as far as I can tell, that 'grey area'
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by Hizonner 2y ago
> Non-citizens may or may not actually legally merit due process Even the current Trump-enabling Supreme Court just affirmed that they get due process. They restricted the judicial vehicle for that to habeas corpus, which sucks becau
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by Hizonner 2y ago
Habeas corpus was a universal right under English common law (and statute). Anybody who was detained (including in preparation to deport them) could demand a hearing to determine whether that detention was lawful. Even if the sovereign
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by Hizonner 2y ago
Sort of. There's way too much discretion to toss people out for any random trumped-up reason, and way too much discretion about how it's done. But there are requirements for at least some attempt at individualized due process, a
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by Hizonner 2y ago
You can give away your money by making contracts.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
> You’re never going to find a binary function that tells you if something is legal or not, in the end it’s up to a human judge to decide. ... but the whole point of cryptocurrency, or at least of smart contracts and "DeFi", is
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by Hizonner 2y ago
The intent of the whole underlying system is that the intent of all the parties be described by code of the smart contracts. Which are intended to be composable, intended to be used in unanticipated ways, and intended to operate i
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by Hizonner 2y ago
It doesn't matter whether that person is right or has a clue themselves?
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by Hizonner 2y ago
What would be the right number of absolutely clueless adults?

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