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by Latty 7y ago
All these companies should refuse to self-censor for China. China does want western media and products. The fact that companies capitulate makes that the standard practice, and means China feels safe demanding it (or doesn't even need
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by Latty 7y ago
Yeah, while the Flash era was definitely great for animation, that was really more because animation was the only real option for video. Streaming video has largely replaced that, and cheap cameras mean animation is way costlier to do now.
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by Latty 7y ago
Which is pretty crazy. My experience as someone from the UK is EU regulation has consistently made my life better. The big thing that sticks out for me is mobile phones: before EU regs, every manufacturer and phone variant had a different
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by Latty 7y ago
This is one of these things that is technically true, but still misleading. Nothing is risk-free. Eating food has risk, taking paracetamol has risk, getting blood drawn has risk. Saying something has risk without talking about the amount
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by Latty 7y ago
The reason you get "attacked as an antivaxer" is because you are using weasel words to come to a conclusion that is not supported by any evidence, and presenting it as basic fact. The claims that all of these vague areas you point
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by Latty 7y ago
I had the same thing, refreshed and it was there.
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by Latty 7y ago
If you want to get really evil, combine this with "you need to tell us you want to cancel in advance or we'll charge you a termination fee". People will put it off thinking they will lose the benefits, then find themselves on
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by Latty 7y ago
This is true, as long as the "author" is a single person or someone who has been assigned the rights to all the code by everyone else who has contributed. If you are releasing work on a (A/L)GPL project you started, but other
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by Latty 7y ago
If I was hiring a recruiter, I would be hoping they could provide me with something more than an ability to spam developers. It seems to me that most good developers would ignore such spam—I get so much of this noise that I pay it no attent
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by Latty 7y ago
To be fair, I believe this was true well before flags—diacritics played this role previously, as in "Zalgo Text".
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by Latty 7y ago
Of course, but there is a difference between having a hypothesis to test, and believing something and setting out to find evidence for it. Those are some extreme examples of that being an issue, but also things like not publishing negative
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by Latty 7y ago
The scientific method is not generally served well by people seeking to find a particular answer, as opposed to the truth. Not saying that is the case here, but I agree with the parent-it inspires some scepticism from me.
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by Latty 7y ago
Is there any reason to believe that phytoestrogens would act in a similar way to estrogen, to a significant level, in humans? People throw around this concern a lot, but I have never seen evidence of that. Edit: Elsewhere in this comment th
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by Latty 7y ago
He has said before "The only way that I can see to deploy this much financial resource is by converting my Amazon winnings into space travel. That is basically it." Now, in-context ( https://www.businessinsider.com/
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by Latty 7y ago
Elm ( https://elm-lang.org/ ) is a language that compiles to JavaScript that doesn't have runtime exceptions.
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by Latty 7y ago
I really like Python's design here, if we are not talking about full on language features to enforce immutability, where functions that mutate never return a value and are named with verbs (e.g. 'sort()'), while functions tha
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by Latty 7y ago
My first thought when I heard that Apple were ditching fingerprints for face recognition was that the lag would be infuriating after getting used to picking up my phone and unlocking it as I did so. With the sensor on the back, it became a
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by Latty 7y ago
Does that matter? The concept of collective bargaining still applies. Obviously anyone replaceable has a bad position to bargain, so it becomes a question of how replaceable YouTubers are. Clearly there are plenty of people who want to fill
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by Latty 7y ago
Sure, but historically, no one would bother taking such a case to court because the supposed damages from a video in that kind of case are obviously non-existent. The ability to spam these kinds of take-downs at essentially zero cost and wi
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by Latty 7y ago
I'm a bit confused by why you responded to me with this. "Installing safes onsite and self monitoring" was literally the example given by the person asking for other suggestions.
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by Latty 7y ago
I see your point that hardware keys can fail, but that is a completely separate issue—print it out and shove that paper in there as well, redundant copies in multiple locations, etc... it is just a standard backup problem. The hardware key
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by Latty 7y ago
I think the parent post was asking where someone would securely store a hardware device like a yubikey that, for example, contains the only copy of a root key—as opposed to using such a hardware device as part of a security system.
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How to Build Minesweeper with Elm(github.com)
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by Latty 7y ago
Sure, in a simple textbook supply-and-demand model, but we all know that in the real world that isn't how it works. Most people have very limited choices, and all those choices engage in essentially the same user-hostile practices anyw
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by Latty 7y ago
Tell that to ISPs and, from what I hear, cable companies in the US—I’m sure there are other examples too. “Customer hostile” seems to be a perfectly “good” way to run a business if you goal is raw profit. Doubly so in the US with essentiall
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by Latty 7y ago
I'm sure it is possible they are doing it as well, but I was talking about what I saw on twitter's new design. I don't use Facebook, so it was definitely Twitter I saw. This was a while back, so potentially it isn't the
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by Latty 7y ago
It's definitely done to obfuscate as well - I took a look a while back and they were intentionally splitting up things like the "Sponsored" text into tons of tags and gunk to make it harder to find programmatically.
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by Latty 7y ago
What you are talking about is a subset of games today - there are still tons of great games out there with ethical monetization (more than there ever have been, in fact). Yeah, you have to skip some of the big names and a lot of the mobi
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by Latty 7y ago
Definitely your second point, although it's worth noting that mobile authentication apps are still weak (although not as weak as just a password) to remote phishing attacks where security keys aren't. Mobile authentication apps re
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by Latty 7y ago
The use of "triggered" to dismiss issues people have is frankly, very silly. It's origin is in sufferers of PTSD who, when triggered, face very real and serious mental harm. Yes, we absolutely should try to be considerate to

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