Nemo_bis

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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
Thanks for posting the only useful addition to the thread. :) So the authority is still looking into it. They could still reach an agreement with Facebook on what to do. Then Facebook would probably be shielded from whatever liability those
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
If you mean by email, good luck not getting blacklisted as spammer everywhere. Maybe the likes of Microsoft and Google could bother to "notify" their users without such a fear. But there are other considerations.
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
I'm sorry, but calm down. This is not the end of [dynamic pricing]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_pricing#Time-based_uti... ). It's just the end of one specific company's model of assuming it could
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
So maybe you shouldn't sell high-risk financial products to poor people under the guise of an electricity contract.
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
Work is ongoing on that front too: ttps://webkit.org/blog/8146/protecting-against-hsts-abuse/
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
It already does though? :) https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/h...
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
Excellent point. Maybe "Goldfish mode" might work too.
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Obviously yes. The activity comes from the same IP address, user-agent and everything.
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
It would be interesting to see counterproofs to the claim that "other people who use this device won't see your activity". They might not see it in Chrome , but what if I search pregnancy tests and then another user of the s
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
Fascinating read: > A key question concerns the amount of iron dust that would be required to induce draw down of CO2 from the atmosphere. [...] In total, this estimate concludes that ~2.8 million tons of biogenic iron oxides would be d
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
That could happen with instant settlement, but it's not necessarily desirable. Matt Levine covered the idea: > In an electricity crisis, what you kind of want is to generate as much electricity as possible, and distribute it as effi
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
See Matt Levine: > The people signing contracts to buy Texas electricity at wholesale prices were doing so to economize. In some theoretical sense they accepted higher price volatility in exchange for usually lower prices, but in a much
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
Mastodon (and other fediverse FLOSS) already have millions of active users across thousands of providers. https://the-federation.info/mastodon It's easy to set up your presence and start small, e.g. with a web app whic
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
Why do you want it to be centralised? Surely a federated system like email is just as fine, if it provides a good user experience?
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
Considering that Slack itself complained to the competition authorities that there is fierce competition from Microsoft and others, eating Slack's lunch, it seems hard. Salesforce can easily claim that the acquisition doesn't redu
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
What ease of onboarding? Slack has one tenth the daily active users of Microsoft Team. It has already lost on volume. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/technology/salesforce-sla... I suppose the value o
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IBM Planning 10k Job Cuts in Europe Ahead of Unit Sale(bloomberg.com)
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
Or you can just ask the feds to keep you in a witness protection program which treats you and your family like royalty for 50 years. I don't know if it exists, but it might. The USA government can easily launder 1 G$ in bitcoin and giv
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
> Are there even any notable commercial projects that use autotools? Did you even read the article? The work is supported by Bloomberg for their internal use with Python, a clear commercial usage. https://lwn.net/Articles
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
This is like complaining that the supply chain of oat milk is incompatible with 90 % of the systems that produce (cow-based) butter. We don't necessarily care.
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Euronext halts trading on all products due to tech glitch(uk.reuters.com)
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
Because investors hope that companies like Amazon will get a global monopoly on an entire giant segment of the economy, probably an "economic moat" reinforced by bogus patents or copyright or trademark claims (like Oracle vs. Goog
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
Even if Microsoft or Amazon multiples are out of reach, if it's perceived as a shiny "cloud" company then it might get something like the average of a popular ETF or index which rides the "cloud" bandwagon, currentl
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
Just this week, spinning off Siemens Energy created about 15 G€ of paper money out of thin air. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-siemens-energy-spinoff-id...
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
Thanks, so maybe this page is outdated where it mentions your own crawler with user-agent? Or does the Internet Archive use it for these crawls? https://www.cloudflare.com/always-online/
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
Kiwix does this for Wikipedia, other Wikimedia projects and other free content projects, through "Kiwix hotspot" (based on kiwix-serve). https://www.kiwix.org/en/downloads/kiwix-hotspot/
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
That's incorrect. Telegram shows what the user has sent, only that. The autocompletion depends on whether the mentioned user has chosen a username, and other factors.
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
Is there any way to do any meaningful preservation work without "skirting so close with copyright law"?
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
Thanks Bryan! I'm more interested in the old papers, both public domain and out of commerce, and we have quite some work left to do... > 1,150,246 30.22% no known independent preservation https://fatcat.wiki/covera
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
> The Competition and Markets Authority has completed its market study into online platforms and the digital advertising market in the UK. https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/online-platforms-and-digital-ad... See the anal

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