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by SEMW 11y ago
The underlying filesystem (NTFS) is case-sensitive, so I think it should basically work fine. Sure, Windows tools are case-insensitive, so if you use bash to create foo and Foo in the same directory you'll probably only be able to acce
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by SEMW 11y ago
> Fun fact: legal language is not protected by copyright With respect: are you a lawyer? I'm not, but all the sources I can find written by actual lawyers put this claim somewhere between 'wildly oversimplified' and '
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by SEMW 11y ago
> we read or skimmed nearly everything the speaker has written online (which is no small task) Ouch. Must've been an almost sisyphean task in Moldbug's case. Dude's the most prolix blogger I've ever come across.
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by SEMW 11y ago
> Are you kidding about Dropbox? Drop an old, well know tech by a fancy new protocol with vendor lock-in? That a bit of a false dichotomy, isn't it? SFTP (for example) is also a well-known, well-established, and open protocol, and s
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by SEMW 11y ago
If there's no service specific T&Cs for this, it falls under their general cloud T&Cs: https://cloud.google.com/terms/ . s.5: > 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights. Except as expressly set forth in this Agr
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by SEMW 11y ago
They're not 'refusing to cooperate' in the sense of just ignoring the court or something. They'll file a motion to have the order lifted, with their reasons. If that's refused, they'll presumably appeal the ref
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by SEMW 11y ago
> Mix, Erlang's package manager (used by Phoenix / Elixir) Slight nitpick: Mix is part of Elixir, I've never seen a (non-elixir) erlang project that use it. Don't think erlang has an equivalent officially blessed tool
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by SEMW 11y ago
Any lawsuit, class action or otherwise, requires the claimants to have suffered whatever harm they're suing over. You can't sue a company because they injured someone else. (IANAL and I'm only familiar with English law, but I
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by SEMW 11y ago
> in other words, you can't actually follow what the law says, you have to anticipate what the government would prefer to be paid and pay that, or you might get prosecuted. I don't think that's a fair or accurate summary o
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by SEMW 11y ago
> They're not doing anything illegal (you'd imagine at least - I doubt it would be an easy task to decipher exactly what they're doing to determine legality) Fortunately (if a bit paradoxically), in the UK, for taxes, foll
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by SEMW 11y ago
Your trust model doesn't make sense to me. A trust heuristic that penalises even the least worst public action they could take on being served with a backdooring+gag order -- i.e. shutting down the service to avoid complying -- is ef
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by SEMW 11y ago
> If difficulties with specific countries, they should be explicitly named. That's easy to say when you aren't the person who'll be subject to criminal liability for violation of a gag order.
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by SEMW 11y ago
> If they are willing to remove encryption features to please totalitarian states, what backdoors are they also willing to include? That's a rather uncharitable interpretation. If a state was ordering them to include a backdoor in t
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by SEMW 11y ago
> Product simplicity. Of the various issue trackers I've used, JIRA is, by a fair margin, the least suited to that tagline
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by SEMW 11y ago
Agreed. I think it's arguable that, when the question you're asking is 'how well do X and Y two things correlate with each other', the statistic you should be giving is r (which here is 0.49), not r^2 . r^2 is the p
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by SEMW 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10732039
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by SEMW 11y ago
No. The performance right is for "literary, dramatic or musical work[s]". (Remember: legislation is drafted by lawyers whose entire job is to make a document that is as painfully, excruciatingly unambiguous as English allows. Each
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by SEMW 11y ago
No. Sitting is not an act restricted by copyright in the UK. 16 The acts restricted by copyright [are]: (a)to copy the work; (b)to issue copies of the work to the public; (ba)to rent or lend the work to the public; (c)to perform
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by SEMW 11y ago
A fun one that I came across was a test (in an old rails app I was maintaining) that failed only on the 29th January in years preceding leap year. The test was: Subscription.new (starts_at: 1.month.from_now).ends_at.should == 13.months.
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by SEMW 11y ago
> the Bayesian approach is to split the data into training and test sets, and verify how much of it holds. The Bayesian approach would be to say that the thing you generally want to know isn't {the probability of getting this result
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by SEMW 11y ago
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldred_v._Ashcroft , upholding the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act. Lawrence Lessig was lead counsel for the plaintiffs (ie arguing the case against the act). He wrote an essay on th
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by SEMW 11y ago
> If we could run a CPU with no heat generated Nitpick: not much heat generated, but not no heat. There are fundamental lower bounds on the entropy increase caused by doing irreversible computations (Landauer's principle), superco
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by SEMW 11y ago
> The UK total budget expenditures have gone up every year. Only if you only look at the raw £ figures, and take into account neither inflation nor population growth. Public expenditure between 2010 and 2016 (since the Tories came to pow
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by SEMW 11y ago
> The other example I was thinking of is regarding a house purchase. Contracts for the sale of land are an explicit statutory exception to the general rule: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/34/sect
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by SEMW 11y ago
It isn't providing the evidential basis, it's providing the legal basis. Ie the signature isn't used to authenticate in a public-key cryptography kind of way, it's being used as a legal trigger: 'if you write a
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by SEMW 11y ago
Thanks for the explanation. Interesting to hear the reasoning behind it.
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by SEMW 11y ago
I discovered recently that one part of the Pusher javascript library does basically this (using arrays of javascript strings, just as in the article). And this isn't test code, it's the actual code they use for connection fallback
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by SEMW 11y ago
IIRC, in recent versions of the angular router, the second, #!-type urls are a fallback for legacy browsers (more precisely, ones that don't support the HTML5 history API). On modern browsers the url will look like your first one.
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by SEMW 11y ago
I'm not sure if you're implying that Elixir's syntax makes it less good at developing for reliability than Erlang. If so, I'd appreciate if you could explain your thinking further -- if the existence of brainfuck proves
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by SEMW 11y ago
> Your sense of nice conflicts with Erlang's goal of supporting reliable systems. Obvious counterexample: Elixir. Plenty of modern niceties that Erlang lacks (rubyesque syntactic sugar, scheme-style hygenic macros, the pipe operator

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