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by SllX 3y ago
So the example I’m familiar with and I’m going off memory is “Green eggs and cheese is good English and good Fries.” when spoken. I suspect it’s not exactly the same, but to this day I’ve never met someone from old Frisia (which runs betwee
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by SllX 3y ago
What does Faarlund say about Frisian then? Frisian is also a West Germanic language, and to my understanding is very closely related to English to the point that it is possible to speak a grammatically correct sentence in English and IIRC W
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by SllX 3y ago
It’s the virtual eyes on the front-facing screen.
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by SllX 3y ago
The environmental hazards to cyclists are far beyond any extra danger Uber and Lyft provide and they lose to more popular constituencies regularly because most people in America even in the cities are not cyclists and often resent cyclist
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by SllX 3y ago
You are correct, but so is the parent (although I wouldn’t have put it quite like that). Laws are there to serve society. Some of the ways it serves society is when it restrains society, but people are not stupid and understand when they’re
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by SllX 3y ago
Govern isn’t a verb in American Federal law severable from Acts of Congress. If Congress doesn’t act, then the President and his subordinates are not lawfully empowered to act the way they think Congress should allow them to act. That’s why
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by SllX 3y ago
Apparently not, but it is excellent news for those of us that read that headline and thought “what fresh new hell did some UX designer trying to pad their resumé and really leave their mark on the world for the next couple of years cook up?
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by SllX 3y ago
> Note that this is strictly a change in visual appearance, there are no functionality impacts or changes. This is the only sentence that matters.
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by SllX 3y ago
Corporations are a legal proxy for the owners and management; protecting the rights of these people and pooling their resource are essentially a corporation’s raison d’être. They can’t really do that if they don’t receive the same due proce
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by SllX 3y ago
> Maybe not in long format at the beginning, but you bet that short format video platforms such as TikTok and YouTube (shorts) will be flooded with AI generated content soon. This is already happening to some degree, not usually 100% AI-
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by SllX 3y ago
> To a Brit, the idea that an outgoing US president remains in office for weeks even if their defeat is confirmed It’s one part premature calling, one part Electoral College and one part Congress’ timeline. Premature Calling: The United
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by SllX 3y ago
Switzerland did shoot down both Allied and German aircraft in World War II that trespassed their airspace. Neutral doesn’t mean non-violent. They weren’t one of the belligerents engaged in WWII but they did defend their neutrality and were
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by SllX 3y ago
The very same. My response here applies as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39413967
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by SllX 3y ago
I know. That’s why I said it. Abusing a non-profit’s services for a useful function when you had your own to make use of? That’s what we call a dick move. Although this is a hypothetical dick move. Killing off Google Cache was a dick move a
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by SllX 3y ago
I agree with you in sentiment but this part: > From a technical perspective, Google could compare whois domain registration details and snapshots at the Internet Archive with the allegedly infringing URL. No to Google abusing the Interne
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by SllX 3y ago
It varies wildly sometimes within the same country like here inside America. I’ve been voting by mail my entire adult life, but a lot of people only really started to do that with the pandemic but it didn’t stick everywhere, nor was it popu
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by SllX 3y ago
I was curious about this and looked it up for anyone else who wants to see too: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/os2-history/os2-1-2-and-1-3/ I never used OS/2 and most of what I’ve seen were from the final
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by SllX 3y ago
Yes, but your example doesn’t work here. The bedrock of what we call our free speech rights is more of a prohibition on Congress from passing laws that impede that. Signing such a contract doesn’t contradict the First Amendment.
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by SllX 3y ago
An NDA is a contract, not a law passed by Congress. First five words of the 1st Amendment: > Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of spee
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by SllX 3y ago
You are correct. The basic breakdown is this: Lawmaking: Congress Law Enforcement: The President and all agencies under him Adjudication and guarantor of due process: Federal Judiciary Regulations often get confused with law, but they’re no
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by SllX 3y ago
Technically speaking none of these alt stores exist in the EU App Store right now, so anything that does get listed in the future is from a developer account that agreed to these terms. The way to negotiate these terms is to refuse them.
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by SllX 3y ago
You want to know something depressing? The vast vast majority of Apple’s App Store revenue is just games. Make of that what you will.
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by SllX 3y ago
> actually, some lower court judges are elected This is going to confuse people. Not in the Federal government they’re not. All Federal Judges are appointed from the lowest to the highest. Some States have variations though from fully el
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by SllX 3y ago
Correct. Maybe one day they’ll return, but probably not without a brand spanking new security and privacy architecture tailored for PWAs.
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by SllX 3y ago
> However, as I said, adding a simple confirmation prompt would be plenty enough. That would be enough for you. That is apparently not enough for Apple, and you can tell that isn’t enough for Apple by their actions because despite the fa
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by SllX 3y ago
I mentioned this in another comment but they built out over 600 APIs and a system of accompanying entitlements to comply with the DMA, they’re clearly not at this point just for PWAs going to throw up their hands and a scare sheet and say “
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by SllX 3y ago
Apple can make security guarantees about their own rendering engine that they can’t for any other rendering engine. It’s not about what PWAs are like in Safari, it’s about what they’re like in third-party browsers that have to by law be all
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by SllX 3y ago
The biggest abuses in tech come down on the adtech side of things where in order for them to make money, they need to know who you are, and they will do everything within their power to make sure that they do with or without your consent. T
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by SllX 3y ago
Well to correct you, my position is more “Apple might re-enable this” more than “will”, which from their perspective I’m guessing is even worse and they will be more unsympathetic to it. Personally I think Apple will, but I have enough doub
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by SllX 3y ago
They probably will if they ever re-enable it in the EU, but they also built out over 600 new APIs and an accompanying system of entitlements to go with that scare sheet such that even if it’s “riskier”, they’re not just throwing up their ha

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