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by a3_nm 11y ago
I confirm it does. Thanks!
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by a3_nm 11y ago
On Iceweasel (Firefox) 44.0.2 I only see "undefined" in the text area.
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by a3_nm 11y ago
User content is under a free license (and dumps are provided), but the engine is proprietary.
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by a3_nm 11y ago
I find their Tumblr of latest additions more pleasant to read http://victorianhumour.tumblr.com/ -- possibly because the jokes are handpicked and correctly transcribed. It's still not very funny (but non-funny in an in
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by a3_nm 11y ago
I don't know about the others, but Debian is certainly not trying to decide for you what is and isn't acceptable to install. Debian does not allow any kind of software in its own repositories, but it does nothing to prevent you fr
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by a3_nm 11y ago
This is interesting but as pointed out by other comments there is great danger of Gmail abusing their position to make life harder for small email providers. I would be more positive towards this if they gave precise, technical details of t
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by a3_nm 11y ago
> they should choose another medium Which kind of medium do you have in mind? If you want a federated communication medium in wide use that doesn't require you to use proprietary software or a centralized server, there isn't mu
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Software Freedom Conservancy Seeks 2,500 Supporters to Continue GPL Enforcement(sfconservancy.org)
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by a3_nm 11y ago
Thanks a lot! I think you understood the problem correctly, I checked your argument and it seems correct to me, see https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/20245/subset-of... We have no specific plans for thi
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by a3_nm 11y ago
Author here, thanks for the comments! I added two problems to http://a3nm.net/work/research/questions/#well-known-conjectu... following ideas here.
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by a3_nm 11y ago
Sorry about this, it should now be fixed, and I submitted it upstream: https://github.com/mitya57/python-markdown-math/pull/10 Thanks for reporting!
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by a3_nm 11y ago
... with the notable exception of content prepared on the fly, e.g., bulk download of photo albums with some services such as Picasa or Dropbox; the reason being that the zip archive is being prepared in streaming and the server doesn'
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by a3_nm 11y ago
Hand out leaflets? People could read them while they stand on the elevator. :)
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by a3_nm 11y ago
This depends on the ratio between elevator speed and (elevator speed + walking speed), compared to the density ratio between standers and walkers. I'm not sure what the outcome would be but it may be the case indeed that walker through
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by a3_nm 11y ago
> Once you spend enough time on activities which sharpen your visual aesthetic sense, you see a clear difference between mainstream bland models from H&M and Topshop on hand and small designer shops on another and understand why it&#
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by a3_nm 11y ago
> The thing is, it's not much fun living as though you were poor - cutting coupons, spending time working out which vegetable gives you the most nutrition per Kg, scrimping and saving. So for every extra $£€ you make, you can give y
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by a3_nm 11y ago
Author here, thanks p4bl0 for posting this! :) I'm around to answer comments or questions.
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by a3_nm 11y ago
> any other app store, like Google's Not sure. This looks like a US-centric, bureaucratic thing. I doubt that F-Droid https://f-droid.org/ requires this kind of nonsense when submitting apps.
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by a3_nm 11y ago
> traffic outbound to the internet from the echo A paranoid fear would be that the Echo could be recording additional traffic (based on special stealthy trigger words maybe) and sending that traffic later, in conjunction with regular tra
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by a3_nm 11y ago
I don't understand this, sorry. If the employer retains copyright, then isn't it the case that, in most situations, the applicant cannot legally license their work under an open-source license? (Because the employer owns the copyr
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by a3_nm 11y ago
> The traffic from the Echo has been studied extensively. Detection of the wake word is hardware-based For now, maybe. If some update changed this, how and when would you figure out? I'd say it's not entirely silly to be worrie
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by a3_nm 11y ago
> If you tell me to call you Lord Joseph, is it really so wrong for me to ask you for your credentials? If you tell me to call you "Lord Joseph", I'll say sure, and oblige, as I would for "foobar", "zeveb&qu
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by a3_nm 11y ago
$45 million in donations and contributions over the 2012-2013 fiscal year. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Wmf_AR12... (That's the Wikimedia Foundation and does not include the l
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by a3_nm 11y ago
Twitter still bugs you to create an account to access their content. (Try to see someone's list of followers when you're not logged in, even when that information is public.) Compare with Wikimedia where you don't even need a
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by a3_nm 11y ago
I'm not an Android developer so I hope my mental picture of what GCM does isn't off. > My sense is that this isn't because you find the communication over GCM to be inherently offensive (it's just a tickle, after all)
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by a3_nm 11y ago
Give me some open source code that I can run on my own server to manage the notifications for me and for my friends, and allow me to tell the client app on my phone to use it. That's way better than forcing me to rely on a specific Goo
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by a3_nm 11y ago
TextSecure requires proprietary Google applications and this is deliberate: http://support.whispersystems.org/customer/portal/articles/2... SMSSecure is an acceptable alternative (for text messages), availabl
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by a3_nm 11y ago
https://reportcard.wmflabs.org/ indicates 453M unique visitors in the month of April 2015, so most certainly the claim of "billions of people every day" is wrong by at least one order of magnitude.
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by a3_nm 11y ago
The "block element" feature of muBlock allows you to block the popup that asks you to register. Just right-click on the popup, use "Block element", highlight the popup, click "Create", and do the same for the o
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by a3_nm 11y ago
A related complaint is that, even for public domain books, downloading them is painful: sometimes you need to fill a CAPTCHA, recently you often have to create a Google Account just to download a free book < http://uzy.me/

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