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by a3_nm 10y ago
I'm surprised because I wouldn't have said that Framadate's interface for voting is particularly ugly or unintuitive, compared (e.g.) to Doodle. The mobile version of the interface is crappy, but so is Doodle's. However
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The distinction is subtle, because there is a common dark pattern where websites try to trick you into creating an account to access public content, even though you don't actually need to. I'm thinking of Dropbox, which does this
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by a3_nm 10y ago
> I buy a lot of used, old, obscure things (mostly books). I find AbeBooks to be very good for that. Ironically, they were acquired by Amazon, but they are still a separate system.
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by a3_nm 10y ago
The proposed solution is to use Twitter to use Signal or Whatsapp. This forces your correspondents to use one of these centralized services, and also to run proprietary software to be able to use them. I'm also irritated by GPG and Ope
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by a3_nm 10y ago
> Surprise. If you have an AT&T Samsung phone you can't uninstall it. Can't you flash the ROM to reinstall Android (e.g., Cyanogen) without any built-ins of this kind?
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by a3_nm 10y ago
> The only annoying and inexplicable thing is that some apps run their own background process for push notifications, rather than using GCM, so pushes stop coming in if you kill those. There are valid reasons for this, e.g., if you want
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by a3_nm 10y ago
Windows is closed-source and edited by an American company, so I think there are security implications beyond the number of vulnerabilities that have historically been found.
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by a3_nm 10y ago
> Get out of your bubble. Hang out more on subreddits you don't agree with. This probably isn't a sufficient step to get exposed to really different opinions...
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by a3_nm 10y ago
I would add three others: 1. Spending too much time designing an "About" page, a "Who we are" page, an "FAQ" page, to present the startup and what the product will be, rather than actually developing the produc
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> If I see a woman I want to compliment, I have the freedom to compliment her. If too many people everyday have the same idea for the same person, it may become unpleasant for that person, even if each individual approach was non-obtrusi
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by a3_nm 10y ago
I wouldn't say that. For many people (especially women), unwanted sexual attention from strangers is a problem. When in doubt, it is probably more polite to leave people alone.
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by a3_nm 10y ago
Any discussion of scientific studies of this kind of sensitive subject should be understood with the appropriate disclaimers. In particular, the is-ought fallacy: if experimental studies find out, backed with experimental explanations, that
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by a3_nm 10y ago
> it breaks the Samsung monopoly over Android Is there a Samsung monopoly over Android? Apparently Samsung sells about 25% of smartphones https://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-market-share.jsp and 85% of sold smar
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by a3_nm 10y ago
Note that your first sentence does not apply to all Creative Commons licenses, only to the ones with the NC clause.
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by a3_nm 10y ago
> almost certainly is a less secure place to store your data than an iPhone How can this be assessed when we don't know the code that runs on an iPhone?
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by a3_nm 10y ago
> Seems they're perpetually short of funds, but Not really. In 2015 the Wikimedia Foundation made 76 M$ in support and revenue, and spent 53 M$. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/0/0b&#
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by a3_nm 10y ago
You can already play Morrowind in GNU/Linux using Wine. It works fine except for some minor glitches.
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by a3_nm 10y ago
I agree with your claim, but I don't think it is a good idea to claim that Chromium is not "truly open-source" because (you claim) it is hard to contribute. This may cause more confusion about what "open source" rea
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by a3_nm 10y ago
Agreed. Having an open FTP server with read-only access is no more problematic than having an open HTTP server.
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by a3_nm 10y ago
It's terrifying that you can innocently trigger bugs in your visual cortex that will take lots of time to fix. A terrible idea would be to make a video game (or a short movie maybe) which triggered the effect. Imagine if the background
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by a3_nm 10y ago
I'm not sure people expect super-human performance out of Siri. An important difference is that a human who doesn't understand will say so, and ask to repeat the relevant part (or to choose between two alternatives), conversationa
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by a3_nm 10y ago
> his incessant rambling about Wikipedia. Shocked to see he's found a new corp to hate. Wikipedia is not a corporation.
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by a3_nm 10y ago
On the other hand, the site managed to tell me in a sensible way to enable Javascript (blocked with Noscript), instead of failing incomprehensibly like most websites do. So this is one good point for them, I'd say!
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by a3_nm 10y ago
Indeed, set pdfjs.disabled to true. I always do it, because I don't use pdfjs, but there was a pdfjs vulnerability that exposed local files to third-party JS -- so you might as well disable complex stuff that you don't really use.
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by a3_nm 10y ago
I would guess not, because even Singapore and Bali are not dengue-free even though they are malaria-free. (But that's just a guess -- I'd be interested in a reliable source.)
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> Doesn't that just have the effect that everyone now has to pay for scientific articles? Everyone was already paying for them before. The money that used to be collected on the sale of articles has never gone to finance the scienti
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by a3_nm 10y ago
> The cost of the review process in this particular two sided marketplace (which publishing is - how do you decide which journal to send your paper to?) is not just the unpaid labor of the reviewers, but rather the establishment of the c
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by a3_nm 10y ago
> someone has to bear the cost of the review process Maybe you are aware of it, but this argument is bogus in any case, because reviewing is unpaid labor. You can make an argument that someone has to organize the review process, but pu
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by a3_nm 10y ago
Precisely. European articles may be "free to read", but most of them will probably not be free to publish. For-profit publishers will probably appreciate this: it means that, while European institutions will probably still pay sub
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by a3_nm 10y ago
Social media are owned and run by someone else, so they are not agnostic tools the way a hammer is.

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