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by abtinf 8y ago
It’s too bad g+ destroyed Reader before it died. Reader could have been just a few development sprints away from replicating most of facebooks features.
902.
by abtinf 8y ago
I'm not an expert, but I believe it is the result of the structure of the law itself. The American constitution does not grant any rights to the people, because our rights result from the nature of human existence and logically precede
903.
by abtinf 8y ago
The purpose of a prison is to hold those who have lost their rights because they have violated the rights of others. To fulfill their purpose, they must maintain a high level of security, both to prevent escape and to prevent further harm t
904.
by abtinf 8y ago
You have no reasonable expectation of privacy when calling a prison.
905.
by abtinf 8y ago
The design of the front page makes it look like an image failed to load.
906.
by abtinf 8y ago
Is there a potential for a kind of legal armageddon one day if companies had a real incentive to fight each other over one of these massive Apache-2-based open source projects? For example, with Swift, IBM is a major code contributor and ru
907.
by abtinf 8y ago
> ...Gmail does many things well, except for being a good email service. Gmail/Gsuite seem to be good email services from my perspective as lay user and occasional admin. Can you expand on why you think they are not good email servi
908.
by abtinf 8y ago
I've reviewed the design doc and and the spec for the new API. I agree that there doesn't seem to be an intent to "[get] rid of adblockers". Nonetheless, the proposed changes will disable core functionality in uBlock and
909.
by abtinf 8y ago
> Clearly it's not What is your basis for this claim? I am not an expert on this topic, but Gorhill is and has a demonstrated history of technical/privacy judgement. Gorhill's comment makes it clear that impacting the func
910.
by abtinf 8y ago
The current title ("Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin") is more reflective of linked comment. The essential quote from the linked comment is this: "If this ...[change to chromium is impleme
911.
by abtinf 8y ago
I started using uMatrix full-time about a year ago. At first, I was shocked by how much traffic it would block - sometimes dozens of tracking domains. I didn't understand the sheer scale of the tracking industry. Losing the full effica
912.
by abtinf 8y ago
I had no idea google allows arbitrary redirects through its own https://google.com domain. Why?
913.
by abtinf 8y ago
I was taught about externalities during my econ undergrad and thought it was a sensible idea -- when considering a decision, the full context should be taken into account, including the consequences that aren't borne by the decision ma
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by abtinf 8y ago
How does the price of electronics compare to countries without similar rules?
915.
by abtinf 8y ago
I believe the point of the gp is that the money isn’t coming from anywhere. No one is out $5B. There is no budget line item you could point to that identifies the expenditure “$5B for Bezos”.
916.
by abtinf 8y ago
A few reasons off the top of my head... Go has very simple dependency management. A library written in Go generally needs very little environment management and will often integrate easily with a Go codebase. This is further enhanced with G
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by abtinf 8y ago
This is interesting. Can you describe your setup in more detail?
918.
by abtinf 8y ago
I consider myself in a category waiting to be served. The only features I care about are health monitoring. I was initially excited about the Apple Watch because of the rumored health features, but very few made it to the final product. To
919.
by abtinf 8y ago
Also, in this case, the “f(w, r)” pattern is pervasive in Go web code. Anyone who has written web code in Go will instantly understand what it means and how to use it.
920.
by abtinf 8y ago
Exchange Online is $4/user/month with annual billing.
921.
by abtinf 8y ago
It is an important warning for people in the US, where websites published under .gov are run by the federal government. When I saw the short domain followed by .eu, I assumed this would be an official government site providing GDPR complian
922.
by abtinf 8y ago
> Why does the company need to grow if it's profitable as it is? The word "profitable" covers wide range of possible outcomes.
923.
by abtinf 8y ago
Two of my favorite inks are waterproof: Noodler’s Baystate Blue is gorgeous and removable only with bleach or very hard scrubbing (filling a pen with it is something of a terrifying ritual); and Noodler’s Warden series Bad Black Moccasin
924.
by abtinf 8y ago
From what I’ve read, iron gall inks are only suitable for use with gold nibs. They will rapidly corrode steel nibs.
925.
by abtinf 8y ago
I primarily use this in three areas: Command line tools: if any part of the command fails, you usually don't want to continue, unless it is a long-running batch process. In that case, I usually also write a logOnError() function to kee
926.
by abtinf 8y ago
For quite some time, I’ve taken to wrapping the most common err case with a simple function: func dieOnErr(err error) { if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } } It makes the code much easier to read (due to effi
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by abtinf 8y ago
This seems pretty straightforward. It is a violation of just about every competently written terms of service from a US company to transact business in these countries. For a complete list, see https://www.treasury.gov/resou
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by abtinf 8y ago
What are you confused by?
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by abtinf 8y ago
I believe US taxes are based on market prices, not value. It is generally impossible to guess the value of something. what is the value of a bottle of water in to the average person versus the value to a someone lost in the desert?
930.
by abtinf 8y ago
Such an agreement would likely be illegal under federal law, creating the risk for regulatory and civil sanctions for the employer.

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