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by ajxs 7y ago
Is that so? What about the webmaster who simply wants to combat bots using his page, is the extent of data gathering on Google's behalf just part of the deal? What if selling user data is against the webmaster's ethics? "Don&
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by ajxs 7y ago
If I could upvote this comment twice, I would. This succinctly summarises my views on the subject. We shouldn't have to justify _why_ we don't want our private information harvested by these companies. I would still feel remarkab
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by ajxs 7y ago
> Google has a pretty good corpus of code to test their libc on... That is a good point, but I'm in no way disputing that Google could do a great job of creating their own libc. I would never be foolish enough to challenge the merit
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by ajxs 7y ago
> A corporate-led project does not have to answer to the community, and will leave whatever bugs they introduce in place for the sake of bug-compatibility with their own software rather than fixing them. This speaks volumes very clearly.
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by ajxs 7y ago
This makes me want to reinstall it just to see this again. It's been too long since I've played it at any rate!
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by ajxs 7y ago
I've never heard of the latter occurring, can you point me to an example of where this has happened and which countries it has happened in? I can imagine that anything could happen in Zimbabwe, but if this happened in the western world
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by ajxs 7y ago
The reasons you list are the bank complying with the law. Civil judgements and asset forfeiture are legal matters where the court has decided that your assets are declared forfeit in order to make reparation for some legal matter. Presentin
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by ajxs 7y ago
> If you believe that widespread dissidence could lead to the collapse of your government then preventing that is a necessary evil to ensure your own well being. Stalin/Pol Pot/Hitler and all of the 20th century's historic
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by ajxs 7y ago
"Fries" have basically zero nutritional quality, they're potato deep fried in the cheapest oil that the human body is capable of digesting. There is nothing even remotely nutritious about them. You're able to get usable
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by ajxs 7y ago
Is this comment a joke?
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by ajxs 7y ago
At the risk of courting controversy, I'll confess that I haven't even so much as considered using Golang on the basis that it's a language ostensibly controlled by Google. I have reason to believe that my moral stance against
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by ajxs 7y ago
I always have a bit of a grim chuckle when I think back to the days when Microsoft was the boss villain of enterprise software. I even still have a 'KMFMS' T-Shirt in the closet.
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by ajxs 7y ago
I read 'We' quite some time ago and greatly enjoyed it. Unfortunately I don't recall the translation I read being particularly poetic, which is a shame. But it was still an amazing read that I would recommend.
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by ajxs 7y ago
Absolutely. Trump also serves as a case study of what kinds of safeguards exist within the American political system to prevent an incumbent president from really moving the needle. You cant go too far off script in the white house. You can
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by ajxs 7y ago
I'm very sympathetic to your overall sentiment regarding utility of many of the new features. My point remains however, that even addressing the current feature set is monumental enough of a task. The Javascript standard has become com
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by ajxs 7y ago
I'm definitely a critic of China's awful stance on human rights, but would Trump taking a stance against China's despotic government on humanitarian grounds seem the least bit credible when that seems to be the de-facto justi
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by ajxs 7y ago
Unfortunately keeping modern software secure is a full-time job. Internet browsers are just one giant attack surface. This is especially complicated by the speed at which the implementation of new features is required to keep a general audi
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by ajxs 7y ago
My personal opinion is that there isn't a quality alternative. I don't think that these platforms are the least bit beneficial to the well-being of their users. It's a very unfortunate fact that I don't see them going an
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by ajxs 7y ago
I like to think of less complex life forms like fish as being entirely interrupt-driven state machines. Cats are much more complex machines, capable of running long-term latent processes, and capable of abstract thinking. How else can I exp
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by ajxs 7y ago
Although this is a minor digression, I always felt that it was very interesting to contrast the overwhelming amount of airtime on the legacy media devoted to throwing fuel on the fire of "Russian interference in the 2016 election"
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by ajxs 7y ago
Funnily enough, I actually ended up giving myself a crash course in this very topic when encoding frag movies for Quake 3/Quake Live. It was/is common practice to use 'brightskins' on your enemy models in competitive pla
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by ajxs 7y ago
Of course, I understand what an interface is. There's nothing inherently invasive about this kind of interface, except that... > ...it just happens that most implementations today are...
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by ajxs 7y ago
> non-privacy-invading > computers you could talk to Pick one. I can't help but feel somewhat pessimistic about technological developments in the handheld device domain. I say this as a supporter of ARM though. I have no reason t
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by ajxs 7y ago
Thank you for pointing that out. I'll have a look for myself and based on what I see I might send request in anyway. At very least I'll be able to definitively conclude what the response of these companies will be.
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by ajxs 7y ago
The one issue at stake that I can think of is the manufacture of the underlying hardware infrastructure. The risk associated with relying on hardware manufactured in China for critical infrastructure seems to be of some concern for the US g
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by ajxs 7y ago
Has anyone here made a request for their information under the GDPR laws? I'm curious about what they received back. I'm specifically curious regarding the FAANG companies, and what kind of responses people have received from comp
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by ajxs 7y ago
It most definitely sounds like a problem with these other engineers. Maybe I'm a bit out of touch here, but my view is that if engineers are not implementing services as per the architect's specifications, then they are not doing
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by ajxs 7y ago
I know for sure that world politics is truly a very grim state of affairs when I view the American government as less of a threat than Google or China.
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by ajxs 7y ago
> For example, in systems programming over that same timespan we've had assembly, c, c++ and rust. I don't think you've picked a very good example here of a field where the lingua franca has progressed over time. C still d
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by ajxs 7y ago
What do you mean by 'racist consequences'? Intent can be racist, belief can be racist, but consequences are just the resulting state. A racist policy is one that targets one particular race in a hostile way. A policy that is a

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