alainv

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by alainv 3y ago
That is a very strong assertion. Please provide the WTO ordinances in question and/or case law. Unfounded assertions do not add to the discussion. Do you seriously believe Apple would have gone this malicious compliance route rather th
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by alainv 3y ago
Are all the display options using PWM now? I’ve been staying with the XR because the XS caused headaches for me. Curious if they’ve gotten their frequency up to a bearable level.
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by alainv 5y ago
The assertion that other countries should simply abandon their sovereign regulators' powers is baseless hubris. The fact that the US seems happy to allow corporate titans to reach ever new sizes does not mean anyone else is on board. I
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by alainv 5y ago
You didn't look very hard[1]. It's a research project funded by grants and donations, and as far as I can tell they give away their databases[2]. [1]: https://plantnet.org/ [2]: http://data.plantnet-pr
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by alainv 9y ago
Saved you a click: by starting a shared Slack for their teams to collaborate. Neat factoid but this article is not exactly information-dense.
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by alainv 9y ago
1) Your comment added nothing, but then this wasn't a high-value thread anyway. 2) Any pronoun in that case would be superfluous. "Holy crap! Congratulations!" would be far more intuitive to native english speakers. Choosing
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by alainv 10y ago
Title is evidently incorrect: the link itself clearly states they just disabled this functionality for Free accounts. I can verify it still works for Pro/Plus accounts with existing Public folders.
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by alainv 10y ago
You're building a strawman. No one is calling for "a Utopia-esque society where there is perfect freedom of choice [and] perfectly equal distributions of any sort." One does not need to call for that in order to find the curr
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by alainv 10y ago
Youtube Red is not available in most of the world: > available in the United States, Australia, Mexico, New Zealand and South Korea.
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by alainv 10y ago
But... your previous post specifically says "China is willing to kidnap people out of Thailand" and goes on to say "I really hope the U.S. never comes close to this". Can you explain how exactly the U.S. has yet to &quot
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by alainv 10y ago
I don't think you've been paying attention: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/fear-materialized-bord...
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by alainv 10y ago
This is unfortunately not a new issue: https://github.com/josegonzalez/real-aws-status
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by alainv 10y ago
That's approaching a chicken-and-egg problem. Other parties are working on verifiable open hardware, but their work is only worth so much if any useful software can be tampered with at multiple other points in the chain. Reproducible b
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by alainv 10y ago
Agreed, and giving Apple this much credit for "look how well these work with my USB-C Android phone!" compounds the irony beautifully.
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by alainv 10y ago
I'd suggest Arq + Amazon Drive.
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by alainv 10y ago
https://cloud.google.com/preemptible-vms/
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by alainv 10y ago
Any plans to offer a 16GB RAM version? The commentary from Qubes users in the 3.2 release thread [1] seems to indicate 8GB would be borderline for Qubes. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12604417
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by alainv 10y ago
I'll bite. The original article is from the Register. If you work at Microsoft and read HN I'd expect you have a reasonable idea of their average article quality. I don't think they were trying to make any particular point ra
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by alainv 10y ago
Activity Controls is whether or not Google logs Web/App activity. The Ads opt-out controls interest-based ads as a whole, including from Web & App Activity if enabled.
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by alainv 10y ago
Tangential: please stop abusing ellipses, it makes your (otherwise fine) writing unduly difficult to read. http://writing-skills.com/five-annoying-ways-use-ellipsis http://www.holyfuckingshityouredumb.com/20
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by alainv 10y ago
If you read further, they clarify that's 585k through the end of the year. So factor in a termination package for them and the 585k is less than half of their yearly salary, so they were likely at or above 100k/yr each. Makes a bi
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by alainv 10y ago
You linked the wrong/outdated software: https://github.com/Googulator/TeslaCrack/commit/ca30a5320ebb... > The extensions '.xxx', '.micro', '.mp3' and '.ttt' hav
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by alainv 10y ago
Turn on the setting to warn you when the other party's encryption key changes and go about your business. This is non-news unless you have unusually good cause to worry about targeted attacks.
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by alainv 10y ago
`rm -f` ignores nonexistent files so you could omit the `if` to be concise.
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by alainv 10y ago
This is a virtualbox regression because the box is packaged with the LsiLogic controller: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/15317 You can downgrade VirtualBox, dropping to 5.0.16 worked for me: http://downlo
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by alainv 10y ago
The offer of a free year of hosting is nonetheless a paltry joke. The high road here is to acknowledge that customer may choose never to host with you again and still go above and beyond in attempting to make it right to them, e.g. by offer
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by alainv 10y ago
Maybe once it leaves beta.
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by alainv 11y ago
Harassed? Really? The undisputed transcript[0] doesn't really support that view, in my opinion. [0] https://medium.com/@mproberts/a-discussion-about-the-breakin...
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by alainv 11y ago
Did you read the linked post? The abuse by its peacekeepers is what he cites as his main recent issue with the organization, and he indicates it was foreseeable and directly caused by the cynical and bureaucratic incentives in the UN.
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by alainv 11y ago
Why is it "not have 56k for operating expenses"? Something that can be had for $2k is not something a healthy business spends $56k on. You should be able to find a better use for those $650k that year.

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