andrewksl

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by andrewksl 9y ago
Recording artists have had a fairly similar set up for quite some time; the label takes almost all the money from album sales, so the artists tend to make their money off live shows and merch.
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by andrewksl 9y ago
I can't tell if you're implying that they store iMessages unencrypted, but iMessage is encrypted end-to-end. Backups of your phone, which may or may not contain message histories, are only encrypted at rest.
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by andrewksl 9y ago
The numbers in India are staggering, but I was even more blown away by the news that Bangladesh managed to get open defecation down from 44% in 2003 to 1% today. https://www.thethirdpole.net/2016/03/03/open-de
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by andrewksl 10y ago
I'm certainly no Uber apologist, but talk about damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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by andrewksl 10y ago
Went back to check, and you're totally right. Not sure how I remembered that so wrong.
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by andrewksl 10y ago
> The original Facebook didn't have a status to update; that didn't come until around late 2007 or early 2008 It wasn't that late. At early as 2005, there was a form with the prompt "John Doe is:" and you had to
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by andrewksl 10y ago
> If competitor X beats them to the self-driving-punch, I'll simply install their app and start saving. And Uber couldn't double down on their existing strategy of heavily subsidised rides to undercut self-driving cars? I mean,
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by andrewksl 10y ago
> what exact benefit does running a $800M losing ride-hailing service confer Market share. Or more precisely, establishing market dominance by undercutting the competition.
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by andrewksl 10y ago
Perhaps they consider security by obscurity an acceptable technique?
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by andrewksl 10y ago
You're right: Knowledge shouldn't be the end goal, but I think you're overstating the effect of fringe communities on the internet. Consider that for many people on Earth, getting access to the internet takes them from the kn
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by andrewksl 11y ago
It's probably not right to classify all HFT as unscrupulous. However, consider the kind of algorithm that picks up when you're looking for a big amount of stock X, and then proceeds to race you to the other exchanges in an effort
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by andrewksl 11y ago
Shouldn't the same feelings of smallness be imparted by staring at a sufficiently large building? So the sensation of awe fades as you become accustomed to seeing the object in question?
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by andrewksl 11y ago
You should be able to enter reading mode before the page finishes (or even starts, for that matter) loading. We use the readability ( https://www.readability.com/ ) API, which does all scraping/parsing server-side.
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by andrewksl 11y ago
Are you implying we don't attribute all the libraries we use? ;) Everything we use is there. We're not using any closed source frameworks.
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by andrewksl 11y ago
Hi there. We're going to take note of the first two points and see what we can do about it. As for the third, have you tried reading mode? It's the armchair icon to the URL in the browser.
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by andrewksl 11y ago
Thanks for your comments. Dynamic type is very high on the to-do list. Akepa is a news/text reader first, and we recognize that comfortable reading is the highest priority. Some of what you're asking for might be solved by the the
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by andrewksl 11y ago
We contact our servers only to verify receipts when you buy Pro (had some issues with that earlier :$). We also use analytics for crash reports. Everything else is either direct to https://news.ycombinator.com or https:/&#
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A piano made of Clojure, Arduino, and bananas(youtube.com)
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by andrewksl 12y ago
Fun fact: A lot of these towers are now used in HFT; they have even lower latency than fiber laid nearly as the crow flies.
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by andrewksl 12y ago
This doesn't sit right with me. A species does not exist based on something as brittle as some ego-stroking social contract. Apes have the same genital layout as us, and I doubt they have the same unconscious desire to maintain this al
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by andrewksl 12y ago
> how long till a brick goes through your window as you're sleeping? Going from answering nature's call in a somewhat uncouth, unthinking manner to outright vandalism is a bit of a leap.
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by andrewksl 12y ago
The real issue is this guy talking like people should be grateful for employment and that objections to crazy work hours are attitude problems. I don't know if this is a cultural thing, but I found that more off putting than that he la
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by andrewksl 12y ago
Without a doubt, unless we're making the argument that punishment benefits the punished somehow. I should probably have made mention of rehabilitation to contrast.
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by andrewksl 12y ago
> There are situations in which it is right to send people to prison without them posing an active and dangerous threat Do these situations exist only when we consider punishment a valid reason for imprisonment? Don't get me wrong;
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by andrewksl 12y ago
Apologies for being off topic, but I, for one, was not aware. Which tests are considered more meaningful?
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by andrewksl 12y ago
The same reasons any number of atrocities are committed without so much as a blip on our consciousness: Ignorance and apathy. We're pretty limited beings :).
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by andrewksl 12y ago
Why wouldn't SSL help? Unless the offending exit node has the requested site's cert, there's almost no way they can carry out a MITM attack on an SSL request undetected. That's kind of the whole point of certs. Or is thi
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by andrewksl 12y ago
Check out supervisor ( http://supervisord.org/ ). Super painless daemons if you're like me and hate writing init scripts.
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by andrewksl 12y ago
I'm pretty sure Apple never claimed to be able to stop the NSA. Walling off any obvious back doors both for itself and anyone else that may want access through said door is not the same as saying that what was once a house is now a rei
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by andrewksl 12y ago
Probably milk and eggs. They're not vegan, as far as I know.

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