angott

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by angott 8y ago
They could have a single bank in any EU country. For instance, Revolut used to provide cards issued by a British bank to all customers across the EU. It's the beauty of the Single Market.
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by angott 8y ago
This is similar to Multipath TCP, for anybody interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipath_TCP
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by angott 8y ago
And you haven't even mentioned the fact that mobile phones can move around, leading to high rates of dropped connections as devices come and go. There's no way this is going to work.
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by angott 8y ago
Apple is not affected by most of these rulings as they only apply to firms that control the majority of a given market (the goal of these laws is to impact potential monopolists, not smaller actors). Apple is not considered to have majority
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by angott 8y ago
It will be interesting to see how the different browser choices will be presented. If the EU commission pushes for browsers to be featured with a few lines of text and not just an icon (like they did back in the days with MSFT), it could be
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by angott 8y ago
> that really isn't so difficult that an average user couldn't figure it out [...] This just gives me a "users are idiots" vibe It's not a matter of difficulty, but rather a matter of awareness. Based on my exper
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by angott 8y ago
This is only partially true. If you import common libraries or fonts from a CDN, it is likely that the user's browser has already downloaded those previously, leading to reduced loading times because the resource is retrieved from the
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by angott 8y ago
That's the major problem. A person writing regulation to deal with this problem would need to know what a CDN is, why they are required in modern web development, the pros and cons of self-hosted vs. cloud-based analytics solutions, et
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by angott 8y ago
Not having a for-profit rationale would cut down on most, if not all, attempts to sell personal information, because funding could come in different ways (donations, for instance). Some non-profits have a terrible track record with informat
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by angott 8y ago
That is exactly what I meant, sorry if I was unclear.
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by angott 8y ago
> Facebook promised to open a data centre in Canada to create jobs, in exchange for the federal government offering assurances that it would not impose its jurisdiction over the company's non-Canadian data . This should not be lega
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by angott 8y ago
You might be interested in this, although support is extremely limited and restricted to specific areas: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Mobile#building-and-deploy...
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by angott 8y ago
I just don't understand why Facebook doesn't provide a subscription option. I would be willing to pay $4.99/month or perhaps a bit more in exchange for no ads and no tracking. What is so wrong about being able to pay for thin
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by angott 8y ago
The treaty abolishes tariffs. You would still have to pay VAT to customs.
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by angott 8y ago
I always wondered why FaceTime Audio has almost zero call establishment time on iOS, as opposed to WhatsApp or FB Messenger where you need to wait half a second before the audio feed kicks in after answering. Guess this is the reason!
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by angott 8y ago
No, only the blocking API is concerned. Observational capacity will remain.
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by angott 8y ago
Sadly, the vast majority of tutorials are like that because their major lead generator is SEO. If you can cram 10 technologies into a tutorial, you'll end up in 10x search results.
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by angott 8y ago
It hasn't been updated in a very long time. Constant crashes on Mojave. I have transitioned away to TablePlus and DataGrip. Too bad because it was a very good tool for quick edits.
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by angott 8y ago
You should be able to see deauth packets in Wireshark, if you are curious, provided you can put your network card in monitor mode.
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by angott 8y ago
I wouldn't have any problem with this kind of features, as long as the user can disable them in the Settings. They would actually be a nice addition.
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by angott 8y ago
Anybody can register a .eu domain. There are many companies that operate across EU borders in different countries, and use .eu domains to advertise their pan-European targeting.
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by angott 8y ago
Given the impact of the whole Brexit process on the British economy since the referendum date, I don't really see many EU countries willing to repeat the experiment again.
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by angott 8y ago
I believe the major difference here is that credit bureaus are open about their business models. Can’t say the same about the ways in which Facebook monetizes data.
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by angott 8y ago
I am an Italian living in Vancouver, and I totally know what you are talking about. You can get pretty close to that by buying boutique cold-pressed olive oil. Here in Canada, I can only find it in high-end Italian grocery stores, and unfor
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by angott 8y ago
Another problem is that the labeling laws apply only to oil bottles sold in Italy/EU. Most olive oil sold in North America by Italian companies will just say "Product of Italy" without mentioning that the olives used come fro
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by angott 8y ago
> I think the goal of the T2 is to block Hackintosh and also to block hardware upgrades. Although there's no way for us to really know, I don't really think that's their priority. Sounds more like a side-effect. Consumers
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by angott 8y ago
The "bureaucrats in Brussels" are nominated by EU Parliament members, who in turn are elected every five years directly by citizens in European elections. They are there not because the EU is anti-democratic, but because you canno
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by angott 8y ago
Yes, the feature has been there since iOS 1.0. Siri on iOS 4.0 started making use of it to enable voice commands (e.g. “call Mom”)
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by angott 8y ago
This already happens on Air Canada (although at least the ads are not personalized). Before each movie or show you play on your IFE screen in economy class, they make you watch two 30 seconds ads. I was very annoyed, especially since AC tic
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by angott 8y ago
A good overview of that API here: https://kean.github.io/post/network-extensions-into

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