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by anon1385 11y ago
>Unwanted software I just visited the download.com page for Chrome and it has two ads served by Google. Both ads contain fake download buttons: http://i.imgur.com/eAATuwb.png Google ads are dangerous.
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by anon1385 11y ago
No? I mean I would have thought that the answer to the question "Does YC consciously avoid founders with foreign sounding accents" was obvious ("of course not"). But it turns out it wasn't.
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by anon1385 11y ago
It's really not that simple at all. Please read this report: https://www.globalwitness.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/repor... Buying minerals from the wrong people in the DRC doesn't mean you bu
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by anon1385 11y ago
The real problem is that there's a brutal civil war. The idea that the origin of the problem is government overregulation is laughable.
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by anon1385 11y ago
Here's a huge report about the activities of the people you are wanting to buy minerals from: https://www.globalwitness.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/repor... "In the course of plundering these
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by anon1385 11y ago
You're looking at things only in terms of purely economic transactions. The reality is that plenty of kids "working" in dangerous mines are not there because they made some rational choice to accept the risk in exchange for e
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by anon1385 11y ago
Would you care to comment on why gov.uk is using 3rd party analytics scripts run by a company based in a foreign country on the online tax assessment form for UK citizens? Getting rid of that massive privacy and security hole would be a muc
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by anon1385 11y ago
I got throttled to dialup speeds for a month in ~2007 by my UK ISP (Demon) for downloading over 60gb in a month. The small print mentioned an abuse clause but didn't specify what the actual automatic hard cutoff was. I was very pissed
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by anon1385 11y ago
Just because they don't get things perfect doesn't mean they don't do a much better job than you or I could do.
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by anon1385 11y ago
>(already fixed on 2015-06-16) Not so fast. The SVG version in comment 14 isn't fixed yet it seems. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1174811#c14
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by anon1385 11y ago
Sure, but being in the right time and place to benefit from a massive housing boom/bubble isn't "busting their asses".
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Shock figures to reveal deadly toll of global air pollution(theguardian.com)
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by anon1385 11y ago
> It's also fast, anonymous, and egalitarian It's not egalitarian. People who are tech savvy enough to use ad blockers are subsidised by the less technology literate. Those people are also the ones most likely to fall for the m
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by anon1385 11y ago
I think in North America it's called 'burlap' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessian_fabric
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by anon1385 11y ago
C is not simple.
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by anon1385 11y ago
The chain of discussion: >Because [C] is simple >Again, if people can't agree what type to use for integers, then it's not "simple". >Pick the integer type that is best suited for your use, given your circumstan
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by anon1385 11y ago
Saying "just pick the right tool" is a worthless statement when the question is the difficulty of doing that. Would you enter a discussion about curing cancer or depression and announce "just pick the right cure for the disea
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by anon1385 11y ago
>Pick the integer type that is best suited for your use, given your circumstances. >Pick the fission reactor type that is best suited for your use, given your circumstances.
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by anon1385 11y ago
https://www.qualys.com/2016/01/14/cve-2016-0777-cve-2016-077... >- "out_start == out_last" (lines 205-206): no data was ever written to out_buf (and both out_start and out_last are still equal to
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by anon1385 11y ago
>A somewhat contrived example It's not a contrived example. When Java changed this exact behaviour it caused a lot of pain for people. Code that previously ran in a reasonable amount of time suddenly became impractically slow: http
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by anon1385 11y ago
Chrome isn't allowed on FirefoxOS…
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by anon1385 11y ago
>It is surprising to me that this feels so negative to you. Every large social tech company - Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Groupon, LivingSocial (RIP), Tinder - have all used tactics similar to what you label 'dark patterns' to
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by anon1385 11y ago
Rejection of nuclear power wasn't down to Greens or CND types. They don't wield that kind of political power, especially in the major nuclear states where most reactor development was/is happening (USA, Russia, China, UK, Fra
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Woman's home ‘trashed’ on New Year’s Eve after renting it on Airbnb(independent.co.uk)
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by anon1385 11y ago
A lot of GPL advocates don't like the AGPL. Presumably because they make a living from proprietary web apps that use GPL'd code.
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by anon1385 11y ago
Thanks for doing that. It's much more productive than just moaning on HN like I did.
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by anon1385 11y ago
Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9862556
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by anon1385 11y ago
bstring relies on undefined behaviour for security. Do not use it. >Bstrlib is, by design, impervious to memory size overflow attacks. The reason is it is resiliant to length overflows is that bstring lengths are bounded above by INT_MA
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by anon1385 11y ago
I looked at the linked document. The figures are as follows (all in thousands): 14,157 units below the poverty line (12.7% of all units) 5,566 of those Owner occupied (39.3%) 3,191 of those owned "free and clear" (22%) So his 45%
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Integer overflow in glibc strncat(sourceware.org)
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