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by anon1385 12y ago
They also include new security flaws nobody knows about.
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by anon1385 12y ago
You have missed his point. He is saying that the US dollar is so robust that a "currency crisis" could only occur due to events that are globally devastating to basic infrastructure (nuclear war or what have you). I don't nec
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by anon1385 12y ago
Google ads regularly serve malware[1], are you going to tell people not to visit Google? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8879229
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by anon1385 12y ago
>What Google can't do is get those patches delivered to end-user devices. Apple manage to do it. Google made a conscious decision to trade off allowing end users to keep up to date with achieving faster adoption of Android among OE
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by anon1385 12y ago
>A properly designed Web wrapper uses techniques to avoid this risk: filtering urls to stay in the app's domain So you are saying the WebView on Android is unsafe to use for rendering untrusted content. That's a pretty serious
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by anon1385 12y ago
Actually at first you used the word "communism", which is why I downvoted you and flagged your comment. You are just using inaccurate emotive language to rage wildly against a line in the article that offended your zealous patriot
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by anon1385 12y ago
Except the ones who want to do things that are 'forbidden' by RMS. Those people have no choice but to use LLVM. For example, a lot of academic work on compilers and languages can't easily use GCC, neither can people wanting t
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by anon1385 12y ago
A lot of people don't pay off their cards on time?
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by anon1385 12y ago
Seems to be this issue: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/547
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by anon1385 12y ago
>If Emacs doesn't need the full AST, why would you give it to them? Because the range of ways people might want to process code is vast. It's impossible to predict in advance what all those possibilities might be. The only way
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by anon1385 12y ago
You have to understand the perspective of the FSF. They view non-free software as fundamentally morally evil. In the same way that most people today view slavery as fundamentally wrong. The comparison to slavery is one RMS and the FSF often
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by anon1385 12y ago
Heh, you are kind of making my point for me here. Buying the rare elements needed to build a modern phone is just about impossible to do without sourcing things from the Democratic Republic of the Congo or other places where child and slave
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by anon1385 12y ago
The politics of Apple really is quite fascinating. Is there any other company that people feel so passionately about that they are prepared to totally reverse their normal political positions? Mention Apple and you can get a bunch of free m
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by anon1385 12y ago
>a third party with its own interest You say that as if Google don't have their own interests: encouraging more people to spend on Adwords, sending more clicks to sites using Adsense, sending more clicks to their own properties, enc
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by anon1385 12y ago
Well if you were being serious it sounds like you really need to read this book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythical_man_month
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by anon1385 12y ago
I honestly can't tell if you are attempting parody or being serious.
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by anon1385 12y ago
People disliked them because the founders acted like obnoxious fratbros, but the specific claims of wrongdoing were over blackhat SEO ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6956658 ) which ended up getting them penalised by
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by anon1385 12y ago
Which basically boiled down to him trying to argue that people must want malware because they clicked through a deviously worded dialog box. From building spam filters to funding a spam company. Building things people want? Ha! I guess it&#
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by anon1385 12y ago
Interesting. Do you have any more information about that scheme?
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by anon1385 12y ago
See this story and the similar tales in the comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6243627
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by anon1385 12y ago
Download.com is just the beginning of this crap. At least a lot of people now realise that download.com is shady. Google is just as bad as download.com, but people still think of Google as a reputable site. Even in this discussion people ar
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by anon1385 12y ago
I'm almost certain that RMS would veto the use of LLVM. He clearly views LLVM as an enemy of 'freedom'.
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by anon1385 12y ago
A flashy shop display is more interesting than a new programming language for the platform? I think that says more about you than it does Apple.
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by anon1385 12y ago
It has worse code completion and refactoring support for C and C++ than it should have. Emacs users are forced to switch to other tools (like proprietary IDEs or LLVM based tools) when they need to do complex refactoring to c++ codebases. I
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by anon1385 12y ago
Military weapons have few non-violent uses. ASTs have many uses other than assisting proprietary IDEs (for example, allowing emacs to complete with proprietary IDEs on a level playing field). It's more akin to refusing to manufacture k
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by anon1385 12y ago
>Eh, what ? Apple is already shipping their proprietary fork of Clang which supports their proprietary language Swift, this is exactly what Free Software which Stallman advocates is working against. Thats exactly the point. Anybody wanti
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by anon1385 12y ago
>it usually deals very poorly with a situation already unethical in nature. Allowing code completion and complex refactoring in emacs is "unethical in nature"?
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by anon1385 12y ago
We aren't just talking about proprietary software developers using llvm. The projects most hurt by GCC being crippled by design are those like emacs that want to do more advanced things using GCC AST but can't. Emacs is being deli
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Rising inequality holds back economic growth(washingtonpost.com)
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by anon1385 12y ago
It's not about pricing. In Germany one of the issues for Uber was that they weren't ensuring the vehicles had the more frequent mechanical safety checks that the law requires for commercial vehicles (the logic being that they do f

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