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by azernik 6y ago
Or if both are on un-NATted IPv6, and can get open ports through their respective firewalls. Specifically, you need to construct an object[1] that kind of looks like an SDP[2] message and pass it into the API; the demo applications generall
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by azernik 6y ago
If you're willing to solve the discovery and NAT traversal problems yourself, but it's perfectly doable - AFAIU the WebRTC protocol doesn't care how you solve those problems, just that you do . See e.g. this little demo:
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by azernik 6y ago
I said "hearing" :-P
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by azernik 6y ago
Mars has enough atmosphere (and dust!) that there's stuff for light to bounce off of. e.g. the article notes that the dust actually produces longer twilights than on Earth, because dust scatters more light than Earth's relativel
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by azernik 6y ago
Side note: I'm very interested to know if those weight-saving measures came from a common ancestor between sauropods and birds, or if that's just convergent evolution in two branches of the dinosaur family that were solving simila
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by azernik 6y ago
They already do get a little blue: just like how at sunset and sunrise you see red near the sun on Earth, on Mars sunset and sunrise come with a bit of blue at the horizon. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/925/w
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by azernik 6y ago
Anything as big as the Moon is going to be spherical; if Mars' moons were large enough to totally eclipse the Sun, I expect they would be spherical too.
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by azernik 6y ago
That view was mostly abandoned in the 70s-90s. They were just built very lightly, using a lot of the same weight-saving techniques (hollow, airy bones) used by modern birds. (This lightness makes it unlikely they could function well in wate
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by azernik 6y ago
As are most human senses! Definitely hearing, vision, and smell; possibly also perception of force and weight, though the evidence is conflicting there.
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by azernik 6y ago
As scavengers, cockroaches actually fill a useful economic niche. Mosquitos are just pure shared-needle disease spreaders.
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by azernik 6y ago
Russia and Israel track "ethnicity" based on, respectively, self-identification and the internal membership rules of each ethnic group.
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by azernik 6y ago
> As a french person I object to this. It's all about culture, not face features. I mean... yes? "Ethnicity" is a cultural category, not a genetic one. Specifically, its boundaries are socially-constructed, and the US is u
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by azernik 6y ago
US got its initial Latino population from conquering bits of Mexico; and while in the US Latinos were a separate ethnic group from Anglos, the internal "racial" divisions in Mexican society between criollos and mestizos were imp
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by azernik 6y ago
"Migration background" is defined as by the Statistisches Bundesamt as anyone having at least one grandparent who immigrated after 1949. We're only just getting into the period where descendants of e.g. Croatian immigrants of
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by azernik 6y ago
The use of "race" for ethnicity is indeed a uniquely American thing; most of the countries I've mentioned use "ethnicity" or "nationality".
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by azernik 6y ago
Just off the top of my head for countries that also track ethnicity/race in government statistics: Belgium (because the Walloon/Fleming ethnic divide is so central to its politics), Germany (under the euphemism "migration bac
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by azernik 6y ago
When it comes to the "spirit", the people criticizing it seem to be talking about the "spirit" of Stallman and Free Software; the term Open Source and the OSI as an institution were explicitly built on friendliness to ru
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by azernik 6y ago
GPL would not solve the problem Elastic has - it's perfectly legal (and in the spirit of the definition!) to take GPL software, host it yourself, sell the hosted service, and not pay the creator a cent. It's also perfectly legal t
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by azernik 6y ago
The source is available to look at, but the OSI certainly doesn't consider it "open".
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by azernik 6y ago
I don't think the EU is (or would ever) propose that these decisions be made on an EU level; generally this kind of stuff, e.g. GDPR, requires each individual state to set up their own regulatory agency implementing the standard EU-wid
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by azernik 6y ago
They didn't deplatform him until he crossed a line in terms of violence; they didn't deplatform him right after the presidential or even the Georgia races were called.
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by azernik 6y ago
Because terms of service are vague and, more importantly, selectively enforced. Selective enforcement of private contracts is totally legal, and the EU('s executive branch) is uncomfortable with the public policy implications of that w
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by azernik 6y ago
I don't know, hasn't worked for at least a year.
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by azernik 6y ago
I am continually shocked that sci-hub still does not have a working .onion address.
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by azernik 6y ago
I didn't mean to imply slavery wasn't the motivator - but the trigger was the election of a (moderate-ish) anti-slavery president from an anti-slavery party, who explicitly called for the end of admitting new slave states to the U
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by azernik 6y ago
Only really necessary if you plan to be the unmoderated sump where all the people kicked off of Twitter end up. Different services have different risk profiles.
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by azernik 6y ago
Because a major news event happened just a few days ago that removed all ambiguity or uncertainty about the seriousness of the issue.
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by azernik 6y ago
Most of that stuff eventually got taken down from YouTube. Parler isn't even trying.
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by azernik 6y ago
Twitter, Facebook, &c absolutely make a reasonable attempt - stuff this blatant does not tend to survive long on their platforms. That short-lived content still has effects, but they're not in the Parler bucket of refusing on princ
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by azernik 6y ago
The government designating terrorist groups is a bad yardstick, because US law enforcement can only designate foreign terrorist organizations.

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