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by babuskov 8y ago
Exactly. Same as the organ donor thing. They don't KNOW. If they knew they would CARE.
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by babuskov 8y ago
> Compare: the organ-donor registry. When it's opt-in, most people don't opt in. When it's opt-out, most people don't opt out. Most people just don't care. Most people don't know it exists or that they have
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by babuskov 8y ago
> from web developer's perspective, they get a predictable result within iOS without effort and from those... > Maybe you work for Mozilla. Maybe you're a lazy web developer. The only thing I miss on iPhone is Gecko. I often
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by babuskov 8y ago
It's not like the terrorist group choose that name. They choose to call themselves Daesh. ISIS was a term coined by Western miliary and/or media.
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by babuskov 8y ago
> We often label people who are all smiles while simultaneously extremely strict as passive agressive. I get this label often and was wondering where was that coming from. Thanks for the insight.
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by babuskov 8y ago
> You can avoid all of this by using an iPhone. Not really. https://www.apple.com/lae/iphone-battery-and-performance/ > Apple's business model does not involve ad revenue or data collection. I fail to s
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by babuskov 8y ago
> Is the BBC commerical? In my experience BBC asks permission to use anything. I have an open source game (GPL), and they asked me for permission to use a footage of their own gameplay. So, even if this would fall into "fair use&quo
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by babuskov 8y ago
In Serbia (not to be confused with Siberia, which is something completely different ;)
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by babuskov 8y ago
In my experience CloudFlare has too many false positives outside of US/EU networks. I often cannot access websites that are behind CluodFlare. It would be a really sad day if they became a gateway to 50% of web traffic.
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by babuskov 8y ago
> There is no way that we are "alone" in a universe estimated to have practically infinite planets. Maybe there is a lot of space out there, but not enough time? Maybe the universe is still pretty young and it takes a lot of ti
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by babuskov 8y ago
> To the single cell organism; the worm looks to be advanced and complex. To the worm; the human looks to be advanced and complex. I don't think either of those is advanced enough to have a concept of anything "looking complex&
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by babuskov 8y ago
Start here to understand the basics: http://docs.godotengine.org/en/2.1/learning/step_by_step/sce... and soon he will get to create a first game: http://docs.godotengine.org/en/2.1&#
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Ask HN: Why is there no cafe on the Moon?
1 points by babuskov 8y ago|2 comments
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by babuskov 8y ago
Let him try Godot. It's a great step forward without having to learn everything that Unity requires.
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by babuskov 8y ago
> Google can't avoid knowing at least your IP address. Knowing it isn't the problem. It's in storing it permanently. When I need location-enabled services I enable location tracking on my hardware (GPS+wifi) and everything
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by babuskov 8y ago
> It'd also be very hard to really eliminate _all_ use of location across all products. I'm sure Google has great programmers. > Even very basic queries like [buy flowers] needs some rough idea of the user's location to
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by babuskov 8y ago
> One (general-purpose) register! I'm currently making a hacking puzzle game prototype where you need to manipulate bits of memory to trick CPU into doing the things you want. Having a single register makes it much easier to design
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by babuskov 8y ago
I need to do a presentation in a week from today and I was hoping to somehow just do it with a web browser without having to make sure LibreOffice or MS Office or whatever is installed on host's computers (and not having to drag my lap
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Forget PowerPoint: reveal.js(github.com)
5 points by babuskov 8y ago|1 comments
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by babuskov 8y ago
> I can't imagine that 100% of the people interested in fortnite for android are willing to sideload the apk. As long as more than 70% are, it's a net gain for Epic.
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by babuskov 8y ago
> Cameras are pretty small these days and facial recognition is cheap. Masking your face is also cheap and easy to do if you are really concerned about it.
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by babuskov 8y ago
We're down-voting questions now? Wow.
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by babuskov 8y ago
> Unless I can rent the server anonymously Perhaps if you used Bitcoins to pay?
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by babuskov 8y ago
Many locks and keys? And a gun? I bet there's an unsolved crime behind that one.
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by babuskov 8y ago
Doesn't need all the Electron baggage so it's much more lightweight on the system while still having all the features (I need).
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by babuskov 8y ago
Interesting how many open source apps I'm using are missing: VLC https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html Brackets http://brackets.io/ Gimp https://www.gimp.org/ ResolutionMenu
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by babuskov 8y ago
I have been thinking a lot about the plastic problem. Isn't plastic a great way to store carbon in solid form for a long time and prevent it coming back into the atmosphere? I mean, doesn't plastic work the same way the wooden fur
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by babuskov 8y ago
True. I have no idea what their product does nor why would I need it.
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by babuskov 8y ago
> I think it'd be nice to have a browser option where it simply won't load content from outside of the current domain. Though at the moment that would break a lot of the web I have been using RequestPolicy Firefox extension for
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by babuskov 8y ago
> didn't want to scare me into giving up my email address using "account recovery" FUD It's not FUD. I run a small website (about 10k daily visits) where you can log in and play some games and don't have the &quo

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