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by bad_user 6y ago
> "the App Store has a spotty record of stopping malware from reaching your phone" Source? Apple's App Store has in fact a really good track record for stopping malware from reaching phones. Some mallware still got in, b
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by bad_user 6y ago
> " It's a transcript of the following talk by R. Martin with some substitutions made (SmallTalk -> Haskell, Ruby -> Rust, and others) " I kept wondering why I'm wasting my time reading this, until the end, only
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by bad_user 6y ago
This is not an excuse. The western countries burned most of the fossil fuels, and are responsible for most of the world's deforestation. You're effectively saying that other countries shouldn't be allowed to lift their popula
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by bad_user 6y ago
> " Deliberate arsonism should be reclassified worldwide as crime against (the future of) humanity " You mean that, what the western countries did throughout the 19th and the 20th century, the developing countries aren't a
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by bad_user 6y ago
> "around the same time, free software organizations were starting to successfully sue companies who were using free software but not complying with the license. so big companies, like Apple, saw new restrictions coming in at the s
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by bad_user 6y ago
If the permissions system in place is clear and potent enough, I don't see the problem. You can also ask people to simply download and install an app that can do whatever it wants. It's 2020 and we still can't build web apps
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by bad_user 6y ago
Epic is a company that reserves the right to sell your data for marketing purposes, says so in their privacy policy. Remember that on Android they first tried to workaround Google Play's limitations by distributing Fortnite outside the
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by bad_user 6y ago
The contract developers have with Apple involves use of Apple's property. A contract may not be enforceable, but only if it contradicts the law. In this instance, I don't see how.
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by bad_user 6y ago
Those are anecdotes, the question is how often does it happen? Sure, it's possible, which is why we have reviews aggregating the findings of multiple studies. The results of one study could be an anomaly, which is why replication is im
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by bad_user 6y ago
Ah, nice, thanks!
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by bad_user 6y ago
RCTs are high quality, because they are done in a controlled setting, testing against a control group, testing the null hypothesis. RCTs are able to show causality. The problem with RCTs is that they are very expensive, since it involves ke
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by bad_user 6y ago
Not sure of what conspiracies you’re thinking of, but if actual evidence was leaked, then we are talking about a clear failure of those involved, therefore this is evidence for the claim that large scale conspiracies are indeed impossible ;
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by bad_user 6y ago
Does that `save` keyword work? The problem is %s gets escaped, so Firefox generates this URL, which seems to be invalid: https://web.archive.org/save/https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator....
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by bad_user 6y ago
This was first implemented in Firefox, as an experiment, and is now an extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/ro/firefox/addon/wayback-machine_...
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by bad_user 6y ago
The "target site" is the URL from the author's domain, and Cloudflare is the domain's designated CDN. The user is reaching the server that the webmaster wants reachable. That's how the web works. > The nice thin
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by bad_user 6y ago
> conspiracy of some kind could be an explanation, who knows Actually we do know. It’s safe to say that conspiracies involving a lot of actors are mathematically impossible. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/articl
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by bad_user 6y ago
I don’t understand what’s the problem with auto-playing muted video. Facebook and Twitter have been doing it in their apps. The mobile apps are more popular than the web pages. The exodus to native apps has already been happening. The web h
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by bad_user 6y ago
Milk is great. Milk + potatoes is a full diet. Not many mutations have spread as fast as lactose tolerance in adulthood, and we don’t have many known adaptations that happened in the neolithic. Goes to show the intense evolutionary pressure
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by bad_user 6y ago
Lard was also very expensive, typically inaccessible to the layman, who preferred to sell all animal products they could get their hands on. Fat was inaccessible for cooking on a day to day basis, for anyone but the rich, until the introduc
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by bad_user 6y ago
Wait another year or two, when the judgemental rebel comes out.
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by bad_user 6y ago
Downpour.com sell DRM-free audiobooks, but lately I noticed a couple of titles in their library that are DRM-protected, so I don’t know for how long that will last. In their library I did find most of the titles I was interested in, selecti
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by bad_user 6y ago
Debian could hardly maintain their Iceweasel fork, and all they did was to change the branding. People seriously underestimate how much effort there is in developing a browser these days. Let’s be honest, if Mozilla goes under, Firefox is d
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by bad_user 6y ago
They did not fire employees working on Firefox. The questionable layoffs were the Servo devs, which were arguably working on next-gen stuff. But the Gecko team remained intact. It’s actually not bad for orgs to trim expenses. Given Mozilla
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by bad_user 6y ago
Serving ads or doing tracking from random URLs doesn't work with extensions like uBlock Origin. In Firefox, uBO can block first party domains: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/780 Als
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by bad_user 6y ago
No, if you’re referring to GDocs, web links is all you get.
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by bad_user 6y ago
> " Most people use pre-paid phones until they either break down or get stolen. " Reference please. My personal impression is that most people buy subsidized phones, as part of the contract, every 2 years when the renewal is up
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by bad_user 6y ago
Traditionally dumb devices that are streaming telemetry / sensor data to, and possibly receving commands from, a central server. 5G is supposedly better for the use-case because it should support more connections, it should have less l
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by bad_user 6y ago
This is natural. iPhones have a really long life, and the improvements are marginal. I actually wanted to get off the iOS train, as I hate its restrictions, yet I just bought a new iPad, because my other 5 year old iPad Pro and my iPhone 8
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by bad_user 6y ago
5G is primarily targeted at IoT. New applications yes, but those applications won't necessarily be for phones. Unless bandwidth prices for 5G get dramatically lower than 4G (unlikely, because I don't see mobile operators discrimin
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by bad_user 6y ago
Yes it is unethical, because it's there to trick people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_pricing

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