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by bassman9000 6y ago
Without this requirement, generifying a class would require a “flag day” where all clients and subclasses have to be at least recompiled, if not modified – all at once. For a core class such as ArrayList, this essentially requires all the
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by bassman9000 6y ago
what makes it the absolute market leader What makes it the absolute leader is the void left by a dismal IE, and a completely lost Firefox, a few years back. Today's lead is coasting. I don't know OSx, but perceived performance i
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by bassman9000 6y ago
Half the data Chrome collects is harmless Until it's not. Meaning, we don't know if there's a way yet to harm users, or we don't know if anyone is actually using it to harm users. If it's harmless, don't coll
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by bassman9000 6y ago
Because Taiwan is a single, small country, with a single government, and a great incentive to succeed in semiconductors. The EU is a conglomerate of 20+ hyperbureaucratic states where the incentive is to drag these initiatives for years and
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by bassman9000 6y ago
I opted out 3 seconds after I got the email from them, and took the opportunity to also disable other marketing options that I hadn't noticed before.
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by bassman9000 6y ago
Worse. Up until recently (2020), Chinese listed companies routinely failed to meet oversight rules, with Nasdaq's connivance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holding_Foreign_Companies_Acco... https://en.wi
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by bassman9000 6y ago
Black and white sophism. No country is going to meet c), no country is benign. What matters is how much better the country in aspects like this. And the US still much better, NSA included.
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by bassman9000 6y ago
Ignorance and cost. Chinese phones are popular in Europe, where Apple/Google/Samsung flagship phones are prohibitive, and similarly spec'ed Chinese ones are a fraction of the cost. And we can't forget many Euro citizens
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by bassman9000 6y ago
Which makes the whole system even more despicable: they weren't fired because of the content. They were fired because they were caught.
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by bassman9000 6y ago
Simplistic, but: http://www.ercot.com/content/wcm/lists/181766/IntGenbyFuel20... 1/4 of the mix is wind, and turbines were frozen. Maintenance in extreme condition not done, because either they didn
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by bassman9000 6y ago
Can we now add the profusely mentioned weatherproofing to the solar/costs? Because nuclear works better at 0°, at no added costs.
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by bassman9000 6y ago
Because of this, we should reject any ideology that stresses the primacy of a group at the expense of individuals. Similarly, we should reject any ideology that places a system (such as markets) above individuals. Refreshing to read the
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by bassman9000 6y ago
Broad accusations aside, don't shift the goalposts. No one can setup basic infrastructure beyond the datacenter in 24h.
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by bassman9000 6y ago
In this very same thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26019039
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by bassman9000 6y ago
I have no problem with this. I take no pleasure in offending people and will change my language accordingly. This point doesn't make sense. There's 7 billion people in the world. Everything you said will offend someone, somewher
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by bassman9000 6y ago
So AMC and its thousands of employees remain afloat for a few extra months? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC_Theatres
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by bassman9000 6y ago
There's a fair amount of people that sleep less than 7h. https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/data_statistics.html
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by bassman9000 6y ago
Ah, yes. The classic let's rewrite everything from first principles instead of using a proven, state-of-the-art runtime for which we just to reimplement font rendering .
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by bassman9000 6y ago
How long before the renaming of the city? "San Francisco" is the name of the mission. Obvious conquistadores/colonizers reference.
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by bassman9000 6y ago
Through consensus from a broad and diverse set of contributors https://twitter.github.io/birdwatch/about/faq/ The first phase of this pilot will be limited to a small test group in the US The pilot will
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by bassman9000 6y ago
I instructed my family how to do it today, both deleting account, and deleting the app. They'll go and tell the people in their groups, which in turn they'll tell theirs. By this point they all have signal and/or telegram, an
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by bassman9000 6y ago
Then nuclear is the cheapest, and most reliable, by far.
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by bassman9000 6y ago
The NLRB says, “A mail ballot election will enfranchise employees who cannot enter the voting location for health reasons or due to positive COVID tests.” Fearing an unfavorable outcome, however, Amazon now insists that current COVID outbr
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by bassman9000 6y ago
Monarchy is a red herring. You'll find monarchies between top adjusted HDI and other indicators (like democracy quality) indexes. Monarchy tends also to be cheaper than presidential offices, in countries with president/prime minis
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by bassman9000 6y ago
https://teleguard.com/en#faq we are not subject to the data protection laws of the EU / USA and do not have to pass on any data, but GDPR-compliant. Wat. If they're not subject to EU laws, they're not subje
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by bassman9000 6y ago
If still you need to login to access repos, same stuff.
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by bassman9000 6y ago
I think we're now there, given how close Big Tech and Democrats are, and have been, for a long time.
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by bassman9000 6y ago
What about getting a National Security Letter from the US government? A case by case basis, limited in reach, for only a small subset of companies, and overseen by the Justice Department. In no way comparable to the Chinese law, which man
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by bassman9000 6y ago
It’s just one company. There's no private Chinese companies, only CCP subsidiaries. Comparisons with e.g. Facebook are moot. At this point, comments like this are plain disingenuous, or purposefully misleading.
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by bassman9000 6y ago
Gradle was the excuse ant writers/maintainers wanted not to migrate to Maven, because the latter forces you to be cleaner with your project organization.

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