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by ben509 7y ago
From their terms[1]: "pCloud will have the right to investigate and prosecute breaches of any of the above to the fullest extent of the law. pCloud may involve and cooperate with law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who bre
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It has some tough competition, e.g. RealPlayer.
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> And the rabbit hole goes deep: the XML/HTML syntax is actually able to represent "programs" in a Lisp-like manner. XML was always a poor man's s-expression. And for all the sins of SGML, tags lend themselves beautif
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> But I guess at some point the web developer community just really stopped caring about such issues. Any plan that depends on people caring won't survive contact with actual people.
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> Edit: This is a joke, I am joking. The voters seem to have formed a consensus that it was not a joke, unfortunately, so your humor has failed the test. (This was a meta-joke, and I too am joking.)
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But "always own your own platform" is a message that tends to explain how to do it. If lots of people own their platforms and are sharing links to their peers, they can solve the discoverability problem. If they become collectivel
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by ben509 7y ago
It seems like Purism has a pretty decent user-benevolent smartphone in the works. If most services are available via website, it may be clunky but it'd work. And many public services are offering APIs, so I can imagine their app store
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by ben509 7y ago
> That's how capitalism and the free market is supposed to work. It's wrong to talk about how a market is "supposed to work" because markets aren't a Platonic ideal; they're how people get together and deal
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Also related: > Understood as senior: Communication skills matter most. The reason people dismiss comments is usually that they or others around them aren't good at writing useful comments. Especially when there are linter rules req
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> They lack the ability to take on new perspectives and empathize with others. It often feels like this, "everyone is dead inside but me", and when we make these sweeping generalizations we'll find plenty of instances to j
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Because 'R' as a name is already taken. Even if it weren't, it would lead to too many bad pirate jokes.
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by ben509 7y ago
May I propose an additional falsehood? "Users won't want to turn search highlighting off." Maybe it's just me, but this[1] seems distracting. [1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/pickle.html?h
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by ben509 7y ago
Psychology definitely plays a role in biasing how people interpret things they see and their priorities, but I think much of this is better understood through an economic lens. If you consider the actions you take to preserve your privacy,
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PMs don't make it easy, they make it reliable and central. The default password generation usually doesn't work, and a web form doesn't capture everything, but I'm never clicking and guessing even when I haven't use
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by ben509 7y ago
I used to work across from a Starbucks and I'd routinely have three venti light brews over the day, 60 oz is 5 cups. And Starbucks was very high in caffeine content for drip coffee, plus light roasts have more caffeine. For me, it was
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by ben509 7y ago
Adverse selection inflates premiums, simply because people who need insurance are the ones who buy it. The point of insurance is to transfer* risk to the insurer. The insurer does that by identifying a group that is homogenous enough that t
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by ben509 7y ago
#0 is correct. I'll recommend this piece on S&W [1] and specifically on point #5 [2]. These style guides, especially points #1 through #6, came about from bureaucrats who were essentially filibustering or otherwise obfuscating in t
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by ben509 7y ago
The problem with terrorism is that if left unrestrained, they may accomplish their political goals. Those goals are generally to let them have free reign in the region they're in. For example, ISIS was busy setting up their caliphate,
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Adblocker plugins already do content-level filtering because of this, not just for ads but various tracking and other annoyances. I do that for the sites that have the banner that hides if you scroll down, but pops out the moment you scroll
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by ben509 7y ago
It's usually wrong, but you have a large number of people who don't get regular expressions. It's hard to visualize an automata crawling over a string and handing out matches. The simpler mental model of splitting and splicin
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> I'm the only person in the entire world with the encryption keys to provision the product The chaos that surrounds you, the facts that astound you, at last your number has found you, your bus number is one.
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The trouble is that people have a ton of intuitive buttons to push, and being intuitive they're not usually aware of them. (In straight cons, the buttons are often emotional, which is why the term con comes from building "confiden
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by ben509 7y ago
From what I saw, the hyped Boring tunnel cost savings he demoed were by comparing the cost of the tunnel he had built to the cost of a complete station. Comparing apples to apples, it's competitive, and that's an achievement in it
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by ben509 7y ago
I should revise that: "programmers aren't very good at deciding whether a function should be a subroutine or coroutine." Specifically, the problem is that making the decision happen requires refactoring and that can make a sm
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Thanks for the link, I'm definitely interested in how it's done without a runtime. I know in theory a coroutine can compile down to a gory switch statement and some state, but doing anything useful with it gets hairy, I'm sur
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The async block syntax would be nice, and probably far more explicit. I think with the `return alpha + beta + gamma` the idea is that within a scope, everything is done as late as possible, but you can't leave a scope without all resul
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by ben509 7y ago
A bit off-topic: Is there any theoretical reason you need async / await syntax at all? (It's certainly desirable for performance and compatibility to avoid making all subroutines into coroutines, so I understand why most languag
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> Due to the connotations of "religious battle", it's hard to get a good answer here. Nobody wants to be painted in this light. Haven't we all found ourselves lined up as one of a pair of camps over some heated disput
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Oh, good, that was my intution as well.
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My guess is they're using the technical sounding word when they're reading a techy URL thing. Out of curiosity, if we're describing the two characters, which would logically be "down slash" and "up slash"?

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