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by caskstrength 3y ago
No, it doesn't "clarify" anything like that. If google doesn't have phone numbers of some subset of the accounts requested... they will just specify so in their response to law enforcement since it is completely legal an
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> It's not the cookies that people object to, it's the tracking. Tracking provides no benefits to visitors Sure it does. Visitors get to use all those great sites and apps without paying for the services directly.
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> The article tries to make the point (perhaps fails), that companies do this intentionally to get the "consent" of people against their will, therefor running the tight line of breaking the law without breaking it. That X butt
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by caskstrength 3y ago
The problem is that most people don't want to pay for any of the internet services they use either.
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by caskstrength 3y ago
Someone bought roids from India and didn't get busted by DEA in the process?! The horror!
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by caskstrength 3y ago
Why do you need to take down Egyptian pharmacy in the first place?
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> Cloudflare again has a pretty hardline stance that "the courts need to come to us and force us to take it down" "Hardline"? To me it seems like quite reasonable approach as opposed to "we will just take down an
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by caskstrength 3y ago
What do you mean by "directly"? I'm not familiar with Nanos internals, but after skimming their FAQ[0] it seems that Nanos is kind of VM that can't run on bare metal and still requires hypervisor (presumably Linux, unles
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by caskstrength 3y ago
I wasn't arguing that Switzerland is not a democracy, just noted the its political system is nowhere as immune to enacting things like "patriot act" as OP suggested.
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> Case in point: Patriot ACT. SOPA attempts. Asset Forfeiture. In contrast, see the most unruly place in Europe: Switzerland. I'm not so sure about that. Swiss public like all westerners seem to turn off their brains and vote for an
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by caskstrength 3y ago
First of all bunch of countries in Europe straight up have Starbucks where Americans can order their usual "americano", "sugar with caffeine" and "sugar with caffeine on ice" drinks that you call coffee. Second
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by caskstrength 3y ago
I'm not sure I'm following. You are proposing to bring the lunch from home and hide in some conference room the whole day, but why go back to the office at all then?
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by caskstrength 3y ago
What hammer? You want US president or supreme court to compel Chrome developers to implement every image format in existence and every JS API proposed by anyone anywhere? Unless it is some kind of anti-competitive behavior like they intenti
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> This matters way more for video (where you are decoding 30 images per second continuously) than it does for still images. OTOH video decoding is highly likely to be hardware accelerated on both laptops and smartphones. > For still i
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> So stuff like pocket, VR or FirefoxOS where needed tries of FF to gain some feature with which you can gain users. Tries they lost but I would say failing to try would have been worse leadership. You know what else could have gained th
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> Oh look, it's my least favorite HN trope... You don't need to copy/paste this to all your comments. Some people may disagree with you and dismissing them like that will only lead to resentment. > Can we at least ackno
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> Even though cars increasingly look like laptops on wheels, the actual computer bit is relatively minor and the user interface is mostly the wheel and pedals, not so much the screen. Ha, it seems like that to you because you are obvious
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> I don't think it's the case. If you have truly free energy then transformation of matter in whatever you want it to be becomes a purely technological question. Some purely technological problems are hard to solve. There is al
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by caskstrength 3y ago
Yes, in surveys everyone is always generous and ready to sacrifice their own interests, then price of gas increases some 10-20% and you have protests and riots.
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by caskstrength 3y ago
There would be some significant tradeoffs necessary for maintaining a trillion people population on Earth no matter the energy cost. Even if you assume cheap and abundant cold fusion energy source, living in mcmansion and eating avocado toa
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> As a human, I have a human-centric mindset. I don’t want to live in the forest with rain filling up my mud floor. I like nice things. I think the whole discussion is about which amount of humans on this planet would maximize the probab
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by caskstrength 3y ago
It seems you are confusing USSR with China. There was no "Authoritarian State-Capitalism" in USSR, no free-ish market with some level of competition, no entrepreneurship, no shareholders, no nothing and yet somehow car quality was
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by caskstrength 3y ago
You seem to parrot a take that is popular these days in western internet ("cApiTaliSm bAd!!1"), but let me tell you as someone born in USSR that quality of everything starting from simple things (shoes, etc.) to complex things (ca
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by caskstrength 3y ago
From his linkedin: Senior Director of Product in Gemini, VP WeWork, "Advisor" VSCO, VP of advertising products in Pandora, Product Marketing Manager Google+, Business analyst JPMorgan Chase... Jesus, that fcking guy is literal def
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by caskstrength 3y ago
I agree, but that brings us back to my original question: why can't same smart organized crime people unlock my smartphone then? Because Apple/Google give a damn about security and car manufacturers do not.
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> Phone thieves will watch over peoples shoulders for them to input a passcode, which isn't that dissimilar to a lot of the replay/signal extension attacks. You have any reference regarding how prevalent that is? Everyone I kno
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> What do we know about computer security and physical access? If I can touch the machine, I can hack and own it. Can you hack and own my fully patched Pixel phone? Or my GF's iPhone? Sure, sophisticated state-sponsored actors can s
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by caskstrength 3y ago
With several millions of dollars from selling your house? Those Cali homeless are apparently quite rich...
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> Also I only buy products second hand I would assume that popularity of second had Apple products increases their resale value and indirectly benefits Apple since people consider their products to be a better investment and buy more of
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> I don't know what the catalyst for this was, but a lot of 20 years olds and younger seem to use the word hacked so casually. It is a mechanism of shifting responsibility. If your password is "1234" and you gave it away t

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