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by cheph 6y ago
So the reasoning here is if there are dumb legislators we should just defer to Google on how they should be regulated?
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by cheph 6y ago
> in French law, licenses are contracts What else would they be? From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_license : > A software license is a legal instrument (usually by way of contract law, with or
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by cheph 6y ago
What other than contracts would they be?
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by cheph 6y ago
> So, in that case, would TLS still be useful? Because again the scope of encryption offered by wireless operators is different from TLS. It is like asking if encrypting your disks makes TLS pointless. TLS encrypts traffic between your c
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by cheph 6y ago
> "Coffee shop Wi-Fi" seems like less of a threat each year. AFAIK WPA 3 means you get an ephemeral encryption key when you connect. Encrypted to the router, which is managed by the "Coffee shop". If you talk about en
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Blood and Bias: The Russian Revolution from the Outsider’s Perspective (2018)(tlu.ee)
1 points by cheph 6y ago|0 comments
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by cheph 6y ago
Not sure I understand how this is newsworthy exactly, people make mistakes (even those on HN) and there is due process and recourse for whoever was impacted by this mistake. If the implication is that if law enforcement make mistakes they c
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by cheph 6y ago
> Even Google is now moving away from Linux as the core of android. Could not find much about this, could you link to something that provides more details on it?
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by cheph 6y ago
> CAP is trivial and doesn’t tell you anything except that you can’t have all three things perfectly. And if someone don't understand it then it usually does not end well if they work with distributed data stores.
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by cheph 6y ago
Not sure why you are so happy, every time I worked with people who did not understand it the outcome was really a massive mess of mismatched expectations.
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by cheph 6y ago
> The CAP theorem is so dumb Why?
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by cheph 6y ago
> Unix and C however form a powerful deterrent to the average astronomer to write her or his own code (and the average astronomer's C is much, much worse than his Fortran used to be). Compared to what? If I want to quickly bang out
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by cheph 6y ago
I recommend having a look at pipenv for doing this for python tools, I think for this kind of thing it is pretty ideal.
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by cheph 6y ago
So are you positing that it would be impossible for a company to make such decisions if no individual shareholder owned >50% of the shares? If so the problem is still not with millionaires. And I'm not sure by what mechanism this wi
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by cheph 6y ago
> So you say this idea was born by the company and not some human ambition? Not a thing I said. > How did Amazon the company, or SpaceX the company come up with this? Companies have employees, employees are humans with brains, they co
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by cheph 6y ago
> We need to do something about millionaires. Urgently. Can you elaborate what premise this conclusion follows from? And what do you want to do about them? And going out on a limb, I would assume you have a problem with the satellites, b
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by cheph 6y ago
> Microsoft is building the most modern Terminal emulator If it is anything like Powershell, which is more "modern" than bash, then I don't think it will make much of an impact. Powershell seems like it was designed by a c
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by cheph 6y ago
IMO something went horribly wrong somewhere for this to have to happen. Where I work we have some years old version of Windows 10 also that does not support some basic stuff. Really suboptimal outcome.
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Microsoft Is Backporting WSL2 to Their Windows 10 2019 Releases(phoronix.com)
1 points by cheph 6y ago|1 comments
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by cheph 6y ago
> The decline of Firefox is because of one thing only Personally I would use Firefox if it was not slower than Chrome. I like most things about it more, but it is noticeably slower in some cases, it randomly becomes unresponsive in some
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by cheph 6y ago
If you murder someone on Google property it is still murder, similarly incitement on Google property it is still incitement. Where you do it does not make it a non crime.
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by cheph 6y ago
> Are they NOT supposed to report credible threats of violence or terrorism? Absolutely and the title should make it clear that is what is happening here. If this is the case then data was not shared because user was far-right, it was sh
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by cheph 6y ago
> There is the Web Payments API now, but it's a clunky ball of JavaScript with limited support. This could have been demoed in 1997 and universal by 2000. If it is so simple, why was it not? Are you suggesting it was purely incompet
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by cheph 6y ago
> Wasn't it that the creators of I don't know? Was it? > With a standard, those fights would be over and users could start paying for everything. What prevents anyone from making a standard? Why do we see standards for every
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by cheph 6y ago
> 1. I put the element <pay-me>$1.00</pay-me> in my HTML 2. User clicks on Pay Me button in any browser and I get $1.00 And then what? If all that is needed is a tag support then why is the problem not yet solved? I mean
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by cheph 6y ago
Definitely, I would have it 10 times slower to increase integrity. I think people that have not lived under despotic regimes maybe don't understand the potential downsides of a loss in election integrity.
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by cheph 6y ago
> That's a very interesting observation. Google will thus prevent a native payment option at all costs, which leaves a huge opening for Brave or another payment provider. Can you elaborate on what a native payment option would entai
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by cheph 6y ago
> Mozilla does not have a future. I would use Mozilla if the browser was just a little bit less bad. Currently it randomly takes me about 5 seconds to move my cursor in the hackernews input box. That is not Google's fault. Mozilla&#
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by cheph 6y ago
> Do people really have that short of a memory? Yes
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by cheph 6y ago
I still expect them to make a more coherent case, I still don't know what native means here, still don't know why existing solutions are different from what native means. It is not stated as a counterfactual either, it is stated a

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