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by cykros 3y ago
Germany seems like they just do what involves the most policing. If it's going after companies for privacy invasions, they do it. If it's going after individuals for infringing on copyright, they do it. They got rid of the laws
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Does Iceland actually care much? I don't imagine they'd let you host an actual warez site a la 2000 or so, but a site just hosting magnet links seems like something they'd mostly allow, and they DEFINITELY have the infrastru
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by cykros 3y ago
You is always plural. The singular second person pronouns are thou (subject), thee (object), or thy (possessive).
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Well, they do, at Youtube. But they're pretty good about takedowns over there. Including of a ton of content that has no reason to be taken down.
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10 billion dollars is a rounding error for the GOOG.
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Google used to rule the net. These days they're not even the best search engine for legal content, let alone overall net searching. Bing and Yandex will get you most everything you want.
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by cykros 3y ago
The "streaming" referred to here referred to pirate sites a la Fmovies or Couchtuner. They're not quite as front and center as they were before Google decided to be the Internet police but there's always foreign search e
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by cykros 3y ago
The "E" in "PE" is earnings. It all boils down to profit margin. And lately, their input costs have been fairly high, what with COVID supply chain disruption. Part of what's let NVIDIA perform a bit better (if we&
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by cykros 3y ago
CapEx intensity can boil down heavily to the industry a company is in. If a software company is doing a lot of CapEx, it's likely growing pretty quickly. If a manufacturing company is spending a similar ratio of its earnings, it may w
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by cykros 3y ago
NVIDIA also depends on not getting the Micron treatment from China. Or even not having China take a particularly hard line on their Micron policy and disallowing NVIDIA to import Micron chips to use in their manufacturing produce for expor
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by cykros 3y ago
The other thing that would be cheaper would be building molten salt cooled nuclear reactors, instead of continuing to use the water cooled once that are so prone to hydrogen explosions. I'm not a nuclear engineer, but I suspect you ma
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Indeed. They've been available on Amazon since Amazon was still known so much as a book store that it made headlines that you could get them there, what with their not being books and all.
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by cykros 3y ago
They are debt instruments. Liabilities of the central bank that issued them. Cash was the gold that you used to be able to redeem said liabilities for. These days, you can simply transfer the bank's liability to you to someone else,
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by cykros 3y ago
Indeed. Even if they can't pull the trigger, there's plenty of stimuli that will result in a bullet being fired other than a trigger being pulled. Playing "microwave the gun" wouldn't likely end well.
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by cykros 3y ago
No applause until it electrocutes someone trying to shoot it who isn't authorized, a la Judge Dredd. Also, given my experience with fingerprint scanners on phones, where I'm not nearly as insistent that it actually do what I tell
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by cykros 3y ago
Safari notoriously barely works at all. If that's what they're using, it's hard to blame Jitsi for it.
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by cykros 3y ago
Eh. Patience. In the 70s, text editors, operating systems, and just about everything came from corporations, governments, and perhaps most commonly, universities when it came to software tools, and was hosted on their systems. As the hard
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by cykros 3y ago
For this, you're in a bit of a bind, and I too have run into this on my son's school issued chromebook. Blocking Instagram and Tiktok seem to be an easy enough solution at the firewall level (or DNS, using something like this: h
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by cykros 3y ago
As others have suggested, simply taking the device after bed time is probably your most bullet proof option. In lieu of that, setting up rules on your router or firewall to disallow all network access to their IP addresses after bed time.
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Have you met kids before? You'd never get any actual educating done if you were busy constantly punishing them for things they did first and thought about later.
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I'd love to live in a town with these parents with superpowers you envision. In my town, people look at me like I have 3 heads when I explain we've enabled Microsoft's Family Link on our son's computer and that screen t
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by cykros 3y ago
Indeed. It was neat for awhile when Twitter was censorship hell, but now that that issue has improved dramatically I haven't actually bothered using it in months.
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Microsoft was pretty happy though that an open source TCP/IP stack existed on FreeBSD so they didn't have to go and actually write their own for Windows.
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by cykros 3y ago
Never mind the finger protocol, or BBS's which were often open source, if not Free Software. But given the attitude, no doubt the author doesn't remember these things.
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by cykros 4y ago
The left sure doesn't seem to worry about the idea that Ukraine should be aided to no end happens to cause quite a lot of harm to a large number of people, for whom the war would have been over more than a year ago had this agenda not
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by cykros 4y ago
People report their phones as stolen? Car? Sure. Gun? Of course. If I lose my phone, I'm annoyed, and if its insured, I'm cashing in on the policy. Otherwise I'm going about my day. All assuming Findmyphone fails, in the even
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I literally only opened this article to make sure someone made sure this got asked. Kudos.
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Why? It's content made freely accessible, and its use is either being carried out under fair use provisions, or it isn't (in which case, existing copyright law applies). I guess the one question I'd have here is whether or n
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Commoditization of "home" is probably the number one culprit. Nobody wants to make a decision with the largest investment they have based around where their friends live right now (especially when they might react to market condit
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With multiyear budget shortfalls and high costs of living in major bureaucratic hotspots? I doubt this very much. That might be a goal, but probably not one that is regularly achieved.

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