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by dak1 10y ago
Simply saying "opinion vs opinion" is a false equivalency. It's basically the equivalent of climate deniers vs climate change, with the deniers' funding basically coming from a single government. There's intense nat
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Opera Software fails to woo Chinese suitor as £820M buyout bid collapses(arstechnica.co.uk)
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The land reclamation on Itu Aba was almost non-existant compared to the land reclamation China was doing. Itu Aba is the largest naturally occurring feature in the Spratly's and does have fresh ground water. You can see some of the bef
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by dak1 10y ago
I believe the Philippines did actually ask the Tribunal to rule on the status of Itu Aba, for exactly the reason you mention. The Philippines also argued that it was not. I'm reading the ruling now and it appears the Tribunal based its
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by dak1 10y ago
The Tribunal agreed with the Philippines position on almost every question with the exception of 2 features: Gaven Reef (North) and McKennan Reef. Both of those features were found to be high-tide elevations. The Tribunal also ruled Chinese
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by dak1 10y ago
This was a long anticipated but still powerful ruling. The only surprise was maybe Itu Aba (太平島) being ruled to not be an island. The court was particularly clear on rejecting the nine-dash line and China's claims of historic waters. A
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Let’s Encrypt Subscriber Agreement Diff(diffnow.com)
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Taiwanese is as different from Mandarin as Cantonese is. Mandarin is the most commonly spoken language in Taiwan, partly because the Taiwanese language was more or less outlawed during Martial Law rule from 1949 to 1987. It's also the
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Pennsylvania man claims Apple infringes upon his patent for web carousels(9to5mac.com)
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by dak1 10y ago
To be fair, MediaDevices.getUserMedia() is still highly experimental and only in the Editor's Draft stage. Chrome didn't support it until December. It's definitely not ready for primetime/production use yet. Navigator.ge
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by dak1 10y ago
WebKit, which is the heart of Safari, is open source: http://webkit.org I've been tracking many of these issues on the WebKit bug tracker: https://bug.webkit.org For example: https://bug.webkit.org&#x
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by dak1 10y ago
The Taiwanese equivalent would be: Does he know how to speak Taiwanese? 他會曉講台語無? No, he doesn't. 他毋會。 The above is actually somewhat close to the Mandarin version, although many other phrases can vary much more significantly.
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And perhaps the biggest takeaway of the whole article, buried in the middle of it: > Instead, if the successes of the MPL team confirm any guiding principle for the future, it is this: Technical workers—not only engineers but designers—h
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by dak1 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ric_Richardson "Ric Richardson is an Australian inventor. He is the holder of multiple granted patents including the Uniloc patent US5490216 and the Logarex patent 6400293. Although h
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Person carrying bacteria resistant to antibiotics of last resort found in U.S.(washingtonpost.com)
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by dak1 10y ago
I can think of non-partisan objectives, like pushing for open primaries in all States, and allowing for same day registration.
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by dak1 10y ago
Hi Debra, Is your organization focused only on general elections, or on primaries as well? I couldn't find any information about primary elections on your site, even though many of the most consequential decisions are made then, when
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Google testing black links instead of blue in search results(9to5google.com)
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by dak1 10y ago
This looks like a con job using pseudo-science to get money from well-intentioned individuals.
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by dak1 11y ago
Fair points that I concede. I'll note I also forgot the nuance mentioned by morsch (that a canary is compelling a lie , which is potentially different). On a separate note though, I've always thought it would be interesting to s
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by dak1 11y ago
Interestingly, if you accept that code can be copyrighted, and that only things that are expressions (speech) are eligible for copyright ("A copyrighted work must be an original work of authorship which is fixed in a tangible medium of
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by dak1 11y ago
I think deleting something would be considered an active action. The trick with a canary is that you're choosing not to do something, so it can't compel you to act (as compared to, for example, telling you you can't delete t
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You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition(fivethirtyeight.com)
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I'm always baffled why it's so common that the person in charge of something is often the person with the least direct knowledge about how it actually works. It makes more sense to me that companies should be taking quality employ
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Telegram bans public ISIS channels(washingtonpost.com)
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The story has been updated with the following: "Apple issued a new, stronger (SHA-2) Mac App Store certificate in September, before the older (SHA-1) one expired, as planned. The new Mac App Store certificate was using the current, str
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by dak1 11y ago
Since the issue was actually applications that were using pre-2005 versions of OpenSSL that didn't support SHA-2, the "grace period" here was effectively 10 years.
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These are rules for States. It has no bearing whatsoever on the GPL. This prevents a country from forcing somebody like Microsoft or Apple to give up their source code for "inspection" in order to access their market. It also he
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Millions of Americans might need passports to fly domestic(money.cnn.com)
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New York inmates defeat Harvard debate team(cnn.com)
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