danarmak

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by danarmak 8y ago
Well, if you build an app that runs on Windows like Netscape did, are you really a competitor of Microsoft? Turns out, you might be, if Microsoft want to make their own app. Similarly, Facebook might want to introduce or change native funct
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by danarmak 8y ago
How do you force a split when one part (Whatsapp) may not have enough revenue to sustain itself?
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by danarmak 8y ago
Few non-physicists understand quantum mechanics even at a high level, but that certainly hasn't stopped journalists over the last hundred years. Whatever the new frontier is, I'm sure the popular media could cover it in technobabb
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by danarmak 8y ago
Thanks. I'm glad you're able to see my point of view. > I would say that none is sent on basic, but the definition of 'private or personal' is overloaded enough that we might disagree. It's less about definitions
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by danarmak 8y ago
> Bottom line, if MS is going to show you telemetry data that's been gathered, they've got to know its you that they've gathered it from, so authentication has to occur. I understand that. I just want to stop sending data
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by danarmak 8y ago
The article you linked points to an online Microsoft Account Privacy dashboard. I have Windows 10 installed with a local login. I don't have or want an online Microsoft account. It doesn't seem to be possible to disable telemetry
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by danarmak 8y ago
Existing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18184830
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by danarmak 8y ago
This sentence seems to have been inserted by the ZDNet editor. The GlobeNewsWire article (to which this post has been redirected), and the original OIN PR ( https://www.openinventionnetwork.com/pressrelease_details/?i...
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by danarmak 8y ago
Here's the original press release on the OIN website: https://www.openinventionnetwork.com/pressrelease_details/?i...
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Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network Community(openinventionnetwork.com)
3 points by danarmak 8y ago|1 comments
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Book review: The Doomsday Machine(eukaryotewritesblog.com)
1 points by danarmak 8y ago|0 comments
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by danarmak 8y ago
This is a post about a post. Here's the discussion of the Breitbart source post with many more comments and upvotes: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-googl...
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by danarmak 8y ago
They can have it, as ARM TrustZone. This is an independent ARM chip and is in fact used in the AMD PSP. I don't know if some or all of these laptop SoCs would have one, though. Some (most?) Android phones have one (see: https:/&#
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by danarmak 8y ago
No, that is quite unlike both the problem the article poses and solution answer is proposes. I would explain them here, but I encourage people to read the article instead.
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by danarmak 9y ago
My point was exactly that the size is irrelevant - because the data being measured is irrelevant to the story.
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by danarmak 9y ago
> I do believe that calling out the 5GB illustrative example is missing the point of the article. Please see my reply to bhauer's sibling comment, I think it applies here too. The problem isn't with the 5GB size or how they com
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by danarmak 9y ago
The problem isn't how they describe the size of the data. It's that the data whose size they describe is completely irrelevant to the point they are trying to make. I didn't say "well duh, Google has at least 5GB on you,
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by danarmak 9y ago
Which is why it would be reasonable to write an article about those things (with evidence). The article linked here is pointing to completely normal and desirable behavior and seems to hope readers won't notice.
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by danarmak 9y ago
This is nonsensical: > The data Google has on you can fill millions of Word documents. > Google offers an option to download all of the data it stores about you. I’ve requested to download it and the file is 5.5GB big, which is rough
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The strange story of “Extended Random”(blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
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by danarmak 9y ago
One way this might fail is through big Validators with misaligned incentives. Suppose Coins become popular and worth something in the real economy. A big company like Facebook (or Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.) might become a Validator an
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by danarmak 9y ago
But how much of the US GDP is attributable to its 'empire', especially considering the opportunity costs of the human and other capital invested in the DoD? I'd love to see the result of a detailed analysis.
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by danarmak 9y ago
The historical norm is that a successful empire is very profitable. If you have to spend money maintaining it, you're doing it wrong. In other words: the US is not an empire. It's something that needs a different term.
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by danarmak 9y ago
The second paragraph ("money goes as follows") explains the notation. 'd' is for pence. Translating prices into modern coins is a hard problem, because you're not comparing like with like. When two countries/ma
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by danarmak 9y ago
> We definitely need a bill of rights and constitution under the net-states. One that our liberal institutions can defend. A constitution, and institutions that may uphold it, would be internal and specific to a particular net-state. Jus
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by danarmak 9y ago
Facebook can in fact do most of the things you mention. Their 'taxing' of netizens takes several forms, mainly displaying ads and collecting and selling information about them. Both of these are profitable to Facebook (or they wou
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by danarmak 9y ago
Facebook is not a democratic net-state. Its users are nevertheless its netizens . Comparing it to a traditional state, you might say the shareholders are the nobility, employees are the privileged trade and crafts guilds, and users are t
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by danarmak 9y ago
The solutions for browsers didn't involve government regulation. "Applying the same solution" here means "doing nothing and hoping for things to get better".
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by danarmak 9y ago
Thanks! This is an important problem I wasn't aware of. Googling shows a lot of different opinions and confusion about this; it'll take me time to get to the bottom of this. If one takes seriously the idea that all FOSS licensed u
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by danarmak 9y ago
> since, as you say, impossible for a Java implementation to be compatible without using the word Java in very many places, then this means that you are allowed to use that word without permission. If this is true, then why did the Apach

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