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by darkpuma 8y ago
I'd like to point out that with uMatrix set to block all javascript, including first party, the article still renders just fine. The only thing missing is the youtube embeds, which are replaced by hyperlinks to the youtube videos.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Ah there it is, the obligatory blaming of the user. It's a well known fact that Apple makes cables with insufficient strain relief[0]; it's infuriating when somebody starts pretending that isn't the case. Cables aren'
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "+ luxury brand tax" Well that's the contention isn't it? Whether that tax is present, and whether the mechanical build quality justifies it.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
I can get an Amazon Basic's brand USB-C cable for $4.17 per meter. Apple sells theirs for $19 per meter. Is Apple selling these cables at cost, or are they making a profit from them? Amazon isn't a brand I trust either, but fr
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by darkpuma 8y ago
If being held accountable for what you said 10 years ago were something new (it isn't) then Zuckerberg would only have himself to blame for ushering such a social change (however he's not to blame for it. People holding past stat
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by darkpuma 8y ago
It's perfectly safe. It's just inductive coupling, as found in countless devices with transformers around your home.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "Cables are subject to breaking (specifically the connectors)" Apple cables are. Somehow I don't have this problem with other brands... ever.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "When i look for things on my computer, i don't have a vague concept of an idea of a thing i'm looking for, i look for specific things for specific purposes." What you're describing is that this sort of syste
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "I wouldn't store a book about scuba diving with or relate it to my vacation pictures of me scuba diving in any way in real life" You don't put every single physical item you have relating to scuba into one big bu
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "I know that they had issues with the 2016 and 2017 models." So it's no longer your belief that the 2017 model was significantly better than the 2016 version? Or was it significantly better, but still shit? In one o
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by darkpuma 8y ago
We're talking about language, not cars. It's no different than if all the emoticons for cars were modified to be RC cars with large antennas surrounded by lighting bolts to signify that they're receiving radio transmissions
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by darkpuma 8y ago
The way MacOS handles Applications is indeed humanist, but there is nothing about that user interface that intrinsically relies on strict file hierarchies. Furthermore, the implementation of it isn't generalized. The substance of w
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by darkpuma 8y ago
It would only be a matter of time before they started showing ads to paying users too. Pay for a magazine subscription? Magazine is filled with ads anyway. Pay for a cable tv subscription? Filled with ads anyway. Pay for HBO? Get
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Frankly that's an abuse of language. If you were to say > "In the UK, it is legal for children to buy pistols" Everybody would call you nuts. If you then smirked and said that water pistols are pistols, they'd g
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by darkpuma 8y ago
As I've detailed here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19523901 ), the idea is not to remove the traditional hierarchical file system from the low level, but rather to remove trace of it from nearly all human inter
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by darkpuma 8y ago
In fact the system I've created as a testbed works by storing a many-to-many tag-filename mapping. However my contention is that hierarchy can be modeled as a subset of tags. Tags are conceptually more powerful and should be the in
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "But that is separate from what file paths are for" This is close to my core point. File paths and/or file hierarchies are not good for file organization. They have been pressed into this role for historic reasons
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Because "Arabian Gulf", not "Persian Gulf" is the newspeak. Perhaps anti-Iranian bias (disturbingly common in the west these days) has colored your perception of this issue.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "Taiwan’s inconvenient history of being run as a military dictatorship during much of its economic development," Not unlike South Korea, incidentally. A running series of military coups until quite recently. Please do not
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Perhaps China can give Taiwan the finger without "breaking unicode" by simply demanding that fonts including the Taiwanese flag use a glyph that reads "One China Policy".
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Hierarchy can't handle most users. There is a fundamental impedance mismatch between what hierarchies facilitate and how users think of their files. Users think of their files as having concepts associated with them. e.g. "t
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by darkpuma 8y ago
The mechanized cotton gin greatly increased the demand for slave labor in cotton fields.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Yeah, countless businesses have been bankrupt by the mistake of using standard screws that regular plebs to violate their warranties. Apple simply can afford to take that kind of risk, their margins are very tight as it is!
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by darkpuma 8y ago
I think that's about the weight of a typical american soft drink. Surely even the least fit among us can cope with such a hardship.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Total fraud isn't the only sort of corporate fraud though. Legalized insider trading would really open the floodgates for financially incentivized 'whistle-blowing' of any sort of fraud (as well as basically anything el
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Diesel isn't particularly volatile, it's difficult to ignite even with an open flame. Nothing like gasoline/petrol (which also would probably pass his cigar butt test, but vapors from which could certainly ignite from th
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by darkpuma 8y ago
I once read an argument (maybe here on HN, I'm not sure) that if insider trading were legal, Enron wouldn't have taken anybody by surprise. I'm not sure I buy the argument that it should consequently be legal, but it's
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by darkpuma 8y ago
It's pretty typical addict behavior. Next time you go to a gas station, look at the ground. Unless they sweep regularly, the ground next to the pumps will have a great deal of cigarette butts on it.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Celestia is great. I get more 'practical' use out of Stellarium, but Celestia is a ton of fun.

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