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by dave2000 11y ago
"But Amazon can..... In fairness, I believe all affiliate programs are like that." My point is that most other companies are like that, and the difference is just the extent to which these parasitical "internet businesses&quo
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by dave2000 11y ago
I guess the solution is to have a cheap to run web service which tracks prices and monetise it via ads rather than pretend you've got a real business that needs loads of employees and office space etc. But then I'm always amazed a
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by dave2000 11y ago
Every business is 100% on other companies. Everyone uses electricity, has to ship product, buy resources, use devices to transform those resources etc. The problem here only really exists in these silly other parasitical web-only businesses
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by dave2000 11y ago
What happens if you lose control of your private key? How do you ensure the recipient keeps up to date with which keys have been revoked? Isn't it a risk that unless you keep changing keys you're at risk of someone getting your pr
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by dave2000 11y ago
There's "people who are happy reading about maths for half an hour before installing and configuring PGP" and "people who want to download an app as simple as Facebook messenger" and there's very little interse
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by dave2000 11y ago
Your last statement is just not true. My mother struggles to log into Facebook. "It works on the other computer". Yes, because the password is cached on the browser there; it's not on my laptop. "I'm putting the rig
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by dave2000 11y ago
We're talking about your mum, not Emacs users. No one's suggesting the average HN reader can't manage PGP.
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by dave2000 11y ago
I'm suggesting a way Google can monetise end to end encrypted emails.
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by dave2000 11y ago
So what do you think is the reason nobody uses PGP? It can't just be "nothing to hide" because people aren't struggling to disable encryption on the services which currently offer it. WhatsApp, imessage, HTTPS etc.
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by dave2000 11y ago
They could mine for keywords on the client. They'd not need to store those against who you are sending the message to. It would be less intrusive than is the case now, but not as secure as then knowing nothing about what you're se
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by dave2000 11y ago
Nobody (really, a vanishing small percentage of the total number of people who use online services) uses PGP because it's a user interface disaster.
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by dave2000 11y ago
I'm not sure anyone has much to learn about fonts, and design generally, from web designers.
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by dave2000 11y ago
I thought it was just me. Anything more than the basic commands and I get confused and have to look it up. Git is certainly popular -perhaps for many it's the first version control system they've used-and is very fast, but would y
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by dave2000 11y ago
I'm reading this on an android phone; is there a way of forcing that text to not require me to scroll back and forth on every single line?
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by dave2000 11y ago
The fact that the current formulation of the details of most open source licences don't allow restrictions against military use doesn't make them incoherent. Just like you can argue that open source software makes the world a bett
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by dave2000 11y ago
As there seem to be done Photos fans here; I've tried to ensure that all my hundreds of photos are in albums (they've settled on the term album now, right?) but there doesn't seem to be any way to check. I'd like to look
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by dave2000 11y ago
Looks horrific. Tragic over sharpening, crossed with HDR. Best avoided unless you're into instagram filters to disguise cheap phone camera based photography.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Sure, but to listen to Dyson's marketing, you'd think it was all made in the UK.
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by dave2000 11y ago
I don't think the sample size has to be very high. Tv viewing figures aren't achieved by sampling millions of viewers.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Didn't he choke to death on a loose QL key?
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by dave2000 11y ago
Exactly. First thing I thought was "boy, those cars are going to be expensive", and, unlike Tesla, the advertising is going to be everywhere.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Yes but I want the protection of a credit card. In the uk at least you get a big advantage legally buying things on a credit card.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Well thank god that's sorted. The exact order of events regarding articles, comments and updates is of desperate importance.
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by dave2000 11y ago
It's not all virtual currency. Sometimes it's extra levels. The ones who don't pay must just uninstall then try one of the other forty million free/freemium games.
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by dave2000 11y ago
"Although, perhaps restructuring or ditching the freemium model might be the safest bet" Sadly there wasn't room in the article to elaborate on what form this might take.
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by dave2000 11y ago
It didn't trigger it, any more than Idiocracy did; it's just reflecting it. Friends being popular is just like any content free art (for want of a better word) being popular.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Ugh. It's like Slashdot with its interface where you need to hover. How do do you hover on a mobile? I don't visit Slashdot much any more, because most of my surfing is on mobile. And I won't be scrolling little windows of mo
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by dave2000 11y ago
Really? Funding the taliban, backing western intervention in israel and across the middle east for decades, invading iraq and afghanistan, destroying democracy in south america. Non of that is responsible for revenge attacks against the we
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by dave2000 11y ago
They exist but there's no single place like a PayPal or a Google wallet. Until then a service which consolidates them so you have to only make 1 sensible payment per month might be a workaround.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Wouldn't they make less difference than the vibrations caused by regular factories? Or should we be adding homeopathic fracking to the list of environmental concerns?

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