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by diogocp 2y ago
There's always been a button to turn it off. I remember making that choice when I got my first Android phone, more than a decade ago. Not to mention that it has been opt-in for years.
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by diogocp 3y ago
Yes, Nix can do that. Another (simpler IMO) alternative is vcpkg.
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by diogocp 3y ago
> Do they pretend there's no censorship? Yes, they do. Censorship of official links is against explicit Wikipedia policy[1], but it doesn't matter because every policy can be overridden by consensus. In practice this means that
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by diogocp 3y ago
Government: launches a years-long covert operation to take over maintainership of critical project in order to insert a backdoor. HN comments: the solution is for government to maintain these critical projects.
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by diogocp 3y ago
> in the real world the spec is essentially "Can you import it to Excel?" And the answer to that is always no. You will it think it's yes because it works for you, but when you send it to someone who has a different Excel
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by diogocp 3y ago
"Pol Pot killed millions of people, but Donald Trump wrote insensitive tweets, so it's difficult to say who caused more harm"
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by diogocp 3y ago
> it will only block if the device sets a special header? No. It will block by default. If the header is present, it will allow the request. > just throw up a dialog that says "the current page wants to connect to things on your
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by diogocp 3y ago
No. Banks can charge for non-instant transfers, and many do.
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by diogocp 3y ago
> single player narrative driven games after the dubious success of Starfield is going to be hard to justify The best selling game of 2023 was Hogwarts Legacy.
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by diogocp 3y ago
> offer up more shares to a market without changing demand But demand does change, because the company is expanding its balance sheet. You end up with more slices of a bigger pie. Compare to a stock split, which keeps the pie size consta
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by diogocp 3y ago
WhatsApp doesn't backup to Meta servers. It only supports Google Drive on Android and iCloud on iOS. You can also optionally encrypt the backups.
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by diogocp 3y ago
It does not contradict the Twitter post. They're saying that since there is a confirmation screen, it's the user's responsibility to catch the bug. this-is-fine.jpg
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by diogocp 3y ago
> those people don't want papers authored, co-authored, or believed to be authored, by Geoff in their conference. That seems reasonable No, it doesn't. A scientific conference is not your backyard BBQ. The reasonable thing to d
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by diogocp 3y ago
> the EC/ECB had not imposed such measures before Greece had not asked them for a bailout before. Those measures were a condition of the Troika (IMF/EC/ECB) bailout. And the IMF has a long history of imposing similar con
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by diogocp 3y ago
That's as annoying as it is impressive.
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by diogocp 3y ago
This is obviously not Cloudflare's fault, but I wonder why they don't just mask their identity (e.g. by using a random AWS IP address) when querying archive.is? AFAICT this wouldn't "violate the integrity of DNS and the
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by diogocp 3y ago
> the paper that introduced austerity to the world This is complete nonsense. The paper was published in 2010. The principle of fiscal austerity for EU member states was enshrined in the Maastricht Treaty of 1992 (Article 104) and the ac
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by diogocp 3y ago
If the increase in value of the sellers' land is wholly due to Disney's development of its land nearby, the sellers would simply be benefiting from a positive externality created by Disney. Thus it would be Disney being shortchang
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by diogocp 3y ago
The submission title is misleading. This is an opinion of an Advocate General, not a decision of the court. > The Advocate General’s Opinion is not binding on the Court of Justice. It is the role of the Advocates General to propose to t
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by diogocp 3y ago
> Seems like the entire cost of running the business and keeping people employed has been passed on to the customer. Who else do you expect to pick up the tab?
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by diogocp 3y ago
The situation is unclear and no one knows what is going on, so dissent from the government's valid and totally non-hysterical steps will not be tolerated.
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by diogocp 3y ago
> It makes them more attractive to companies, and less attractive to investors. No, it also makes them more attractive for (real) investors. Reminder that investors own the company, so when a parasite investor joins up with some class ac
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by diogocp 3y ago
That's what happened: > Chief U.S. District Judge Scott Skavdahl granted the hunters’ request to dismiss most of Eshelman’s lawsuit
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by diogocp 3y ago
https://archive.is/EYKRJ
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Robert Lucas was a giant of macroeconomics(economist.com)
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by diogocp 3y ago
I don't understand the reasoning here. People still need to eat, so that food will still be grown—somewhere else—and the nitrogen will still be emitted—somewhere else. So the net impact on global nitrogen emissions should be zero. It s
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by diogocp 4y ago
If your name is John Pepper and you happen to be a doctor, you can certainly call yourself Dr Pepper.
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by diogocp 4y ago
Private highways are very common in Europe. So is mail delivery by private companies (Deutsche Post is a big one). In Portugal, the mail company is private and 90% of the highways are operated by private companies. And this is a country whe