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by dmortin 8y ago
That's why I mentioned tablets too. I'm sure most people have a tablet at home for more comfortable browsing, video watching, etc.
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by dmortin 8y ago
I doubt the majority of people have only a phone. Unless it's a poor 3rd world country, most people have some kind of computer at home, or at least a tablet. There's a difference between having a mobile device with you in the ci
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by dmortin 8y ago
Just like adblockers. You can advocate using them, but they only help the big players, because Facebook and such can ask for subscriptions if needed and they can also afford implementing anti adblock measures. While small sites with a handf
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by dmortin 8y ago
What if ithe passenger doesn't want to pay at the end of the ride or wants to pay less than agreed? Uber solves this by automating the payments. If you pay cash then there is no guarantee you'll get paid.
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by dmortin 8y ago
As the sibling comment also says the strength of PHP is the hosting offerings. I use PHP only, because it's trivial to create smaller sites with it on cheap shared hosting, because PHP hosting is offered practically unversally everywhe
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by dmortin 8y ago
They are not against change, but someone has to do the work and it's a pretty big job rewriting the display internals. Also, it has to support terminals and various OSs, so it's not like it's only the matter of slapping a gra
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by dmortin 8y ago
SIPC protects cash in brokerage accounts too.
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by dmortin 8y ago
> If you put $250,000 in an SIPC-protected brokerage account, that account holds both cash and securities So I won't buy any securities, just use it as a checking account, keeping the cash sitting there earning the 3% interest. I wo
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by dmortin 8y ago
Same for me. I have a couple of domains with hosting at them, which get about 20k users per day in total. I've been a customer for 10 years or so and while there were some hiccups sometimes, usually it just works without problems. Thei
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by dmortin 8y ago
> If I were a Linux user, I'd rather a well-thought out App using the native toolkit I agree if this is a choice. But the reality is often a non-existent Linux app, because "it's not worth it" to implement it for Linu
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by dmortin 8y ago
If the decline of native apps means the apps will be available on all platforms, because it's the same codebase then it's a welcome change. No more this app works on Windows, but not on Linux,etc. But then of course the question a
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by dmortin 8y ago
I try to use frameworks which contain building blocks, so I can just use existing functional elements (like Alert in Bootstrap, etc.) without having to come up with my own css rules. Obviously, this works only if you don't need any cus
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by dmortin 8y ago
There are text based browsers which can be used for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_web_browser
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by dmortin 8y ago
Isn't there some popular language with the same capabilities? Is it a Lisp speciality?
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by dmortin 8y ago
Demo videos: https://next.atlas.engineer/#features I don't get the choice of Lisp. I don't mind it, I use Emacs, but a more popular language can have more complete platform bindings: > Sadly, the GTK bindings a
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by dmortin 8y ago
Is there still a rule that foreing companies can operate in China only if they are joint ventures with Chinese partners? If so then the Chinese partners can get to know all the foreign IP. I'm sure there will be show punishments under
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by dmortin 8y ago
If sometime in the future self driving cars reach the point that they are better drivers than the average human driver then it will be better if the non drunks too let their cars do the driving.
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by dmortin 8y ago
Likely he has Intel stocks. His children can have some too. Isn't it in his interest to preserve the value of Intel then?
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by dmortin 8y ago
The US government? Isn't it Intel's problem in the first place? Don't the leaders of Intel care if their latest processor technology is copied and then used by competitors?
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That's why they need a log, because there will be cashback requests which people could abuse. And this will not necessarily be only pennies. A penny for a single page, for example, but if you visit many pages of the same site then the
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by dmortin 8y ago
The problem is there are many smaller publishers on the net where a handful or only one or two people maintain a site. They don't have the capacity to look for advertisers or vet individual ads. That's why they use an ad provider
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by dmortin 8y ago
If you mean automatic micropayments when reading articles then you'll still be tracked, because the payment provider has to track what you read to make the payments and even has to be able to provide a log of it in case there is a paym
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by dmortin 8y ago
The hard truth is someone has to pay for content in the end. It's either ads or some kind of paywall or micropayment. It's okay to say no to ads, but then we shouldn't circumvent paywalls. Free content is free only as long as
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by dmortin 8y ago
> The fact that bitpay didn't lock down their version numbers of dependencies, and are thus at the whim of whatever changes upstream of them are gleefully picked up, is crazy, especially for a crypto wallet. What it they lock down a
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by dmortin 8y ago
Woman's Dead Body Lies in Flat for 35 Years https://www.foxnews.com/story/womans-dead-body-lies-in-flat-...
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by dmortin 8y ago
There are other such cases: A woman's skeleton was discovered in her flat three years after she is believed to have died, it emerged today. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatfeedback/4199730/Skel...
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by dmortin 8y ago
Edit: fixed time Well, how about this one? They noticed it after 5 months: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2515097/Oxfordshire...
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by dmortin 8y ago
Dependencies need bugfixes and you may even want to use new features, so locking is not a permanent solution.
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If you have tons of depedencies then it's not feasible to check every diff. You may able to do it or pay someone if you are a bigger organization, but a small shop or solo developer can't do this.
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by dmortin 8y ago
How does that help? You still update from time to time get fixes, new features and then you can get some unwanted code which is not discovered yet.

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