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by dpwm 9y ago
From the page: > No changes will be made to Firefox unless you have opted in to this Alternate Reality Game. Also, from the same page for those that appreciate irony: > One of the 10 guiding principles of Mozilla's mission is tha
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by dpwm 9y ago
When I referred to repeated demonstrations of contempt of due process I was largely thinking about the over-zealous takedowns where fair use has applied and that it is just as likely that with being granted direct blocking of an ever-increa
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by dpwm 9y ago
> He was running a website that revolved around violating millions of copyrights. Why shouldn't he go to jail? What gives you the right to take someone else's painstakingly created artistic creation and give it away for free to
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by dpwm 9y ago
Derek Sivers wrote in 2015 about merging more of the business logic into postgres, including generating JSON in postgres [0]. I've personally used this approach and found it quite powerful. There may be downsides to that approach if so
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by dpwm 9y ago
Thank you for highlighting this. I used booking.com a few years back when I stayed in London on a budget. I realised something about the site had made the review scores feel really useless but I never realised why until I read your comment.
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by dpwm 9y ago
I imagine it would depend on the nature of negligence: were they to leak customer data, they would be treated as a tech business; were they to poison customers, they would be treated as a pizza business.
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by dpwm 9y ago
Have a look at OCaml. There's a project called BuckleScript that provides an OCaml to JavaScript compiler that maps OCaml quite cleanly to Javascript. Because BuckleScript is written in OCaml, it can also compile itself, resulting in t
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by dpwm 9y ago
I seem to remember the name of one of the companies Amazon used as "Indigo Starfish."
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by dpwm 9y ago
Not sure about countries with more sensible policy but in the UK, as an academic, you have to publish regularly to not have your research grant applications declined. This means that there are a lot of papers out there that are published fo
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by dpwm 9y ago
When I was doing my MSc six years ago I was told by my supervisor not to download too many more papers relating to my project because the school could get IP-banned. I'd read pretty much every published paper relating to a small subfie
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by dpwm 9y ago
At first I thought this was a satire of modern work. Now I'm convinced it is at least as much a satire of GUI toolkit widget developments or, more generally, corporate User Interface design. The game emphasises just how close to being
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by dpwm 9y ago
Some of the most effective security measures actually increase complexity. Two-factor authentication increases complexity in every measurable way but mitigates against a number of softer attacks. Adding encryption adds a ton of complexity b
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by dpwm 9y ago
> Do you disagree with the idea that the propagation of narratives that pretend to support illegal terrorist violence does not actually help support terrorists? I'm genuinely having trouble reading that sentence so I'm going to
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by dpwm 9y ago
We're fighting an insurgency that is distributed across organizations and borders. Historical precedent would suggest this will not end with the annihilation of the insurgency, some of whom will currently be civilians, but with some ki
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by dpwm 9y ago
Terrorism is the current justification for military operations abroad. Likewise, there are some who believe terrorism to be an externality of our operations abroad, in which case there is positive feedback. We are told by our leaders as th
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by dpwm 9y ago
There's another angle to this. In her previous role, Theresa May presided over record police cuts with utmost arrogance. It turns out that even if we had everything in plaintext, that there almost certainly isn't the manpower to f
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by dpwm 9y ago
And this could provide well-paid, satisfying jobs and apprenticeships in the UK resulting in systems that don't have to be rewritten in under a decade because a monopolist decided to break compatibility.
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by dpwm 9y ago
Out of curiosity, how does that spread? I'm intrigued because I've seen people claim that "linux is just as vulnerable as windows to user stupidity," but I have a hard time understanding how. The vast majority of windows
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by dpwm 9y ago
Heartbleed is a very different class of vulnerability -- it allows sensitive information to leak but does not provide root access.
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by dpwm 9y ago
There are many problems with drawing inferences about overall public opinion from programmes like BBC Question Time. The main one is sample bias. Sampling occurs in three stages: 1) Audience members are self-selecting. 2) Audience members a
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by dpwm 9y ago
It is therefore a curiosity that the most free-market obsessed leaders appear to be those most likely to pursue conflict. How do you prevent monopolies? Ideas that lead to wealth decay or redistribution seem to be an anathema in modern capi
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by dpwm 9y ago
Oh yes. Food production is now dependent on a handful of companies supplying to the major supermarkets. This became apparent recently in the UK when hummus was contaminated with a yet unnamed contaminant that gave it a metallic taste. Most
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by dpwm 9y ago
> However, I find your insult to Trump voters gratuitous and unnecessary. I read it without placing the emphasis on the colon and I'm sure it's less barbed and strengthens the point: They are like [the] Trump voters willing to
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by dpwm 10y ago
Despite the strong windows orientation, there was an era when shiny new GTK desktop apps (f-spot for photos, banshee for music) were written in C# using the Gtk# bindings.
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by dpwm 10y ago
> 'Bullshit' thinking has been largely successful because its an effortless pathway to establishing an opinion on something (queue System 1/System 2 thinking). And if anything does go wrong you can blame the original bulls
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by dpwm 10y ago
The UK also has a long history of poorly distributed land "ownership" [1]. Considerably more than half the land in the UK is controlled by approximately 6000 families. The wealthiest were given real law-making / killing power
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by dpwm 10y ago
We live in a world where people take strong and increasingly indecipherable stances on the things they know almost nothing about. There are unpaid supporters for three-letter agencies who have made moves to ban encryption. With LE anyone ca
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by dpwm 10y ago
It really doesn't help that in 2D you can't do much that you can't do with complex numbers. I'm not a mathematician and I really struggle with just accepting the mathematical definition. I've found it helpful to thi
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by dpwm 10y ago
A time-travelling variant of these feeds would be fascinating. If the UK is anything to go by, the election result will see the quality of the news in these feeds jet-propelled into an abyss. I don't know if terms of service or copyrig
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by dpwm 10y ago
As of December 2015, it is opt-out in Wales.

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