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by duaneb 10y ago
> However, in real life, for real humans, over a longer period of time, the drivers with modern automatic transmissions will be more fuel efficient than drivers with similar cars and manual transmissions, because the automatic transmissi
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by duaneb 10y ago
Is that ever possible? Every interaction is going to have side channels and fingerprints.
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by duaneb 10y ago
There is no single method of protecting privacy; VPNs are privacy against commercial-level actors. Tor has its own bounds, but people should use that, too. I generally think the internet is barely usable over TOR, but I don't need stat
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by duaneb 10y ago
The only thing putting people at risk is portraying privacy as suspicious. Everyone should use a VPN.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Imagine the kind of clicks you'd get with a title that related to the content!
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by duaneb 10y ago
That I was able to work out the intention of a sentence does not mean the sentence should have existed in the first place. It's already used up more of my time than any actual content—why didn't they use a descriptive title?
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by duaneb 10y ago
> Imagine if facebook cut your account and thereby ties to many of your friends and acquaintances for promoting a competing ad company? This is very imaginable. Facebook has never attempted to be privacy or user friendly; DO NOT USE IT.
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by duaneb 10y ago
I'm gonna need a massive citation here. > This isn't conjecture. I've seen the base files. Until you share, it's conjecture.
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by duaneb 10y ago
The title is alluding to James Bond. Poorly.
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by duaneb 10y ago
> The primary business objective of advertising for companies such as mine is to build brand awareness, product benefit awareness and brand identity (eg. are you partial to Coke or Pepsi? Nike or Addidas? etc). Doing this will influence
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by duaneb 10y ago
I don't necessarily disagree, but how does this follow from what I said? I'd argue people are TOO independent to reach a third party consensus.
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by duaneb 10y ago
> I'd like to see most independents / democratic people unite under a real progressive platform next election and stop the extremist cycle of social issues vs fear mongering. There's virtually zero chance of this happening
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by duaneb 10y ago
I really wish we could differentiate between 'article-like' (where I can strip out everything but one main block of text) and app-like (that requires full javascript and DOM apis). That alone would "fix" 90% of the probl
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by duaneb 10y ago
Agreed—it's also way too huge for comfortable reading with the column width.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Hmm, I'll believe that when they turn a profit.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Microsoft was never good at avoiding installers.
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by duaneb 10y ago
...yeesh.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Seems like it reimplements the c ABI in C sharp, which seems straightforward and sane. It also hasn't been updated in two years. How does it work with extensions targeting 3.5?
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by duaneb 10y ago
I'm not sure about you, but virtually nobody I know can do anything other than basic integer division anymore. The calculator DID cripple our ability to do basic arithmetic. Not that it's a meaningful thing in itself.
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by duaneb 10y ago
I dunno, that's still more readable than most humans can muster.
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by duaneb 10y ago
While I agree they are working on cool things, this is entirely separate from an ability to monetize it. This is the part I doubt; I don't see anything that indicates they would succeed where twitter failed.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Is there any indication they can monetize their audience? Twitter claimed to. How is snapchat different?
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by duaneb 10y ago
Hah, no argument there.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Is it so hard to see that floods are a common theme, especially in agrarian land near rivers (e.g. Mesopotamia and Egypt)? I don't see much evidence they all point to the same thing.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Nothing on the iPad. I like the second screen for documentation and music.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Oh, I completely agree—I maintain a SAN and it's a royal pain in the ass. But there are options, and a SAN has lower risk if your key is leaked (only the enumerated domains will validate).
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by duaneb 10y ago
For a cookie cutter app, there are zero alternatives with feature parity. It's also notably much, much higher quality than the median app.
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by duaneb 10y ago
For a fraud, I can actually use the app I paid for. Who cares about the author? This is a net win for everyone.
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by duaneb 10y ago
You can use SAN certificates to avoid wildcards while still validating for a number of domains. They don't even need to be subdomains.
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by duaneb 10y ago
> by remotely disabling CT enforcement in Chrome A) why is this possible, and B) isn't the whole point of the expiring list to provide a stick? Why remove the stick at the last moment?

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