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by e1ven 8y ago
Are you seeing these criticisms from the same people, or from different groups, who might have differing opinions? When you become as big as Facebook, there are going to be arguments about your moral responsibility, and not everyone will ag
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by e1ven 8y ago
Do you think that every CPU is reporting upstream everything that's done on it? If not, then tails is a pretty good improvement. Even if it doesn't mitigate every conceivable issue, it doesn't mean it's without value.
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by e1ven 8y ago
Has Apple said anything about why they aren't releasing their own web player? With the API integration it seems pretty straight-forward to make one, so there's got to be a strategic reason they don't want to? Maybe they want
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by e1ven 8y ago
Having additional wireless competition will improve the quality of the wired options. They've been able to skate along in near-monopoly conditions for too long.
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by e1ven 8y ago
It is not generally considered Open Source. The new license was rejected by the OSI, which is generally regarded as the defacto arbitrator of if something is OSS or not. It was also rejected by Red Hat and Debian as being not open source. T
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Turning Type Sideways – Horizontal lines appear thicker than vertical ones(typography.com)
3 points by e1ven 8y ago|0 comments
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by e1ven 8y ago
I think that this link has most of the conversation on the topic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18914411
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by e1ven 8y ago
Would buying a smart-tv and never connecting it to Wifi work? Or would it be constantly scanning and looking for an open access point, and get online once a neighbor leaves his open for a few minutes?
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by e1ven 8y ago
Abandoned property laws vary by jurisdiction. Typically they involve reporting it to the police/authorities.
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EFF flips Bird the bird, says Boing Boing post doesn’t violate copyright law(arstechnica.com)
5 points by e1ven 8y ago|1 comments
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Why would it be so difficult to connect to locally? A company could drop a camera and a small NAS box, and have it all work over the local WiFi. I haven't looked into it, but I suspect there are several vendors who already do this. It
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by e1ven 8y ago
There may be more yet more money that can be extracted before it finally closed for real.
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by e1ven 8y ago
I'd like to see a model where Patreon expands into making their apps more optimized for audio/video playback. People could produce ad-free versions of their podcast for Patrons. Apple or other podcast vendors would also be in a go
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by e1ven 8y ago
I think a lot depends on your use-cases, what you spend time on your phone doing, where you're carrying it, etc. I really like iOS, but one think I really envy about the Android ecosystem is that there are multiple vendors, so users ar
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by e1ven 8y ago
It sounds like his point is that even if there are fewer big banks, he might be able to buy/rent an apartment in more desirable areas of the city. I interpret his comment as pointing out a value to intangibles that are sometimes overlo
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by e1ven 8y ago
I think that was his point- Apple Music on Android doesn't mean Apple is discontinuing the iPhone, and similarly, putting Apple Movies on the Samsung TV doesn't mean they are discontinuing the AppleTV
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by e1ven 8y ago
Not everyone is running any untrusted code. If you're running (for example) a physics simulation, the mitigation doesn't gain you much.
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by e1ven 8y ago
Microsoft was worth approximately 1 trillion dollars in 1999 (adjusted for inflation). There was a plan in place to split them up, which was only scuttled because Pres. Bush won the election.
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by e1ven 8y ago
They need to block people who are in (for example) Iran, not all Iranian citizens, or all people who have visited Iran in the past.
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by e1ven 8y ago
Isn't QT LGPL now? That seems pretty reasonable.
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I hate this argument. A) It depends on if you enable it. B) Just because you're willing to accept something in one domain doesn't mean you are universally OK with it being applied everywhere. C) I trust Apple much more than I t
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by e1ven 8y ago
Great point, I wasn't thinking about that. Thanks!
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They're working with Intel. Although if they really wanted to clean this up they have the cash on hand to buy Qualcomm.
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by e1ven 8y ago
They can't just throw more random people at the problem - Adding too many developers can slow projects down and make them less likely to work. (9 women can't make a baby in a month, and all that..) The guy this post is about just
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by e1ven 8y ago
This is a cool project, and I think it can be a good addition to an existing home media server. For the use-case they describe however (wiring up an existing home stereo) it would probably be a lot easier and better supported to just buy an
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NYC votes to set minimum pay for Uber, Lyft drivers(arstechnica.com)
6 points by e1ven 8y ago|0 comments
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ISS astronaut finds NASA floppy disks in space(cnet.com)
44 points by e1ven 8y ago|18 comments
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by e1ven 8y ago
If they leave other jobs to work for AWS, presumably the jobs they have now will need to be filled by someone else.
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by e1ven 8y ago
If that's the case, then they probably ought to have had the beta before the stamped discs, right? :) As I understand, the discs that need the huge update aren't beta discs, they're what you can go buy in the store.
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by e1ven 8y ago
I don't own the game, so I don't have a dog in this race.. But it does seem a bit silly that you have to download the ENTIRE game again.. At that size, they should have some sort of delta update tool.

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