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by emn13 6y ago
Also, it's not like chrome is googles main source of income or anything. I don't think google really would be impacted all that much anymore in todays market if chrome shrank, especially if they lost market share to firefox (as op
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by emn13 6y ago
A counter point to that is that the impact of the tech sector on recommendations like that is ever shrinking - tech is normalized; everyday stuff where people feel comfortable making their own choices (and where the number of people that ha
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by emn13 6y ago
That's irrelevant right? The point is that it's reproducible. Whether you define purity as to include non-termination or not is besides the point; the point is to avoid side-effects. Lack of side effects matters in the context o
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by emn13 6y ago
This is a huge problem in scientific papers; it's very, very common to see results for all kinds of metrics with confidence intervals or p-values and then see a few "significant" measurements, without a mention of the fact th
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by emn13 6y ago
Yeah, there's something to be said to a format that makes it hard to shoot yourself in the foot; essentially. That point is somewhat orthogonal to the issue of how easy it is to author a config value, however. By the way, you conflate
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by emn13 6y ago
You can wait in a threaded model too, right? The only difference is that if you do so, you're blocking that thread. The pain comes when you mix the two models, because async often deals really poorly with blocking. In general, the d
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by emn13 6y ago
In most programming languages you can hand author a value just fine - that part isn't an advantage to something like YAML or json. Given the use of variables and a few other similar simple techniques, I dare say many programming langu
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by emn13 6y ago
Also; more generally: it makes sense to KISS, and the key risk here isn't somebody using yaml or json or whatever initially - even where experience shows that's insufficient, it's just not that costly either. The question i
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There are much simpler programming models to deal with long-running actions, like processes and threads. The essential point of async is to be thread-like, but with lower overhead; or in environments where you cannot use processes and thre
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by emn13 6y ago
While it could be that your usage data is collected and worth that much to them; the far simpler reason is simply both how competitive the "normal" TV market is, and how much you benefit from economies of scale. Even if your usag
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by emn13 6y ago
Yeah, that requirement doesn't look like it'd be worth much; for sure. Also, 24 hours is really short; even if the requirement were maximally broad to the extent that would surely attract a challenge, there's a good chance ma
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by emn13 6y ago
Guaranteed termination isn't the only analysis worth having, especially since if your aim is termination (as opposed to leveraging that simplicity for other analysis) it's much easier to simply impose termination and be done wit
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by emn13 6y ago
The proposal to delay deletion for 24 hours is content neutral, is it not? Additionally, since the "speaker" has already published whatever is being deleted, and merely has a delay, the free speech issues appear pretty small - or
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by emn13 6y ago
The original article did not propose any specifically formualated law, and additionally it's clear from the article that the author is concerned with the effects of the law, not the exact formulation. Criticizing the formulation isn
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by emn13 6y ago
You're misreading what I'm saying; I'm not proposing an alternative law (and have no interest in doing so), merely stating that the criticism of the original article saying that DMCA reform would run into first-amendment issu
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by emn13 6y ago
Right, but in effect the DMCA does require takedowns. In theory, it doesn't, but in practice the risks imposed are large enough that platforms can't viably choose to take them. And exactly that could work in reverse too; a non-re
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by emn13 6y ago
IANAL, but I think you're likely wrong on the first amendment issue. Contract law regularly supersedes first amendment concerns, e.g. even though courts are a part of the government, they are allowed to enforce NDAs. Even outright r
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by emn13 6y ago
To clear up minor details: > I have no idea what a "passive voice" is. A passive voice is just grammatical term to describe phrases in which the acted-upon is primary, as opposed to the actor; i.e. "Freddy was tackled by H
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by emn13 6y ago
Yeah, the rollout (as opposed to the feature) sounds poor. Since I didn't experience this - you're saying you upgraded FF and without notice your DNS settings were replaced? I.e. anything only resolvable on your LAN suddenly stop
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by emn13 6y ago
> I had to disable DoH on all 5 of my machines because it was enabled automatically. Some googling: it's on by default in the US now, not yet globally. > pihole supports using Cloudflare as an upstream DoH provider, not acting as
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by emn13 6y ago
I don't understand this criticism at all; could you clarify what the issue is? None of this - DoH, nor HTTPS-only - is required. It's not even on by default (yet). If you have some specific wishes; it's trivial to pick a di
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by emn13 6y ago
To add some data to that: there is a correlation between disease spread and GDP reduction, and it's the one that consistent with your anecdote: The economic impact is greater where the disease is left unchecked : https://our
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by emn13 6y ago
I hope we have a better chance of eradicating covid, than we do measles. A first factor making measles harder to eradicate is that it can strikes fairly early in life, and covid appears to affect young children much less and not to be as t
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by emn13 6y ago
Yeah, these claims are FUD. Yes, there are theoretical concerns; as with all new things, there is no complete certainty. But we should be absolutely clear that immunity usually reduces transmission. That that's at least very common is
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by emn13 6y ago
Also a source that's trying to claim personal responsibility for the successes of others, where none is deserved. A government that had the capacity to develop treatments but choose not to would have been in dereliction of their duty;
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by emn13 6y ago
Communication can do harm. It can also do good. That's kind of the point of protecting it - it's got power. If it were powerless, then fraud, misinformation campaigns, copyright infringement, insider trading, leaks of classified
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by emn13 6y ago
Do you really think the https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-43816921 case is egregious? The punishment is meaningful, but hardly life or career changing. Just because something has been said in rap lyrics
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by emn13 6y ago
That's simply not true; including in the US. Libel statutes make distinctions between true and false statements, and between knowingly misleading statements and honest mistakes. Do you think truth should be irrelevant? I don't
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by emn13 6y ago
The arguments that the kind of speech referred to in the article is worth defending are really weak. Sure: there is no question that free speech in general is a useful tool in increasing transparency and thus public enlightenment - thus p
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by emn13 6y ago
Right, but that's a plus - that's more how it works in other democracies; the equivalent of the house having the upper hand; essentially impeachment at that point turns into a milder form of a vote of no confidence. It's sti

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