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by esrauch 5y ago
Surely there's things that can be better with webapp model, but .exe or .msi are so drastically worse on the spyware front that it's not even close.
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by esrauch 5y ago
I disagree at least about the part about native applications. It really is better to have this universal VM for ephemeral apps and not have to worry about if the thing supports Linux or if it's actually spyware or how much hard drive s
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by esrauch 5y ago
The two cases MtG I know of off hand are to do with accidentally broken rules updates. One was when the added a moment "between turns" where you could activate abilities but not cast spells (added to make Time Vault work). The int
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by esrauch 5y ago
IRL games don't blindly execute the rules like video game code: in rare cases it's possible for the rules are poorly worded in a way that would allow something stupid, and yet that wouldn't be actually permitted play by any r
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by esrauch 5y ago
I just checked and "horses thrown into the rail" (by which I assume you mean Na3 or Nh3) would still never get played because they're terrible for white; stockfish puts them at -0.5 and -0.7 respectively, compared to the whit
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by esrauch 5y ago
There's no way they would have allowed 0-0-0-0-0-0 or "promote to opposite color piece" in a real game if GMs tried it in 1965. It's only ambiguous wording of the rules that was fixed in 1970, and not actually a capabili
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by esrauch 5y ago
I don't think that problem solves itself if they get rid of algo ranking. Misinformation on WhatsApp chats have literally lead to multiple lynchings, and it can't possible be said to stem from any algorithm promoted the content ou
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by esrauch 5y ago
There was a stand-in and the tv show computer generated the character replacing the stand-in. And then a YouTuber took that footage and made it look even more realistic.
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by esrauch 5y ago
Isn't Latinx supposed to be Latino+Latina? Surely those two words are actually gendered (in the biological sex way), unlike most words which are gendered in a purely linguistic way.
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by esrauch 5y ago
Your "bubble" is either extremists or jerks or your perception is warped. I've literally never met a person who doesn't think we should control immigration. The culture war is being fought on small edge cases like DACA
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by esrauch 5y ago
I really think your specific political leanings are deeply clouding your view of things. People on the side X have conversations with other people on the same side about all topics and discuss the finer points. That is true for both sides.
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by esrauch 5y ago
Your sentence is really the same divisive "other side is crazy" crap that everyone else is complaining about. Folks on both the left and right (under US definitions) will sniffily do that same thing and act like their positions
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by esrauch 5y ago
Nest isn't exactly a profit center for Google though. Presumably it makes sense as a foothold into the smarthome/IOT industry which might become a big surface for ads and they wouldn't want to lose that opportunity (like how
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by esrauch 5y ago
I'm curious what country you're from to have that point of view. In the US the public radio is extremely clearly not a state sanctioned propaganda; some of the corresponding private news corps are much more.
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by esrauch 5y ago
I think it's a good default to think "this person is acting in good faith and believes their success is aligned with the company's success", but also recognize pretty quickly when people aren't arguing in good faith
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by esrauch 5y ago
I only go to Twitter through links from here or reddit and I still get error pages pretty often.
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by esrauch 5y ago
I find it unlikely someone is going to make a better app store in terms of preventing the "bikini ad in a kids game". People like free apps, free apps are funded by ad networks, ad networks are going to push the boundaries. If Ama
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by esrauch 5y ago
I think I disagree with the premise of your argument that we're choosing between one of "pervasive wiretapping level invasiveness" or "internet companies cant be regulated" Do you want the government to bug you and
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by esrauch 5y ago
I think the nonprogrammer view would be that "loss" is a positive number, then the original format is correct
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by esrauch 5y ago
I don't think that's fair: C# has decimals but everyone uses floating point numbers by default so C# developers still need to know that 0.1+0.2 != 0.3
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by esrauch 5y ago
I agree they are different, I really did mean "I don't understand how people learn Rust without first learning one of several languages that are more straightforward/explicit what is on the stack and what is on the heap"
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by esrauch 5y ago
But the topic is how their view is shaped by the first language they learn. If they learn C first, will their ability to knowledge transfer into other languages happen differently then if they learned Python first? Concretely, I can't
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by esrauch 5y ago
It's the same way you don't have to have pictures of lockpicks for a law to make lockpicks illegal. How do you know if any piece o might actually be an illegal lockpick? Maybe you don't really, but if you have a big box of sc
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by esrauch 5y ago
I think people see a qualitative difference between eg a decryption key which you can easily memorize and an encoded file.
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by esrauch 5y ago
It's more often one section with broken ac and not the complete train; I assume the drivers have AC even when passengers dont. You can try to move to an adjacent car (which are then correspondingly that much more packed). I've exp
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by esrauch 5y ago
Not op but have lived in Florida and NYC. I suspect the gap partially relates to the "constructed"/human/social aspects, and not the raw weather itself. A NYC subway car without AC when it's 87 degrees outside is wo
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by esrauch 5y ago
Id assume that people who are currently traveling are much more valuable targets: things like tour packages are something high margin and highly contextual. Like, even if you only leave your home town once every two years, it might be worth
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by esrauch 5y ago
I would have assumed there is an os notifications api, and the apps have no idea what surface the notification will be shown on.
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by esrauch 5y ago
There's several reasons why everyone wants you to install the app, some of which aren't sketchy.
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by esrauch 5y ago
The person you replied to did make a claim with no evidence, but so did you. What about the southern border, do you have a reliable citation for something bad happening there compared to 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago?

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