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by exelius 11y ago
Well, just remember that when you're dealing with clandestine agencies like CIA/NSA, they can probably either turn or place an asset in one of Apple's security teams and get access that way. Their evidence collection methods
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by exelius 11y ago
It has to be - our legal system is based on rule of law. You often see lawyers go after First Amendment defenses because the First Amendment is legally part of the constitution, and thus overrides any and all other laws. Of course, a judge
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by exelius 11y ago
IMO the US intelligence apparatus likely already has Apple's publisher keys (we know they had Microsoft's at one point for Stuxnet, so this is entirely plausible). The FBI is far less advanced than the NSA/CIA on computer cri
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by exelius 11y ago
Java is totally viable for nearly anything; it just doesn't work well for games because they require low-level access to graphics hardware (which is definitely not something Java supports). Also, the state of the JVM on the desktop is
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by exelius 11y ago
> And today, the idea marketplace does not need to be mediated by conferences and papers. You could say that posting to HN is a form of peer review (in the vain you mention it at least). Anyone is free to comment and tear the author&#x27
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by exelius 11y ago
So to answer the author's question; peer review makes no sense when your peers are incapable of judging a paper's validity either through a lack of domain knowledge on the subject or an overall poor grasp of scientific concepts in
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by exelius 11y ago
So they've discovered dark energy but everyone is afraid to say anything?
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by exelius 11y ago
I get it -- but it undermines their brand value, which is all they have . I avoided taxis because it was a high-friction transaction. Uber has been great because it is very, very low-friction. But they've introduced enough friction th
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by exelius 11y ago
Ok -- but I don't think anyone legitimately holds on to C++ as an example of a great, well-designed language. C++ has existed for a long time, and the corporate world has increasingly moved away from C++ because it doesn't offer
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by exelius 11y ago
I'm never one to judge a rebrand immediately, as so many people were quick to do here. These things have a tendency to grow on you. But after living with the rebrand for a few weeks? It sucks, and it made me realize how all the things
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by exelius 11y ago
HSAs in general are not a terrible idea; but they have created some scenarios (like OP's) that are pretty counter-intuitive. But HSAs are basically "small insurance" - if you max out your HSA on a high-deductible plan, you pr
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by exelius 11y ago
> I'm never going to own a house here if I keep getting taxed 50% and more The idea is that you wouldn't be the only one paying more. Real estate prices would need to come down as well, so everyone else buying a house would fee
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by exelius 11y ago
You have to admit, it's a fucked up system when your employer is basically paying you not to use your insurance. Your employer should have no influence on health care decisions, which is one of the many reasons we need to fix our curre
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by exelius 11y ago
> My suspicion is that they will follow the US example and throw billions at the banks in an attempt to right them. My suspicion is that China will actually let a few banks fail before the government steps in. And China culturally prefer
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by exelius 11y ago
I think it's more that if they replace a vendor, they are replacing them for a reason and don't want the same idiots to bring the same bad habits back with them.
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by exelius 11y ago
Actually, many clients will request this. The practice of winning a bid from another company and then just going and hiring the team that works on that project away from your competitor is far too common, and this helps stop it from happeni
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by exelius 11y ago
In other words, don't start with a solution; start with a problem.
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by exelius 11y ago
Yeah, I realize that many non-competes don't get enforced, but the fact is that those companies will continue to demand them because the non-compete protects them in a small percentage of cases (regardless of its impact on their employ
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by exelius 11y ago
This is the general problem when you have two parties with an asymmetry of power enter into an agreement with each other. The more powerful entity will spend time iterating over the process and identify every possible way they can be threat
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by exelius 11y ago
> I've been working for quite a while on a new issue tracking/project management tool. The goal was to make it as a native cross-platform application (think Slack), with potential offline support. I don't know that this is
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by exelius 11y ago
Hell, Jira started this way and has become a bloated, uber-customizable piece of software over the decade since. In a market like this, your company will not be a unicorn. If you ever make a billion dollar valuation, it will be the way Atla
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by exelius 11y ago
The point is that most of us probably don't use the app all that much anymore, so removing it probably isn't a big inconvenience. The article also mentions something I noticed a while ago too: mobile Safari is both faster and bett
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by exelius 11y ago
There are also different kinds of dependencies. Some dependencies are so common, they might as well be a feature of the language itself (Google's OAuth Java client libraries or Apache HTTPClient, for example). It would be a waste of ti
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by exelius 11y ago
Samsung's position isn't great; but it's definitely better than LG, HTC or Motorola. Samsung's mobile division is at least profitable; which can't be said for anyone else.
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by exelius 11y ago
https://news.vice.com/article/no-one-in-venezuela-is-talking... This is just the tip of the iceberg. Vice has a ton of stuff on the global drug problem, and Venezuela is the epicenter of trafficking right now because C
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by exelius 11y ago
Yes; typically they go after traffickers like this with RICO cases. Their organizations break US law every day, and by being part of the conspiracy to commit those crimes, they are guilty under RICO. All the government has to do is prove th
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by exelius 11y ago
You can do all of this today without their branding though. Or their permission. It's not like being associated with them is going to get you much credibility when it's an open system. Nothing is stopping you from making a total r
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by exelius 11y ago
IMO this is the video equivalent of a lot of the early Internet software patents. They took something that was a natural evolution of a larger community and tried to seize the intellectual property around it. I'm not even sure that wha
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by exelius 11y ago
> People in US clamoring for leftist populism should take deep look at Venezuela. All things in balance. Capitalism is not inherently good, nor is socialism inherently bad. You've got to balance the two: there are certain markets (n
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by exelius 11y ago
That's because Venezuela is a de-facto narco state at this point. The politicians are denying reality because they make a lot of money by facilitating the global drug trade. Venezuela is the key link in the global narcotics supply chai

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