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by fouric 7y ago
I wonder how long Rambo will have to wait for his account to get unlocked, relative to when this story hits the front page. When it happens, everyone should act like it didn't, because any corporation that fixes issues only after they
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by fouric 7y ago
If you want even better ergonomics, add tenting, concavity, and move the modifier keys + return/backspace to the thumb cluster (which should be shaped and angled so you're not moving your thumb laterally to hit it). The Dactyl-Man
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by fouric 7y ago
This comment contains no substantial evidence whatsoever. I wasn't looking for a personal diagnosis, I was looking for an answer to my question.
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Ask HN: Does logical thinking attenuate emotions?
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by fouric 7y ago
https://yarchive.net/ for general knowledge by people who (somewhat) know what they're doing, http://zipcpu.com/ for digital design
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by fouric 7y ago
This is actually really important. While it's immoral to take the results of someone else's work without compensating them, it's also immoral to charge your customers multiple times for the same product.
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by fouric 7y ago
That's like saying that "trying to prevent kids from doing hard drugs doesn't jibe with reality". Piracy of entertainment content is straight-up immoral, and the only reason it's not viable as a business model is be
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by fouric 7y ago
It's especially obnoxious because, unlike educational materials or programming tools, you can't make an ethical argument that the content impacts the quality of life of people who receive it. It's entertainment, and so nobody
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by fouric 7y ago
Hypocritical? How many of your personal secrets (or even your corporate secrets) would cause >= thousands of people to die or >= billions of taxpayer dollars to be lost if they were leaked?
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The static power dissipation might be a problem, depending on its magnitude, and would only be exacerbated by the increased density. On the other hand, the increased density allows for lower latency relative to CMOS, and latency improvement
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by fouric 7y ago
> Surveillance/Market insight/whatever is just too lucrative. Citation needed. Individual users' data is, last time I checked, relatively low-value - isn't the Facebook ARPU less than $10?
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by fouric 7y ago
Read the comments. The claimed suspension message was extremely unlikely to be real.
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If it really is because of public scrutiny, IMHO we shouldn't actually treat it as if it happened at all - a corporation that only responds to public pressure like this should be shamed and avoided. (slightly expanded version at https
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by fouric 7y ago
Factually incorrect. None of the Five Eyes do any sort of mass decryption even remotely similar to what is mentioned in the article.
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by fouric 7y ago
...and the only reason why that's true is because (1) the "vast majority" are not Uyghurs and (2) (rightfully) fear their tyrannical government and take care to not offend it. If you changed the criterion to "likely to e
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by fouric 7y ago
The biggest issue that I see here is journalists getting locked out of their accounts, on claim of violating the TOS, with no explanation given, and likely no human in the review process. If true, then this is bad enough that I would sugges
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by fouric 7y ago
I value my time anywhere between $10/hour and $100/hour, depending on the context, and I would bet that the vast majority of Americans would do the same. $1 for a 30-minute podcast episode is $2/hour, which is far from &quo
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by fouric 7y ago
Local code execution is also a significant privacy vulnerability. Should Apple take away the ability of their users to install non-app-store programs? Some security vulnerabilities are acceptable in some situations in exchange for user free
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by fouric 7y ago
Trust is everywhere in computer security. You trust Google to not deliver a backdoored version of Chrome to your machine when you download a binary instead of building from source. You trust them to not break the law and leak your personal
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by fouric 7y ago
> If I wanted to borrow A Better Man by Louise Penny—the country’s current No. 1 fiction bestseller > Public libraries are engaged in one of the most valuable series of community services for all ages, for all audiences > If you th
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by fouric 7y ago
Services provided. Most people don't pay any tax until their first job, but are protected by the police, use roads and sidewalks, and attend public school.
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by fouric 7y ago
This is objectively false. Taxation is you paying the government for services rendered (or, if you want to be very pedantic, access to those services, even if you don't actually use them - which, given that you're on HN, is extrem
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by fouric 7y ago
You're completely right, publishers don't need to use the micropayment model. I meant, and should have said, that publishers aren't adopting a low-friction, single-account payment service, of which micropayments are only one.
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by fouric 7y ago
This is a strawman, and isn't relevant to my argument at all. GP of my original comment never made the claim that the NSA/US weren't doing bad stuff (outside of domestic surveillance), only that Snowden was trying to damage t
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by fouric 7y ago
Your words do nothing to counter the argument of the comment you were replying to. The fact that the vast majority of the documents leaked were completely unrelated to domestic surveillance is as strong an indicator as we can get that he wa
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by fouric 7y ago
Wired is a (particularly) tracking-reliant publisher, so I'm not particularly surprised that they adopted this tone. I also hope that any sort of tracking-based business model goes extinct. Unfortunately, in the case of online publishi
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> It's not for everyone, so if you already bitch about being hungry all the time maybe you should just look into a day job instead. The problem is that there's an increasingly influential movement in the software engineering co
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by fouric 7y ago
I propose a new heuristic called "The HN PR Law" or something to that effect: no response from a company on a negative PR incident should be taken seriously after an article on said incident hits the front page of HN. Given Google
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by fouric 7y ago
Is LinkedIn really "social media", though? From the perspective of a non-user, everything I've heard about it suggests that it's purely work-focused.
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by fouric 7y ago
See also: custard antenna https://michaelcullen.name/2019/04/custard-antenna/

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