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by fouric 5y ago
This comment is libelous, emotionally-manipulative flamebait, and does not belong on HN. These security issues, and the surrounding discussion, are due to citizenship, loyalty to one's country, cultural differences, and the presence of
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by fouric 5y ago
There is a very large amount of evidence that the CCP can and does exert its influence to "encourage" vendors to support its policies, such as the censorship of terms like "Free Tibet", "Long live Taiwan independen
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by fouric 5y ago
Cubicles suck, but if I'm going to be stuck in one anyway, I might as well opt to block everything out of my vision except for my screen. My monitor bezels, keyboard, mouse, desk surface, phone, post-it notes, office locker, etc. are j
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by fouric 5y ago
It seems to be generally easier for the human brain to look in another physical place for some information than to "overlay" them on top of each other (as happens when you alt-tab between two fullscreen windows). This is both noti
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by fouric 5y ago
> Having a screen blast your eyes 2” away is only ok for so long. Distance isn't really a factor here, at least not as far as total light entering your eyes goes - a 1W/m^2 source 10cm from your eyes causes the same amount of l
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by fouric 5y ago
Very few things are "inevitable", and I don't think that the things you cite are an exception. Regulation exists for a reason, and we have many examples of going from worse conditions to better ones e.g. from the 12-hour
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by fouric 5y ago
Resource consumption for low-accuracy voice transcription is trivial - think in the single-digit milliwatt range[1] for custom hardware. It would also be really easy to hide the resulting small amount of textual data in routine communicatio
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by fouric 5y ago
> I know enough about tech to know that it's very very very hard technical problem, and hiding it is basically impossible. This gets repeatedly asserted, and it's false. Low-accuracy voice transcription is a solved problem, a
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by fouric 5y ago
Aside from the actual fiber itself: literally your entire computer. No part of a modern consumer computing device has 1Tb/s bandwidth - RAM, SSDs, networking cards, PCI, the front-side bus, and everything else, with the possible except
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by fouric 5y ago
> Edit: ( Not sure why the downvote ) "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by fouric 5y ago
The front page is mostly made-up, either for humor, or to support the point: https://10yearphone.com/sign-the-letter/
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by fouric 5y ago
I suspect that, after the battery, screens are the next thing to get broken. With a non-repairable phone, all it takes is 1 out of n components for the entire thing to be rendered non-functional.
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by fouric 5y ago
Apple does have a very good reputation for building reliable products (with a few notable ~~keyboards~~ exceptions) and providing security updates - but I think that there's an argument to be made that that should be an expectation of
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by fouric 5y ago
> Phones from 10 years ago don't work any more because wireless companies are dropping 3G. This is because of a phase mismatch - a phone bought 10 years ago would have been in the middle of the 3G lifetime. 3G started getting adopte
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by fouric 5y ago
The website isn't very descriptive, as others have pointed out - it's difficult to get basic information (and any details) about the language. Moreover, it's not clear who this is for. People wanting an expressive language wi
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by fouric 5y ago
Depends on what you mean by "PoS". If you mean "proof of stake " - I've never heard anyone describe any environmental issues with them, so I assume that they either don't exist or are far smaller in impact tha
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by fouric 5y ago
The GP comment falsely implies that PoW is the only kind of cryptocurrency (and, well, the obnoxious and anti-intellectual tone). There are many reasons to dislike crypto in general, but "it destroys the environment" only applie
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by fouric 5y ago
"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."[1] And if you're going to break the guidelines and comment on voting anyway, the very least that you could do is a
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by fouric 5y ago
I think that this is meant as a "hack" - if you have two keyboards lying around and don't want to (or can't) purchase a new one. If you can , then yes, getting an actual split keyboard is far better. However, the Dygma
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by fouric 5y ago
I can second this - my main driver is a Dactyl-Manuform (ortholinear), and I have zero problems on any of the other four non-ortho keyboards that I use. I also use Dvorak as my main layout and have no problems when going back to a QWERTY on
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by fouric 5y ago
Hypocrisy is usually dishonest ("I'm going to tell you a lie in hopes that you believe it; my behavior shows that I don't actually believe the lie") or unfair ("I'm going to try to convince you to play by a mor
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by fouric 5y ago
Yes, ad-blockers get access to All The Things (except in Chrom(e/ium), where they've intentionally been neutered so Google can keep serving you ads), so you should treat them as any other piece of software, and get one you trust.
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by fouric 5y ago
It seems like hookworms are developing resistance to treatments in the same that that many bacteria are becoming antibiotic-resistant due to overuse. Both cases seem like a "tragedy of the commons" - using antibiotics/hookwor
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by fouric 5y ago
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." - C.S. Lewis Freedom to do what you want with the device you purchased is a right that is not to be infringed upon, especia
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by fouric 5y ago
You're welcome! And, to be clear, I share many of the concerns that you pointed out in your comment - plastic going into landfills and older, unclean incinerators is a problem, and it can be really hard (if not impossible) to tell it
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by fouric 5y ago
Complaining about downvotes is explicitly discouraged on HN: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."[1] I didn't downvote GP - indeed, I can't, as it
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Clean incinerators have been around for at least a decade[1] - potentially longer, as the Japanese have been separating out their burnable garbage from non-burnable for years. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13
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by fouric 5y ago
Yes. This is why all the people that copy-pasta "you're wrong about section 230"[1] on HN are missing the point. Even if the law doesn't say "Once a company like that starts moderating content, it's no longer
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by fouric 5y ago
Yes, but I don't see any indication whatsoever that GGP had actually examined contradictory comments from the same users - just a general complaint based on a vague feeling.
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by fouric 5y ago
That's not censorship, either in theory or in practice. "In theory" should be pretty obvious. "In practice" might require some explanation, because there seems to be a meme going around about trying to have another

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