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by frank2 6y ago
You write, "You then have to type the command plus file name, and the only thing that helps is tab completion." I can see your point because for many years I used cd, ls, mv, etc, to do all my file management and all of my browsin
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by frank2 6y ago
All we know is that Substack is willing to make a lot of promises to Scott. Scott probably lacks (as I do) the expertise to negotiate a contract that would actually hold Substack to those promises. But maybe I am being too cynical.
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by frank2 6y ago
I had a couple of Wyse 60s that looked basically new when I got them, and they both broke (refused to display anything) quickly. It is rare in general for computer equipment to break when in my possession.
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by frank2 6y ago
Sure, but the internet did not become a consumer phenomenon till 1993. There were very few rules on the internet of 1992, but one of those rules was that commerce was not allowed. So for example there was in 1992 a newsgroup named ba.jobs w
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by frank2 6y ago
I recall it was the mere fact that they had a pricing model at all when the competition made it clear that they would not attempt to derive any revenue from anything related to the web (e.g., running a web server, distributing a web client
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by frank2 6y ago
That was the consideration that persuaded the French office in charge of the telephone network to make the initial investment in Minitel.
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by frank2 6y ago
http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/30-years-of-tcpip-d...
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by frank2 6y ago
Headlines need to be hyperbolic nowadays to maximize clicks, and 'rising [sadness] among young men' doesn't sound nearly as dangerous as 'rising nihilism among young men'. I think the writer of the headline thinks t
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by frank2 6y ago
It's not that you are against a website's being tested with edbrowse; it just that you don't want that to be a substitute for testing using a screen reader and a mainstream browser. Do I have that right?
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by frank2 6y ago
If I were blind, I would try to do as much of my interaction with the web as possible in "edbrowse", a browser designed and written by a blind programmer: https://edbrowse.org/ Although it is common for people to
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by frank2 6y ago
Upvoted for being a HN story whose OP is a HN comment.
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by frank2 6y ago
Muse stores the users data on the ipad, not in the cloud, so v2 of Muse wouldn't be able to get at the data created by Muse v1 since every ipad app is sandboxed.
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by frank2 6y ago
Part of that is from population growth. We can control for population growth by using GDP per capita: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/SGP/singapore/gdp-per-... --which gives a rate of growth of 10.7%, a
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by frank2 6y ago
>If he sold all his stock Facebook would plummet into oblivion No, it wouldn't.
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by frank2 6y ago
Would you please say how you know that Microsoft has (in your words) "rejected the future changes that were potentially limiting uBlock Origin"? E.g., did a Microsoft executive say something to a journalist, who wrote it down some
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by frank2 6y ago
Especially if it says "don't get distracted" or "too much information too fast is toxic" in a comment right above the line blocking HN.
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by frank2 6y ago
My needing to rely on one modern browser engine is already too much software complexity for my tastes. In other words, I would have preferred to be able to live a typical day of my life without relying on any software as complicated (and co
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by frank2 6y ago
Will you consider going back after Google makes it so that you cannot use Ublock Origin or similar level of adblocking in Chrome or is there some way to install a different browser on ChromeOS I don't know about?
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by frank2 6y ago
>There's also the notoriously difficult hassle of complying I would've thought that the hassle came when the American switched to a non-American employer or ran a business outside the US. I would've thought that if the Ame
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by frank2 6y ago
OK, but the topic is hate speech in particular, and there has never been a time when hate speech modulo calls to violent action (and possibly calls on landlords or employers to discriminate) has been unlawful in the US.
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by frank2 6y ago
>>The rationale [Google] gave is that hate speech appears on these apps >The only way they can define and enforce "hate speech" policies is by torturing the language, the definitions, and hoping no one looks closely at th
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by frank2 6y ago
You can in the US. Look it up: >Hate speech in the United States is not regulated due to the robust right to free speech found in the American Constitution. The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that hate speech is legally protecte
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by frank2 6y ago
>it was not all that long ago that we had the "equal time" rule that required media outlets to host both liberal and conservative commentary That only ever applied to broadcast media (and maybe only to prime-time TV). Publisher
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by frank2 6y ago
>The loss of control of the narrative due to the internet has been a severe setback for the powerful How was the narrative controlled by the powerful before the internet became a part of everyday life? Specifically, how was the narrative
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by frank2 6y ago
It is true that mining tends to reduce the value of a btc, but the effect is small because most of the btc that will ever be created (mined) have already been created: there are already 18.4m, and there will only ever be 21m.
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by frank2 6y ago
>I much preferred Google circa 2006 2000 to 2002 was "peak Google" (and "peak internet") according to my preferences.
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by frank2 6y ago
Yes, I really like how easy it is to view the definition (which might be written in Emacs Lisp or C) of any function callable from Emacs Lisp. (But I never edit any Emacs Lisp files that come with Emacs: sometimes though I will make sure su
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by frank2 6y ago
>I pay Netflix in the country I live, but I can't find content in my native language, so, guess what? I get pirate movies. Are most of the movies you pirate in your native language?
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by frank2 6y ago
The paint scheme they tested: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/41ca0d89-d383-425e...
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by frank2 6y ago
>I don't think a clean division into two categories "document" and "application" will work. Do you also believe that there can be no clean division into "data" and "code"? If a program I wrote

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