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by gbanfalvi 5y ago
Pretty sure the parent poster wasn’t talking about giving building housing and giving it away for free. > they still mostly use a 1960's era city plan that forbids dense residential development in most areas. I big source of homeles
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by gbanfalvi 6y ago
Hopefully they can improve protections for whistleblowers and employees speaking out about ethical concerns.
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by gbanfalvi 6y ago
So... it doesn’t change the actual argument.
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by gbanfalvi 6y ago
No. When they hire employees they (at least expect to) increase their own profit. Losses are shared between a company and the employee losing their job, income is (unevenly) shared between an employer and the employee, profit is exclusively
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by gbanfalvi 6y ago
I'm not sure that's true... Xcodeghost was a single attack that affected ~4000 apps and got it contained comparatively quickly, whereas Android devices get infected with virus-laden with quite regularly. https://www.and
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by gbanfalvi 6y ago
Can it guess my star sign too?
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by gbanfalvi 6y ago
Do you believe it’s more dangerous to: A: Remove a post encouraging violence with the risk it’ll anger a group of people? Or... B: Keep it and let it reach 80 million followers? There’s plenty of evidence that many sites (twitter included)
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by gbanfalvi 6y ago
Resource-intensive applications like Chrome and Slack
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by gbanfalvi 7y ago
And how does it compare against HEIF?
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by gbanfalvi 7y ago
That still wouldn't cover trackers and content running in the background, audible ads, ads that pretend to be content in the article you're reading...
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by gbanfalvi 7y ago
> Less regulation - not more - would lead to an enviro in which an ISP who was preferring certain content would be genuinely risking losing customers by doing so (and might gain certain types of customers, opening niches for other ISPs t
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by gbanfalvi 7y ago
> Am I missing something? How could "regulation" be a possible answer to "digital nationalism"? Are there examples of what the author is referring to as "enlightened regulation" in which regulation has had t
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by gbanfalvi 7y ago
Nice ad.
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by gbanfalvi 7y ago
Come on, there’s a difference between building a service or a tool that ends up getting used for problematic purposes (ISIS used lots of Toyotas, is Toyota evil?) and knowingly allow and even even enable problematic purposes (imagine if Toy
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by gbanfalvi 7y ago
> The engineers, designers, and PMs shouldn't have an outsized voice in society because they have a specialized useful skillset and ended up on a successful product. They built these services. They are, ate least in part, responsibl
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by gbanfalvi 7y ago
> So you consider an iPhone works so much better and its design is so much better than Android phones that you allow Apple to choose what you can install? Yeah. Lots of people do. Giving up control means a lot, I get it. However I give u
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by gbanfalvi 7y ago
What if it was one dollar instead of five? It would have saved hundreds of thousands for Randstad. Or if google is paying for it and this feature motivates 1% more people to buy the phone, they could be making a lot of money. I bet loads of
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by gbanfalvi 7y ago
Safari doesn't support webgl2 (you can enable it as an experimental feature in the develop menu), so retrieving a webgl2 context returns null.
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by gbanfalvi 8y ago
The problem with ADHD and friends cause is that my brain actually _doesn't_ fire on all cylinders. While I think I feel the same way as everyone else and I have the same cognitive ability, I don't have the energy to structure my w
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by gbanfalvi 8y ago
The risk-taking behaviour can't be turned off, but the individual can still choose to ride a motorcycle or not. A "biological bias" might make the choice harder, but they're not suddenly deprived of free will.
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by gbanfalvi 8y ago
> Pretty soon they understood that to get Creo the kind of user experience they desired, they had to rewrite one of the core modules of Apple developer stack: the UIKit. > Read it again: entirely rewrite a core component created by so
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by gbanfalvi 9y ago
I don't think Apple offers support to extend their camera app (there is support for extending the photos app, however). What you _can_ do, (and it's quite easy), is to create your own app, capturing video from the camera. Then you
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by gbanfalvi 9y ago
You can name parameters externally and externally explicitly. func sayHi(to personName: String) { print("Hi \(personName)") } sayHi(to: "Bob") // Hi Bob Similarly, using just one label
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by gbanfalvi 11y ago
> You can simply choose not to use Cortana or to disable it entirely. Google Now & Siri support the same functionality but ironically don't give you the settings to disable it, so nobody bats an eyelid. Siri can be disabled. Loc
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by gbanfalvi 11y ago
You would have only transitioned after lots (maybe years) of sessions with doctors and therapists where they would have made sure that it's really what you need. As the article mentions, the biggest change right now is delaying puberty
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by gbanfalvi 11y ago
Yet somehow the quality of the discussion/information is better in reddit and even moreso in heavily moderated subreddits such as r/askhistory or you know... simply on here. Even on 4chan, amusingly, the best boards are the ones r
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by gbanfalvi 11y ago
certificate signing is free. always has been. it's the app store part that costs you.
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by gbanfalvi 12y ago
It's not FUD to talk about apple's software getting buggier, it's FUD to appropriate someone's rant, sensationalise it and then put the responsibility on Arment. It's the difference between you stating that Node.js
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by gbanfalvi 12y ago
Computerworld http://www.computerworld.com/article/2866456/marco-arment-sp... Fortune http://fortune.com/2015/01/05/how-bad-are-the-bugs-in-apples... BGR http://bgr.com&#
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by gbanfalvi 12y ago
https://twitter.com/jamesthomson/status/527498251176796160 http://www.panic.com/blog/transmit-ios-1-1-1/ Neither of the apps got pulled. They got a warning. Whether the guidelines they w

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