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by gcbw2 7y ago
Came for the click bait title of the original article, stayed for the awesome comments :)
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by gcbw2 7y ago
uBlock origin is turning into uMatrix, even on mobile (fenec) Firefox. Sneakily ;)
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by gcbw2 7y ago
Not really. Advanced users can selectively disable Javascript/frames/media etc on a per-site basis. Also the user has the control to allow trackers on site they care about and know the consequences. I am sorry but tracking protect
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by gcbw2 7y ago
Fine. ship it off. This is not a valid excuse . What's the difference of shipping a feature off, and shipping with support for an extension (on both firefox and Google's chrome store sites!) that can be installed? At this point
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by gcbw2 7y ago
Same here. I do not know why the heck Mozilla is tiptoeing from just hiring Raymond and making uBlock an integral part of firefox. Note that they already included something similar, which is SafeBrowsing(TM), that is maintained by google. T
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by gcbw2 7y ago
It is used irresponsibly. A responsible spam protection system should allow every spam (and consequentially responsible user) from an ISP. If a ISP shows sign of abuse, then show Captcha or other system that will block some spam while also
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by gcbw2 7y ago
Remember every time you complained about China's citizen score system? Now remember that every interaction with the government must happen online (from requesting a US visa to going to the DMV), and all those forms are behind a Google(
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by gcbw2 7y ago
> what happens when google is Google no more? Google already have many, many advertising partners to whom they gladly provide your location and other data. But they anonymize it, so you are safe ;)
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by gcbw2 7y ago
Not the same thing. Your headlines are indeed scandalous. While the one picked by the NYT correctly emphasizes that as part of the layoff plan, GM management decided that the department responsible for investigating emissions was not worth
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by gcbw2 7y ago
Bay area have a problem trust-fund-baby mr mustache smug comments will never grasp: living around people who love crazy lifestyle inflation. If people living around you keep paying more and more for expensive lifestyle, eventually you will
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by gcbw2 7y ago
Agreed. Flagged as it promise to reduce the noise, and only list the worst keywords to describe each aspect, and then proceed to add pundit noise like all other articles it dismissed in the intro.
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by gcbw2 7y ago
> How would this explode in your face, exactly? What was the risk here? for one thing that actually happened because they did (and got away) with this: youtube engineers feel like they can leverage their site to dictate what they want
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by gcbw2 7y ago
This is a review of a book about structuralism as idealized by Lévi-Strauss. not even anthropologists consider it today. He published pop books and founded anthropology departments all over the world, but academically, meh. Lévi-Strauss wo
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by gcbw2 7y ago
Is this satire? I really can't tell. If it is, kudos for misusing a Stalman quote to promote english-centrism gatekeeping, which is the orthogonal of promoting knowledge sharing that the quote is about.
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by gcbw2 7y ago
Or pay it to be a movie prop. I got a rare pre-production version of the matrix nokia phone, to test our WAP sites. Our model would shoot the auto-slider cover on every time we pressed the release button. The cover would fly so well we ende
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by gcbw2 7y ago
Interestingly, this might be the solution for digital security. Get a nany state (Hello California) to force companies to have Insurance for Cyberattack. Insurance companies will learn instantly how to do due diligence for-real (as opposed
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by gcbw2 7y ago
You are widely assuming that because a pie was split to 10 people instead of one, there are more money buying houses. That's plain wrong. There is still a single pie. Houses were bought just the same, but by one person instead of 10. I
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by gcbw2 7y ago
How long do they debate for? Latest piece is from june 2018(or I missed soemthing fresher?)!
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by gcbw2 7y ago
So they pushed manning to get her arrested again and breach her immunity so that they could get to assange. Clever.
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by gcbw2 8y ago
> but agents confiscated Gal's Global Entry card The irony (and borderline hypocrisy) of a "privacy advocate" who have a Global Entry card.
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by gcbw2 8y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/6c5e97/e... https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/6c5e97/eli5_how_were_isps_able_to_pocket_the_2
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by gcbw2 8y ago
Every programming language consistency is inversely proportional to the scale of adoption. And by adoption i mean how popular it is with actual companies using it and pushing delivery over code-quality, with an ever growing
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by gcbw2 8y ago
And where do you draw the line? Most US based telCos today are based on a government backed monopoly of wireless spectrum and all of them received several billions dollars until last year to improve infrastructure (which none of them did, a
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by gcbw2 8y ago
If you are an optimistic (or realistic) you could say this will go great because they are the ones wasting less money on self driving fairies which will never go anywhere.
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by gcbw2 8y ago
The work they put in still can't solve the constant need for cash to keep the lights on, so?
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by gcbw2 8y ago
Ignoring pre-IPO mafia. For post-IPO this poses an interesting game theory question since all of those require a monopoly to succeed. Either you invest only on the winner, or lose money. there's probably no tie either, everyone invest
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by gcbw2 8y ago
s class and model s are models not badges on top of models. But even the mercedez c class have a sports submodel that falls into the S badge paradigm
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by gcbw2 8y ago
> Rift S and not the Rift 2 from cars industry: S version of any model means worse upholstery, worse radio, worse trim, worse engine, worse everything, but with a plastic spoiler!
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by gcbw2 8y ago
> tradeoffs lag is the least of your worries. Encoding artifacts will get to you and completely ruin the experience on anything that is not a simple puzzle game.
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by gcbw2 8y ago
> Pokemon Go The poster child of unplanned outages and scalability issues. Ouch.

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