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by hackuser 10y ago
Someone told me last weekend that Teen Vogue was covering the political situation well and providing good technical stories. Of course, I had to ask them to repeat the name of the publication. Good for Teen Vogue.
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by hackuser 10y ago
How does that differ from many other religions? The Mormons, for example?
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by hackuser 10y ago
In a way it's true, but that could be said about any innovation, any startup: 'Do you really think you have a better way of doing it than what has already been figured out?' If people followed that principle, there would be n
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by hackuser 10y ago
> The amount of consumption (goods and services) a given person can indulge in has an upper limit Why? What is the limit? The amount can grow, and the evidence that it does is overwhelming. > In the past, people who were freed from so
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by hackuser 10y ago
Exactly; the economy is not zero-sum; it's not a pie we have to split. The pie grows by the addition of more labor, more capital, or greater efficiency. For example, in the U.S. starting from 1917, the great majority of jobs have disap
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by hackuser 10y ago
Call your elected representative; do it now. The answer is through government. If we paid the true cost of carbon, probably we'd fly less, fuel would be re-engineered, and other forms of transport would be developed and expanded.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> You might not be making that mistake yourself so perhaps it's no use to you But is anyone thinking it? I can say in reference some people I don't like, 'I disagree with the people who like to kick puppies'. Part of
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by hackuser 10y ago
> could W3C make a stand and just because DRM is a bad thing for users, could just refuse to work on DRM and push back wherever they could on it? Well, that would again not have any effect, because the W3C is not a court or an enforcemen
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by hackuser 10y ago
> the common sentiment is 'the best time to take action was 40 years ago. The absolute limit was 20 years ago. There's no stopping it now My impression is that this is the latest fallback position intended to stop/delay us
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by hackuser 10y ago
Is there a difference between "mixed reality" and "augmented reality"?
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by hackuser 10y ago
Would someone explain the significance of this? IIRC, Purism's goal is a completely open platform, hardware and software, and I know coreboot is open BIOS, but I'm not sure how big an advance this is.
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by hackuser 10y ago
The parent post creates a hypothetical opinion held by hypothetical people, and then criticizes it. IMHO this kind of comment is merely inflammatory; I'm no smarter after reading it, and if I buy into it then I become misinformed.
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by hackuser 10y ago
Other than Eich, I don't see any politics in those decisions.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> I don't really believe in an internet where the default assumption is "you have to rewrite your application within two years, or if it's broken it is your fault" In a way I agree; the lack of stability is costly for
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by hackuser 10y ago
Some commenters recommend Jitsi: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13765289
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by hackuser 10y ago
Firefox isn't just any software; the survival of the open web, and therefore open software in general (because the web is a major platform), depends in part on their marketshare.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> The issue at hand is that Mozilla is dropping support for plug-ins, and hangouts' implementation of media streaming uses a plug-in Every time two systems need to integrate, the vendors always can and often do point the finger at e
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by hackuser 10y ago
The announcement linked to above was made in October 2015, 16 months ago, and said the change would be made by the end of 2016.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> I never said that it should be illegal for someone to seek privacy I'm not talking about legality (though that is important); I mean that typical end users should have an option, a practical way to have privacy and function in the
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by hackuser 10y ago
Kalanick is also a leader in many communities: in Silicon Valley, in the business community, in the U.S., and worldwide. Many respond to such issues with more bluster, with defensiveness, with pressure on the weaker party (who then retracts
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by hackuser 10y ago
> Could you give a specific example of how typical data (ie internet browsing records) could be exploited It could be used for anything, including the No Fly List. It could lead to your arrest. What couldn't it be used for?
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by hackuser 10y ago
> If that is the political situation then I do not think it matters whether I use my own server, or encrypt all my messages I don't know why it wouldn't matter. And it is the situation; you can be put on the No Fly List without
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by hackuser 10y ago
> It seems to me to be too little too late Why can't we fix it? We can't do it tomorrow, but we can do it. We built the Internet; Facebook didn't exist 15 years ago. The statement seems like the perfect propaganda, written
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by hackuser 10y ago
> will I someday be prosecuted for the news articles I read or the songs I listen to or my amazon purchases or my google searches? I guess maybe, but that is a HUGE maybe. Perhaps you aren't vulnerable, but there are many who are. W
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by hackuser 10y ago
How do you know if it's secure? How do you know if someone is accessing your passwords?
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by hackuser 10y ago
Typing "Secure password manager" requires keyboard skills. Developing one requires much more.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> about 70 possible values each The norm is 95 values. That's the all ASCII printable characters, or just count them on your keyboard. (I'm not sure if that includes the <space> character.)
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by hackuser 10y ago
> It works reasonably well! How does it not work? Confidentiality and data integrity are essential for password managers; they can't work most of the time in those regards.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> had the capsule been fitted with them, it would have stayed entirely clear of the event. It'd be a rough ride, but it would have been a survivable event. Safety isn't defined by, 'did it work out ok?', but by the r
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by hackuser 10y ago
> The next person to take a picture of the Earth from moon may not be on a government funded mission. Note that the press release says: Most importantly, we would like to thank NASA, without whom this would not be possible. NASA’s Comme

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