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by hctaw 6y ago
Please stop with the false equivalencies. Donald Trump directed a mob to storm the Capitol while they were certifying election results, the ensuing riot led to at least five deaths. He is being deplatformed because of the impending threat o
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by hctaw 6y ago
I don't really believe a single thing that comes out of Josh Hawley's mouth. But if I did, that doesn't point to any kind of "collusion" over Parler, since those hearings occurred months ago.
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by hctaw 6y ago
how is it indicative of collusion? Do you have evidence that they communicated with each other? If anything, the domino-like behavior (Google Play -> Apple ultimatum, AWS pulling support) suggests no one colluded about anything.
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by hctaw 6y ago
there's more than a little suggestion that this was the intended outcome for the people protecting the capitol.
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There's nothing wrong with buybacks, they're tax-friendly dividends. They shouldn't be shamed for returning value to shareholders which it seems you're implying. What should be shamed is a tax code that differentiates di
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by hctaw 6y ago
We know that the build and release infrastructure for SolarWinds was compromised to distribute malware signed with their keys. What we don't know is who or what was responsible. In the sense that JetBrains is in the supply chain and th
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by hctaw 6y ago
I think you're confusing two very different concepts - the fact the browser is sandboxed is orthogonal to its "openness." Sandboxes need not be open, and open platforms need not be sandboxed. Fundamentally, sandboxes restrict
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by hctaw 6y ago
The issue I see is we don't need a sandbox at all for this, we need capability based security models for applications provided by the OS vendors (like iOS, Android). Apple has taken the right steps towards such a model, yet get lambast
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by hctaw 6y ago
You've just described the hardest parts of a web browser, while ignoring the necessity of a JIT compiler for your bytecode. To give proof by counterexample, the "simple wrapper" is a graphics stack like GTK alongside the POSI
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by hctaw 6y ago
In my former life as a research engineer I learned to avoid no-name publishers, institutions, and conference proceedings because they are filled with lies. Not poor caliber material - outright fabrications. That's not to say prestigiou
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Has anyone ever paid the individual price for an article? And setting aside the principle for a second - how many non-academic taxpayers are trying to read articles that don't have institutional access through their employer or local p
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> Why no love for global/static variables? I know they are prone to be misused Rust doesn't deal with "prone to misuse" but "provably safe, else explicitly unsafe, or made safe by the programmer through wrapping