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by hrktb 6y ago
While there are byzantine parts, I think it has been a net positive for the user. People focus mostly on the cookie popups, but forcing companies to delete data after the user stopped using the service for too long, or even giving a legal s
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by hrktb 6y ago
Primary effect of the radiation is not death though. This is a complicated topic, as willfully or not a lot of the numbers that people used to throw around (contamination level of water, air, child cancer numbers etc.) have been reajusted i
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by hrktb 6y ago
In this case in particular, what started as mostly a joke got fueled by the cost paid for postponing the event, coupled with the eventual penalties that would apply if the event was canceled altogether. There was a heated moment the first t
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by hrktb 6y ago
People have been memeing "Stop it! Stop it" [0] for a while now. To take with a shovel of salt of course, but that feeling of just getting shafted by the corrupt politicians and the IOC, and just not wanting more money to go into
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by hrktb 6y ago
There is a middle ground between hobbyist and large stakeholders that ends in the worst spot. As you point out those are legal requirements, and a small/middle size company would need to know them before entering a field or hitting som
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by hrktb 6y ago
> Agile was written at a resort by 10x engineers for 10x engineers. Do these 10x engineers need Scrum ? I don’t think flat/high ownership organization have a strong need to be told how to do things, or import some cookie cutter fram
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by hrktb 6y ago
No. The tsunami was extremely damaging and the death count was shocking. But it’s over. The nuclear event had fewer immediate deaths, but the whole area is still unlivable, the sea is still getting more polluted every second, nothing is ove
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by hrktb 6y ago
AstraZeneca failed to fulfill their contract with Italy to then request an external shipment outside of it. That doesn’t seem to have anything with free-trade or non-discrimination, and more contract enforcement.
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by hrktb 6y ago
It looks like splitting hairs, but I also think it makes a difference to state upfront that it’s an oversimplification. Kids actually understand the point, and they can decide if they care enough to ask more questions or if it’s good enough
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by hrktb 6y ago
When we buy genuine Xiaomi lightbulbs it’s definitely Xiaomi lightbulbs in the package, that’s not the argument. The question is what happens at the purchase time, and afterwards. To bring back the coke you love, there’s Coca-Cola vending m
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by hrktb 6y ago
I actually agree that assuming input didn’t change is the most pragmatical course of action, as even if the input changed I’d assume there’s just no way to efficiently anticipate it at this point. With that strategy the best case scenario i
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by hrktb 6y ago
I’m a bit lost. Combining 1) and 2), it means the test is against contextual and “fakeable” traits ? Setting apart 3), as I would imagine a rotated iceberg might not come back to a resting state identical to before the rotation. If the goal
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by hrktb 6y ago
As in this article, the base assumption is that a lot of the lag happens at moments where the input doesn’t matter that much. In fighting games, when characters are moving left and right or locked in a motion, in FPS when just moving around
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by hrktb 6y ago
> Since players don't change inputs very fast, just replicating the last input is in fact 99.9% accurate. Sadly, fighting games, and to the same extent FPS casually break that assumption. 1s is an eternity in a close fight, and play
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by hrktb 6y ago
The issue Docker solves for me is not the complexity or number of steps but the compatibility. I built a service that is installed in 10 lines that could be ran through a makefile, but I assume specific versions of each library of the syste
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by hrktb 6y ago
I know these feel empty as comments on the net, but I'd pay for a firefox specific subscription. I do for other open sourcy services (Bitwarden etc), there wouldn't be a huge public for that, but it doesn't need to either I t
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by hrktb 6y ago
On the business model: are we in a situation where advertisers get to choose to pay to have their ads specifically in firefox, but users can’t donate for firefox directly ? I feel like with this initiative they can set a price for a user’s
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by hrktb 6y ago
I scroll log files and extracts a lot. Scrolling page by page would be craziness.
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by hrktb 6y ago
I think the argument is less to stop doing the 4 above, than to accept it's a employer/employee relationship and behave accordingly. If there is actual value in the service, they should be able to adjust to the decision.
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by hrktb 6y ago
Isn't it already the case with electric car manufacturers, with plug designs and specifications that are not guaranteed to be compatible with other chargers, nor third party plug makers if they ever come to the marker?
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by hrktb 6y ago
To me this a first step for not having to check your phone or tablet if nothing needs attention. This is in particular useful if you’ve already filtered down your notifications significantly, you’ll be able to go stretches of hours without
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by hrktb 6y ago
I think fundamentally Google is not the best company to push this forward, but there are obvious targets if it was actually working well. In particular I expect the market for devices with lower capabilities (=lower engagement from the user
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by hrktb 6y ago
> they don't know any better There is a ton of literature about how it should be done, there has been enough press for anyone to be aware that it's a serious subject that needs to be studied, and small companies will often cons
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by hrktb 6y ago
I'd argue the issue is better acknowledge in ruby than in many other popular languages, which just assume having few options means everyone can mostly code as they want from there. Sister comments are pointing to rubocop which mostly m
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by hrktb 6y ago
> app stores We should praise Apple for not giving our identifying info to app developers.
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by hrktb 6y ago
For the comparison part: > Adjusted for inflation using the CPI, the numbers are even worse: half of all full-time workers (those at or below the median income of $50,000 a year) now earn less than half what they would have had incomes a
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by hrktb 6y ago
I hated the vacuums (the one I bought was way too heavy, loud, expensive for what it did) and air blades, but love the fanless ventilators. It’s light, cute, easy to move, with no visible moving parts, is still surviving spotlessly. I wish
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by hrktb 6y ago
From the study: > Findings were robust to various empirical measures and additional controls for undetected fraud. Otherwise, I think logic would dictate that greedy people try to get into bigger companies where decent amount of money is
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by hrktb 6y ago
They do, as far as I know Microsoft has a pretty good hold on retail. Some go with GCP but Google is less “enterprisy” for their taste in a lot of ways.
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by hrktb 6y ago
Was in the industry for a stint, and the issue was not only about money going to Amazon. There was a serious fear for their usage data to be used as a window into their business (if not fear of more illegal and unethical access to their dat

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