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by irq-1 10y ago
Looks like the plan is to expand the JS access to WebGL. http://webassembly.org/docs/gc/#webidl-integration
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by irq-1 10y ago
Reminds me of Superbook kickstarter project to attach your phone to a laptop-shell, and use your phone like a desktop. The future looks more and more like Bring Your Own Device. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andr
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by irq-1 10y ago
This is clearly discrimination: they literally excluded people based on ethnicity. It'll be interesting to see if Facebook is financially liable for discrimination in ads. Unlike the NYT, Facebook built the tools to discriminate. Filte
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by irq-1 10y ago
Here's an idea I'm not sure would work, but I want to put it out there. Browsing history and/or time spent has to be tracked so the money can be distributed to the right sites. To protect the browsing history: 1) (on the clie
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by irq-1 10y ago
Nice project. I'd suggest adding a like/ignore option to anonymous users. Also, don't miss this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12804222
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by irq-1 10y ago
Shouldn't this be a white-list? If we restrict the features allowed we won't run into all the same security and performance issues we have with the web. (also, we could call it HTML Light, or htmll)
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by irq-1 10y ago
> You get the users you tolerate. So why did they tolerate the accounts? I don't think it was Free speech so much as a business demand: the number of active accounts needs to stay on the hockey stick curve. Reddit favored quantity o
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by irq-1 10y ago
50 MW seems really small? I don't think nuclear is the way to go, but the scale seems to make this type of plant irrelevant. from: http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=104&t=3 > As of December 1, 2
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by irq-1 10y ago
What about updates? Are manufactures obligated to provide: security patches? mainline updates? feature additions? source and build ability for self/after-market changes? Warranties on physical goods have a long history (in the US) of b
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by irq-1 10y ago
Apple wants (or wanted?) control for themselves. DRM everything; control the products after sale; wall the garden. They became the thing they hated back in 1984. After Snowden made Apples collaboration with the government economically unten
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by irq-1 10y ago
The link above is the content blocked by uBlock Origin. And the comment is correct that the post doesn't really contain anything other than the image.
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by irq-1 10y ago
Cool! Have you considered embedding a Raspberry Pi Zero so the Superbook can get on the web when there's not a phone attached? I know that's like reinventing the Chromebook, but the CPU and memory are so cheap...
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by irq-1 10y ago
TSCP is interesting. Document management through federated identity, that's being used by NATO and the DOD. https://www.tscp.org/about-tscp/
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by irq-1 10y ago
A system that is transparent (for collections, not payments) is ideal. It makes cheating harder, even if it doesn't solve all ways of cheating. Untaxable money would make cheating easier for lack of accounting. An " exit for the
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by irq-1 10y ago
You should look at CloudFlare. It would be transparent to the users, free, and would provide (some) security without you having to do anything. https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/
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by irq-1 10y ago
Two of the big advantages of a modern joint-stock company are: limited financial liability and professional management. Management limits the need for input and activity of the investor. (You don't even need to vote your shares.) Do th
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by irq-1 10y ago
You can turn it off in the options. From https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm Opt out of CDM playback, uninstall CDMs and stop all CDM downloads You have the choice to globally opt out of HTML5 DRM play
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by irq-1 11y ago
It wasn't so many years ago that the solution would have been a proprietary patent with FRAND (Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory) licensing and payment. Free and Open Source made the payment impossible, so companies had to chang
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by irq-1 11y ago
> It's not immoral or anything, just sort of crass. And odd, that they don't care that their readers now know, too. Newspapers and journalists love to talk about a free and fair press being essential to democracy. If you accept
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by irq-1 11y ago
> only available only certain days of the week. WTF? Hilarious. Conways law in action. "organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organization
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by irq-1 11y ago
Gopher + text based advertisements? Maybe the answer to ad-blocking is a system with restricted display options.
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by irq-1 11y ago
For the curious: > In order to use Popcorn Time on your browser. > You need to install the Torrents Time browser plugin
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by irq-1 11y ago
The publishers can't give up control of pricing. If a third-party gatekeeper gains enough traction they'll control pricing, by making the market, and be able to sway the consumers choices. (Think iTunes with music or Amazon with b
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by irq-1 11y ago
The market isn't losing valuable insights from people who are investing in index funds. Even if they were confident enough in an individual stock to buy shares, that doesn't mean they have any real insight about the company. For e
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by irq-1 11y ago
Watson is benevolent and will make everything better. No need to fear the computers taking our jobs. People are even voting in favor of computers running things! No Fear! It's just a positive platform, that doesn't address divisiv
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by irq-1 11y ago
This is great work. https://frinkiac.com/?p=meme&q=drinky&e=S04E21&t=769718&m=+A...
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by irq-1 11y ago
> It really feels like a landgrab and not anything anyone has been asking for. Benevolent DRM. Mozilla wants to control the software, even though users want to be in control. Plugins are the reason people always give for using Firefo
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by irq-1 11y ago
Here are two of Stallmans' writings addressing "Free" and "Cloud". > Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software > When we call software “free,” we mean that it respects the users' essential freedom
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by irq-1 11y ago
Rust 1.5 src has 2121 instances of "unsafe {". Didn't expect it to be so high.
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by irq-1 11y ago
> The insurance companies will never insure at an acceptable cost point a car that cannot yield control to its passenger that is the designated driver. We insure medical devices, satellites, soldiers lives and many other more complicated

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