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by johnday 7y ago
The implication that everyone is forced to do something, forever, in order to not have their privacy violated, is a little silly. Explicit opt-ins should be the only legal method.
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by johnday 7y ago
IKEA is heavily advertised in Europe, and I suspect it has better name recognition here than in the USA.
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by johnday 7y ago
Those are solutions for the shell, not for the package manager.
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by johnday 7y ago
Yeah, that's what I would expect - global automated testing, and specific manual testing. Although it's very possible that the thing you mentioned is a fluke and somebody decided to ask the question "We should probably keep a
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by johnday 7y ago
I expect that they do so for the high profile apps, since the negative press from a compromised Facebook/Snapchat download would probably kill the site outright.
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by johnday 7y ago
Poor. I know for a fact why I'm not doing more. I know why I haven't jet-setted off to Silicon Valley and started a dozen start-ups. And it's not because I'm scared. It's because I'm contented. Sure, my current
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by johnday 7y ago
This seems very ambitious. I hope they succeed, because the amount of content which will be wiped off the face of the internet will be astronommical. (It'll be astronomical regardless, but still)
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by johnday 7y ago
$0 doesn't imply a problem with the market, it implies an issue of oversupply. If the "problem" ends up being that coal/oil plants only run during the winter months, that seems like a net win for the world.
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by johnday 7y ago
> I don't think there is a well-tested reliable way to harness energy from falling objects and convert it into some useful form. We do it with water. I'm not sure why the GP leapt to "crane" rather than "pump&quo
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by johnday 7y ago
Currently the process is that tickets are sold in tiers - the closer to sold out, the closer to maximum price. The only control over maximum price is whether it's peak or off peak hours. So there are actually two confounding factors
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by johnday 7y ago
"Other people were also bad back then" does not negate "we were bad back then". White colonists have had the upper hand for a few centuries now. It's undeniable that some indigenous groups are still actively sufferi
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by johnday 7y ago
The West Coast Main Line is easily at capacity. There are upper limits (as dictated by the government) on maximum fares, but we can still expect fares to decrease at peak times if there is open space on trains. Likewise with off-peak; empty
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by johnday 7y ago
Disney springs to mind immediately. I suppose General Electric counts too?
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by johnday 7y ago
It seems like the simplest approach for Twitter to make would be to remove specific posts, rather than accounts, for tweets made over a year ago (say). It's not fair to hold someone to account for the actions of a very different person
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by johnday 7y ago
> Anyone can read a number? Hardly. A huge number of people would have trouble getting all the digits, precisely and in order without mistakes. You only need 3 decimal places for ~100m accuracy. So really you're talking a 5 digit nu
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by johnday 7y ago
If you're in the UK, moving the area by hundreds of miles would be obviously detectable. If you said to the operator "I don't know where I am, somewhere in the New Forest" and then you gave them a long/lat in Newcas
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by johnday 7y ago
Just because the BBC didn't know it was an advertisement doesn't mean it isn't an advertisement. I have sent an email to their news team encouraging them to re-read the article and letting them know that they may be accid
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by johnday 7y ago
This reads exactly like a press release from W3W, the private entity. I'm not clear on why the BBC thought it would be within their rights to publicise it in this way, other than they didn't know they were basically advertising a
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by johnday 7y ago
It's a valid thing to complain about - same as we complain about the world's great polluters despite being way up there ourselves. The means and opportunity to say "hey, this isn't fair" is something not everyone ha
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by johnday 7y ago
Client-side encryption is security theatre. If clients encrypt the password, then an attacker can send a log-scraped hash just as easily as a plaintext one. If anything, the faults (like the one above) would still exist and just become hard
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by johnday 7y ago
Just did, and I do. But I'm not going to start doing it until someone forces me to, because I'm fallible. Edit: but for what it's worth, I do spend all my free money on trying to create wealth and jobs for people who don&#x27
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by johnday 7y ago
The thing is, those jobs do not provide serious long term benefits for humanity. Large infrastructure projects, like the ones that major governments can green light (for example, space travel, quality parks services, education etc) do. It a
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by johnday 7y ago
I mean... It sounds like he was right, in the sense that sending passwords verbatim over HTTPS is completely normal and fine. Obviously (not) logging cleartext passwords is the kind of thing you learn in Security 101.
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by johnday 7y ago
I think they're saying don't write it because you want money, rather than don't write it in exchange for money.
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by johnday 7y ago
I would contest the other commenters and say that vscode + haskero (intero integration) is the simplest and most robust method of Haskell programming at the moment. Add in ghcid for continuous builds and it's almost ideal.
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by johnday 7y ago
This is very good style.
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by johnday 7y ago
Two actually seems like a lot here. Why would you angle for two and not one? It seems like the latter two (unsafe implementation language and high privilege) are both within the purview of developers. Is it just a case of resource managemen
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by johnday 7y ago
I hate to point this out on HN but it does seem relevant. If you dislike Google's use of ads, why not block them? I think you've acknowledged that Google and Amazon provide the best services of their respective classes. Can we fi
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by johnday 7y ago
We have seen what happens when someone who should receive Government protection is able to get by without them; those protections are removed. See the hospitality industry for an example. They have tips, so they don't get minimum wage.
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by johnday 7y ago
> It’s simply what the law is, and some laws can’t be understood by us on Earth. That may be the interpretation under Judaism, but outside of Judaism I think people can take a decent stab at understanding.

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