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by jsnell 2y ago
This was a very confusing article to read the comments to first, because people seem to be so passionate about something that I couldn't even visualize. The disconnect is that my (continental European) experience is that any modern loc
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by jsnell 2y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41955307
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Switzerland doesn't have capital gains tax, except for real estate.
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There has not been a change, it's always worked like this. ICANN only reserved *.internal for use in internal networks a few months ago.
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The constraints are going to be static and independent of the puzzle. So I expect they're encoded in the package dependencies. So for example version 1 of the package sudoku_0_0 will conflict with all of: version 1 of sudoku_[0-8]_0; v
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by jsnell 2y ago
Does anyone follow gravel racing? If I wanted to watch a couple of past races (ideally on YouTube) to see if it's for me, is there anything you'd recommend? For context, I'd thought I wouldn't like pro cycling as a spect
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by jsnell 2y ago
In Europe, the 2024/2025 vaccine composition guidance[0] recommends excluding B/Yamagata, because it hasn't been detected since 2020 and "no longer seems to pose a threat to public health". That doesn't look li
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by jsnell 2y ago
He has a long track record of making concrete and timed predictions. So you can look at the predictions Kurtzweil made 25 years ago in _The Age of Spirtual Machines_ and 20 years ago in _The Singularity is Near_, and use the hit rate of th
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by jsnell 2y ago
"We" started from you making outlandish claims about HTTP/2 and immediately pivoting to a new complaint when rebutted rather than admit you were wrong. Yes, HTTP/2 is not really complex as far as these things go. You jus
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by jsnell 2y ago
I mean, the reason I was discussing those specific aspects is that you're the one brought them up. You made the claim about how HTTP/2 was a "big bang" change. You're the one who made the claim that HTTP/2 was
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by jsnell 2y ago
Except that HTTP/1.1 to HTTP/2 was not a big bang change on the ecosystem level. No server or browser was forced to implement HTTP/2 to remain interoperable[0]. I bet you can't point any of this "enforcement" y
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by jsnell 2y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41880649 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41884740 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41878506
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by jsnell 2y ago
I think you meant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39987466
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I'm pretty sure it's not being used as a success metric there, but as a contribution metric.
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You understand that this isn't a browser feature, right? Chrome isn't creating the login prompts and doesn't have any kind of special support for them. It's just rendering the HTML / running the JavaScript on the pa
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by jsnell 2y ago
The announcement is totally explicit that data will not be retained. That sentence is obviously explaining what happens if you try to query outside the retention window: no data will be returned for data before the retention window. That ne
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by jsnell 2y ago
That's personalized search results for you :) That lake would not be ranking high for anyone except the people in the vicinity.
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by jsnell 2y ago
Right, thanks for the demonstration about people on HN blaming the API rather than the user or the abuser too. Do you now see why the only realistic option is for platforms to not provide such dangerous unscoped APIs, or in cases where they
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by jsnell 2y ago
There's been a lot of reporting on Harris having a much closer and positive relationship with Silicon Valley than Biden, pretty much from the point where Biden withdrawing became a possiblity. Here's an example, but you could find
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Because the people writing the game did not have infinite time and budget, and spent their resources on making the game rather than the engine. That allowed them to a) finish the game at all, b) make a game of bigger scope and higher qualit
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by jsnell 2y ago
By the site guidelines, a small number of duplicate submissions are fine if the initial post didn't get any significant attention. That's clearly the case here.
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by jsnell 2y ago
The Nobel prize's prestige comes from its history, not from the size of the monetary award. For an example, the Millennium Technology Prize is awarded every two years and the prize money is slightly higher than the Nobel prize (1M EUR
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by jsnell 2y ago
Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41786101
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A lot of people will have substantially more sensitive data in their chosen cloud storage system (whether Drive, DropBox, OneDrive, iCloud) than on Facebook or any other social network. For example documents like ID scans, financial records
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Not as far as I know. Facebook provided a general API for apps, not some kind of data feed. The API required user consent from the app user, though almost certainly not informed consent. The API also provided too much data, in particular on
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by jsnell 2y ago
They're the ones who will take the blame when a third-party app gets compromised and is used to siphon off people's data. This isn't a theoretical concern. It's pretty much exactly what happened with Cambridge Analytica.
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Who died and left the US $7B?(sherwood.news)
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Broken link.
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Ok, so let's say I was there first. But now you're offering a product that's (by definition) just as good for a lower price. Why will the users stick to my product rather than paying your cheaper prices? As for your second po
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by jsnell 2y ago
Why would being the first at the (horizontal) asymptote mean owning a profitable market? In six months, somebody else is at the asymptote as well. If different models are mostly interchangable quality-wise, then the decision will mostly be

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