kingofhdds

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by kingofhdds 9y ago
GDPR is troublesome not for requiring something particular which is hard to implement, but because it requires to do something poorly defined, and promising heavy fines for not following the path one can't clearly see. This minefield s
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by kingofhdds 9y ago
Vulnerabilities are everywhere, let's not be mistaken here. Closed source is full of them too, you just don't have a chance to know it in most cases. The fact that bugs are found, and publicly announced does, in fact, prove that t
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by kingofhdds 9y ago
Quite a lot of people do look into sources, actually. Quality of those checks, and how much do they cover in the end - that is the question. But it is better than nothing, and absolute majority of closed source apps offers you exactly nothi
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by kingofhdds 9y ago
In my Soviet childhood it was quite permanent, actually. So permanent as a child I would be surprised to hear it's a trouble :-) We used newspapers cut into rectangular pieces, and it was such a usual thing that cultural norms already
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Well, after I stayed in a typical British house for some time, with its coldness even in a relatively warm weather, and two separate taps system in bathroom, I started to believe that impractical designs in building could be an inseparable
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by kingofhdds 9y ago
Worth mentioning these pretty renovations happened well after the system which brought them stopped its existence.
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The starting comment in the thread explicitly mentions "Soviet". I cannot say much about GDR, but as for USSR, Mantas is right. Soviets controlled 100% of employment options, and restricted movements of citizens - and that was the
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by kingofhdds 9y ago
This => "But at that point you're basically writing your own stuff, just using a framework." is what makes Emacs so comfortable for me. In fact, that was a moment of revelation when I found that Emacs is not an editor as t
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by kingofhdds 9y ago
Well, with your formula you have just described work of media since invention of printing press. However, it doesn't work as easy as you described. Almost every political campaign tries to utilize this playbook, and absolute majority o
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by kingofhdds 9y ago
Don't you think that this "organize and manipulate hundreds of millions of people globally" thing is a very blurry fear-laden sensationalist wording, which practically implies that social platforms possess some kind of hypnot
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by kingofhdds 9y ago
No, in fact, airlines have regulations, because big flying objects loaded with fuel are kinda seriously dangerous, and can kill (not in un*x console meaning of the word) lots of people at once. Very unlike social platforms, to be fair. If r
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by kingofhdds 9y ago
From what I've read, it doesn't look like he was "touched" because he covered the event, but because he, practically, participated in it. I can imagine a situation when someone can do it with the sole intention to provid
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by kingofhdds 9y ago
The same logic (if applied consistently) would make judges give longer prison sentences to younger, healthier individuals.
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by kingofhdds 9y ago
When you say "if corporations were people they would be subject to [things physical persons subject to in the US]", you insist that if A is legally equivalent to B in context C(0), it must be equivalent also in any context C(n), b
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by kingofhdds 9y ago
Sorry, but you essentially say "it must be different because it's regulated by different legal norms", and it is a nice example of logical fallacy. I'm, by the way, don't have any stakes in this debate (I'm not
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by kingofhdds 9y ago
To the best of my knowledge, coal consumption reduced eventually, and exactly technology apparently did play some role.
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by kingofhdds 9y ago
Hm, where exactly? "Outside US" is a lot of space. I saw electric bicycles, and electric scooters in some European countries, but they are still far from being called common. And so far I never saw anything looking like a real mot
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by kingofhdds 9y ago
You contradict yourself, I believe. Rider vs pedestrian can cause fatal injuries to both actually. Most likely to a pedestrian, of course, but it's still a human life, isn't it?
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by kingofhdds 9y ago
As we all know correlation-causation link us not that easy. In 80s programming was a very much different thing - I know it, because both of my parents were programmers (though not in US), and also it was a very small pool at that time, so d
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by kingofhdds 9y ago
I'm not sure it's supported by a really wide research. Scandinavian countries boast high equality ratings, and feminism being a part of political mainstream, AND social/tax system, which significantly reduces gap between high
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by kingofhdds 9y ago
I seriously don't understand why you are using such a fear-laden apocalyptic language to describe minor technical issues. Email really works for me pretty fine. And internet too, btw.
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I was born in USSR, and lived in it enough to be able to reassure you it was not possible to publish a book there in 1974 just because you decided it for yourself. Even authors of fairytales were forced to make ideological "corrections
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by kingofhdds 9y ago
Sorry, but it has everything to do with herbs. As well as Belarusian harbata, and Polish herbata it comes from "herba thea" as mziel wrote.
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by kingofhdds 9y ago
Not exactly. According to Bruckner, it comes from simplification of herba thea, which means "plant of tea", not "herbal tea". Then the cluster of Polish herbata, Belarusian harbata, and Lithuanian arbata grows from the s
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by kingofhdds 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16012670
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To tilt defaults to a safer side is usually (though, not always) good, if it's meant to be out-of-the-box system. Definitely, not the case here as bare-bones FreeBSD is essentially a platform for building a user's own solution for
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by kingofhdds 9y ago
FreeBSD is a tune-it-yourself OS. You think your swap should be encrypted? Fine, append ".eli" to the name of your swap GEOM (partition, slice, whatever) in fstab, and you're done. Some may not require this at all, because Fr
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Like it means something, there was just one controlling counting of votes. Sorry, even his fans here in Belarus don't take 'elections' seriously.
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<<ust FYI, Belarusians often refer to Donald Trump as the american Lukashenka.>> Not true. I'm Belarusian, and it's the first time I'm seeing this. I cannot say for every compatriot, of course, but "Belarusia