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by kobalsky 6y ago
> We also have SLAs so they can't just cut off our account. hold my datacenter Do they have to honor the SLA if you are doing stuff against their ToS or if you were hosting illegal content? I'm pretty sure they can and will s
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by kobalsky 6y ago
> but how do I know bitcoin governance is better? if you live in an affected country you may ponder about this while you see your money evaporate in front of your eyes. or you can buy BTC to get your money in an exchange and distribute i
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by kobalsky 6y ago
> there are a dozen people or so that could destroy the whole system if they so chose to there's powerful people that can destroy industries and countries, so that point is moot. there's no much point in debating wether there&#
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by kobalsky 6y ago
That's a one dimensional way to think. You may not be able to trust facebook with your privacy, but you can trust them not to install a malware that swipes your bitcoins. That being said, I despise the current state of affairs with cel
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by kobalsky 6y ago
Do you really want to do anything that looks like abuse with your Google account though? When people don't know why Google banned their 15 year accounts I wonder if it's not from innocent stuff like this.
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by kobalsky 6y ago
Feels clickbaity. I was interested because this implied they somehow broke outside both Android's sandbox and the emulator's hypervisor but nope, it was way more mundane (but not less severe of course). The magic is in not knowing
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by kobalsky 6y ago
Nice. Sadly, audio is clipping a lot on Linux, both on Firefox and Chrome.
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by kobalsky 6y ago
Does anyone here really entertain the idea that Facebook could be removed from the app store? The stronghold it has over world politics has more power than an atomic arsenal.
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by kobalsky 6y ago
> Chrome has features to dissuade users from installing extensions from outside the Chrome Web Store. If you load an unpacked extension, Chrome will issue an ominous warning (something like “this extension is untrusted, click here to uni
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by kobalsky 6y ago
We could distribute pirated movies with pi. Just publish the digit offset from where to start and how many digits to calculate. The offset would probably be an infintely huge number, but I wonder if they could technically DMCA you for hosti
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by kobalsky 6y ago
is child labor legal in south korea now?
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by kobalsky 6y ago
>> but the overtime is paid having employees that are available for overtime provide burstable capacity at a cost that scales linearly. in comparison, adding extra employees due to a temporary requirement is a worst case scenario. hir
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by kobalsky 6y ago
Google can now cross reference your historic heart rate against your ad exposure. I'm pretty sure they will responsibly use that info to tune them out for your enjoyment. They also know what you searched, watched or visited before and
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by kobalsky 6y ago
>>> I definitely think that not participating in "non-mandatory" stuff in my company makes me no favour. At equal aptitude, employees with a higher engagement with the company are more valuable. They have finite resources
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by kobalsky 6y ago
There's a southpark episode about this specific scenario. The USA does a ton of awful shit, but as long as there is an outraged group, it's fine in the eyes of the world. They keep doing it though.
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by kobalsky 6y ago
Well, bad news, you are a minority. Phones have changed (destroyed) the landscape. Did you know that King with their Candy Crush and other saga games almost double the operating income of Blizzard with all their legendary lineup? [1]. 1. h
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by kobalsky 6y ago
it already happens, try to create your own search engine an index Amazon. captchas everywhere, their robots.txt is just for show.
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by kobalsky 6y ago
both google and amazon are insane with their observability services. we ran away screaming from stackdriver when we saw how costs started piling up. thank god for prometheus and grafana.
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by kobalsky 6y ago
If I'm interpreting your comment right, you are saying that the US had the capability to crack this message easily, but for some reason the FBI just didn't bother? or they did it, but they didn't want everyone to know they co
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by kobalsky 6y ago
the simple reality is that the real uses for gigabit, beyond speeding up downloads or servicing many tenants, won't be seen until there's higher adoption. youtube couldn't have existed in a pre-broadband era, even if a few we
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by kobalsky 6y ago
> which is on the low end for obese people do obese people burn more calories just by being fat or are you assuming that they are still getting fatter?
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by kobalsky 6y ago
and the music is so good. imuse was a marvel. the music transitioned between areas in a way that hasn't been matched.
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by kobalsky 6y ago
that's one hell of a gamble to shave off a few minutes per year
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by kobalsky 6y ago
I'm betting on this being pure greed.
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by kobalsky 6y ago
someone who buys millions in crypto in a private auction at a fraction of its price knows what they are getting
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by kobalsky 6y ago
Try to crawl amazon.
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by kobalsky 6y ago
> Do take the letters seriously... determine whether there are valid legal claims presented. But if there are not, it is a scare tactic, so don't stress over it. Is the validity of the legal claim that relevant? If deep pockets co.
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by kobalsky 6y ago
I'm pretty sure this is already happening to Amazon and eBay sellers and gig economy workers that depend on Uber, Postmates, etc for their livelihood. Sure, they may not be technically hired, but it comes with the same life devastating
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by kobalsky 6y ago
I don't know if mypy allows you to mock the API but at least flow does for javascript. If a library is untyped you get a file with all the exported functions and you can quickly set the types for the functions that you interface with.
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by kobalsky 6y ago
Audio messages have their place but sometimes it's one of the worst ways to communicate. The only way I would even consider working with someone sending audio files over email would be if it at least included an automated transcription

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