la_barba

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by la_barba 7y ago
Those are some nice ideas. Another one I thought of was to be a host in a student exchange program.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Most people have two weeks of vacation a year. What other practical ways do you propose then?
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by la_barba 7y ago
I've wondered a bit about that when Google blocks companies from emailing their customers for free because its "spam", but readily accepts money to show them ads.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Well, okay you don't like their politics, but I was talking about money. It doesn't seem like Google is passing up any opportunities for making money. People might be tempted to think that they could be much more evil, sure, any c
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by la_barba 7y ago
Its also nice to not be forced to pay the Apple tax to repair your device. Apple is trying their darnedest to prevent independent repair shops from extending the life of Apple products, while Apple tosses boards out, and generates more e-wa
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by la_barba 7y ago
Well, then why complain about anything companies do? Its all buried in some Terms of Service document that people agreed to anyway.
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by la_barba 7y ago
>It is pure luck that Rupert Murdoch or Larry Ellison etc didn't end up owning search. Why would that be any different?
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by la_barba 7y ago
The other thing is, programmers love re-inventing things. Its the standard programmer mindset of wanting to work on problems that are one or two levels of difficulty over their currently capability. And so, they fuck shit up, because only s
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by la_barba 7y ago
That's a bit like asking, how do you know we won't have another world war? If there was a way to know the future, we'd all be doing ___.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Then you would have excess money supply, and if demand for the currency stays the same, it will devalue the currency, which causes inflation. That might be OK, as long as its below your economic growth rate. With the US, the treasury uses t
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by la_barba 7y ago
Hmm, don't you need SeDebugPrivilege to access the process space of another process launched by the same user account?
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by la_barba 7y ago
I think we all realize that you don't need admin privileges to do harm. Simply having any kind of access is sufficient. But if you want to install a system wide keylogger to get access to bank/finance logins, for e.g.. admin privs
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by la_barba 7y ago
No one is forced to do anything, its not a public utility. The company is free to implement their service in whatever way they want, and you as the consumer or user can ignore it and move on to something else. If you feel strongly about it,
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by la_barba 7y ago
That is just a simplistic caricature of what actually happens. Any company has to first accept the tax breaks and business incentives (land resources, loans, no red-tape, easier access to market etc) that the Chinese government employs to a
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by la_barba 7y ago
>When an entity does not honour their commitments, the money starts going to another entity that appears more trustworthy. Sure, but when in crises, people heavily favor the short term gains of reneging or violating an agreement over the
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by la_barba 7y ago
> The argument is that making it difficult for users not to use your mobile app is hostile. It isn't hostile - because as I stated, websites are often janky when used in a mobile browser, especially interactive websites, in which ca
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by la_barba 7y ago
Its hard to say what makes nations great. The sovereign will always honor their commitments, until they don't :) Because how far back are we willing to go? Most states/kingdoms in Europe have always been at war and there is a long
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by la_barba 7y ago
First and foremost, every country looks out for themselves, and who can fault one for doing that? All this shows is that the US isn't the only country that has asymmetric foreign policies and treaties. The "me no like China"
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by la_barba 7y ago
I simply don't agree with your opinion. Hopefully thats still allowed here, and we can shake hands on that. Have a nice day..
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by la_barba 7y ago
Well, as long as you're dealing with accusations and alleged behavior, why stop there? You need to inflate that list, yo! (Devils advocate and all that jazz.. ;) )
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by la_barba 7y ago
Sure, and different people make different trade-offs. I don't like using mobile websites, because to me, the interactivity when it comes to touch/swipe/zoom interactions, or edge-swipes etc is always a little janky compared t
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by la_barba 7y ago
I guess it depends on your POV. I haven't found a mobile website that I liked using. The touch/swipe/double-tap experience is always janky, sometimes you want to zoom in on a map, but it zooms the entire page, etc, etc. Maybe
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by la_barba 7y ago
I suppose if the app provided a better experience, then it wouldn't be user-hostile.
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by la_barba 7y ago
> No RAII, so you have to explicitly handle cleanup at every point you may have to early-return an error (goto fail etc...). I think RAII can be useful, but I've never found any use for it in systems level code that I write. Most
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by la_barba 7y ago
Also motive isn't a global immutable state. One person saying something one time, doesn't make everything that person does in every situation fall into the same context. Maybe its because I hang out in programming nerd circles, bu
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by la_barba 7y ago
Agreed, Any telemetry that touches personal documents or data should be an opt-in.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Okay, you got me. Farming and agriculture is not my wheelhouse, so I can't really discuss it with a high level of confidence or familiarity. But AFAIK the gates foundation doesn't make anyone buy anything, they issue grants. They
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by la_barba 7y ago
I have no love for Google (nor should anyone.. :) ), but I agree with the parent that it was a bit misleading because the implication from that statement is that google just turns on the mic and records everything.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Yeah, that is a bit of a stretch, but still, there are a number of problems here. Google trumpets its artificial "intelligence" capabilities as they always do, and it eventually comes out that that its not "just a harmless co
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by la_barba 7y ago
Can you provide some more information instead of just muddying the waters? What are these "lot of bad calls". What are you referring to exactly? >I don’t know why there’s an attitude of “Its philanthropic! It’s good!” Some of i

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