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by leppr 7y ago
Their point still stands by your analogy. There is no plot of land over which a chain has been put by Steam, users can still acquire videogames outside of proprietary platforms as easily on desktop PCs as they could before Steam was created
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by leppr 7y ago
Popups got destroyed by better clients, so can ads in general if clients are able to be modified by their users. The convention of using proprietary apps on mobile phones and TVs prevents that, but desktops where "all" content is
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by leppr 7y ago
> I guess, if they are democratic countries we have no choice but to hope that their citizens can prevent it from getting used; There exist no country in the world where citizens have any say on nuclear weapon use. "Pseudo democra
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by leppr 7y ago
The site's GDPR pop-up doesn't allow opt-out of tracking. What a great example to set for the web.
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by leppr 7y ago
"It's not racist and sexist, it's race and gender responsive."
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by leppr 7y ago
There are simple mechanisms to prevent "penis flood" without censorship: categorization (18+/SFW categories), and sybil attack prevention/popularity ratings (just because 1 guy wants to upload his penis 1000 times, doesn
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by leppr 7y ago
Points number 7, 8, and 9 in Vitalik's article are about your 1, if you cared to read it. The rest of your points are as you say "currency" and usability problems, problems that a layer above will decide to solve or not. Ther
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by leppr 7y ago
If the telemetry information is only internal to the application (generic UI interactions, no specific IDs or tags), I don't see how combining sources could de-anonymize it.
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by leppr 7y ago
It's hard to imagine how a government set to police the minutiae of everyday life of pretty much a whole continent's worth of humans, can not be antagonistic with the majority of it. Even in such a uniform cultural environment as
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by leppr 7y ago
What would be sad is if he was unable to take the financial risk of leaving Apple. The whole point of capitalism is encouraging experimentation with limited liability companies, that falls apart if you try to experiment inside another compa
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by leppr 7y ago
It depends if the goal is mostly to inform or entertain me. For some investigative-type articles about a foreign culture/environment, it can be enjoyable. For news reporting, it's a nuisance.
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by leppr 7y ago
I don't see any commercial offering here, seems to be based entirely on donations.
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by leppr 7y ago
xrandr --output HDMI-1 --scale 0.75x0.75 --mode 4096x2160 Play with the scale numbers and the resolution until you get the desired effect. Can't give a full tutorial here but "xrandr hdpi" should yield helpful searc
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by leppr 7y ago
I would be okay with it if it was properly anonymized. I'm talking for instance some peer-to-peer mixing scheme, not just a privacy clause by which they swear they won't use the data to identify the particular users. There are tec
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by leppr 7y ago
Not sure if this is in relation to the previous ban on Limor's account, but that highlights an important mitigation strategy in today's world of centralized cloud providers: create separate accounts for each independant service yo
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by leppr 7y ago
Is there any material you would recommend to learn about it ? The article was light in details but the story is damn interesting.
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by leppr 7y ago
For the average teenager downloading Windows warez, totally.
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by leppr 7y ago
Apart from "No eternal leaders", I don't think these are specifically attributable to representative democracy.
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by leppr 7y ago
Are you positive western democratic republics don't murder and/or start wars for profit ? Last I heard the USA's army and secret services were pretty active. What's different about their armies and ours ? I mean when was
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by leppr 7y ago
In practical sense, voting in a democratic republic is simply choosing, very infrequently, between a set of pre-defined parties. Only the natural supporters of the most popular party are given real agency. Any other viewpoint is discarded b
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by leppr 7y ago
Think about how many differences between those two abstract interpretations of citizenship manifest in real life.
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by leppr 7y ago
The supply of Bitcoin is by design not "never ending" [1]. The future inflation rate is known and trending towards 0, eventually turning BTC deflationary. [1] https://medium.com/@k_schellinger/understanding-bi
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by leppr 7y ago
DeFi loans are typically very over-collaterized. Due to this, they represent way less of a risk to the economy than traditional credit.
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by leppr 7y ago
There aren't many alternatives. Unless a cataclysm makes the whole world return to the pre-internet ages, or the whole world turns into some crime-less surveillance utopia, there will always be a use for decentralized cryptocurrencies.
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by leppr 7y ago
There is the "Save-Data" HTTP header[0] that your browser can send[1], but the AirPods page doesn't support it (not many websites do actually). [0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/
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by leppr 7y ago
As per the article text, the event in the clickbait title was in fact an isolated incident. So in reality there's not much to write about, except that a pizzeria staffed by disabled workers doesn't immediately become profitable. I
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by leppr 7y ago
The election system itself ensures that voters' opinions on most specific governance issues are entirely ignored. Since citizens vote for only one out of a very restricted pool of candidates, every five years, the rational decision is
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by leppr 7y ago
New normal compared to when? Since when have republics tolerated competition?
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by leppr 7y ago
Don't worry it sucks as a user as well. Curiosity pushed me to use Google SSO to circumvent their crap one time, and they allowed themselves to subsequently spam my inbox with a flurry of emails. I proceeded to click the "unsubscr
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by leppr 7y ago
Surprising right? Considering Microsoft themselves understood development tools should be cross platform.

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