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by leppr 7y ago
So instead of a 5ms flash, you have to take 0.5s turn the device around? And have one more sensitive surface to care about? Personally I used to find the flash bothering at first, but now I actually set mine to full-refresh on every page ch
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by leppr 7y ago
If it's always there, why not just shorten the touchbar slightly and put a physical key instead to get that sweet haptic feedback?
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by leppr 7y ago
Your point isn't verified because it can be explained by other reasons (curiosity about its effectiveness seems likely, especially given the nature of this community). The effect you describe is certainly real, but you only have to loo
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by leppr 7y ago
Usually the date and name of the exchange, to comply with "Know Your Customer" regulations and fight duplicate accounts.
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by leppr 7y ago
There's nothing fundamental about this state of affairs. We're simply early in the adoption curve: the network of services around fiat is larger than the one around cryptocurrency, so to use cryptocurrency effectively you have to
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by leppr 7y ago
It's not just the banking industry that trustless cryptocurrencies can do without, but also the whole infrastructure necessary to maintain the value and trust in fiat money. This encompasses a very large part of the responsibilities of
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by leppr 7y ago
The one thing YouTube has for it (maybe not for long) against these platforms is that all content being free from paywalls encourages user exploration (search or clicking on random thumbnails) and thus easier discovery of your videos.
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by leppr 7y ago
Despite the downvotes this is getting because of the "fascist state" hyperbole, this is a totally valid remark if the goal is to actually answer the parent's question. Most country-scale decisions in the US and other similar
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by leppr 7y ago
Privacy and freedom don't necessarily intersect. You could have a lot of privacy but no freedom in a windowless prison cell, or a lot of freedom but no privacy being homeless in the street. (not that Apple's privacy spiel ever rea
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by leppr 7y ago
There's that and then there's being minimally consistent in one's efforts. Kind of like someone who would make a fuss about not using plastic straws but systematically takes their car for <500 meters trips and washes their
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by leppr 7y ago
Could you give an example of when the distinction matters?
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by leppr 7y ago
This kind of reasoning is applied everywhere, all the time. It seems the majority opinion is that the " bannable " property of a tool depends on the ratio of good vs. evil usage of the tool, with time weakening the effect of
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by leppr 7y ago
Okay that's embarrassing thanks. Hard to believe it took so long before being the left-pad debacle happened.
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by leppr 7y ago
Allow me to indulge in the slightly spammy repost of relevant comments I made yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21180623 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21180714 It's important that
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by leppr 7y ago
It was never possible without "admin" intervention. That whole inccident was NPM's sole responsibility.
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by leppr 7y ago
Was speaking about this issue specifically, but I'd be interested in hearing your arguments for the opposite side. From Apple's historically more oppressive stance against freedom of expression in their own wallet garden, and the
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by leppr 7y ago
The present piece of news goes against that argument though, as Apple devices are simultaneously the more expensive and less ethical option. These aspects don't seem correlated.
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by leppr 7y ago
Voters don't vote on particular decisions, or even on decision makers for particular issues, they vote on one decision maker for all issues. How likely is it that an anti-surveillance candidate also happens to satisfy more than 50% o
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by leppr 7y ago
In the real-world countries often referred to as "democracies", most meaningful choices involving voting are on too large a scale (country-wide, and decade-long time horizon) , and rigid (binary choice, irreversible) , for voter
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by leppr 7y ago
That's an amusing comparison, but I would compare it more to job or house rental listing sites. Of course the "item" you end up settling on is always going to be an intimately personal decision, but the benchmark would be the
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by leppr 7y ago
I think we can agree that this site's existence is overall a good thing for privacy and security awareness. More people will look into how targeted advertising on the web works. It's very creepy but relatively harmless. It'
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by leppr 7y ago
That's one dynamic. But there's also the opposite incentive of word of mouth from positive experiences. When I hear of real people paying money on a dating site and finding what they want, that's a powerful motivator. So we c
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by leppr 7y ago
Thinner doesn't necessarily mean much lighter though. If weight is an issue then swapping aluminium for plastic would be more effective. But then it would be function over form.
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by leppr 7y ago
Because the Apple Watch is made by Apple, the company that has taken pride in incompatibility as a defining feature since its first mainstream products.
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by leppr 7y ago
Or simply encrypt everything before it leaves the watch and decrypt client-side ala ProtonMail. I believe most people, if given a discrete choice, would sacrifice 2% of battery life and "forgot your password?" features for the pri
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by leppr 7y ago
I use this for reading and annotating papers. It's great for that use case thanks to the large screen and auto-crop feature of the PDF reader, but the writing experience, while very good, isn't good enough to replace a real notebo
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by leppr 7y ago
The best quality of life upgrade you can make is eat less starch and enjoy non-sticky poop, fixing the root cause of the problem instead of its symptoms.
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by leppr 7y ago
We need the Unix philosophy in the physical world. Our multitude of small devices themselves can stay "dumb", but it'd be a huge missed opportunity to totally cut them off from the software world. A robot turning knobs and pu
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by leppr 7y ago
Indeed, if it's possible, marketing is going to ask for it. And unless you have dedicated developers who specialize in email campaigns, ready to brave the nightmare that is fighting against email client formatting, the only sane and co
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by leppr 7y ago
Amazing that the monopoly taking a 30% cut doesn't feel like it has to resort to selling user data. I wonder if app makers on a free and transparent platform would act more ethically?

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