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by lgeorget 8y ago
What is the point of having a projection in the first place if Earth is already flat?
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by lgeorget 8y ago
Clearly not a definitive answer but some elements to think about: Facebook's business consists in promoting some of the content their users put online (the content that makes them win money) so they cannot claim to be a neutral carrier
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by lgeorget 8y ago
I think they can argue that the code is their property and that the employee that published it on NPM had no mandate from the company to do so. So it's effectively "stolen code" in a sense, just as if the employee had done it
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by lgeorget 8y ago
Awesome project! Keep up the good work.
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by lgeorget 8y ago
I'm expecting a lot of fuss in ten to fifteen years from now when the kids will be in age to realize they've been forced to work for their parents and exposed the Internet from their earliest childhood. The parents may see that as
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by lgeorget 8y ago
As a matter of fact, it is in various countries: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_disconnect . In France it exists since 2001 and had been reinforced by the last labour law. I'm not sure about the actual co
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by lgeorget 8y ago
There's the work by Myers and Liskov which is quite central to the whole field: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=266669 , there's Flume: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1294293 , DStar https:&
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by lgeorget 8y ago
There's an entire research field dedicated to the information flow control which could solve just that (if it were actually used). In my research team, we used a tainting tracing mechanism to understand the behavior of malware. Basical
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by lgeorget 8y ago
Is it a lot more complicated? Conceptually, prepared statements are ASTs with "holes" in them, right?
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by lgeorget 8y ago
I wonder if domain names are not overvalued... I know your domain name is part of a brand but isn't it better to pick an original name than a common name to have people remember you? Especially now that the URL bar is also a search bar
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by lgeorget 8y ago
It's out of topic, I know, but there's something I've wondered for a long time: if a Spanish person immigrates to the USA, do they count as Hispanic?
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by lgeorget 8y ago
I think I've already done it as a student in my 9-square-meter room. Haha just kidding. The truth is, spending a couple of days without hearing anyone's voice makes you feel out of place and depressed quite quickly, even though I
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by lgeorget 8y ago
The article is very well written but that sentence felt a bit wierd: > Before there could be acceptance, there was depression. “I want to apologize for being so powerless,” he said in a press conference. Lee Sedol was clearly upset, espe
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by lgeorget 8y ago
There's one thing I don't understand. Why was the colon dropped from the special name? I personally remember typing things such as "copy CON: sys.ini" to create heredocs. Programs could have redirect their output to &qu
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by lgeorget 8y ago
"Others have done it already." Others with the same number of accounts and daily visits? With the same flowrate of publications and comments?
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Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature (2016) [pdf](genomebiology.biomedcentral.com)
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by lgeorget 8y ago
Uh... yes. Let's replace "illogical" by "irrational" in my first question, then. :-)
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by lgeorget 8y ago
But how come low wages do not impact negatively the domestic consumption, which is an important part of the GDP?
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by lgeorget 8y ago
> $15 an hour will push a lot of people out of being employable. On the other hand, isn't it illogical in a free market economy that wages do not increase at a rate at least equal to the inflation? How do you keep the economy runnin
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by lgeorget 8y ago
> I have a backlog of dozens of purchased-but-never-played Steam games picked up at ridiculously low prices from Humble Bundles, Steam sales, etc. Does the world need any more games at this point? When I started to find myself with half
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by lgeorget 8y ago
Thank you. Well I'm playing the devil's advocate there. To me Facebook has always looked very untrustworthy. They have a very bad habit of mishandling users' data and manipulating public opinion. Nevertheless I believe in edi
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by lgeorget 8y ago
On my own domain where I've set up a mail server, I've never received that much spam. I have the impression that people are more civilized now than in the late 2000s with respect to emails. In my case at least, unsubscribe links w
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by lgeorget 8y ago
That's what a lot of websites do, and it's called "editorial choices".
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by lgeorget 8y ago
But it's no secret that the content you see on Facebook is the content Facebook and advertisers want you to see, not content you'd be interesting it in the first place. Maybe I'm stubborn or stupid but I fail to see the probl
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by lgeorget 8y ago
I'm not a lawyer, what are the legal basis for that "immunity" and the fact they lost it somehow?
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by lgeorget 8y ago
If they have decided (consciously or not, because sometimes algorithms have unpredicted consequences) to not have something published then they are free not to publish it. It's not like it's a public service run by the government.
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by lgeorget 8y ago
They should be liable for what is published on their platform but they certainly cannot be guilty of _not publishing_ something.
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by lgeorget 8y ago
On the other hand, Facebook is not a soapbox on a public place, it's a website owned and hosted by a private company which has precise criteria to decide which publications are more desirable than others.
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by lgeorget 8y ago
There are some well-known alternatives: Signal, Telegram, any XMPP server (which you can host)... As for convincing your friends to switch to it, there's no one-size-fit-all method.
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by lgeorget 8y ago
The fact that there is a fork is a inconsistency per se. The log must be a linear chain of blocks, that's enforced by the protocol. If there's a fork, eventually all the diverging subchains but one (the longest) will disappear.

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