matt4077

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   by matt4077 9y ago

   I sure hope that being among the racks is also the safest option for them, and that they are not risking anything just to keep these servers running.
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   by matt4077 9y ago

   Have you been doing this for any amount of time? Because today browser compatibility is just excellent compared by historical standards. The only differences are usually that some new feature doesn't appear in all browser engines at th
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   by matt4077 9y ago

   It might be, because "common target" implies a lack of competition.
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   by matt4077 9y ago

   I don't quite get your numbers, because 20% * IE6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 = 20% * 6 > 100%. Or, alternatively, the 20% for all of them combined don't prove your point that "people are using ancient versions", because, as you
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   Cryptocurrency Might Be a Path to Authoritarianism(theatlantic.com)

   3 points by matt4077 9y ago|1 comments
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   by matt4077 9y ago

   Yes and no. The specific provision is meant to allow governments to ease sudden shifts. As an example, say the weather in some country Y was extraordinarily great for growing tulips this year. As a result, they're exporting enormous am
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   by matt4077 9y ago

   I wonder to what degree this is motivated by an attempt to stifle the expansion of renewable energy. I sometimes get the impression that the "conservative" position has morphed from "cheap energy is good for the economy"
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   by matt4077 9y ago

   I usually roll my eyes at these complaints, but in this case it's really quite something. I just let the page sit unused for 5min and it downloaded 165MB. Safari has much better defaults when it comes to such behaviour by ad networks:
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   by matt4077 9y ago

   Personally, I mostly value ECC for the sense of superiority it affords.
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    by matt4077 9y ago

    Oh, wow. That really is a bookmark with a timer. Remember when you wondered "has self-optimization gone to far?". Yeah, this is the answer.
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    by matt4077 9y ago

    Are you perchance using a RFC6214 network? Because the page is around 600kb compressed and renders in less than 500ms for me, on an empty cache.
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    by matt4077 9y ago

    I don't know why you're arbitrarily dividing the data into "behind a login" and, well, "not". I doesn't make any difference. For the rest: opening in tabs is obviously a design choice. So are "confusi
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    by matt4077 9y ago

    The article isn't actually about any form of censorship. They weren't (primarily) policing search results, but the ad sense network. There's just no theory of free speech that would require google to run ads on white supremac
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    by matt4077 9y ago

    It's actually a pretty big problem–there's pretty clear evidence that policemen serving in majority-black neighbourhoods tend to drift towards prejudice from workday to workday, only to somewhat recover on off-days. That's ob
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    by matt4077 9y ago

    Most of the time these were either misunderstandings, or wilfully misleading scare stories: These services need some sort of license to work. Even just to show you your own photos, you need to give Google/Facebook/Apple/whoev
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    by matt4077 9y ago

    This is such a beautiful example of the anti-regulation fallacy that so many people for some reason believe in. It's beauty is in that there is literally no argument against the rule, except the vague notion of "freedom", whi
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    by matt4077 9y ago

    Youtube comments are written by people who would, in previous times, barely ever have written anything for general consumption. I'm not sure if the impression that everything was better in the past isn't a serious observation bias
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    by matt4077 9y ago

    well, that's a minefield, but maybe those make good examples. The instinct to throw these people into a dark hole and lose the key is strong. However, if you despise them so much because you think their crimes are so horrendous, that&#
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    by matt4077 9y ago

    Thanks! I'm really off by quite a bit...
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    by matt4077 9y ago

    "You can judge a society by how well it treats its prisoners", was actually said by a Russian–he knew what he was talking about. The US could start by no longer jailing drug consumers or first-time low-level street dealers. It jus
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    by matt4077 9y ago

    It does feel like there's a difference–maybe Go and Chess are just so much closer to what defines humanity than any physical sports?
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    by matt4077 9y ago

    To be honest the best intro may be watching the Romeo and Juliet movie–yes, the one with Leonardo di Caprio. The text is unchanged, but the setting is contemporary gangs in Florida (or California?). The on-screen action, as well as hearing
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    by matt4077 9y ago

    Surly an essay about the beauty of puns and ambiguity in poetry can still be allowed a modicum of cleverness in its title? "Clickbait", especially "a la buzzfeed" also usually refers to the original definition: "10
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    by matt4077 9y ago

    I really don't see how anybody is actually being kept under control, so far. Not disputing the overreach of many of these transgressions that have become public over the last years. But to suggest that they are actively used to influen
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    by matt4077 9y ago

    It's probably the overhead of trying to parse certain sentences in the blueprints that are somehow obfuscated for no reason at all except to appear meaningful when they are actually just peddling certain unspecified conspiracy theories
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    by matt4077 9y ago

    What? He was caught spamming and defrauding customers on the App Store, and under the pressure of the developer community that believed his story about a "friend" using his credit card/hardware/name they actually gave in
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    by matt4077 9y ago

    The author released an unauthorised recording of a phone call with Apple. That itself was probably not illegal (though it would be if he had been in California as well). But, and that made me question his sanity, it basically contradicted e
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    by matt4077 9y ago

    It's good, but not great. The search just isn't very smart and, for many documentations, I often end up in the wrong place and have to follow an endless number of ->see also links. There's no fuzzy search, and no understan
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    by matt4077 9y ago

    OP was answering the question "What can I do–should I donate to the EFF or what". Your 1. and 2. directly depend on a public that is engaged, and arguably the people doing (3) also form their opinions based on publicly accessible
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    by matt4077 9y ago

    There's a revolution in the US every four to eight years. You just don't remember them /because/ they happen peacefully. And if those don't give you the drastic change your spoiled mind craves, that may just be beca