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by mcherm 6y ago
The title is slightly misleading. The article claims the privacy issues are related to the Discus service being free for the websites that use it.
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by mcherm 6y ago
Right at the top of the article it points to hacker news using insufficient contrast. BUT, clearly the author is not familiar with the site because the example they give in the screenshot is of a comment which has intentionally been rende
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by mcherm 6y ago
That cost also was supported by significant advertising revenues, including things like a "classified ads section" and "want ads", whole categories that now support separate industries.
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by mcherm 6y ago
I just want to point out that if Postgres had a similar license then Timescale wouldn't be able to offer their product as a service.
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by mcherm 6y ago
Interesting. Different strokes for different folks, I suppose. For myself, I'd prefer the natural sounds... even the intrusive ones (like invasive squirrel species screaming at each other).
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by mcherm 6y ago
Thank you.
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by mcherm 6y ago
As someone who includes we pack in my build chain in order to use vue but doesn't truly understand it and has never used Cute, can you explain the advantages?
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by mcherm 6y ago
> That's what Apple chose to do so that's not illegal. Not necessarily. Perhaps it was illegal for Apple to include that clause in their terms in the first place because it was leveraging their monopoly power in one area to gai
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by mcherm 6y ago
I can't think of a special reason why the UK would have it in for Julian Assange. I presume they are doing this in order to cow towel to their ally the United States. Do they not realize that the United States is likely to undergo a re
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by mcherm 6y ago
Nope. They just had to agree to stop trolling open source projects with patents they already own . They can still troll non-OSI-licensed projects with those patents and can still troll open source projects with new invalid patents. We co
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by mcherm 6y ago
You say that > The regulations make it clear that the President alone determines 'whether a transaction threatens national security.' HOWEVER, I maintain that this authority can only be exercised under certain restrictions. For
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by mcherm 6y ago
> Congress delegated some of its constitutional authority over foreign commerce to the President in 1988, explicitly empowering the President to prohibit mergers, acquisitions, or takeovers that threaten national security. TikTok's
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by mcherm 6y ago
Was there clear and obvious evidence of the lies, or was it largely your testimony? If there was clear and obvious evidence of the lies then you can submit a complaint to the bar (or whatever the disciplinary body is for lawyers in your sta
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by mcherm 6y ago
If the price is identical everywhere, then people will compete on other factors like the percentage of profits the bookseller donates to charity, or the speed and ease of delivery.
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by mcherm 6y ago
If you are a consumer using Android it is reasonably straightforward (at least for someone a little bit technically inclined... maybe not for the general population) to install a new app store. If you are a vendor of apps, it is hopeless. A
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by mcherm 6y ago
No, Mozilla did not have to choose. They could have offered both as options! They could have allowed the end consumer to control when to upgrade (some would go quickly, some would wait until their key extensions work available). I'll a
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by mcherm 6y ago
Marketing.
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by mcherm 6y ago
As this very thread has made clear, Palmer Luckey's reputation has been damaged by Facebook's choice to renege on their statements regarding requiring a Facebook login. That's an injury. If it had been part of the contract he
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by mcherm 6y ago
Some politicians are proposing not to have wealth taxes, but only income taxes. Let's try modeling the effects of zero wealth tax to see what they would mean in practice for a wealthy individual and for a startup founder. Suppose you i
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by mcherm 6y ago
All of the author's complaints come down to issues of "due process". Due process doesn't mean running a trial or decision-making process in the particular way that US courts do, rather it means running such a process in
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by mcherm 6y ago
I'm not in favor of banning ANY particular source. I think it wiser to evaluate any particular article on its own merits.
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by mcherm 6y ago
Congratulations -- that's a really clever hack. Exactly the kind of thing I love to read about on this site.
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by mcherm 6y ago
Yes... (I suppose it depends on which "sales pitch" you listened to). Sometimes people are just crazy and stupid.
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by mcherm 6y ago
> Have you been to the post office or the DMV? Yes, I have. The post office seems to do an EXCELLENT job of delivering mail at an absurdly low price (for standard letters or postcards), although when I lived in Chicago for a few years I
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by mcherm 6y ago
> The law decides fair. It's not subjective. That certainly IS a consistent position one could take. Most people feel that there are certain moral imperatives that exist independent of government-defined laws and that government law
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by mcherm 6y ago
The worst case outcome is that you lose but ALSO become responsible for paying Apple's legal bills. I think that's incredibly unlikely, (in the US legal system there isn't a lot of cost shifting for trademark suits) but if yo
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by mcherm 6y ago
> as a result and Woz is a billionaire No.[1] Woz gave away much of his stock in Apple, more than half of it before Apple even went public. [1] https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/steve-...
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by mcherm 6y ago
> But how many people will check in detail what‘s submitted? That's a valid criticism. It only takes one person finding clear evidence of problematic behavior to advertise that fact to the entire community. So long as a small fracti
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by mcherm 6y ago
Does no one else take real vacations these days?
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by mcherm 6y ago
(1) Interesting connection to the original story. This is the sort of not-exactly-an-ad-because-it-is-related mention that I find cool about Hacker News. (2) Let me see if I get this right: you offer a service that simply monitors deeds and

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