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by mfer 7y ago
Google controls search. Google launches a competitor to a web service presented through search. Competitor takes enough of a hit layoffs are needed. This screams of a problem. Especially for consumers and a competitive market. The kind of t
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by mfer 7y ago
What happens in 20 years when GE stops making water filters for it? Maybe as an attempt to push people to buy a new frig. How ecological is that? I know of refrigerators in use today that are more than 40 years old.
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by mfer 7y ago
This whole situation reminds me that team management of open source projects is very helpful. Not just for when maintainers have issues but for those time when you have to go through issues as a maintainer. Having someone to talk with and s
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by mfer 7y ago
Being a maintainer on a popular open source project can be hard. You put expectations on yourself, others put expectations on you, people complain, people trash talk you because they think they can do it better, and so much more. I think th
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by mfer 7y ago
The 80's tractor market is heating up because farmers are tired of the problems of modern technology and how companies are using it [1]. I wonder if anyone will jump at the market for cars that don't track you. I wonder who would
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Please Make Your Websites Archivable(codeengineered.com)
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by mfer 7y ago
If you dig into contentment you find it's about being contented [1] which is... > feeling or showing satisfaction with one's possessions, status, or situation How much if this is because so many lack contentment? Even when many
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by mfer 7y ago
> We see that A=Foo. I think part of this is that scientists don't "see" as in observe these things. Instead they "think that" something is the case. And, they have math and ideas to back that up. If we had repea
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by mfer 7y ago
> I strongly disagree that the foundations of physics have not progressed for 40 years. I think, we are getting a peak at the politics of the practice of science when you look at the article and comments, like this ones parent. A bunch
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by mfer 7y ago
They're easy to loose! You have to keep buying more
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by mfer 7y ago
The original article was about cost of damage from storms. It was looking at the past. If the atlantic basin has not yet seen an increase in number of hurricanes or intensity of them than that's important when looking at the reason for
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by mfer 7y ago
Florida is one of the places I look for when it comes to this. According to the NOAA [1] they have not really been able to detect an increase in hurricanes (the natural disaster that semi-regularly hits Florida) due to climate change. Yet,
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by mfer 7y ago
Side note, because of the way the page is constructed the data isn't part of the backup kept by the Internet Archive.
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by mfer 7y ago
Funny thing is, the previous tools for Go and tools in other languages tell you SemVer but you have enough control that you can use CalVer if you like.
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by mfer 7y ago
You don't need to wait for Y3k. 21xx is enough to cause duplication. There is software still running from over 50 years ago. I'd imagine new releases have come out. But, this may be a legit problem some day.
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by mfer 7y ago
The courts deal with what's legal and illegal rather than what's right or wrong or ethical or unethical. This situation appears to be a case where people are trying to use free market pressure to influence companies to not do busi
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by mfer 7y ago
I'm reminded that JS Lint used a derivative of the MIT License that included "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil." This turned out to be a problem for the project. Who gets to define good and evil? In the case of t
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by mfer 7y ago
What might be the most interesting aspect of this is that... company executives now (again?) think it's ok for them to dictate lifestyle choices on people that have nothing to do with how the business is executed as a matter of employm
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by mfer 7y ago
This isn't a ban on smoking. It's a ban on nicotine. That includes gum and other forms of it. It's not just about cigarettes.
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by mfer 7y ago
I'm not sure this works out. I know that people who operate heavy machinery in some states are tested to make sure they never, even in their free time, ingest certain things. Even legal ones. In their case it's done (IIRC) because
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by mfer 7y ago
What about this situation said it was unsafe to drive? Not able to drive and not safe to are different things. I’m reminded that many gas engines can drop into a degraded mode and still run when there is a problem like a sensor failing. Eve
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by mfer 7y ago
As companies like Disney pull they content from Netflix and put it in their own services, Netflix will need other avenues to hook people in order to keep their subscriber counts up.
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by mfer 7y ago
Number of incidents and impact on people are different things, right. I wonder when targets impacting more end-users end up happening. Taking out something like the Playstation network or Netflix will have a large impact in that way.
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by mfer 7y ago
IMNAL but... Rust the name is a trademark and the software licenses deal with copyright. Someone can hard fork under a different name and the copyright carries but the trademark wouldn't. Plus, this isn't an EULA where more info i
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by mfer 7y ago
I'm reminded of other HN conversations on the patents around technology that could theoretically make this happen. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21208051
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by mfer 7y ago
It is important for us to celebrate good news and talk about positive things. It's part of positive reinforcement and giving us a more holistic view of things. Always focusing on the negative and problems has many thinking there has no
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by mfer 7y ago
This isn’t about what the news organizations know. It’s about writing to their audience and what the audience knows. The audience has a lack of awareness. One thing that could use a lot more press is what companies do with this information.
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by mfer 7y ago
One of the things I appreciate about the iPhone is the fine grained settings for location tracking. I have had to turn off access to numerous apps and have limited other apps to only using my location when I use the app. To limit the tracki
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by mfer 7y ago
There is a point in there I think you're missing. That is Google is an advertising company. Isn't it hypocritical to have an issue with Cliqz for being an advertising company while being OK with Chrome which is from an advertising
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by mfer 7y ago
I think the upvoting has to do with this series of posts on the domain. If it was uninteresting content the posts would not be upvoted in the way they are. It's not unusual for a company blog to have a different name. A simple example

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