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As others are saying, HTML isn't the problem and Gopher isn't the solution: any bidirectional request-response protocol can be used to track clients, because there's a record of interactions the server can save. Client-side s
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The site in question is part of the UNESCO World Heritage site 'Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch'; its description by UNESCO [1] mentions, in part: " It features a wide diversity of ecosystems, including successional stages due pa
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by niftich 8y ago
Some of nuclear energy's challenges get a good amount of coverage: politicians unwilling to support it, citizen opposition, and cost overruns and delays at plant currently under construction. Others, less so. And if we discount politic
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This project is already grade-separated in the sense that there are no level crossings: even though they're in the "empty" central valley, there's still hundreds of grade-separated crossings that need to be built, not ju
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File-based configs are a troublesome abstraction: they package unrelated concerns into a rigid document whose form must take a particular, application-dependent shape, and the assembly and disassembly of that document essentially becomes an
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by niftich 8y ago
Well, the default config itself has been updated with the new name [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] -- this what you'd self-host, and is also what's hosted out of 'sh.rt', but we're splitting hairs to pedantic, and both of
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As of posting, the info on this site is very lean, but going forward sourcehut seems to be the name for the software suite of the service 'sr.ht'. The linkage is implied by the quote on the site that " sr.ht is a hosted insta
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The article goes into this, but it's more accurate to say that the aggregator subscription business model saved record labels -- paying a flat but recurring fee to access a diverse (but ever-changing) library sourced from various right
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If the Brightline project can't make this work, then no one can in the US. Florida has a large population, its densest clusters of population lie along a small number of linear corridors, and it attracts many tourists and a fair number
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Yeah, you're right. But in some sense that never materialized, because sometimes the place where UV synced your rights doesn't itself have rights from the studio to stream the movie [1]. It's a tangle of voluntary bilateral a
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by niftich 8y ago
The term DRM usually evokes keyservers, but in that sense UltraViolet is meta-DRM, because it has no content-decrypting keyservers of its own. Instead, it's basically a big list of content you currently have rights for, designed solely
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They'll do a study on this by studying Japan, but a better place to study is France. Or even Europe altogether; the high-speed part here is a red herring, what matters is seating-room, few-transfer commutes of tolerable duration to out
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The most instantly recognizable one, with a clear commercial potential, is cloud gaming. Other fuzzier ones are, uh, crunch live video or audio captured by the device via beefy compute to... display overlays? Search similar products? Live t
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I agree with this, but in a sense it's also rather underwhelming: there's no killer use-case right now that would be instantly popular and economically viable were it for just a bit more faster, even lower latency IP connectivity
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I don't disagree with your post; but I think we're talking about different things, because the article talks about multiple kinds of companies. You're right that the companies that are now relicensing are ones that were born
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This post raises a lot of good points about the futility of this new wave of split-restriction licenses, but misses fairly obvious one. Entrepreneurs think they want to have an "open source business model" because they have market
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More on this: upcoming 5G implementation proposals, such as 3GPP's '5G NR', have bands [1] in the UHF, SHF, and EHF range, out of which the EHF/mmWave bands are most susceptible to environmental attenuation, but they&#x2
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I'm not familiar with the author but I agree with their first few points. But I feel there's more to it than that. Apple can afford to hold off on 5G because the networks aren't there, the "5G" term as an industry-s
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My reading was different, in that the article uses "elite" for the kinds of decision-makers in positions of power whose exceptional attainment and status makes them some of the least likely to be consumers of the transit anyway. I
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Coverage from National Geographic [1] (discussed at the time on HN [2]) provides additional detail, including that researchers chose the arbitrary number of 50 to constrain the number of cohesive regions. At the time, I wrote [3] the follow
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It'd be useful to study the pairwise origin and destination of the domestic moves. That would lend insight into whether the gains posted by Sunbelt metros are largely of the rural-to-urban nature (or small metro to large metro, but sti
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While these communities are snubbing Dollar General and Family Dollar -- most of rural America welcomes them with open arms, because they stock roughly the same sorts of things as a CVS or Walgreens, but actually build out in a county of a
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There's been a theory circulating around for a while that Musk's Boring Company is well-positioned to construct utility tunnels, and their seeming focus on transportation is essentially a loss-leader PR effort to drum up support f
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It was thought of, and built, in the past [1]. Most infrastructure-scale systems were abandoned for cost, maintenance, and operational reasons. And this was back when urban areas were more compact relative to their population, and not in an
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Visibly undeveloped land isn't a good proxy for the market's land supply. Much of the 'empty' land on the edges of the Vegas Valley is BLM land [1]. Periodically, the government auctions off parcels [2], but the BLM&#x27
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Rent, other than the amenities of the dwelling itself, affords access to a location, which is likely far more valuable in the minds of those making the decision than dining out. In addition to the issues with high cost of living that affect
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No, in fact, APIs are one of the few ways the Semantic Web lives on, even if most HTTP APIs serve content that's not formally typed with intrinsically meaningful mediatypes [1], and that's not linked to other resources with regist
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Not that spinning HDDs are really any different, but SSDs are a perfect example of an entire computer that you attach to yours, and speak with through one of the (many) storage-oriented protocols. The device itself is a black box, and compl
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While this article finds an issue with the way the Tejon Pass route was eliminated in favor of the Tehachapi Pass route, Tejon Pass route would skip a station in Lancaster/Palmdale, which would be a mistake. As the article acknowledges
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Duo has replaced Hangouts in the GMS bundle of apps that vendors should ship preloaded [1][2][3][4], while Allo isn't in the list. [1] https://www.androidpolice.com/2016/10/07/google-is-demoting-... [2]

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