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by nocturnial 6y ago
There a lawsuit in Germany which challenges the legality of tying a facebook account to the oculus. It's against the coupling laws[1]. I have a hard time imagining facebook winning that lawsuit especially because they threatened in a s
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by nocturnial 6y ago
Github files this notice under their dmca notices[0]. Maybe it's not a legal dmca notice, but I would assume if github files it as such, then the internal rules of github would apply. This includes a counter-notice. If it's not a
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by nocturnial 6y ago
> The problem is that the project may not survive this. I thought all they need to do is to issue a counter-notice. Popcorn did this and got their code reinstated on github: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24885079
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by nocturnial 6y ago
Isn't what you're describing autonomy of team members? Some team members go on their own path-finding journey and can make the decisions on their own on where to take it. I believe a team effort also involves a transfer of knowled
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by nocturnial 6y ago
The ban isn't about the sale of oculus quest. It's about all oculus devices. Facebook said all oculus devices would need a facebook account. I know this statement is overly broad and not (exactly) true but this is the nightmare sc
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by nocturnial 6y ago
I've tried to follow the links from the article and eventually came across this document [0] What the attorney general Brnovich references are emails which shows google engineers are aware that people are confused by the settings. The
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by nocturnial 6y ago
Yes, we're living in an advanced democracy. The country doesn't grind to a halt when there's a political disagreement.
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by nocturnial 6y ago
What this english article also misses is that the Belgian government becomes liable for the damages. This was discussed in the local press. Anyways, if the fine print of the contract indeed stipulates that they will sell it at cost, then I
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by nocturnial 6y ago
> Pretty much everywhere in the world, paramedics are allowed to inject sedatives when treating a patient. I don't know how you define pretty much everywhere, but in the EU it's illegal pretty much everywhere. [0] I know in pra
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by nocturnial 6y ago
Let's put aside whether Google had justified concerns about this legalislation. What's more appriopriate? Having a company incite the people in a foreign country to change laws or do it using diplomacy using experts in your state
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by nocturnial 6y ago
I'm really confused about this. If law enforcement refuses to identify themselves and also, you need to obey the orders of law enforcement but don't need to obey the orders of persons who dress up as law enforcement.. What happens
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by nocturnial 6y ago
Here are the results for cry engine specifically: https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0417/ https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0495/ https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0574
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by nocturnial 6y ago
It falls more in the category of having a lot bugs which could've been caught if they used static code analysis, code review, etc... I understand that you might think that messy could mean it's fine tuned for performance. In this
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by nocturnial 6y ago
Most auto generated code isn't that readable and this should surprise you. What you're seeing is the result of an asm "translator" with some manual modifications to make it work on the x86 platform. [1] That's why y
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by nocturnial 6y ago
Belgium does not prosecute people not showing up. I can say that for a fact. But if they prosecuted you, here's what you are facing: (In art. 210 "kieswetboek" or "voting law book" for our english readers) For a fir
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by nocturnial 6y ago
In Belgium _every_ citizen is automatically registered. I feel you are comparing apples to oranges. If every citizen in the US was registered, then how do the numbers compare then? The other registration, ie. not the automatic one, in Belg
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by nocturnial 6y ago
If you want to maintain a historical record, shouldn't those tweets or whatever be archived using the presidential records act at the source? This way a private company doesn't decide or is responsible what gets archived/dele
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by nocturnial 6y ago
I think you are too focused on the world leader thing. I never said they shouldn't be treated differently in the general sense you are alluding to. We're still talking about a valid reason why facebook should or shouldn't tre
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by nocturnial 6y ago
I apologize if I came on too strong. But my comment still stands, if our/your/whatever elected leaders are just people like us. Why treat them differently or expect facebook to treat them differently? Your reason of him being elec
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by nocturnial 6y ago
> but I think anything the President posts on social media should be kept in place. When you said the president, did you mean _the_ president? I'm sure you know facebook is active in other countries. So when you say they should make
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by nocturnial 6y ago
They always called each other out, but this was usually done privately, not publically. If it's done publically, it's usually not a message to a foreign entity but rather a message targeted for domestic consumption. The NSA got a
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by nocturnial 6y ago
Why was it odd to be a surname? Maybe I'm wrong, but when translated it's more probable to be a surname than anything else.
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by nocturnial 6y ago
You need to give me more than this. Like: I filed a complaint at date X, time Y, and wrote <this>. Today is date X1 and I haven't received a reply. It might not matter for your case, but the next time I'm in a meeting I can
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by nocturnial 6y ago
So while the app was on an alternate store a security lapse was detected and fixed. Isn't that actually proof that something doesn't need to be on google play to be checked and improved?
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by nocturnial 6y ago
Epic games tried to side step google: > When Fortnite launched on mobile in 2018, Epic Games very notably sidestepped the Google Play Store and pushed users to download the title directly from their website, an effort made to avoid the s
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by nocturnial 6y ago
Could you post your back-and-forth with google support? In the worst case, I doubt it will resolve anything but it could give other developers an idea on how or how not to communicate with google. In the best case, you might restore your ap
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by nocturnial 6y ago
In the statement they said they were a "USA incorporated not-for-profit organization" which already manages operations between Canada (like you said) and the US. It also mentioned that the names, brand, trademark, intellectual pro
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by nocturnial 6y ago
Thanks for taking the time to type out this response. I had scanned the paper you posted and failed to make the link between success to isolate and adoption of the app. It's messy and a bunch of factors come into play, I now understand
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by nocturnial 6y ago
What percentage of the population should install and use this before it becomes useful? The latest survey in my country said less than 50% were willing to adopt it and the number in the article mentions only 20% in Singapore.
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by nocturnial 7y ago
> Still, I hear from a lot of people that they indeed show (mild) symptoms, but are not tested - even upon request. How can that work? The sad truth is that we're low on reagents to test if people are infected. If the general advise

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