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901.
by nr2x 6y ago
Seems like I lost my bet if those numbers are correct, kudos on doing the math!
902.
by nr2x 6y ago
If you combine the energy costs of delivering streaming video and the client side costs of playing video and executing JavaScript I have no doubt porn far outstrips Bitcoin. Hell, I bet JavaScript bloat from adtech alone and exceeds the to
903.
by nr2x 6y ago
Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t take a cut of web sales or decide what web pages people can see.
904.
by nr2x 6y ago
I didn't mean to imply I thought it was funny per se, it would have been more accurate to say "didn't get the reference". If you aren't familiar with the terminology, it's quite confusing.
905.
by nr2x 6y ago
For those not in on the joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
906.
by nr2x 6y ago
Like any other API they already make public for iOS/macOS: clear communication and deprecation timelines.
907.
by nr2x 6y ago
100% agree, an elegant solution to anti-trust would be prohibition on exclusive API access for any add-on products (watch, airplay, etc). I'm not that worried about the AppStore as an end-user as I like knowing I'm not downloadin
908.
by nr2x 6y ago
The things people don't know about third-party Javascript and "first-party" cookies...
909.
by nr2x 6y ago
Somebody on /WSB called it a "RAGE HOLD".
910.
by nr2x 6y ago
This is Lulzsec 2021, I'm all for it!
911.
by nr2x 6y ago
Not really, they still want to profit, I figured the money I spent on GME was a 100% loss just for lulz.
912.
by nr2x 6y ago
The issue here is the motivations have diverged from what is in the extant model of the market. There is no economics textbook that accounts for market participants buying stocks to watch them crash as a form of entertainment, which is tru
913.
by nr2x 6y ago
I'm not sure what my kid will inherit, but I've replaced the ear pads on AGK 240s and Sony 7506s and they'll work for many years to come. Whereas the Beat Studio Pro I got for free when I bought a Mac are quite nice, when th
914.
by nr2x 6y ago
On the flip side games I bought to play on GFN got pulled with no warning.
915.
by nr2x 6y ago
And yet google requires new users to agree to arbitration when creating accounts. Good for the goose...
916.
by nr2x 6y ago
I have a large scale web analysis platform and the amount of effort I’ve had to put in to handling this is immense. You don’t appreciate how good browsers are at handling malformed code until you try to ingest tens of millions of pages and
917.
by nr2x 6y ago
How much gold only exists on paper? Once people realize there is more in paper than in vaults that stability may evaporate. The Germans move their physical gold out of the US for a reason
918.
by nr2x 6y ago
The article spends a lot of time talking about how the style is dreamlike (with quotes from Adam Moore). For me it’s more like abstract Impressionism than “documentary”. I don’t agree with a lot of his conclusions, but it makes me questions
919.
by nr2x 6y ago
I consider the money I've spent on GME as equivalent to paying for comedy club admission. This is amusing.
920.
by nr2x 6y ago
Fantastic work, congratulations. Hope to see more of these.
921.
by nr2x 6y ago
That comes from a place of love, hilarious.
922.
by nr2x 6y ago
“This is the story of men who thought they could control the world, and a virus they couldn’t.” [stock footage of McDonald’s from 1986]
923.
by nr2x 6y ago
If you go back to the rhetoric of the Clinton-era the belief was that the Internet and Capitalism would "free" China from authoritarian rule. Instead, the authoritarians managed to co-opt both and gain further leverage abroad. T
924.
by nr2x 6y ago
My basic understanding is the U.S. replaced mental health asylums and orphanages with homelessness and prisons. What do other countries do? Does it work?
925.
by nr2x 6y ago
I can’t believe he’s still updating this, thanks so much for the link. Been years since I saw this. The guy is straight-up hacking your visual processing system!
926.
by nr2x 6y ago
I think the Intercept discredited themselves as a place for sources to go after Reality Winner got arrested, so I've never seen the point of the enterprise past that event. Otherwise, my point is more she's complaining about bein
927.
by nr2x 6y ago
Fair, that's a good point.
928.
by nr2x 6y ago
Meanwhile, Barton Gellman, who also worked with Snowden, has kept churning out great reporting [0], while Greenwald and Poitras kept trying to ride on the coattails of Snowden long past the point of relevance. [0] https://www.the
929.
by nr2x 6y ago
A reimbursement for effort/overhead is not the same as selling for profit. Again, there *really are companies who sell consumer data to law enforcement for profit*, so it's important to use the correct language and make the appro
930.
by nr2x 6y ago
That's not true: the EU had lots of national privacy laws under the privacy directive (GDPR was partially intended to unify/simplify that), and the US had sectoral laws such as COPPA and HIPAA, the former of which very much applie

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