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by nsgi 6y ago
Using a public CA is far better for security than a custom private one. It's a pain having to install the certificate on every client, server, piece of software, etc. and in my experience this inevitably leads to people disabling certi
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by nsgi 6y ago
Doesn't really matter if inertia is keeping them using Identrust. They're not going to go to the trouble of switching providers just to save a few bucks. If that was their concern there were much cheaper options available even bef
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by nsgi 6y ago
You have a point to some extent, it could be valuable to offer download buttons on a lot of videos. However, YouTube is only as valuable as the content it serves, and the content creators are the ones putting ads in their videos and who wou
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by nsgi 6y ago
Yeah, an example downloading a video of Elephant's Dream or a tech conference talk would have worked just as well and imply the tool has primarily legitimate uses
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by nsgi 6y ago
Do you have some sort of RMS-style setup? If so, I'm curious about your reasons for that and why mainstream browsers aren't an option for you
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by nsgi 6y ago
Were those public resources, though?
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by nsgi 6y ago
The original scene from Goodfellas is pretty good, too: https://youtu.be/8L4HHPTiZN8?t=12
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by nsgi 6y ago
That gender gap sounds rather concerning
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by nsgi 6y ago
> One example... the number of posts like "Show HN: Here's a thing I made" ... where the first comments is "Here's a link to a product that has been out for 10+ years that does what you just built and 100 times m
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by nsgi 6y ago
Why did their group of early riders need to be under NDA?
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by nsgi 6y ago
Does your company really need to do SSL inspection or are they doing it just because they can? My experience of working in places that do that is that it encourages poor security practices because people end up being too lazy to install the
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by nsgi 6y ago
Except they don't usually take you where you want to go, and they're not zero emissions because very few lines in the US are electrified
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by nsgi 6y ago
> Also, a nominal hour to cover 93 miles by rail, and just three trains a week, is just laughable. The service frequency is laughable but an hour to cover 93 miles doesn't sound too bad. Plenty of intercity train services in the UK
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by nsgi 6y ago
They could have just allowed users to create their own themes (without having to patch system files)
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by nsgi 6y ago
Bit of a shame the license is so restrictive you can't even use it in non-profit organisations without permission. Wondering what you can realistically do with them other than using one for a ringtone on your phone
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by nsgi 6y ago
Did you have to do much support?
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by nsgi 6y ago
> Additionally, we collect payment information if you choose to use our Premium services, and we automatically collect technical information, including log data and usage information, for legitimate business interests, such as improving
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by nsgi 6y ago
That's only a problem if their parents let them continue to live carefree as a child into adulthood, which they shouldn't do unless there are serious mitigating circumstances
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by nsgi 6y ago
It probably helped that people settled down with partners at a younger age back then. How many of those 18 year olds were buying houses on their own?
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by nsgi 6y ago
The coronavirus vaccine is unlikely to be a live attenuated one, or if it is it will most likely be one that cannot cause the disease.
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by nsgi 6y ago
cVDPV is the one that's the big problem. You can see how many cases are occurring here: http://polioeradication.org/polio-today/polio-now/this-week/
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by nsgi 6y ago
Surely if the customer is prepared to go to the trouble of calling you up about their problem they're likely to leave if you don't solve it? At least unless you have a monopoly?
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by nsgi 6y ago
Because i would give the government too much control and it would probably suck?
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by nsgi 6y ago
Regardless of whether you call them crashes or accidents, even if you don't do anything stupid you can still be killed by someone else's poor driving or driving under the influence. Also, no one starts out as a perfect driver
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by nsgi 6y ago
Also, when people think about the risk of driving they forget the additional risk to their health from in-car air pollution
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by nsgi 6y ago
Also because when people are contemplating whether to fly the alternative often isn't using another form of transportation but not travelling at all and using video conferencing, or travelling a shorter distance (e.g. going on holiday
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by nsgi 6y ago
Would they be able to achieve that without using libdvdcss which could cause legal problems? Also, I think most people want HD or 4k these days
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by nsgi 6y ago
Yeah, seems like now half the questions on there are someone pushing some random agenda with "Why is [statement that isn't true]?"
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by nsgi 6y ago
I'm sure he would be retired if he wanted to
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by nsgi 6y ago
Didn't Google develop Content ID voluntarily, though? It's not like anyone forced them to. Though I guess it may have been to avoid the threat of regulation

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