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>The one question I want to ask these government officials is "Where are the parents?" To be clear, this bill originated outside the government. The Canadian Conservative Party do not currently form the government. They are i
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They'd just cease producing the pills in 18 months.
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>what's the difference between WASM and running native code? Performance, for starters.
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They do, but not proactively. You have to bring a case before the court for the precedent to get considered. Lots of things that are legal/illegal are only so because they haven't been tested in court. Precedents are also specif
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Look, no offense but it sounds like the battery thing is an issue for you in practice, as evidenced by the fact that you carry a spare battery and plug it into a charger multiple times per day. A phone should adapt to your lifestyle. You
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For a subset of tasks, maybe. But I'd rather use Firefox than lynx. And I'd rather use Thunderbird than mutt or pine.
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>I know PGP isn't for everyone, I just like the idea of keeping high-security options available for those who want them. But PGP doesn't provide a high-security anything . - In order to achieve some reasonable level of prote
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What percentage of PGP users actually have an airgapped device and actually go through all that rigamarole? More importantly, how do you know that your counterparty is one of that (extremely small) minority?
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>Can you explain why? Well, the key servers are useless because they are susceptible to that poisoning attack from a few years ago, and they happily send you fraudulent or revoked keys. And the web of trust doesn't scale. The trust
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Have Purism solved the problem where it will randomly burn through an entire battery charge in an hour? That basically makes it a non-option for the overwhelming majority of people, and it was still an issue 6 months ago. I really want to l
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I think the common refrain against PGP is that it shouldn't be important, because it suffers from a myriad of technical and sociological shortcomings. The whole situation regarding key servers, key rotation, and the web of trust is a
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I use IRC and NNTP regularly, and ftp occasionally. Those are the only "old" protocols I'm aware of that I use, unless you count TCP.
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That's because HN prioritizes aesthetics over privacy and won't allow you to delete your account and all its comments.
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I simply have a whitelist of numbers I'll answer.
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That makes no sense whatsoever. If the NSA has broken whatever cipher suite the GRU uses, or the Iranian RG, or whomever, please explain how keeping that fact a secret endangers the USA? Keep in mind they share info with the other Five Eyes
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The reason the NSA conducts its activities in secret have little to do with "a little graft" and everything to do with the fact you don't show somebody you've broken their ciphers unless you have to.
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>I realize that it's more a combination of tradition and their self imposed exile from the world for a long time. Surely it's more to do with population density? It's not like every Japanese person has one of these combs.
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>Soon, I can do away with the 10+ apps and just use 1 Sounds like Beeper
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I do this too, and I include par2 files on each disc. You sacrifice some space on each disc but the incremental cost of a few more discs is minimal.
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Because you can patent a machine. The argument is that software is "just math" (because it literally is just doing binary arithmetic) and mathematics cannot be patented.
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>But I haven't considered printing code out since the early 90s. TFA says he had documentation printouts, not code listings. That I can relate to; when learning something new or unfamiliar it's nice to be able to flip back and
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Which phone do you use?
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I don't understand your point, sorry.
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All your examples are of lazy, poor game design, just like the hypothetical game where respecs are free.
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>Was this just a trick to get headlines from journalists who don't know how to interpret the files on the website? You're discussing a Twitter post by the same guy who knowingly committed securities fraud ("funding secured
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Maybe there's an indie game idea here. You play as a shape shifter type character, and the core game mechanic is morphing between tank/heal/DPS type roles to adapt to the challenge at hand.
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If respecs are free: You're playing a Sword & Board fighter type character, and Stealth isn't one of your class skills, so you temporarily respec into Thief, steal the MacGuffin, and then re-respec back into Fighter and contin
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Spam isn't a problem for you, I take it? What are you using to filter spam out?
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In our society the concept of a "Free Market" is not one where participants are free to do entirely as they please without consequence. The use of the word Free in "Free Market" implies a freedom from restricted competi
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I was a very different person at 34 than I was at 26. More mature in every way, with better judgment and critical thinking skills.

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