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by ohthehugemanate 11y ago
It sends messages through Google's messaging framework. Of course the messages are end to end encrypted, so there's no security risk. It's just really hard to set up a global push messaging framework unless you have the clout
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It's exactly why marshmallow is changing the permissions model. All of those permissions are necessary if you want an app that: * can show a contact's name on a message they sent you * can save public keys and access them * can s
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by ohthehugemanate 11y ago
The description of these films and their value reads like a word for word explanation of why we have the public domain. The author described Warner Bros as the "Gold standard" - making re-releases on protected media one at a time
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by ohthehugemanate 11y ago
This is further complicated by the precarious position of copyleft in Germany in particular, and the EU in general. In German basic property law, there are certain "rights" of a creator which CANNOT be given away. The German GPL h
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The argument doesn't make sense. He brings up a lot of the challenges of outsourcing, and makes offhand remarks about good ways to address them. But if his argument were true, no contractor would "work". The entire contractin
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by ohthehugemanate 11y ago
I guess I don't understand what's supposed to be so great about this. Youtube is going to the cable subscription model. Hooray? Everyone knows that the next few years is about consumers "cutting the cord" from cable bund
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by ohthehugemanate 11y ago
There are so many assumptions and logical problems in this article's reasoning... it's distressing to read. First we assume that choosing to purchase jam is empirically better than choosing not to purchase jam. And we ignore the q
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by ohthehugemanate 11y ago
In case it's helpful, I blogged the steps I had to take to get my environment back up and running: https://ohthehugemanatee.org/blog/2015/10/01/how-i-got-el-ca...
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It would need a huge injection of money to happen. Just last week there was a major report that the subway system is falling apart. “Basically at the current pace, there isn’t a foreseeable future in which all the subway stations are in a s
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Old school FUD! I haven't read anything like this in awhile. they greatly underestimate the complexity of preference algorithms. Facebook is said to have more than 100,000 variables in their news feed algo; I can't imagine what&#x
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Nytimes.com Brookings.edu Reddit.com JustinBiebermusic.com Facebook.com Spotify.com Google.com Websites Fall into functional categories. Sites within a given category look the same. Sites about a product need a powerful visual "grabbe
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by ohthehugemanate 11y ago
"Breast is best" absolutely dominates the conversation in the popular press, no matter what the actual studies say. This surge of support for breastfeeding started with the Catholic La Leche group, and now the studies tell us they
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by ohthehugemanate 11y ago
Does the improved quality of life get locked up? Americans have developed pretty staggering wealth inequality in the last 3 or 4 decades, for example, but the material quality of life has greatly improved in the same period of time. More pe