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by paxy 9y ago
It isn't really about encryption, as the title implies, but about deleting communication records (whether encrypted or not). > However, companies have an obligation to preserve records that may be reasonably seen as relevant to liti
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by paxy 9y ago
They definitely have an interest in stopping counterfeits if it makes them liable for injuries or other lawsuits (e.g. fake chargers, cables, hoverboards, eclipse glasses).
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by paxy 9y ago
I fully support the author, but bouncing around Netflix customer service/PR and writing a blog post trying to shame them isn't really achieving anything here. Stuff like this happens all the time. Just get a lawyer to draft them a
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by paxy 9y ago
Capitalism doesn't mean you can't have regulations and enforcement. Microsoft used every dirty tactic in the book to wipe out its competitors, and the government turned a blind eye till it was way too late. If someone from the 80s
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by paxy 9y ago
More and more sites are using React for general purpose server-side rendering, even if the site isn't a single page app. I believe that's what the article is targeting.
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by paxy 9y ago
Both projects eventually use the Chromium renderer, just with .NET bindings, so all you're doing is introducing a whole new framework dependency in order to make development a bit easier. While I love the concept (and C#/.NET in g
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by paxy 9y ago
Microsoft has been battling the government over this and more for a long time. They have another major ongoing case over US government rights to demand customer data stored overseas. > What's in it for them The very lucrative Europe
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by paxy 9y ago
Unrelated - but being able to handle front page HN/Reddit traffic should really be a basic requirement for any (mostly static) website today.
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by paxy 9y ago
New grads are never hired for a particular skillset. No one is an expert on the unix kernel or hardware design or iOS internals out of college. Apple hires smart people and teaches them these skills. Same with Google, Facebook, Microsoft, A
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by paxy 9y ago
Only for business users (i.e. custom Google Apps domains)
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by paxy 9y ago
Try making your age completely ambiguous on your resume and see what the response is. E.g. remove college graduation date, replace specific dates of employment with 5 years, over 10 years etc.
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by paxy 9y ago
Where are you getting that 90% statistic from? I'm pretty sure at least 30-40% of their employees are based internationally, and even within the US they have offices in pretty much every major city. So most Google employees are already
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by paxy 9y ago
Prediction – people will still bitch and whine, as always.
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by paxy 9y ago
I'm sure a lot of them would if they could afford it.
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by paxy 9y ago
The Android source code isn't Google's to "give away". It is written and maintained by a huge ecosystem of hardware and software vendors and independent developers.
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by paxy 9y ago
People always talk about the perils of algorithmic trading and how easy bots are to fool, but in this case they all basically ignored the news. That feels pretty sophisticated (and scary) to me.
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by paxy 9y ago
It is ridiculous that they are doubling down on their "private social network" nonsense rather than admitting to users that whatever they post there is ALWAYS going to be public.
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by paxy 9y ago
From the same article – > According to Education Week’s annual state rankings on K-12 education spending, California was last in per-pupil when adjusted for regional cost differences in 2011. It moved up to 41st for 2013.
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by paxy 9y ago
I can assure you there are no computers in classrooms where these failing students are from. You want to improve scores? Pay for school lunches. Pay for stationery and other basic supplies. Pay teachers more. It is ridiculous that costs of
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by paxy 9y ago
The problem with measures such as 2FA is that they are voluntarily implemented only by users who are most concerned about security, whereas users setting their password to "password" are on the opposite end of the spectrum. What w
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by paxy 9y ago
This is why you never agree to a background/credit check from an employer unless you have an offer – with a number – in hand.
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by paxy 9y ago
Random BSPs don't matter considering they're releasing their own hardware, and can support that as much or as little as they want on top of AOSP.
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by paxy 9y ago
Looking through their website I'm curious why what they're aiming for can't be accomplished with the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) or a fork of it, rather than trying to build yet another smartphone ecosystem from scratc
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by paxy 9y ago
This only works if you consider their time more valuable than your own.
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by paxy 9y ago
I don't think you're comprehending the sheer difference in scale between 10^60 and 10^80.
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by paxy 9y ago
It is currently only possible to be in space on the ISS (or in transit to/from there) right? Does anyone know when the last human space mission farther than Low Earth orbit was? And is any country seriously planning another one?
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by paxy 9y ago
VCs aren't in the business of developing talent, they want to set up and mentor startups and make money. They believe (correctly or not) that the best place to do this is in Silicon Valley, so they want entrepreneurs from the US and be
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by paxy 9y ago
They don't really address the fact that every single Slack "leak" is from someone already part of the team taking screenshots of the conversation. How does any kind of encryption help that? Also doesn't mention everythin
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by paxy 9y ago
The core problem is ambiguity, and so any step towards reducing it is good.
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by paxy 9y ago
They did this a while ago. Here's an article from last year with a lot more detail - https://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-ama...

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