pknight

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by pknight 8y ago
> Do you think the Japanese people would be happier if Japan was minority Japanese? The more interesting question is why are the Japanese so miserable, 53 other countries rank over Japan despite features that some say should promote happ
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by pknight 9y ago
Once the first page is loaded subsequent interactions that would normally require a full page request can be done with smaller requests and with nice transition effects.
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by pknight 9y ago
glad to hear that!
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by pknight 9y ago
One privacy essential is a built-in vpn/proxy like Opera has done with its browser, this makes it slightly harder for some fingerprinting ad trackers to follow a user around.
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by pknight 9y ago
A50 is specifically worded as to notify an intent to leave. Intent can change, the A50 text sets nothing in stone other than the fact that barring any further intervention the exit date ends 2 years from the notification date. That's
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by pknight 9y ago
You're not actually addressing the myriad of cases in which the principle of unilateral revocation is warranted. You're merely asserting that it's improbable that member states would negotiate in bad faith or vote in a hostil
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by pknight 9y ago
Perhaps but there are plenty of scenarios in which unilateral revocation of an intent to leave is entirely justified. What if a band of member states block a reasonable deal from happening even against the interest of the other member state
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by pknight 9y ago
Nonsense, only the ECJ can rule on this and it can only do so if a case is brought.
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by pknight 9y ago
It is only odd in that it gives a leaving member that changes it mind some leverage against the EU, an escape hatch effectively. The author of the document and others have also admitted that nobody thought the document would ever be put to
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by pknight 9y ago
I'm not sure why you want to twist this in to something else. > Instead, you have to point to supposedly evil motives behind putting the PATENT file there No where do I imply FB has evil motives for instituting the patent clause, no
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by pknight 9y ago
FUD implies that a decision was mostly based on people's irrationality or misinformation about what the patents clause does or doesn't do. It's a lazy assumption not made by someone who has followed the discussions in the WP
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by pknight 9y ago
WordPress is looking for a way to create modern interfaces in a more streamlined way and are looking for a tool to make that easy. Any number of libraries and frameworks are perfectly viable or can be made viable, most of which are operatin
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by pknight 9y ago
> So basically, the FUD helped individuals/trolls/companies who want to wield software patents as a weapon; to the detriment of the wider community This is just beyond ridiculous to characterize the FB patents addition as some
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by pknight 9y ago
A deeply arrogant and ignorant notion. If you think this was about FUD you really don't understand why people protest React as a core component inside WordPress. Most people are well aware that they are unlikely to get into any kind of
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by pknight 9y ago
She not only mentioned that in the article, it's the truth? And how is that a slight? It's bloody amazing that you can write books on risk that reach mass audiences. It's only a slight to Taleb because he prefers to think of
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by pknight 9y ago
Concept is great! The screenshots don't inspire a sense of it working effectively though. I don't think raw sentiment analysis is enough. 'Good' news to me has one or more of the following qualities: - It's actionab
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by pknight 10y ago
Appreciate the comments here, some points: - the draft resolution confirming that the EU endorses the possibility of revocation is consistent with noises made by EU politicians well in advance of the A50 notification. Tusk said it very clea
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by pknight 10y ago
I'm curious now > against what the rest of EU media and politicians are saying I've been paying a very close eye to this so I'm confused, what sources are authoritatively stating that A50 can't be revoked? Your Supre
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by pknight 10y ago
You're misrepresenting the realities of A50 throughout this thread Jacques. The court case in question operated under the premise of the Government's position that A50 is irrevocable. Whether it is or not was not judged, it was
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by pknight 10y ago
I don't have site specific permissions showing in the other chromium based browsers I use, like this: http://imgur.com/a/ApCfK That's new to me
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by pknight 10y ago
Try clicking on the lock icon in the address bar, very neat!
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by pknight 10y ago
Use WordPress.com's hosted WordPress with a custom domain if maintenance is a concern. If you ever decide to go selfhosted, migration is seemless. All the other hosted platforms frankly could stop working a year or two from now. Medium
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by pknight 10y ago
A copious list of drivel advertising a lack of competence. #1 Whatever you use to build a selfhosted website, you have to maintain it and deal with security issues. A bespoke system that you build has unknown security flaws, is hard to repl
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by pknight 10y ago
Basically Scott Adams is trying to sell the idea that Trump is some kind of savant in the art of persuasion. And he's seeing all kinds of NLP and other strategies being put to use and so to the 'trained' eye Trump is an actua
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by pknight 10y ago
Wire is cross platform and works quite well. Since using it I've noticed steady improvements. I do notice that messaging apps take up quite a bit of battery on mobile.
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by pknight 10y ago
This hinges on the premise that any kind of psi-like-effect is impossible. And that comes from a belief rather than from evidence.
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by pknight 10y ago
Try: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pe/pe/2016/00000029/00... "During 2013 and 2014, a total of 1479 people from 77 countries contributed 2985 test sessions. Over the same period, 5738 s
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by pknight 10y ago
Explaining away thousands of studies that happen to study controversial effects with unknown mechanisms in one brush is not demonstrating intellectual rigour nor does it make you come across as upholding 'real science'. The explan
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by pknight 10y ago
If your view is a priori that psi effects are impossible all you will see in the studies that 'it must be invalid and flawed or faked'. Yes, this makes people doubt scientific practices in general. You will always feel you are win
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by pknight 10y ago
Is the world better off when countries band together to in an imperfect, yet democratic framework, or is it better when every country seeks to be independent and abide mostly by their own short-term interests? If the answer is the second, i

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