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by pluma 7y ago
After the Snowden story about the CISCO routers there's really no reason to assume any given piece of technology from any country isn't potentially manipulated by a government agency. The idea that Chinese hardware is somehow more
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Realistically speaking most Google apps I use as my daily driver could work equally well as PWAs instead of native apps and the lack of "integrations" is probably more data protection compliant anyway (because most of them seem to
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Anarchism is good actually. But I don't see how the only way to fix this is to abolish all hierarchies. Having less jingoistic world leaders would be a start.
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I would say it's not rape but it's definitely a con and should be illegal. The difference between being tricked into impregnating and being tricked into being impregnated is that impregnation only affects the bodily autonomy of th
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The question isn't whether she's in contempt for refusing to testify. She is and the legal consequence is that she will be detained until the grand jury is over or she agrees to testify. That's fine. Legally speaking this is
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That's not any more of a "30 hours job" than Google with its freaky fridays.
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Let's put it this way: If I tell you to take a fiver from my wallet and you do it, that's consensual. If you then later take another fiver out of my wallet without my permission, it's not consensual. If I catch you doing it,
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There's an obvious joke here about inconsistencies being par for the course.
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She only got out because Obama commuted her sentence. She pissed off a lot of high ranking people in the military and intelligence communities and in politics. You could make a case for coercive detention but her treatment during her detent
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Any recent examples of Microsoft using EEE? All examples I can think of are from the 90s or very early 00s.
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It's an alternative registry so it's compatible with yarn and the official npm client. It doesn't seem to rely on any services provided by npm Inc though, so it's a direct competitor.
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npm Inc always had a monetisation problem. The npm registry started out as a hobby project that was eventually backed by the company its creator worked for. He then decided to pull out his project into his own startup, which raised some eye
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Basically the law is implemented by people and people are subjected to it by those people. There's a lot of neutrality in the rules but in the end personal biases and privileges can creep in at any point. If judges (and juries) were 10
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Don't kid yourself. It's not "consumer demand" that's doing the harm, it's companies. Companies aren't interested in fixing this because fixing it is not profitable. But you can't blame that on the co
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That really struck me as wrong too. The first kickstarter was certainly a success, as was at least the second one too. Pebble failed when it tried to pivot to a more explicit fitness-focus, directly competing with Fitbit (though I'm no
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by pluma 7y ago
I'm not even sure if their disclosure meets the requirements of the GDPR, considering the breach involved user data.
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Considering how many developer-focussed apps were written for macOS first/only because of the massive adoption of macbooks by developers after the rise of iOS apps, this is an extremely narrow perspective. The appeal of Darling isn&#x2
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However if the entire point of your article is to talk about how emoji look, it's a terrible idea to include them verbatim when discussing a specific design. It's clear that in certain cases the article talks about a reference des
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Bumming around on Facebook is how Facebook makes money. It's a form of labor and has monetary value for Facebook. Yes, that's ridiculous, but that's how capitalism works. Capitalism is ridiculous, yes.
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"The nazis weren't all that bad. They gave us the Autobahn and Hitler was a vegetarian."
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I think what happened was that they had an "import friends from your email contacts" feature in the past and the code was reused for "verify your identity via email" but they didn't realise the code would still also
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by pluma 7y ago
This is a ridiculous example because it equates clearly immoral and possibly illegal actions with legal trivia (because a hypothetical country may simply require a certain wording for compliance and it's trivial to mess that up). Faceb
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Iff they have confirmation from their product lead that what they're doing is perfectly legal and it isn't obviously illegal, I agree that there's no liability. If it's either obviously illegal or it's clearly at le
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I understand how valuations work but I guess where I'm confused is that people on HN seem to conflate market value with size or even revenue. After some googling it seems that my intuition about the relevance of stock prices is mos
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by pluma 7y ago
I'll never understand what market cap has to do with company size. Stock prices are basically an arbitrary value mostly determined by how much people buying stock think the stock is worth, are they not? Correct me if I'm wrong but
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You can also be crazy into horses without being someone's wife or girlfriend. I know a guy like that, though he's married.
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Valuable to you, yes. Valuable to others, only if you're lucky.
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If this is a new idea to you, I'd suggest diving into the more left-wing parts of YouTube, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKeqMJGnVyQ Basically the problem with capitalism is that it assigns financial values to e
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Post-GDPR this is "unintentionally" and they try to make amends. Pre-GDPR that would just have been a "happy accident" and they'd just have swept it under the rug.
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> How can you not mean to? It's my understanding that they used to do this entirely intentionally at one point via an "import contacts from mail" feature, then they dropped the feature and now when they added the "sig

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