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by prebrov 10y ago
Finding relevance to the modern events in ancient books doesn't imply religious belief.
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by prebrov 10y ago
Haha, such an appropriate comment thread in a post about linguistics!
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by prebrov 10y ago
Paw uses git under the hood when you use its sync service (available for free), it seems. Unfortunately, you can't sync with your own repo, which is a shame for a fairly expensive rest client, compared to alternatives. I use and love i
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by prebrov 10y ago
Blocking beaconing at the network level would be good next step. DNSCrypt DNS resolver with a sinkhole that blocks ads and telemetry for any device is fairly easy to setup, I've done it for myself. Searching for "ad blocking smart
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by prebrov 10y ago
Check out Mautic.org. Quite polished for OSS marketing automation platform. For some reason maintainers insist that form submissions are a working substitute for events, but otherwise it's interesting. Anyhow, check it out.
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by prebrov 10y ago
Many Americans are getting armed in places they're most unlikely to die. I would probably get armed in Yemen as well.
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by prebrov 10y ago
It's also about effort per buck earned. A single exclusive deal for a season of Game of Thrones for a specific release window with a local/regional PayTV provider brings in, say, ten million bucks. And you make this deal in a nice
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by prebrov 10y ago
Not much technical knowledge required. Basic parental control on my ASUS router denies access to the internet to Samsung TV and it can still play content from LAN via UPnP.
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by prebrov 10y ago
It takes more than one to race. A counterpart in the arms race is implied.
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by prebrov 10y ago
Afaik, AMP is solely driven and developed by Google engineers, both standard and implementation. Everyone is free to follow, but they don't accept contributions. That is monopolising.
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by prebrov 10y ago
A friend of mine moved in next door to then President of Singapore. Even got visited on couple of Christmas dinners. Neither of them new protocol for the ex-presidency thing and after President left office, upon mutual agreement neighbour n
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by prebrov 10y ago
Wouldn't this incentivise companies to pass down these costs to an H1B employees in the form of even lower pay and/or reduced benefits? High cost of labour acquisition, IMO, is a huge contributor to "workplace" abuse in
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by prebrov 10y ago
Majority of countries that allow visa-free entry for citizen from 1st world countries won't have any data on particular citizens. U.S. Government won't upload a dump of personal data of its citizens to Thailand or Indonesia, would
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by prebrov 10y ago
Get an airplane ticket, fly to China or Russia or Cayman Islands, cash a gazillion of bitcoins into any currency you want or gold bars or pebbles. Done! Naturally, you'll have to shell out some "transaction fees" to some auth
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by prebrov 10y ago
Do it on the router. I blocked my Samsung TV from accessing internet, but still allow it into LAN for DLNA.
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by prebrov 10y ago
Yeah, that's why they don't want to run countries (be a government) - legitimacy of political power comes with a social contract, fluid and quite vague, unlike TOS. Violating it often ends up in bloodshed and revolutions.
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by prebrov 10y ago
Huawei was banned from government contracts, not from the U.S. [edit: afaik] Also, it appropriated so much of Cisco's IP (quite poorly), at least as it was establishing itself as a network equipment vendor, that I wouldn't call Hu
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by prebrov 10y ago
While formally and legally you are correct, Money is data and data is money. I believe that argument at hand is that massive digital services providers, by power of the market forces, had become just as essential part of our infrastructure
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by prebrov 10y ago
I really appreciate your further comments. I agree for most part that humans and other living things ultimately act out of self-interest. However, there are circumstances when rationale breaks, like when member of your family develops a ter
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by prebrov 10y ago
This is awesome! I find Fantastical's presentation to be very poor (though love their input), Sunrise is now on the way out... The UX you came up with is amazing! I'd pay as much as I paid for Fantastical for your native iOS app w
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by prebrov 10y ago
Any society will trade liberty for food and safety.
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by prebrov 10y ago
Out of curiosity, what's your proposal for enforcing rental contract business rules on a viewer's device? Content providers see DRM as an implementation of a movie ticket system. You know, walls, doors and a doorman that kick you
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by prebrov 10y ago
Philosophy is a science of science. It's original purpose is to define the foundations of knowledge and principles of building knowledge. At least that's how I perceive it. All that blathering about meaning of life and whatnot tha
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by prebrov 10y ago
I very much doubt they plan to equip POS's with biometric readers, not to mentioned I doubt there's a reliable enough tech to deploy at such scale.
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by prebrov 10y ago
Thanks for clarifying, peeps! As you understand, I'm selling it at what I bought it for, merely retelling what I've been told. In this particular case, bill was definitely more that $20 and to my knowledge, there was not 2-step au
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by prebrov 10y ago
Here's an anecdote about India. They started requiring customer authorisation on all card transaction recently (signature doesn't cut it and no Paywave for you). There were reports on how that that forced Uber to use local payment
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by prebrov 10y ago
Isn't that how ecosystem should work? Tree dies, new one grows on the spot. X amount of carbon should be locked in a Forrest ecosystem as long as it lives; trees, other vegetation and organisms. Some of it will eventually fossilize for
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by prebrov 11y ago
That came out wrong.
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by prebrov 11y ago
Because numbers are impersonal and the shorter and "nicer" they are, the easier they are to remember, market for short ICQ numbers was huge and phishing and hacking for these went rampant. It was a terrible system, the worst, real
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by prebrov 11y ago
May I ask why would you follow most prolific and boring photographers in the first place?

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