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by sesutton 12y ago
There are still OEMs who will have to pay for it. I think the number of people who actually upgrade their version of Windows rather than just buying a new device is relatively small.
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by sesutton 12y ago
>HN is inundated with people living in CA, NY, the UK - All places where the right to own and bear firearms is non-existent or substantially impeded. Are you implying that most people here are in favor of gun control? Because the voting
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by sesutton 12y ago
You could audit the Go source and then use the diverse double compiling technique[0] to verify that the binary you're using corresponds to that source code. [0] http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/dissertation&#
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by sesutton 12y ago
Cross compiling Nim is also dead simple. I even managed to compile for an unsupported Unix with very minimal knowledge of Nim.
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by sesutton 12y ago
IANAL either but I think the part about modifications by third parties means that you don't get a license to an additional Facebook patent you might infringe by modifying it. So if you change React to add some functionality that infrin
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by sesutton 12y ago
I imagine a lot of them were for image thumbnails since reddit actually hosts those.
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by sesutton 12y ago
The rules about encryption and backdoors are authoritarian but hardly unexpected from China. The rest of it doesn't seem so unusual. Microsoft has been sharing source code with governments for over a decade and several other countries
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by sesutton 12y ago
Its hard for me to come up with a way in which this is not RMS advocating restricting the freedom of users of GCC. If he is so opposed to proprietary software using GCC output why not use a license that prohibits that? Its not even too late
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by sesutton 12y ago
Maybe not through legal means but the one gun store that tried to actually sell a smart gun got death threats.
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by sesutton 12y ago
This is just a variation of the slippery slope argument except this slope doesn't seem very slippery to me. Gun rights have been getting stronger in the US not weaker, courts in recent years have decided that the 2nd amendment is an in
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by sesutton 12y ago
I think this[0] thread is a pretty good example of a hive mind in action. I disagree with a lot of those comments but I would have had to put a lot more effort to write a dissenting comment than most other commenters just to have a chance o
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by sesutton 12y ago
I don't see how you got to that conclusion from reading the article other than perhaps assuming that in the American context conservative equals far-right. Perhaps its a matter of perspective but while there are plenty of far-right peo
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by sesutton 12y ago
You're right it will only work for one class. This is actually a perfect example of jQuery smoothing out the rough edges for you. I think the split method would work (provided you remember to split with \s instead of just space). It ac
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by sesutton 12y ago
The no commercial license definitely makes it not free (as in speech) software. This definitely killed my interest. Edit- I also think the license should be noted much more prominently otherwise its going to bite people.
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by sesutton 12y ago
"Torture" isn't just a crime it's also a word that's been around for centuries that is used to describe the kind of things described in the report. People who want to avoid it do so because its a powerful and emotiv
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by sesutton 12y ago
Interestingly I logged out of my Google account in Chrome and immediately got an old style CAPTCHA. But not when I logged out in Safari (I very rarely use Safari). Edit- Nevermind, it looks like Safari left some google.com cookie lying arou
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by sesutton 12y ago
I think you're being a little hyperbolic. Google is classifying what is already normal human behavior. Having JavaScript disabled is definitely not "normal" human behavior. Of the stats I found only 1-2% of users don't g
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by sesutton 12y ago
The problem is that Google has no incentive to be careful in choosing which links it removes. There is no penalty for removing links unnecessarily but there is the potential for EU member states to levy fines for not removing them.