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by sievebrain 9y ago
You are correct, the PRC doesn't care that much about nobodies venting on web forums. People like you pose no threat so you are ignored. Now try organising something to act on that criticism, like people in the West can do. You'll
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by sievebrain 10y ago
Yet no such site exists. Probably because 'anti trolling mechanisms' would mean banning people who are claimed by others to be trolls, and that'd quickly result in nearly everyone being banned. Especially a social network dom
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by sievebrain 10y ago
I really don't think the kind of people who are being abusive on Twitter stop and evaluate the race or gender of who they're attacking before they do so. There's plenty of nasty tweeting directed towards white males on Twitte
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by sievebrain 10y ago
It's not "bike shedding". Bikeshed painting is a term for discussions where the outcome doesn't matter, often started to give management a feeling that they're in control and being involved. Pointing out that "
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by sievebrain 10y ago
Because everyone knows that white males are never assholes to each other on the internet? Thanks for summarising the article - good to know I can skip it without missing anything.
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by sievebrain 10y ago
XHTML Strict only solved one set of leniencies in the web platform, which were also the least important kinds. Malformed HTML makes writing browsers complicated but doesn't generally seem to cause security issues or other visible, obvi
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by sievebrain 10y ago
You think. Remember that you don't know what binary you were delivered, unless you personally reverse engineered it yourself.
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by sievebrain 10y ago
That'd required the person doing the using to know Clojure, right?
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by sievebrain 10y ago
You probably see a lot more English than other languages, so you'll see a proportionally higher number of mistakes too.
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by sievebrain 10y ago
You're assuming its vs it's is always due to lack of knowledge. Sometimes it's just a brainfart. I noticed today that I had sent an email that used the wrong form of "to" ("too" instead). This isn't b
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by sievebrain 10y ago
Decades? Why not centuries!
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by sievebrain 10y ago
Not quite true. The gang that struck Bangladesh attempted to steal a cool billion dollars. After subtracting the transactions that were caught during manual review at other institutions and the transactions that were rolled back, they &#x
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by sievebrain 10y ago
Politics related threads have that issue. Downvoting should go: lots of people use it as a way to try and suppress political views they disagree with. For instance, I pretty much accept that pro-Brexit posts will always get downvoted, even
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by sievebrain 10y ago
Open source software of any complexity costs far more than that to develop, assuming you assign non-zero value to opportunity cost. Your time is valuable!
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by sievebrain 10y ago
It is explicitly required, so either DroidJack has a way around that, or (more likely) there's an obfuscated version of it in the Play Store which can then be told to install the app via code that remotely controls the browser (or stea
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by sievebrain 10y ago
Free and open source software can still be signed.
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by sievebrain 10y ago
Surely the biggest win here is not so much the faster rendering, which is nice, but rather that font rendering is so often a source of remote code execution exploits ...
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by sievebrain 10y ago
Free movement of people is never a part of the EU's free trade deals (with non-geographically European countries). Where did you get that idea? Look at CETA or TTIP.
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by sievebrain 10y ago
It'd be more accurate to say they weren't allowed to compete in China.
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by sievebrain 10y ago
The Norway solution was already ruled out by the PM. I agree that there will end up being some compromise, eventually: one that involves free trade without freedom of movement a la CETA. The question is only how long it takes to get there.
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by sievebrain 10y ago
The Platonian ideal of an unbiased, expert economist who can see into the future is a fantasy. No such people exist.
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by sievebrain 10y ago
Because the EU should not be a collection of artificially bound yet unrelated policies. And don't get me started on respecting the EU rules. Let's talk about that once Germany starts paying big fines to the EU for violating its ru
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by sievebrain 10y ago
It was a claim about the (distant) future, making it impossible to say whether it's true or not. The only thing that matters about such a claim is therefore plausibility , and it had none. They were right to retire it.
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by sievebrain 10y ago
He didn't say "wants to forbid", he said "is cancelling" and he is referring to the ERASMUS scheme from which Switzerland has been suspended: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Programme Iro
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by sievebrain 10y ago
If you deliberately seek out news sources you know to be biased, and then compare them to other news sources, aren't you always going to conclude that those other sources are biased in the other direction? You say the BBC has "out
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by sievebrain 10y ago
Challenged how? In legal systems like that of the USA, the regulators can make new laws. You can't indisputably break a law and then challenge the law itself unless it's unconstitutional, but the constitution has very little to sa
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by sievebrain 10y ago
What incentives would lead a trained banker to rigorously and honestly enforce regulations? A salary. What incentives would lead to retaining trained, rigorous, honest people? A bigger salary. The difficulties the public sector has in i
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by sievebrain 10y ago
"their competitor" looks like a typo but is correct. US financial regulation grants a duopoly to the two big ratings agencies: despite their utter failure in 2008 and despite the low barriers to entry, no new competitors have emer
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by sievebrain 10y ago
The losing side made many, many more lies, much more severe and important. Just a few: David Cameron, "I will not resign even if the vote is out". He resigned immediately. Osborne, "if you vote out there will be a 'punis
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by sievebrain 10y ago
The Independent might as well be the official state outlet of the EU as far as I can tell. You'd get more balanced coverage from reading Chinese media about China. Just taking a few representative headlines from its website: http:&#x2

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