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by singron 6y ago
TPB never supported absolute free speech. I can't find it now, but they used to have a section of their site where they posted responses to media company lawyers, and they basically said they wouldn't take down anything except chi
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by singron 6y ago
Do you have examples of Google Cloud arbitrarily changing prices and terminating products? Sure they terminate consumer products, and there was a Maps price hike, but I'm not aware of anything that's part of Cloud.
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by singron 6y ago
As far as I can tell, this is written in C++ like the rest of GCC, so they don't need a rust compiler to bootstrap.
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by singron 6y ago
I just keep activity monitor open all the time. I've noticed that fan speed significantly lags CPU load, so it's difficult to notice and react in time. The one that gives me the most trouble is mds_store, or the spotlight search i
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by singron 6y ago
I don't know about industrial processes involving bacteria, but the mealworms might be providing a lot of value. First they chew up the styrofoam, and then they provide an environment (pH, nutrients, enzymes) for the bacteria to be eff
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by singron 6y ago
I highly recommend nix for this type of problem, both on linux and macos. You can make all kinds of dependencies available simultaneously in the same file system. You don't have to run vms, or copy in and out of containers. The build c
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by singron 6y ago
It's non trivial. A lot of games require trusted clients because of client side latency compensation. Also any game that requires mechanical skill (e.g. aim in an fps or actions per minute in rts) is susceptible to cheating even if all
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by singron 6y ago
CapWords function names matches the C++ style guide at Google, not java. A lot of python uses autogenerated bindings to C++ code and reuses the same naming conventions. Even pure python code would use that style although their public styleg
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by singron 6y ago
Particularly at Google, programming languages, code styles, common libraries, and tools are incredibly similar between teams. There are really low barriers to jumping into someone else's codebase. It's not uncommon to review chang
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by singron 6y ago
Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake. If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china
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by singron 6y ago
I think they might be referring to a unikernel. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unikernel In userspace, you can do what busybox does and link a bunch of programs together with a single main function that decides which
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by singron 6y ago
The difference in this case is that a retailer has no reason to believe that a random member of the public is going to use merchandise to bludgeon someone. However if a person comes in the store and says they are stocking up for the murder
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by singron 6y ago
From my reading of available publications by the airforce on maven, the calculus was actually that they had a fixed threshold for risk, and being able to analyze more data would allow them to act in more cases with that same risk level. To
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by singron 6y ago
This is the Just World Fallacy. It's not necessarily true that spending money benefits society. You can spend money to harm society, with or without intention.
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by singron 6y ago
The facebook dump also includes email addresses and phone numbers that you have deleted from your account. After I removed my contact information from my account, I was curious why advertisers were still able to target my account with these
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by singron 6y ago
It's a gross receipts tax on the business. E.g. so if you make $100, but the business has $1,000,000 in gross receipts, then 0.1% would be $1000 in taxes or 10x your total compensation. It's got teeth.
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by singron 6y ago
The text of the measure refers to "compensation", of which it gives a specific definition that includes commissions, bonuses, and equity (specifically mentioning stock options). The $1 salary CEO isn't excluded if they also h
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by singron 6y ago
Google SREs are split into SWE-SRE and System-SRE. They have different interview processes and job ladders. Usually they have the same job functions day to day, but anecdotally it seemed like SWE-SREs were SWEs who got into SRE and System-S
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by singron 6y ago
This is a good point. Circumvention is defined in a different chapter[0] than copyright infringement, and there is no language to imply that circumvention is copyright infringement. Besides that, there are requirements in 1201 that YouTube
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by singron 6y ago
You can't violate the GPL if you aren't a party to the license (i.e. if you aren't copying copyrighted works). I don't know if it's a GPLv3 violation to distribute software in hardware that the user can technically
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by singron 6y ago
While I dont think you can set any url as a "search engine", you can set any url as a parameterized keyword bookmark. Create a bookmark, then edit its properties, put %s in the url, and assign it a keyword. This behavior is more s
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by singron 6y ago
Unfortunately if you work at Google, you need permission from Google to work on anything outside of work with your own equipment in almost any domain. Even if the you benefit from moonlighting laws in California, Google is such a huge corpo
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by singron 6y ago
It's possible to get around this with a redirect staple. E.g. if Google wants you to be logged in on youtube.com and google.com simultaneously: 1) User logs in at google.com/login and sets google.com cookies. 2) Server generates a
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by singron 6y ago
This wouldn't be so bad if popular UIs like gmail weren't so opposed to displaying email addresses in an email client. In many places they display exclusively the name. It's very confusing, especially if the people you email
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by singron 6y ago
It's not necessarily so clear cut. Without evidence directly linking the cracking to a specific password, the conversation is circumstantial. There often isn't enough direct evidence to be 100% sure of a conviction, so circumstant
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by singron 6y ago
This reminds me of Particularism[0]. Instead of applying consistent moral principles to this case to determine right or wrong, they have already decided that this particular case is wrong and are figuring out what moral principles they can
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by singron 6y ago
The H1B makes it more difficult to change jobs or negotiate salary. Any interruption to employment is a huge risk to staying in the country. Thus those employees are more likely to accept lower offers and stay in those jobs longer. E.g. a c
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by singron 6y ago
It's like they say: the average American is half male, half female, and has 1.9 children.
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by singron 6y ago
The lack of a language spec hurts, but it's gotten better. E.g. there used to be no formal rules about what was OK to do in an unsafe block. There was a general idea that you shouldn't use different mutable references to the same
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by singron 6y ago
If manufacturers can be directly sued, then the cost will have to be incorporated into the cost of the cars. That being said, consumers already like being safe for their own benefit. And since safety is entirely in the hands of the manufact

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