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by soneil 8y ago
This is the industry that created the popup/pop-under, and abused it until it got to the point where every reasonable browser has integrated functionality to block & whitelist them. Now they're abusing mass data harvesting and
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by soneil 8y ago
We should already be used to this. We're used to seeing the phrase "Your statutory rights remain unaffected". A site's ToS, a store's policies, etc do not override your rights available by law. If a shop says &quot
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by soneil 8y ago
I can't really think of a nicer way to say this: I don't care. I get the theory. I get that everyone wants everything for free, and many providers still need a return. But we've let adtech run wild, and they've just got
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by soneil 8y ago
I don't honestly believe "we'll just end up paying janitors more" actually works out. You pay teachers more, you pay policemen more, and your taxes go up. You start paying all the waitresses more, the supermarket worker
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by soneil 8y ago
For what it's worth, the easiest way to demonstrate a round earth is to Skype/Facetime/$equivalent someone in a different timezone. The more dramatically different the better. Get them to let you see where the sun is in the
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by soneil 8y ago
They're both doing the same thing. Just in Google's case, you and I aren't the customer. We're the user. Not the same thing.
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by soneil 8y ago
I think it was perhaps poorly worded, but I have to agree with the spirit. Contrast bookshops vs libraries. We expect the state to provide libraries, not bookshops. Not because we think bookshops are bad, but because we believe libraries
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by soneil 8y ago
I think that's why you hear more concern about this from the US, than you do from the EU. They're not contrasting the two legal cultures, and just expecting the EU to act like the US would.
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by soneil 9y ago
A quote I noticed in fortune(1) today: "The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes." Seems particularly apt in this context.
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by soneil 9y ago
It probably has very little bearing. What's relevant here is which legal entity users have an agreement with. For taxation, it's which legal entity their customers have an agreement with. It's always worth remembering faceb
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by soneil 9y ago
The window went missing ( https://imgur.com/a/5Adjd ) at 31,000ft ( https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/wn1380#1111bb4d ). "Violent" may be a poor descriptor, but I'd be ver
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by soneil 9y ago
I think it'd be fair to say that's a textbook example of "reasonable expectation of privacy". If someone watches you walk down the street, your reaction would be somewhere on a scale between not even noticing, and thinki
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by soneil 9y ago
They'd have to take recycling to a whole new level, to place the different metals separate geological seams, however. If the human race were wiped out this afternoon, and you came back in 100 million years, you'd still be able to
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by soneil 9y ago
I don't believe it covers that at all. I believe their definition of crust there is a lot more superficial than it sounds like. eg, the Chicxulub (Yucutan) crater is 66 million years ago, and clearly hasn't been recycled else we
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by soneil 9y ago
Not just oil, we probably wouldn't have an an iron age without access to unmolested surface deposits. Iron, tin, copper. If there was a pre-human civilization, they couldn't have gone beyond the stone age, else they'd have c
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by soneil 9y ago
> The intelligence services would say something that would make you skeptical of the motivations of leakers. I'd assume most intelligence services love leakers. They just want to be the recipient, not the source.
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by soneil 9y ago
An interesting consideration there. Prostitution is legal (or decriminalized?) in The Netherlands, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Countries with well-developed social protections & healthcare. This would seem to indicate the two a
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by soneil 9y ago
My understanding is that a lot of banking was jewish simply because of their legal system. You could reasonably expect a jewish bank to obey a jewish court decision, even if that court was on another continent. This lent an otherwise unhea
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by soneil 9y ago
Of course, as you say, this is the curse of generalizations. It's just the easiest way I've found to explain how legal systems which are superficially similar (I live in an "english common-law" country), end up being wie
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by soneil 9y ago
I generalize it as the US protects companies, the EU protects people. It sounds backwards as the US leans more towards personal freedoms than societal freedoms, but the most powerful amendments don't protect people outright. They just
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by soneil 9y ago
not just wget -N in a polite loop?
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by soneil 9y ago
I read it as a pretty fair comparison within the context. They're not comparing windows vs linux. They're comparing the challenges their repo faces vs the challenges the linux kernel repo faces. And within that context, I reall
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by soneil 9y ago
Not just selling alcohol, "transactions". Which means no more swaps. Trading local brews or homebrews are fun communities, and they just got wiped out with zero warning.
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by soneil 9y ago
I still prefer that though. It seems quite clear to me. No-one cares about users, they care about customers. Apple care about their customers. Google care about their customers. Facebook care about their customers. I am an Apple custome
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by soneil 9y ago
re: case insensitive .. I've heard of a bank with a similar problem, I don't recall which, where the reason was legacy compatibility with touch-tone phones. The password was normalized to something you could key in on a phone. Th
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by soneil 9y ago
Spotify Connect lets any spotify client act as a remote, and lets you hand-off from one sink to another. The primary benefit for me is that a Connect client is actually connecting to spotify itself - it's less output sink and more head
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by soneil 9y ago
The analogue audio is still pretty subpar. It's just (12bit?) pwm into a simple RC filter. the hdmi output is fine though, and there's a whole aftermarket of boards providing better audio (typically using their own dac on the i2
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by soneil 9y ago
It is much easier. There's "Apple Watch", "Apple Watch Series 1", Series 2, Series 3 .. So we end up with a classic fence-post error, where if I say I have the first model, most people could assume I mean Series 1.
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by soneil 9y ago
I'm not nearly well versed enough on the JFK assassination to comment. But flat-earthers are pretty much the stereotype of what I had in mind with my original comment. If you go into it disbelieving, you find something verging on absu
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by soneil 9y ago
I'm sure we'll find out more in due course. Right now, it's 4am and all we have is a statement from the family. I'm sure they have much better things to be doing right now. That said, his original prognosis was that he

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