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This is basically a Chinese struggle session.
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6y ago
The signature verification part was dropped by court. And to be honest I don't understand why.
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6y ago
I read 8chan and 4chan sometimes, not /b/ and not /pol/, I am more interested in the other boards that often care for or start open source projects. I am very disappointed with people that want to shut down these places,
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6y ago
Is there any proprietary OS that is NOT pulling these shenanigans in the lastest versions? Suppose I want to buy a OS or a computer+OS (like Mac), so not talking about Linux and FreeBSD and whatnot. Is there any OS that won't attempt t
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NES is not 16 bit, and they don't make clones, they are licensed to make official consoles on behalf of the foreign company.
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Here in Brazil people think tax is theft, and that avoiding taxes is moral... Problem is, often they are not wrong, there is massive government corruption, and taxes are often used for unethical and wrong things, meanwhile actual services a
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6y ago
Part of it has to do with corruption. There was a time when I was trying to run an actual journalistic quality blog about gamedev, and I interviewed a bunch of people, some of them almost slipped out stuff, and one talked to me off the reco
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Ask HN: How a small business buy a collaborative email system?
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I came to say this, but since you already said, another information: Some years ago a lawmaker calculated the taxes for game consoles and concluded they are 273% of the US price. Also when Sony was heavily bashed for the price of Playstatio
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6y ago
Yes, a particularly annoying case for example is the "Coronavirus Map". Everyone I know that typed that on google, wanted to visit the John Hopkins map: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html But to me, and to many
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I am a Google costumer, as in, I pay Google to show my ads in search. To me a literal monopoly is obvious, no other competitor comes even close to Google in performance of search ads, but Google keep increasing in hostility too, they do eve
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Problem is not always this is possible. See the infamous case of someone using scumvm to make games for console... To make a console game you need to follow an NDA that you won't release source to avoid revealing the API, thus you can&
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I own a shop that sells industrial parts, many clients of ours praised us for giving critical help, being able to find parts they needed urgently to keep their also critical factory working. thing is, people find out we exist solely because
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6y ago
My country uses a similar definition. I graduated right in middle of 2008 crisis and for various reasons never found a full time job (all my work was owning my own contracting companies or startups) so for example my government (Brazil) doe
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6y ago
Two funny stories about it: 1. Was looking for a place to rent near tech companies here in brazil, one house was obviously heavily modified to withstand floods, all doors were made of aluminum, there was in multiple places tubes to get rid
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That was one of the cases yes. Just so you understand the context: To prevent a dictator abusing executive powers to prevent protests and whatnot, the constitution allow quarantines and lockdowns only under very specific conditions: 1. Only
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In my country at least a lot of that has to do with the media and our current supreme court. Despite Brazil having the most advanced constitution in the world regarding human rights, local leaders have been ignoring it outright, and when th
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We already use thunderbird. In fact that is part of the reason we want to move away from Google, they declared Oauth 2 will be mandatory, and thunderbird last I checked didn't had all the certifications needed, and we had a scare when
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The article mentions the pollution there is in part for the construction of "Green" tech, like wind turbines and batteries for solar panels. Are there serious research about how much this "green" tech is actually greener
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Currently I am trying to figure out how to move e-mail away from google, not my personal one, but my company e-mail. Couldn't figure out yet... The reason is that despite being a corporate costuemer we don't pay enough to have acc
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Today I was thinking about this kind of thing, for example Epic not allowing reviews at all, Valve "off topic" review hiding, metacritic changes to their system, or Netflix removing their review system... I concluded that review s
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Twitter also blocked Trump Campaign official account. Republican Congress account, and personal account of a spokesperson (don't remember if it was for whitehouse or Trump). This sounds like a major footgun.
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I don't own a printer myself But my small-ish company owns several, and in my country it is basically essential... A major reason to have a printer here, is that if you do ANY, and I mean ANY business, you need to file a electronic for
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I couldn't read the article, on the monitor of the ancient workstation I am using, the article is impossible to read, seemly they assumed everyone by now would have 1080p monitors or something, the site has a giant fixed menubar on the
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Twitter locks nypost account for reporting on Hunter Biden HDD
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In my country this wouldn't surprise me at all. School system here is basically hell, they picked the worst parts of USA and EU styles of education and mixed them into some kind of unholy beast designed to break children. Here many sch
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The article didn't say the shows got better. It said that shows sometimes, do not get traction immediately. I suspect that might been the case with "The OA" for example. I watched first season only because my wife wanted it,
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I already take regular blood tests (because thyroid issues). Often I push the medics to let me get more tests than they want (where I live private blood testing is not a normal thing, you need doctor permission), this is how I got diagnosed
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In my case Iodine caused it. I have Hashimoto's Disease. Thing is, many people with genes for it never develop the disease, or develop it only later in their life... I started showing symptons when I was 14. Completely by coincidence I
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One reason for frequent switches was switching of health insurance. The other reason was that diagnosing my hypothyroidism was super hard, there are a ridiculous amounts of shitty quality endocrinologists out there, including many doing thi
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