syrrim

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by syrrim 8y ago
The motte for forced updates is that they are security updates.
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by syrrim 8y ago
Good video can be better. Most video is crap. The problem is that crap video is much harder to correct than crap text. You can skim a slow article. Much harder to skim a video. Even AI can extract the most important information from a news
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by syrrim 8y ago
>listen at 2x speed I'm trying 1.5x, but then when he is speaking it is too fast >skip ahead I skipped the introduction, but the standstill periods are too short, and you have no way of knowing when something interesting will hap
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by syrrim 8y ago
def apply(f, a): return f(*a)
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by syrrim 8y ago
>> if you are contributing to FOSS qua FOSS, then you want it to remain FOSS >Not necessarily. Perhaps you missed the "qua FOSS"? This is latin for "because it is", in this context "contributing to FOSS bec
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by syrrim 8y ago
>not all open source is FOSS >This is not the case of all open source licenses. false. open source is literally just a friendlier name and otherwise rebranding of free software. all open source is free software and all free software i
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by syrrim 8y ago
Someone always takes the hit. Bitcoin allows you to guarantee that you won't take a hit. Other services can be set up to protect other people as well. I might buy bitcoin with my creditcard, such that if someone fraudulently buys bitco
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by syrrim 8y ago
Snapchat are trying to become facebook. Whatsapps plan was to charge people money to use their service. Its amyones guess if that would have been successful, but it would have been far nobler than advertising.
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by syrrim 8y ago
>The old UX was dangerously misleading for people who share computers, a worryingly common practice. The new UX makes it at least a bit more clear that if you’re browsing on a borrowed computer, you really should be using a discardable G
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by syrrim 8y ago
>just read all 109 pages of legaleze!
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by syrrim 8y ago
If I had to speculate, I'd say this is primarily a reaction to improved ability to track people, such that it is next to impossible for a person to jump bail. You can't get on a plane, or otherwise try and cross the border, becaus
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by syrrim 8y ago
:g/^#/p for markdown at least.
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by syrrim 8y ago
The western variant does not necessarily save the driver only half the weight, this depends on how the wheelbarrow is loaded. In the standard arrangement, with handles extending out towards the driver, and the wheelbarrow tipping forwards f
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by syrrim 8y ago
It's possible GP was trying to make a joke. One signifier of this is that he follows with "more seriously", suggesting what came before was less serious. You should be more sensitive before suggesting that someone isn'
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by syrrim 8y ago
"rent seeking", in economics, is not limited to regulation. We would distinguish between those who earn money by creating new value - as the inventor makes some process more efficient, and so makes his living - and those who earn
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by syrrim 8y ago
Free speech is, in fact, primarily the right to say what you want, not the right to stop others from saying what they want. I admitted that the latter form is sometimes important, but that imparts no requirement on the rest of us to always
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by syrrim 8y ago
We have already supposed that all hosting providers have terminated you, and all DNS providers have terminated you, why shouldn't all ISPs terminate you?
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by syrrim 8y ago
You're thinking of the first amendment and other legal institutions. Free speech is a much broader concept than this. Ask yourself what a right to bodily autonomy would be if the government only promised that its officers wouldn't
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by syrrim 8y ago
>it is possible to start your own ISP And where do you suppose ISPs get internet from?
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by syrrim 8y ago
It's true that many people have tried making open source CAS, but fxsolver isn't one of them. You will find great difficulty finding a link to its source code, and wikipedia lists it as proprietary.
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by syrrim 8y ago
In python, `greeter.lazyGreet()` would succeed, because python only has types at runtime. If you used mypy, you would get a warning for this. No warning would be issued for `greeter.greet()`, but since function dispatch is still done at run
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by syrrim 8y ago
This ignores the problem of bias by ommission, where an editor merely doesn't include something that goes against their bias. This is impossible to solve with sources because editors still need to be able to choose to ignore something
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by syrrim 8y ago
What a joke. The only thing that will improve app quality is evolution by natural selection. Shitty apps bleed users and bleed cash. Increasing friction lowers the number of new entrants and raises the cost of iteration ie the two things th
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by syrrim 8y ago
Easy solution: sell the tickets at an inflated price normally, then give discounts to people who you think wouldn't buy otherwise. Require these people show their ID at check-in. This will cause people to willingly give over their data
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by syrrim 8y ago
This is a very silly way of looking at the world. The reason people prefer centralized services is because: - they have greater capacity to add features - they have more ability to have search and other discovery Neither of these are inhere
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by syrrim 8y ago
They should get insurance. It is very silly to suggest that they will act as a one man fire department.
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by syrrim 8y ago
I think important to remember when comparing against custom ROMs is that people using these are known to be more tech savvy, and to be interested in greater privacy. With android, google assumes many users are don't want to configure p
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by syrrim 8y ago
The way utilities work is equivalent to a credit card: you use the service over the course of a month/year, then at the end you pay for what you used. This is a form of debt. If you could pay at the atart, this would be alleviated, but
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by syrrim 8y ago
Ah yes, because this problem is easy, and the only reason it hasn't been solved is because of neanderthals running businesses.
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by syrrim 8y ago
Here's the real rub: the videos have already been pirated at full quality, and are available online for free. They're doing a poor job of defending something that has already been breached. That all said, camcorders don't get

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