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by ucarion 8y ago
I'm not so sure. By putting this service's code on your website, you transmit personal data (IP addresses) to this third party. That appears to make the GDPR applicable here? Transmission is considered "data processing"
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by ucarion 8y ago
First off: hats off for making a product that takes the rights of the end user seriously! However, I am a bit confused as to who would want this product. The sort of questions this product answers seem quite limited: 1. What URLs are gettin
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by ucarion 8y ago
Until recently, http://ai did exactly this. They also had MX records, so n@ai was a valid email address.
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by ucarion 8y ago
Note that under both proposed systems, the icon of Firefox-the-browser would remain the same. The "Gitlab-like" vulpine logo would be that of Mozilla, whose logo is the "://" thing right now.
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by ucarion 8y ago
Sure -- though Bohemia had preceded modern Czechia for centuries, and was still a quasi-state in its own right under the Habsburgs. Such historical unity is rare in modern Africa.
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by ucarion 8y ago
The example of Pakistan/Bangladesh and India establishes a bad precedent. Nor is South Sudan doing terribly well. Though the Europeans inflicted a great deal of damage upon Africa, to submit the continent to a second round of revision
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by ucarion 8y ago
In case anyone else was confused by the literary reference, "one with Nineveh and Tyre" is from Kipling's "Recessional": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recessional_(poem) Which, I think, is the
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by ucarion 8y ago
Amazing work on this release! I've needed so many of these features in stable Rust, and I'm so excited to get to use these. I mean, just yesterday I had to do some weird stuff to a for loop in order to iterate over all u8s in a
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by ucarion 8y ago
I do think describing (American) law in more detail here did help resolve some tension, because it clarified an alternative between absolute tolerance and absolute prejudice. I don't see why protected classes aren't an impartial s
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by ucarion 8y ago
They may not be impersonating Amazon, but they are using Amazon's services to circumvent the intent of policies (laws) that Amazon wants to comply with. Amazon has decided to stop be an unwitting participant in this particular mechan
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by ucarion 9y ago
You're talking only about the public + free MOOC stuff, right? I think it's reasonable for that to be biased toward less specialized stuff. Internally, Berkeley definitely isn't based toward the intro-level stuff. Quite the o
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by ucarion 9y ago
The claim that EU may have a populist-fueled agenda against American tech companies is not entirely without basis. It's not lawless anti-Americanism, but the tone has certainly changed. Consider what the Economist has to say about Marg
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by ucarion 9y ago
The government of the United States does not demand that mainland China relinquish control of Tibet. Nor does the USA insist on censoring mainland controversies or on punishing foreigners who say inconvenient things. This difference is es
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by ucarion 9y ago
The ability to edit/pan the map by hand afterwords is really nicely done. Excellent work!
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by ucarion 9y ago
I don't see the relevance of Ms Reda's example of Catalonian domains being taken down. Using such an example seems more like a scare tactic than anything else. The EU law she discusses seems clearly focused on (e-)commerce, and it
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by ucarion 9y ago
You surely do see the difference between "far right" groups and "far left" ones. There are important differences. America has a history of white supremacy, and so Americans are rightly very concerned about its reemergenc
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by ucarion 9y ago
In case anyone else was wondering, the longest line of sight from Mt. Davidson, the tallest hill in San Francisco, is 148.9km, looking southeast over the length of the bay. Here's a panorama: http://www.udeuschle.selfhost.pr
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by ucarion 9y ago
This is what I thought at first too, but as others have pointed out, there are lots of nearby mountains that block the horizon in the Himalayas. Here's a panorama using the same tool the article uses: http://www.udeuschle.se
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by ucarion 9y ago
If we do not have free will, it would not be a tragedy. Ethics would still exist, and the importance of thinking about right and wrong would not be diminished. Thinking about what is ethical often precedes acting ethically, because it p
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by ucarion 9y ago
YouTube subscribers is not a good measure of the reach, nor the social value, of a publication. YouTube is rife with crazy, conspiratorial, and provocative stuff, so you'd expect fringe outlets like InfoWars to do well there; people wh
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by ucarion 9y ago
Pedantry: you mean whet , not wet . To "whet" means to excite, stimulate.
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by ucarion 9y ago
The commenter you replied to may have a point. Just because vile speech has a place in public discourse, doesn't mean it is good to present that speech in a very public way. Reddit is among the most widely-used websites in the world --
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by ucarion 9y ago
In that sentence, Asimov refers to the popular conception of the elite -- a very low standard -- and not some elite that is defined as the top 1% of society by some measure. On this popular conception of the elite, almost anyone can be a
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by ucarion 9y ago
For a beginner, it's a frustrating process. OpenGL's primary way of letting you know you messed up is by giving you a blank screen. This is much alleviated when you use a wrapper around OpenGL (e.g. Rust's `gfx`), but most pe
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by ucarion 9y ago
A sibling to this comment mentions/r/Bitcoin, which I agree has biased moderators. But I don't see such blatant bias in the large political subreddits. What views can't be expressed on /r/politics?
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by ucarion 9y ago
There's a cities.go file in the examples, maybe it's that? But the relevant cities.json is not in this repo.
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by ucarion 9y ago
It's considered good style to support user messages like "what can I say?" or "where was I?" for precisely this reason.
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by ucarion 9y ago
The crucial argument for me was that I have to trust Facebook forever . Facebook intends to keep your data forever, so you have to trust them for just as long. I don't think Facebook will go forever without some major data leak. I don
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by ucarion 9y ago
This isn't true in general. For instance, U+1F346 AUBERGINE ("the eggplant emoji") is at first glance merely a vegetable, but in practice its phallic shape means it's understood to represent a penis. Similar things happe
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by ucarion 9y ago
I've noticed this (backward steps) with some friends. I think it's because people don't think logically with math notation--they just play with symbols until they get the sentence they want. To get around this, I just get peo

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