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by untog 7y ago
Not really. Google is a public company. If they risked legal jeopardy on the whim of Schmidt exacting revenge then shareholders would be livid.
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by untog 7y ago
But that would require companies to prioritise something other than profit and the incentive structure to do that simply doesn’t exist. It’s sad.
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by untog 7y ago
Paris has more historical buildings to worry about. Is there data on the relative added cost of either?
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by untog 7y ago
It costs a lot because of political reasons. There’s no technical reason why NYC subway construction should cost 10x what it does in Paris, and yet, it does.
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by untog 7y ago
Given everything they’ve done on the increasingly bizarre LA tunnel, I think NYC is just fine without their input. (In any case, the answer here isn’t a technical one, it’s political. And NYC/New York State lacks the political will or
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by untog 7y ago
> everything you know is wrong "MK Ultra is real therefore every other fringe conspiracy theory is too" feels like dubious logic to me, to say the least.
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by untog 7y ago
No, but it is a sustainable business, so they've got that going for them.
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by untog 7y ago
What makes .NET core particularly notable in this pairing? I don't think any Ruby/Python/etc folks will be snickering, but if all we're talking about is a REST API (or similar) connecting to a Vue frontend then the idea
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by untog 7y ago
> Every power any government has ever been given has been abused. Best to limit any government as much as reasonable. Do you really think this is sellable to the average voter? That isn't a mainstream opinion.
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by untog 7y ago
Not really. WebRTC could work just fine without the encryption. The fact that it exists and people use it not in and of itself an argument in favour of E2E.
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by untog 7y ago
To counter that metaphor, what would the objection be to doors that lock, but the police are given a master key? There are a few obvious issues with centralisation and the possibility of bad actors on the police, but I’m not sure how persua
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by untog 7y ago
Absolutely. And acquiring WhatsApp is another example of them being on the back foot and having to catch up.
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by untog 7y ago
Why in the world would Microsoft name an operating system after a UI primitive? Doomed to failure, I tell you.
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by untog 7y ago
Why do you think the programmers decided on what the name is?
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by untog 7y ago
I actually don't think that's true at all. Facebook has been caught sleeping again and again with the latest social trends. This new trend of private, group communication seems to be something that's completely caught them of
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by untog 7y ago
> Certainly there are many ways you could talk to someone about a menu: what kinds of dishes are there? Appetizers, grilled entrees, pasta, salads, desserts. What kind of entrees? Vegetarian, pork, beef, seafood. OK, but what styles of c
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by untog 7y ago
Strongly disagree with this. As someone who does own a number of Google Home devices at home and uses Siri on my phone... voice is a terrible interface. For one, there is zero discoverability. I can ask Google today's weather. I can as
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by untog 7y ago
That study seems to only look at Amtrak trains, so it doesn't consider the large number of subway or urban light rail systems in use. Amtrak has relatively few passengers (along with many other problems). The NYC subway system, for exa
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by untog 7y ago
But the "easier development" part is very debatable. What do I see in the browser developer console when debugging a Blazor app? Can I insert breakpoints, trace what is running and how? etc. etc. I get disliking JavaScript, but th
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by untog 7y ago
I don't doubt C++ is faster than JS, but JS in modern browsers is more than "fast enough" no matter how much faster C++ may be. If you're doing the kind of things most web pages do (render some UI, information and inputs
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by untog 7y ago
My experience of tools/languages that sit on top of the actual native implementations (e.g. React Native or Xamarin on mobile) is that they often lead to much slower development, since when you're Googling around trying to find an
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by untog 7y ago
Sure. Blazor scratches a developer itch. But end users aren't likely to feel a difference one way or the other. The same bottlenecks are still the same bottlenecks.
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by untog 7y ago
> The server side version is interesting, it ships DOM updates to the client from the server over a websocket WebForms 2020! Amazing.
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by untog 7y ago
Not to diminish the achievement here, which is considerable, but I feel like a lot of these WebAssembly-based projects miss the forest for the trees. JavaScript isn't really that big of a problem or a performance killer. The DOM is. I
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by untog 7y ago
You create companies that evade tax and pay workers as little as possible? Remind me why that is desirable again? People act as if it's an either/or: if you make companies pay tax, Amazon will never exist. But if the market is the
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by untog 7y ago
I think you're cherry picking. I'd say AMP and the consequent AMP for email are recent examples to the contrary. Nothing wrong with skepticism, especially directed at a company the size of Google.
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by untog 7y ago
I'm usually very skeptical of Google's plan for anything, but if it's pissing off big ISPs then sign me up.
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by untog 7y ago
Sorry, you want the government to spend money ? No, no, that simply won't do.
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by untog 7y ago
> I often wonder why there are no such robots in Manhattan now? It sounds like it only made one pancake at a time? A person stood at a griddle can make a dozen pancakes at once. And we don't know how often that robot broke down. I s
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by untog 7y ago
Twitter and Snap have never meaningfully competed with Facebook in terms of market share. Probably one of the reasons FB didn't acquire them, too.

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