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by vatueil 9y ago
VLC can't play YouTube playlists natively, but there's a VLC add-on that supports doing so: https://addons.videolan.org/content/show.php/+Youtube+playli... Also, mpv can use youtube-dl if both are instal
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by vatueil 9y ago
There was a previous discussion based on a similar article from Creative Commons a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16810999 c3o (Christopher Clay), who works in the EU Parliament according to his profi
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by vatueil 9y ago
That's a problem with PayPal, not Gmail. You can't register "myemail" if someone else has already registered "my.email", so PayPal must not have verified the address (unless you accidentally clicked the verific
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by vatueil 9y ago
There's no way to stop someone from copying the message if they really want to. That doesn't mean a system that prevents the recipient from accidentally leaking the message has no use. There are plenty of scenarios where the sende
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by vatueil 9y ago
I agree that the comparison with all motor vehicle deaths is misleading, and that we ought to be looking at accident rates for Tesla cars with Autopilot on versus off. That Tesla hasn't answered the latter despite having the data to do
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by vatueil 9y ago
The linked source says nothing about a "blackout zone" over China. More likely SpaceX won't sell ground receivers in mainland China and/or the PRC will simply ban Starlink receivers.
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by vatueil 9y ago
> Google buys your credit card purchase data. A more accurate explanation of the scare quote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16698587 > IIRC, this was announced as part of a program that uses double-blinded c
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by vatueil 9y ago
That's actually the same point the parent comment by thriftwy was making. The two of you are not in disagreement. But as for your argument, didn't you just list notable alternatives for most Google products? To the extent that the
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by vatueil 9y ago
Glad AMD plans to patch the exploits, not that I ever expected they would't. And CTS Labs deserves all the blame they received. But I hope this also puts to rest the claims that the vulnerabilities weren't real or that Trail of Bi
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by vatueil 9y ago
The event was described as a political fundraiser for Republican donors in all the reports I've seen, not a charity event.[NR, CNN] The part about having a President for Life in the US was definitely presented as a joke, though Trump&#
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by vatueil 9y ago
In case anyone's unaware, Jordan Peterson is a notable critic of "political correctness" and mainstream academia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson
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by vatueil 9y ago
Marcus Aurelius was followed by Commodus, and Charlemagne's grandsons broke the Carolingian Empire in civil war. As IntronExon pointed out, a major problem with benevolent dictators for life is that their successors may not be as benev
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by vatueil 9y ago
Perhaps on an individual level it's true that moving accounts off-shore can be advantageous (although the flip side of ceding your data to a regime that isn't responsible to you in the slightest is that they have even less reason
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by vatueil 9y ago
Yes. And not just a hint; Demis Hassabis (DeepMind founder) explicitly stated "full paper coming soon, will have things like early games": https://twitter.com/demishassabis/status/938347604462542849 I&#x
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by vatueil 9y ago
Interesting information on reasons for choosing a 1GB hash size, thanks. > A0 should have let Stockfish use its opening book though. Has it been confirmed that it didn't? As far as I can tell, DeepMind never said that Stockfish di
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by vatueil 9y ago
Google.cn was better than the alternatives, since it at least disclosed when search results had to be censored (sorta like the notices when links are removed due to copyright takedowns). Of course the CPC didn't like that, and it was
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There's no reason why the person who discovered the bug would be safer publishing the vulnerability on Twitter than disclosing it to Apple directly. If nothing else, they could always post it on Twitter later. The link to the DMCA is a