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by vntok 7y ago
I don't get how your point is a counter example to the parent's argument? I think there is a lot of money to be made in building on HTML and HTTP. For one, a faster HTTP protocol directly means more cost efficiency in hosting an
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by vntok 7y ago
Precisely. Religions are in decline among the younger generations. By the time we go to Mars as a colonizing species, hopefully we won't bring "faith to a deity" with us.
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by vntok 7y ago
Frozen, as long as they don't take the money either.
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by vntok 7y ago
Is the port done immediately or do you have something like 24+h between receiving the port notification and it becoming active to reverse the process and/or login to your accounts and activate Google Auth?
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by vntok 8y ago
This is false. Check out the D-Notice system ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSMA-Notice ) and note there are very recent examples of government interference, notably during Snowden's leaks and the Skripal affair.
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by vntok 8y ago
Counter examples abound, since as of August 2018 there were 59 approved internationalized country code top-level domains, 47+ of them actually used (Wikipedia) .рф (Russia) 900000+ domains, .台灣 (Taiwan) 500000+ domains, .中国 (China) 200000+
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by vntok 8y ago
I find your comment rather weird. First, why would you get to decide whether Amazon.com is "enough", and what does enough even mean here? Second, Amazon would never host their portal on amazon.amazon, it would be ridiculous. They
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by vntok 8y ago
Amazonians can bid for .amazonia should they want to. There is absolutely no reason why they should be given rights on .amazon, a foreign word that doesn't exist in their own language.
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by vntok 8y ago
That is your personal opinion. To me and plenty others, there are a lot of legitimate uses for short and dynamic domains under .amazon, including shop.amazon, computers.amazon, books.amazon, category.amazon, videos.amazon, etc. In particula
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by vntok 8y ago
It is in fact a common business model, known as a CDN (Content Delivery Network). A quick Google search will return many examples. Most popular libraries (Bootstrap) or fonts are hosted on at least one CDN.
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by vntok 8y ago
Nothing out of the ordinary here. Virtually every website does this.
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by vntok 8y ago
Please do not be dismissive of others' hard work on HN.
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by vntok 8y ago
You already do that right now and basically have done it every day of your life. The power grid, railway, traffic lights, elevators, etc. all these systems are critical and closed source, and you don't see them killing people on a wide
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by vntok 8y ago
> But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. Sounds like some &quo
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by vntok 8y ago
Standng by in a Tesla and standing by in an airplane are two very different things. You cannot compare them. When a typical civilian passenger plane throws everything up and yields control to its pilot, the pilot gets 10+ minutes to fix it,
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by vntok 8y ago
> No, Congress controls that, and they're elected by the American people, who ultimately own it. Trump is also elected by the American people, though, right?
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by vntok 8y ago
yUML.me is awesome for hand-drawn DB schemas or to show a website's graph of interlinked pages: https://yuml.me/diagram/scruffy/class/draw
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by vntok 8y ago
Breaking SSL worldwide probably.
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by vntok 8y ago
Why would it be laughed out of the room? FYI, here's the current top comment in this very thread: > 30% is the same cut that Apple and Google take for everything that goes through their app stores, including all in-app purchases. It
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by vntok 8y ago
> By posting content to Patreon you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, sublicensable, worldwide license to use, reproduce, distribute, perform, publicly display or prepare derivative works of your content. &q
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by vntok 8y ago
Their billion users seem pretty content to use them in spite of the numerous alternatives.
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by vntok 8y ago
Animal trypanosomiasis, transmitted by tsetse flies, causes "fever, weakness, and lethargy, which lead to weight loss and anemia; in some animals the disease is fatal unless treated". Doesn't it sound like such diseases are l
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by vntok 8y ago
Tracking cookies provide incommensurable value to site owners for improving the quality of their web properties, which ultimately benefits users. Example abound: finding out where people are the most frustrated (high exit rates), what conte
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by vntok 8y ago
No, that's a common mistake. In fact, there can be causation without a sentient causal entity. Zebras have stripes because their stripes shoo away flies, which helped previous generations of zebras who had stripes thrive and pass their
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by vntok 8y ago
Ask yourself "Do I pay for this Google product?" If the answer is yes, then the product comes with actual support.
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by vntok 8y ago
That is exactly what is hypocritical about your behaviour: Startpage exclusively uses results from Google, which the company pays Google for. So you are using Google regularly while complaining about it.
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by vntok 8y ago
Nobody cares, really, except for a percent fringe users of a percent of Google users. On a more general point, once again Google Search is provided to you for free. If you don't want to use it by their rules, you are entirely free to u
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by vntok 8y ago
> The last percent are always the hardest — but to make a driverless car better than a human, they're crucial. The last % being crucial is debatable. A self-driving car could be way more reliable than a human driver at all times exc
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by vntok 8y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhN35bGvM8c Start around the 8 min mark
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by vntok 8y ago
> I get it; I'm guessing that this is a "I value my time at $60 per hour and each one takes 20 hours to make" type of situation, which unfortunately gets misunderstood ALL THE TIME in the art world. That's a sign that

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