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by wcerfgba 6y ago
I'm glad Mozilla are focusing more on their core product (Firefox the web browser) instead of trying to compete in overcrowded markets like file transfer (WeTransfer, MEGA, Google Drive, Dropbox, ...) and notes (Notion, Workflowy, Goog
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by wcerfgba 6y ago
I believe the current primary entity is Arm Limited https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02557590
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by wcerfgba 6y ago
Correct, the company is registered in the UK: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02557590
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by wcerfgba 6y ago
What's wrong with the letter?
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by wcerfgba 6y ago
It seems to me like keeping ARM in the UK -- either being incorporated there, or just the offices and workers -- would be a huge benefit for the UK in the context of Brexit.
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by wcerfgba 6y ago
> It might be nice to think that the universe has an inherent moral direction, but do we have any evidence that it does? And if we lack good evidence for these claims, surely respect for Occam’s razor ought to stop us from accepting them
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by wcerfgba 6y ago
If you would like to help to solve the climate crisis, you may be interested in https://climateaction.tech/ If you have any other useful resources, please reply :)
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The path to net zero – Climate Assembly UK full report(climateassembly.uk)
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by wcerfgba 6y ago
Anarchism is not a single political or economic philosophy, it is a very broad school of thought. I would not agree that the most basic principle of anarchism is self-organization. For me the nucleus of anarchism is that all authority shoul
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by wcerfgba 6y ago
Post seems to have been delisted from the front pages, @dang can we get a reason? This is political but seems like a genuinely interesting perspective.
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by wcerfgba 6y ago
There seem to be some conflicting ideas here. On one hand, the concept of 'race' is what allows racism to exist and we need to remove this concept from our collective ideology in order to defeat racism -- people are just people. O
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by wcerfgba 6y ago
Somewhat related, I wrote a critique of money [1] a few months ago and in that I illustrate how removing the need for money could stimulate advancement in the arts and sciences. Rather than needing to secure grant funding, research projects
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by wcerfgba 6y ago
See also this great talk from 36C3, "Reducing Carbon in the Digital Realm": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeFCQTkWPjs
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by wcerfgba 6y ago
I'd love to know how many people have flagged this for an article with 57 upvotes and 19 comments in 1 hour to get marked as [flagged].
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by wcerfgba 6y ago
My partner and I met on a full moon, and we like to observe our lunar anniversaries. I made a small website to track the moon phase and how many full moons since we met :) https://jalwyndar.neocities.org/
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by wcerfgba 6y ago
Since you have $750K in assets, you could consider investing in a social enterprise or giving to charity. I support GiveDirectly because their model -- direct cash transfers -- is very efficient. Otherwise, as other people have said, it dep
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by wcerfgba 6y ago
I don't like these guidelines because they are vague and subjective -- just because an article does or does not gratify one person's intellectual curiosity, it doesn't mean it won't / will gratify another person. Fl
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by wcerfgba 6y ago
Throughout the article the author repeatedly conflates sex and gender. He even links to "an editorial [in Nature] claiming that classifying an individual’s sex using any combination of anatomy and genetics “has no basis in science.”&qu
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by wcerfgba 6y ago
I view downvotes as an incomplete feature. If you disagree with some content -- because it is misinformation, or useless, or maybe you just disagree with the argument -- you should be able to explain what's wrong with it. I would much
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by wcerfgba 6y ago
Aw yeah! I used to use this site all the time, I had quite a lot of bookmarks in here. I think I have an export floating around somewhere but it will be great to see the site up again. I always found the folksonomy model for aggregating and
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Facebook takes the EU to court over privacy spat(bbc.co.uk)
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by wcerfgba 6y ago
You might consider AGPL, they won't touch that at Google [1]: > The primary risk presented by AGPL is that any product or service that depends on AGPL-licensed code, or includes anything copied or derived from AGPL-licensed code, ma
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by wcerfgba 6y ago
Was previously posted and then flagged. I fail to see why: the discussion in the thread seems rather amiable to me. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23947594
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by wcerfgba 6y ago
It's hard to say how unreasonable it is without knowing what the API you're supposed to implement looks like. Regardless of how objectively unreasonable it is, there is also the issue of how much you want the job, and if that is o
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by wcerfgba 6y ago
Of course you need a Facebook account to use the Sharing Debugger. As if I needed /another/ reason to hate this website. D:
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by wcerfgba 6y ago
I was not aware that Facebook blocked users from posting links to specific domains. Is the list made public anywhere?
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by wcerfgba 6y ago
Archive link to bypass paywall: https://archive.is/buUjn
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by wcerfgba 6y ago
Could you expand on "his proposed solution in trying to impersonate traditional PKI simply won't work against even mediocre attackers" ? How would you defeat his proposed solution?
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China's FAST telescope detects extragalactic neutral hydrogen(news.cgtn.com)
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MakeSoil(makesoil.org)
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