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by whyever 12y ago
I don't get this. I can use Mega in exactly the same way as Dropbox. Why does Mega exist to supposedly facilitate copyright infringement? The content lobby paper you are referencing claims that the differences between a legitimate serv
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by whyever 12y ago
What kind of consumers are you thinking of? Most 'regular consumers' are probably better off with a tablet than with a desktop PC.
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by whyever 12y ago
Running an adblocker when using Chrome on Android is non-trivial.
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by whyever 12y ago
Well, at least they try to solve it. Another approach for verification is employed by Threema [1]: The server verifies email addresses and phone numbers, so if the address or number is in your contacts you can have more confidence, repres
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by whyever 12y ago
Even if you ignore Whatsapp and Cyanogenmod, you have 500,000 - 1,000,000 Textsecure installs according to the Play Store. That is on order of magnitude more than the GPG estimate of 50,000. In less than 20 years.
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by whyever 12y ago
There is Whatsapp, which is not compatible but uses the Axolotl protocol as well. You can find the protocol on github.
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by whyever 12y ago
In crypto options are dangerous, so it makes a lot of sense to be opinionated.
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by whyever 12y ago
To replace email, we might want named conversations as well.
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by whyever 12y ago
GPG at least has the web of trust, with all its privacy problems. Most technologies just use "trust on first use".
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by whyever 12y ago
I thought they don't if people do not carry their communicator. So basically the same as today?
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by whyever 12y ago
It is also much more reasonable, as memory is usually the bottleneck anyway.
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by whyever 12y ago
Well, I guess jailbreaking does not qualify as easy, does it?
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by whyever 12y ago
> I disagree that HN wants to minimize "awareness" of these topics Well, the effect is still the same, isn't it? > it distracts HN away from the tech/web/startup topics they want HN to focus on That seems cont
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by whyever 12y ago
I can understand that the word "undeniable" psychologically evokes resistance because it has an air of zealotry, but I do not think it is deceitful. Probably a poor choice of words on my part. As far as I know, if you look at the
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by whyever 12y ago
It is undeniable that the gap between poor and rich is increasing, especially in the US.
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by whyever 12y ago
In Python you basically get undefined behavior when encountering NaNs while sorting, Rust let's you choose. This seems much more reasonable to me.
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by whyever 12y ago
Rust's way is more flexible though: You can choose how to treat NaNs, in Ruby you have to fail.
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by whyever 12y ago
It's not a drop-in replacement, it's an alternative.
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by whyever 12y ago
There is uutils [1], which I believe is doing exactly what you are saying. [1] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
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by whyever 12y ago
Einstein's general relativity does replace/generalize Newton's theory of gravity.
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by whyever 12y ago
If you use an unsigned 32 bit integer instead of a signed one then you run into problems at 4 instead 2 gigabytes.
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by whyever 12y ago
Easier said than done.
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by whyever 12y ago
I used to be an http link some time ago... What alternative do you propose? You can check the script whether it does something malicious, but then it downloads and installs some binaries.
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by whyever 12y ago
Exceptions can be treated exceptionally. No need to allow deleting as part of everyday usage.
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by whyever 12y ago
It only makes for awful PR if the public knows about it. What do you mean by anonymized tracking? Isn't building a profile on every user necessary for targeted advertising?
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by whyever 12y ago
The IDE could parse the macro definition and highlight accordingly. (It would know where to expect an identifier and where to expect an expression etc.)
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by whyever 12y ago
Note that it is encouraged by convention to check your Cargo lock file into your VCS if you are developing an application. This means that everyone checking out your code will build your application using exactly the same versions of the de
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by whyever 12y ago
Usually there are no tuition fees for anyone, including international students. (You have to pay administration fees which are a few 100 euros a semester.)
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by whyever 12y ago
They are even hard to find in some parts of Germany. :(
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by whyever 12y ago
I'm not sure about Ada, because I never used it, but it seems to have some lifetime checking comparable to Rust's borrow checker. However, it also seems less powerful (in Rust you can specify the lifetime explicitly if need be, in

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