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woofcat
7y ago
>Any sexual content (eg Wikipedia article on anal sex) It's DNS level filtering so you can't handle specific content on sites at this level of the network stack. From my quick poking of the service, it appears to filter things
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woofcat
7y ago
Adult content I think would be an easier category to filter on. However I would love it if they released the list of their blocked domains.
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7y ago
However what's the alternative? Country 'A' would like to build a weapon of mass destruction. Country 'B' asks them nicely to not do that. They ignore the request and continue building the technology. At that point
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7y ago
>What exactly is the plan? Are we expecting that individuals who disagree with their regimes would leave their country and their families? It just feels like cold blooded retribution with no care for the regular every day population. Tha
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woofcat
7y ago
I think he's saying the server would have to handle 100 streams. 10 clients * 10 streams each.
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7y ago
>I never get the responsiveness that I get on my XBOX, and I can't rewind and fast forward with nearly the precision, either. Comparing a $30 dongle and a multi hundred dollar computer seems a tad unfair. I'm not buying an xBox
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7y ago
>I don't see how that helps. How do I recover from my registrar deleting/disabling my account even if DNS is somewhere else? I think there's still only one failure point and the lesson is that I need to pay that failure po
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woofcat
7y ago
What solution would you advise banks take when you login from an unfamiliar location? I think we've had to too lax for too long.
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day-to-day no, however it means people are more keen to pay attention to market news. After all, choosing bad investments that earn you say 4% y/o/y return, vs 15% y/o/y results in _massive_ changes on the scale of 20-40
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7y ago
>Why do higher stock prices make the middle class feel more wealthy? Is it really that common to own enough stocks to make up a significant portion of your wealth? At least in my country the stock market is basically you're retireme
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~# dig -t A +short www.certera.io certera-io.github.io. 185.199.108.153 185.199.110.153 185.199.111.153 185.199.109.153 ~# dig -t A +short certera.io 185.199.108.153 185.199.109.153 185.199.110.153 185.199.111.153
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7y ago
In a sense yes, the mobile phone market shifted from being phones to mobile computers, and a computer company dethroned them. For all I know as cars become more integrated with computers we'll see an iCar, or a Google Car which will sh
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7y ago
>You're basically the guy in 2008 saying "sure Apple has an advantage now, but what will they do when Blackberry catches up and shifts to touchscreen based phones?" Not really. BlackBerry basically invented the smartphone,
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7y ago
>From my seat, that really remains to be seen. The existing companies don't seem to have found a way to compete with Tesla's EVs yet. They may get there eventually, but Tesla has it now. This somewhat reminds me of BlackBerry.
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7y ago
So I'm presuming you're limiting this discussion to technical books, and not fiction, etc. As if you're not limiting it to non-fiction, then yes you're missing out. If you're limiting it to non-fiction, then yes. Yo
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7y ago
If they didn't want to be a currency they likely should have not used terms like Wallet and have their landing page say "Bitcoin is an innovative payment network and a new kind of money."
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Look at the google books project. That got shutdown real hard due to copyright issues and litigation after they invested a ton of money in digitizing some of the most valuable library collections in the world.
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As someone who owns .org domain names. That might be what it's for like .com is for commercial and .net is for networks. However that is not at all how they're used. Perhaps by some percentage of them are registered non-profits. H
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7y ago
http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/12/12-10525-CV0.wpd...
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>You should have that at the start or somehow make it obvious what you have done in quoting the article. I figured most people would be able to figure it out.
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The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution makes clear “the right of the people . . . to petition the government for a redress of grievances,” and the FedEx board of directors and senior management takes this very seriously. As a corporat
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woofcat
7y ago
Okay and? My point is that to collect property tax it's easier for the Government and Income tax is harder for the Government. It requires more reporting... It has nothing to do with the value extracted.
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Not who you replied to, however modern taxation requires lots of information to work. For instance income tax works, because every employer is reporting how much they paid you. Then you report how much money you got paid, then factor in ded
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7y ago
The problem with all solutions to facebook (and this one) is getting a critical mass to join them. People use Facebook because _everyone_ is on facebook. I don't need to think "Is my cousins boyfriend on Facebook?" you just
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Reading this made me feel really old. >I’m a digital native, older than most. >The first time I can remember logging on to the net was around 1998, when I was five years old. >the rise of Facebook in early high school, Instagram in
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Sure, but now they have a location of where you are... which depending on the contents of the blog might be all they need. Unless you're advocating that they take a cross country trip to sign up for an email.
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7y ago
You can't signup to ProtonMail from a VPN or Tor Exit node without SMS validation.
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woofcat
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>Now you just need a VPN every time you log into these accounts and publish your content. Are you paying for this VPN or really trusting a free VPN?
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Realistically the only way I could see this being possible on the standard internet and not some service like Tor, etc. is to register multiple corporations and hire multiple lawyers. For instance register an LLC in your country or somewher
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>we absolutely have to And >Our budget for digital services is $0 Are conflicting statements. Your best bet from what you've said is to host your own mail server / website in your basement. It fits your budget, but takes mor
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