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by x1798DE 12y ago
Personally, I wasn't too concerned with Google knowing my actual identity, but more with the prospect of tons of information leaking to anyone who I ever meet. For example, it's no longer possible to anonymously review or rate and
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Finally. I know it's a bit childish, but for my pseudonymous Google account, I kept getting these notices that they were going to disable my Google+ account unless I gave them my real name, unless I could show them documentation provin
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by x1798DE 12y ago
>The silver lining of regulatory burden is that there is less competition and higher willingness to pay. From the perspective of consumers I'd say this is not exactly a silver lining. (Though obviously I don't think you were su
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I think providing unsolicited advice is always going to be fraught. Showing up as "mentors" and "teachers" is not going to go over well if the person you show up to teach thinks that you don't know what you're
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by x1798DE 12y ago
While it was certainly not encouraged, you'll note that undisclosed COI was not actually banned, just discouraged. There was extensive and widely advertised discussion in November 2013 [1] about three anti-COI rules, all three of which
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by x1798DE 12y ago
One thing to note about this is that this is just something new in the Wikimedia Terms of Use, imposed by the head office. Before the Wikimedia Foundation made the change to the terms, the self-governance mechanisms of English Wikipedia tw
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by x1798DE 12y ago
More accurately, most Tor exit nodes are either IP blocked from editing or the exit node servers block Wikipedia editing themselves to prevent their IP from incurring a block.
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Or things that some staffer was looking up anyway and changed it. Then again, there's something sinister about the minor style change to Step Up 3D's article: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=61643363
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I believe the parent is actually saying that the financial incentive is used to select people who know what they are talking about. It's not necessarily a 1:1 match, but basically that selects for people who believe that they know what
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by x1798DE 12y ago
For one thing I'm not trivializing them, I'm saying that saying that "100% of the time you are endangering people" is disingenuous considering there's only a 0.01% that anyone actually dies if you drive under the in
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I was using crashing into a pole because it's something where you can see where you could plausibly have a huge disparity in sentencing outcomes in relative terms (there are always going to be thorny issues when you kill someone becaus
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by x1798DE 12y ago
They likely can't vote to make specific decisions, but Google is accountable to its shareholders nonetheless and could be held legally liable if they were to do something detrimental to shareholder interests. Not sure how much of a rem
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Well it just is a victimless crime is all. Clearly the author of the parent post didn't hurt anyone, so it had no victim. It's probably not worth it to get into it, but I think I'd prefer a situation where you don't get
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Although I'm sympathetic to your general view, driving under the influence is in fact a victimless crime. If the crime were "causing damage or injury as a result of driving under the influence", then it would have a victim, b
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I understand why designers would want to protect the jobs they currently have, but I personally think that it would actually be better if talented coders and designers were freed up from the [unnecessary] work of creating themes for every w
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I'm not sure that you can use LibreSSL as an example of something that is a "genuinely better way to do things", given that it's an essentially brand new project. There are reasons to believe it's a better way to do
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Is that such a bad thing? Keep in mind that if everyone used Windows 95 era help files to display their websites, we'd have designers releasing themes for sites. Hell, if you wanted to keep the current "status quo" where ever
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I don't even think they have anything even resembling an obligation to explain themselves. I personally think the whole thing is made up, it's got too many telltale signs, but I'm sure they don't care whether or not I
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I think the criticisms on this site are fundamentally wrong-headed. The original motherfucking website is reflowable, lightweight text that conveys everything it needs to. Navigation doesn't need to be "fixed to the viewport"
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Not that it's ever going to happen, but can't they just blur the faces of the customers like they do on Cops?
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Nice. They should probably modify the tool so that the links go to the https version, not the http version.
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I don't think so. It's always 118-126 years, no matter what year it is right now, so we'll only see this blow up if there's an explosion in that population.
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by x1798DE 12y ago
HTTPS Everywhere is a "soft enforcement" of HTTPS, with hand-curated regex that switches you to HTTPS if it's known by the EFF where the appropriate HTTPS server is. It's a wonderful, wonderful tool and I'd feel nak
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Not sure why anyone is memory conservative these days anyway, but it's possible they thought about it but figured that there weren't that many people over the age of 118 floating around, and even if they get a letter reminding the
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by x1798DE 12y ago
The parent comment is clearly referring to the HN headline, not the article itself. Since young men do not massively outnumber young women, it is not the case that 40% of all US youths have been arrested.
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by x1798DE 12y ago
It's not at all hard to write things for the web without JS, it's just if you need an application to be client-side for whatever reason, JS is necessary. I would guess that most sites over-use Javascript (or, at least, are overly
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by x1798DE 12y ago
It's very, very common that open source developers will provide zero support for their products. That's almost part of the open source ethos, where someone starts as a core dev, eventually moves on and then the project is picked u
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Keeping a password written down (in your wallet, in your desk, etc) is probably safer than you'd think, because people generally know how to secure physical items, but they're much less certain about how to secure digital informat
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by x1798DE 12y ago
The current largest danger, when it comes to passwords, is offline attacks on compromised databases, your computer, etc. Online attacks are much less of a problem because the server can (and hopefully does) throttle the number of times you
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by x1798DE 12y ago
There's this woman, Allia Potestas [1], who is notable just because we happen to have her epitaph, and the epitaph happens to mention details of some sort of polyandrous relationship configuration that she had. I doubt she would be not

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