yarrel

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   by yarrel 8y ago

   I think it depends on the use case. I've found Webpack unintuitive, heavy and complex but I can see how flexible and expressive it would be for people who need to do more than I need to.
2. 302.▲
   by yarrel 8y ago

   Wow. Very sad.
3. 303.▲
   by yarrel 8y ago

   zCash uses zk-SNARKs for secret transactions. Which are awesome. But homomorphic encryption allows general-purpose computation.
4. 304.▲
   by yarrel 8y ago

   Which time?
5. 305.▲
   by yarrel 8y ago

   What is interesting about this Meetoosoft advert?
6. 306.▲
   by yarrel 8y ago

   That's awful advice. To be fair, so is this.
7. 307.▲
   by yarrel 8y ago

   I'd assume they take issue with the racism and the opposition to the rule of law. Although I cannot imagine Americans being happy that racists opposed to the rule of law are cowering behind their constitution.
8. 308.▲
   by yarrel 8y ago

   And how does the left get to that state of affairs in a world of power inequality? A large majority of the right may identify with Christian ideas of charity but look at how that usually turns out.
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   by yarrel 8y ago

   Forcing people to pray is authoritarian. Not forcing them to is not authoritarian. Organized prayer in schools is forcing people to pray. Abolishing organized prayer in schools ends forcing people to pray. Therefore abolishing organized pra
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    by yarrel 8y ago

    This is a misapplication of a morally bankrupt argument. That money cannot be spent elsewhere to save lives by Boeing in an area that is regulated by the FAA at the FAA's instruction. So, yes, $10 million could be spent on education to
11. 311.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    The software that is just a better init system continues to not be.
12. 312.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    If iCloud was a separate company that had been purchased by Apple when a dubious partnership needed making good after the fact, sure. So sort of not.
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    by yarrel 8y ago

    I'd hardly call Pocket being on new pages even if you disable it (you cannot remove it) being less in the way. Mozilla rewarding everyone involved in the Pocket debacle by buying the company was weird.
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    by yarrel 8y ago

    I trust the receiver. I don't trust future bad actors who get hold of the device, including the receiver should they turn.
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    by yarrel 8y ago

    > For example, maybe Google leadership did hear the complaints, then realized what was happening and what could happen, and decided that something needed to be done to create and uphold values. I don't find the idea of Google's
16. 316.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    Microsoft boiling the oceans is a positive move for environmentalism, hybrid owners agree.
17. 317.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    It does exist and work. It's early days but you can now use it. Source: I bought a sticker using it. :-)
18. 318.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    The GitHub purchase demonstrates once again that rms is right.
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    by yarrel 8y ago

    Citation needed. When did he hold the views you are attributing to him?
20. 320.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    By the NSA?
21. 321.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    Only "many"? o_O ;-)
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    by yarrel 8y ago

    Yes Azure's user experience isn't going to persuade anyone to choose it over the alternatives. It's a me-too offering that behaves like a compromise between internal factions.
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    by yarrel 8y ago

    Yes that is an awful soup of switches that should either be separate commands or usages of existing Unix tools.
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    by yarrel 8y ago

    You are confusing edits with articles. Deletionists tend to confuse their personal ignorance (often of a website called "Google" [yes I know how notability works, no that's not an argument against not bothering to even trivia
25. 325.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    Now how do I remove Pocket? No, I said "remove".
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    by yarrel 8y ago

    Yep, far worse. They were very nice when I activated my PR card though.
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    by yarrel 8y ago

    Wittgenstein's achievements are unparalleled in twentieth century philosophy. Who else in that period can say that they comprehensively ruined the discipline twice?
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    by yarrel 8y ago

    Yes the solutions Lanier proposes will make the Internet worse, by his own measure. And people still won't pay for his music.
29. 329.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    "...and here's why that's a great thing for your security!" https://www.wired.com/story/crypto-war-clear-encryption/
30. 330.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    Wow it must be bad.