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by zeroname 8y ago
> Wouldn't it be better if the app only had permission to write to an actual user documents/data directory... Well, would it? If the app went rogue, it could still encrypt all your documents. Either way, dealing with that is no
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by zeroname 8y ago
> ...then I just won't use it. So far, that seems like a very reasonable compromise for both of us. > Yep, I sure am. I have to be picky to keep my information secure. Most people don't seem to care about that, which is why
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by zeroname 8y ago
> My point is simply that I, as a user, am never going to use software that wants me to install it this way. I, as a developer, am not sure I care. It's tough for me to care about Linux in the first place (you guys are picky!), but
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Yes, outside of a sandbox it's expected. But you don't sell something as secure and sandboxed when it's not. It is isn't being sold as "secure". It's sandboxed in the same way that Python virtual envi
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by zeroname 8y ago
"Almost all popular applications on flathub come with filesystem=host, filesystem=home or device=all permissions, that is, write permissions to the user home directory (and more), this effectively means that all it takes to "esca
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by zeroname 8y ago
This isn't any less "broken" than painstakingly adding third-party repositories when your package happens to not be maintained. In other words, Linux is secure because nobody can ship software on it without going through mass
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by zeroname 8y ago
If it's a worker's market then minimum wage is both pointless and meaningless to begin with. The people who pulled this PR stunt off probably are laughing at the fact that they get to pander to liberals whining about minimum wage
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by zeroname 8y ago
> This article relies on sensational and emotional aspects of one story, rather than facts and statistics. ...just like every single campaign for minimum wage.
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by zeroname 8y ago
> You're using the cashflow accounting method... I'm making a statement on profit margins, Tesla's negative margins are just there for completeness. > And you're not taking risk into account. Tesla is worth a lot m
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by zeroname 8y ago
> This just reflects your experience of only speaking english, to most of the world their native language is not and edge case. Excuse me, I don't exclusively deal in 7-bit ASCII characters just because I happen to speak English, wh
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by zeroname 8y ago
> To resolve the mess in Python 3, choose what you actually want to do... The thing is that this is not actually going to happen. Programs are simply broken across the board , because few people can be bothered to deal with all these pe
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by zeroname 8y ago
Company, Market Cap, Profit Margin (5Y avg) Ford, 36 billion, 4.3% GM, 48 billion, 3.79% VW, 85 billion, 3.41% Tesla, 45 billion, -14,8% So, Tesla, even while it is bleeding money , if you had bought in a few years ago, your return eve
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by zeroname 8y ago
If you don't think it's fair, what's unfair about it, exactly? If we're talking about fairness, shouldn't we have to weigh in all the times Elon was running his mouth on Twitter?
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by zeroname 8y ago
What's so sleazy about it? What exactly should have been disclosed here? The fact that the writer of the opinion piece didn't care to have it published himself, but also didn't care to not have it published?
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Elon is just one example of someone (or something ) that is disrupting the status quo, and many extremely powerful and rich people will fight tooth and nail to derail any such attempts. This is a naive argument. The "rich and powe
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by zeroname 8y ago
...and it did not even kill him. Meanwhile that same technology has replaced a reportedly convoluted and error-prone manual process that presumably worked perfectly and never harmed anyone, otherwise surely the authors of the article would
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by zeroname 8y ago
They also pay far less than ads. Also, let us not fool ourselves here, we are blocking both ads and miners.
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by zeroname 8y ago
...which does not imply being optimal at every single level of analysis.
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by zeroname 8y ago
I'm talking about that particular title, which is one Metroidvania amongst many Metroidvanias. It's not a unique concept, that's a given. Even with a unique concept, Factorio started out when there were 20x fewer indie games
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by zeroname 8y ago
> What do you think looks bad about it? If it's not immediately obvious to you, then I can't explain it either, or at least I can't be bothered to try. Some people don't see it. It has nothing to do with being a graph
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by zeroname 8y ago
> That's not really true - take a look at the graphics from Factorio 0.1, released in 2012 Yes, that was in 2012 , well before the indie explosion. If you saw this game today, you would assume it is one of the hundreds of crappy 2D
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by zeroname 8y ago
What does that even mean? You can't have a "user" without a program. You can have backers, but even then you probably want hundreds of them before embarking on a three year development journey.
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Your attempt to walk back isn't credible. I'm not walking back on anything, you claim you "disproved" my statement as false, I "proved" it to not be false, even if one wanted to play a stupid semantic game
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by zeroname 8y ago
> The solution is to market, market, market. Distribute keys to streamers, contact publications, optimize for off-days when they need something to write about. There are no "off days". There is no "solution" for this
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by zeroname 8y ago
The game looks bad . You will not get a foot in the door with a game that looks like this in 2018. It looks like amateur/programmer art. There are some people that aren't bothered by that, but when it comes to media the looks are
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Why is no one addressing the seemingly obvious truth that the entire world is nothing but a complex corrupt criminal system of lies? It isn't. > Or am I just far too cynical? Yes.
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by zeroname 8y ago
Every country has crime organizations than runs illegal drugs. Mexico or Colombia are special because they're right where the one most profitable drug in the world is produced.
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by zeroname 8y ago
> That peoples in USA buying drugs are the drivers of violence in Mexico. It's still a massive source of revenue and it's what made these cartels big in the first place. Otherwise, they wouldn't be called "drug cartel
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by zeroname 8y ago
> The only thing that separates savages from the civil are the laws and rules of a society, if you break those rules you are not just doing the moral harm in breaking the rule, but doing harm against the society as a whole. Nonsense! You
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Reform is desperately needed. I don't disagree, but it's not like there aren't any arguments for both sides. You can point to negative outcomes for any piece of regulation, it doesn't put the whole concept into ques

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