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by ziddoap 2y ago
There is war, so nothing else is bad. > Advertising might be annoying, but not even on the top 100 list of major world problems. Hard disagree. Advertising, in some form, is likely the root or primary facilitator of probably 25 or more
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As I understand it, they aren't saying "it isn't sweet". They are saying "it isn't labelled as an artificial sweetener" The key part being "labelled as".
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The reason it remained a "NOBUS" backdoor is because the whole world noticed something was funky with it pretty much immediately (even prior to standardization), and security researchers loudly told people not to use it. At that p
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> The level at which politics has actually intersected with my life in the past year is zero. Road maintenance, sewer connections, water and air quality, food safety, and a million other things that you interact with daily are all resul
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I haven't forgotten about it, no, and I stand by my original comment. If you introduce a deliberate weakness to your encryption, the overall security is reduced to the security level of that weakness. Relying on NOBUS ("nobody but
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If it's breakable by them, it's breakable by anyone. Full stop. It is not possible to create an encryption scheme only breakable by NIST (or NSA, or whatever 3-4 letter agency).
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> The third one about seven systems is both an exaggeration and a demand. I don't know how many times in the post they say some variation of "it's your stuff, do whatever you want", but it's certainly more than
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You were clear. Mailtemi is just talking past the point of your comment, rather than engage with it.
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> Anyone can stop using gmail at any time. Just going to copy/paste this part of the comment you replied to, because it seems like you may have missed it? > My company uses gmail so I'm forced to use it.
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> The abbreviation is conventional. I don't know a lot about language stuff like this, but the conversation here interested me. Your comment gave me an in on more reading, so I googled your acronym, because it was unfamiliar to me.
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> CGEL Is probably either Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language from 1985 or The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language from 2002. I have no idea which.
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> If the computer says it is OK, it is OK, at least in most states. The downside of this method (or upside, I guess, depending on where you stand), over the sniffer method, is that this is trivially bypassed. My race car, which is by no
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A lot of these are very close to stuff I have written. Not saying this piece did or didn't get a pass through an LLM, I have no idea, but it really makes me wonder how many people accuse me of using an LLM when it's just how I wri
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It reinforces that I'm getting old, though.
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Not only cite, but listed as the first author! https://oeis.org/A180632/a180632.pdf
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https://xkcd.com/2501/
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Developer goodwill can be very powerful marketing.
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You're being downvoted, but I agree with you. I obviously don't want politicians to be habitually slacking off, but everyone has good days and bad days. There are days where I spend half my time on HN instead of working (hello tod
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If the title said "acetylsalicylic acid (ASA)", I would not have known what they were talking about. But I do know what Aspirin is.
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Wanting to change is a prerequisite for quitting an addictive substance, for sure. But hitting rock bottom is definitely not a prerequisite. For some people, rock bottom might be a bit of a catalyst, triggering them to want to change. But f
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It is absolutely a crazy idea. Physical analogies don't really work in this situation because of the scale, and the payout. A physical master key for a building has a few hundred thousand/a few million people that could potentia
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You're suggesting that Apple, a giant publicly traded company with known people that can be summoned to court and assets located in places that can be seized, should ignore lawful orders from a country they are operating in? Can I ask
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The difference being that my previous car lasted near 15 years, and it was paid off in 7. Why would you want to pay a yearly fee after you're supposed to own the car, free and clear? I'll save us the back and forth: there is no mo
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> Is there any reason to believe they won't have a higher ad-free tier instead? I mean, this is still awful, right? Subscriptions for the car I spent tens of thousands of dollars on? > Seems to work fine with streaming platforms
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> Yeah, in both cases it is user hostile entity hellbent on tracking you, with strong legal defense. This isn't related to the point. I'm not recommending any specific product. I'm just saying that the anonymity (or not)
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This assumes that no other manufacturer will put ads in their cars. Hopefully that's the case! I think the concern is that once/if a critical mass of manufacturers include in-car ads, the rest can follow (because people still need
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> People get so weird about easily solvable problems Please tell me how I , someone who doesn't manufacture cars, can easily solve the problem of manufacturers choosing to put advertisements in cars?
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This sort of misses the point, and treats all advertisement as equally annoying. Advertisements inside my car , especially if the begin to use my speakers, is infinitely more annoying than a billboard (which, yes, is also annoying). Advert
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That's where the second half of the sentence comes into play: " organisation behind the fork to serve as a legal entity. " There is a legal entity behind both Chrome & Safari.
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> Why do people always attack these projects on "Hacker" News? It's not an attack. It's a pertinent statement of fact that some privacy-conscious people may want to consider when choosing their browser.

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