ATsch

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by ATsch 2y ago
> Surely you must understand this? Yes, I understand why blockchains are bad, have no benefits, terrible performance and are a privacy nightmare. Thanks for explaining it in more detail. And binance understands it too, that's why th
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by ATsch 2y ago
The comment you're replying to is clearly sarcastic. Infecting 2400 people with HIV is generally not considered good care.
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by ATsch 2y ago
It's always very amusing how all of the blockchain companies wax lyrical about all of the huge supposed benefits of blockchains and how every industry and company is missing out by not adopting them and should definitely run a hyperled
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by ATsch 2y ago
Yes, this. linux sucks in a lot of ways. But it sucks for boring reasons I can deal with, like lack of resources, incompetence or even just ideas I disagree with. You know, just the every day inevitabilites that come with interacting with o
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by ATsch 3y ago
It doesn't matter if they're a minority if moderation just lets them use HN as a megaphone and post hundreds of comments before any sort of reaction. Or in terms of a tired metaphor: If you refuse to weed out your bad apples, you
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by ATsch 4y ago
The thing that truly shocks me about this whole thing is how absolutely blatantly corrupt the Irish regulator appears to be.
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Meta prohibited from use of personal data for advertising(noyb.eu)
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by ATsch 4y ago
> The book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds was written in 1841 It feels worth noting that this book, as well as the wider idea of an abstract idea of crowd-induced mania in general it reinforces, is pseudoscient
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by ATsch 4y ago
I wonder if they checked this with the compliance department regarding their obligations to delete data under GDPR. I hope their Data Protection Officers have the time to respond to all of the thousands of relevant manual email requests and
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by ATsch 4y ago
It is personal data regardless of how it is used. The only question is if that use of personal data is permissive. Using it for user analytics, which is neither required to run the service, nor in the users interest, nor reasonably expected
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by ATsch 4y ago
The definition of personal data under the GDPR is anything that can be used to uniquely identify a natural person (with sufficiently high probability). Both cookies and date-modified meet that definition identically, as do IP addresses. Tha
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by ATsch 4y ago
I don't think it makes sense to apply you-and-I logic where actions have consequences to a billionaire. He obviously never had a business case that would make twitter worth the premium and extra billion dollars a year interest it'
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by ATsch 4y ago
I don't disagree. I think he bought it on a whim because to show that he could, in the same way that a football fan might say they could run the team better than a manager. Then he realized it was not in fact a good idea and backed out
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by ATsch 4y ago
I don't have any inside information, but as I understand it's basically just a spending commitment. The online auctions still take place, however the purchaser will gain some sort of bonus for agreeing to a certain amount of spend
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by ATsch 4y ago
I don't know who said it, but the real point of buying Twitter was to prove he could buy Twitter. He doesn't really have to care if it burns down, he's not going to be out on the streets from it like the rest of us. It's
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by ATsch 4y ago
I'm not sure how helpful this is? The service Pantone provides is not really a list of colors. It's the calibration of almost every printer and item that can create color, in every medium and on every surface, against their color
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by ATsch 4y ago
I personally found that part very comforting. Very few people generally talk about getting fired or quitting early, which created this sort of impression to me that everyone just had a model career and never ran into any roadblocks and that
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by ATsch 4y ago
I see the opposite: Someone who can be confident enough in their skills that they don't have to worry about finding another job if they are unhappy with the current one. Of course, many companies would prefer desperate employees who ar
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by ATsch 4y ago
This is the same strategy as used by vague supposed "anti traficking" laws and such. These do absolutely nothing against actual trafficking of course, but they create lots of fear and doubt around having any business relationship
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by ATsch 4y ago
> The US is HUGE. China is huge too. Russia is gigantic. The US was huge before the 1950s too. The terrible city sprawl of the US is not a law of nature, but specific post WW2 city design policies that could easily be reversed at any tim
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by ATsch 4y ago
> Those seem to be the people who push the car-less idea the most, because it meets their world view, but doesn't work once you step outside the downtown bubble. I have a friend who lives in a small village of roughly 3k people. If
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by ATsch 4y ago
It is pretty frequently done when arguing in bad faith, or (sometimes deliberately) misunderstanding that "minority" refers to power and not numbers.
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by ATsch 4y ago
> Take a train? Doesn't go there. It should, that's the point. The only reason it doesn't is because the US has been regressing on rail infrastructure for a century. > Bus? Again. It should. And it should be so often
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by ATsch 4y ago
I'm not sure about IP rights, but saying natural rights derive from property rights, which this sounds like, is pretty popular in right wing libertarian circles. The idea being that if you own yourself, all human rights become property
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by ATsch 4y ago
If running a dozen competing redundant versions of every utility to all homes is your idea of a productive use of resources I'm not really sure what to tell you.
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by ATsch 4y ago
You already need an existing C++ compiler to bootstrap GCC though I don't see how this is much different. Plus there is already mrustc as a C++ Rust implementatation specifically designed for bootstrapping.
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by ATsch 4y ago
Adding a GCC backend for Rust (rust-codegen-gcc) does this already. I do not personally see the point of writing another frontend in C++.
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by ATsch 4y ago
Feels like there's a 10-year cycle of this: 1. Companies lock down access until everyone starts pirating, broadcast rights become increasingly worthless. 2. A company realizes that this is a great opportunity to provide easy access to
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by ATsch 4y ago
There's still plenty of money to be made until the law comes into effect, the regulatory bodies become active, the cases are prepared, rulings are made, all of the layers of appeals have gone through, the regulators have decided whethe
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by ATsch 4y ago
> Right now, we'd be getting remakes from every piece of pop-culture that was semi-popular in the 80s-2002 time frame That's exactly what we are getting right now though. Looking at the top ten of the box office right now, only

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