clear_dg

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by clear_dg 8y ago
To call this "cheating", you have to assume that car manufacturers are more knowledgeable about car safety in general than NHTSA, to be able to spot the loopholes. It may be true, they have more resources to invest in research and
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Are super-cheap solar fields in the Middle East just loss-leaders?(arstechnica.com)
2 points by clear_dg 8y ago|0 comments
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by clear_dg 8y ago
uMatrix can block frames and js requests on a domain/sub-domain level. afaik, it can't block at url level, if that's what you meant. That said, uMatrix, from what I remember, uses the webRequest api which does work from urls.
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by clear_dg 8y ago
I think there's an assumption that the default DE gets more attention from the distro; it's more polished, and "just works" (or at least, something approaching the concept on Linux). e.g. from what I remember, when insta
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by clear_dg 8y ago
> why will we be supporting both WebM and animated WebP? From: https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/faq (Why not simply support WebM in <img>?) WebM uses more memory, it is less widely supported, uses
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by clear_dg 8y ago
Who cares about deniability or skepticism in an apocalyptic scenario as described? Do you really think cool heads would prevail if China was put in a such a situation? Chaos, and desperate people would be the result, with a nuclear arsenal
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by clear_dg 8y ago
> Within 6 months half the worlds population would be gone. Within 6 months, a country with nuclear weapons is forced in a desperate situation. What could go wrong? Is there really a point to such a scenario between nuclear powers? It
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by clear_dg 8y ago
Call me cynical, but in my opinion, any company using the service of such agencies, have to know the possibility of abuses and unethical practices that might happen. They may even count on it, but with the great benefit that they now have p
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by clear_dg 8y ago
Paranoid like Germany, France, Spain, Austria, Venezuela, Thailand, Turkey, etc...? They all have Linux distros, sponsored nationally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:State-sponsored_Linux...
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A new take on the 19th-century skull collection of Samuel Morton(sciencedaily.com)
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by clear_dg 8y ago
Champagne is literally the name of the area where the product comes from. It makes perfect sense that anything that doesn't come from the region Champagne, isn't champagne... Call it sparkling wine, it's fine, but not champag
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by clear_dg 8y ago
> What might be worse is it's quite possible Boeing is finding out through this reporting. _If_ Boeing really is behind all this, they may well be unaware of the specific details, sure. But so what? This doesn't make them any l
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by clear_dg 8y ago
This is what Bloomberg's article refers to as "unrelated reasons" for Apple cutting ties with Supermicro in 2016. > Three senior insiders at Apple say that in the summer of 2015, it, too, found malicious chips on Supermicr
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by clear_dg 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40_(number)#In_religion
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by clear_dg 8y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20181003121506/https://slate.com...
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by clear_dg 8y ago
Check searx https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/
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AARD code(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by clear_dg 8y ago|0 comments
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Fully driverless Waymo taxis are due out this year, alarming critics(arstechnica.com)
11 points by clear_dg 8y ago|0 comments
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Climate change is a global injustice. A new study shows why(vox.com)
1 points by clear_dg 8y ago|0 comments
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by clear_dg 8y ago
> its that they likely are using bots to upvote as well. Doesn't seem the case to me. The majority of BBC submissions, even by the OP, sit only at a few points.
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by clear_dg 8y ago
Try and disable JS specifically on BBC? The site renders fine without it and I have no issues even with a relatively old PC.
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by clear_dg 8y ago
I won't deny that the tech crowd can influence things, but it's become quite hard for regular users to quit the whole Google panoply of services and tech products. Mail, browser, maps, dns, search, etc... It isn't painless a
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by clear_dg 8y ago
The self-surgery bit is definitely incredible. The doctor was Leonid Rogozov ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Rogozov ). More info with photos here: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/leonid-rogozov-a
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by clear_dg 8y ago
Why not use a browser extension? uBlock Origin is pretty good from what I hear. I use uMatrix by the same dev, and it serves me well. Both work on major browsers (FF, Chrome, Opera, etc..).
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After century of removing appendixes, docs find antibiotics can be enough(arstechnica.com)
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by clear_dg 8y ago
Nothing surprising: Google's revenues come from advertisers. Advertising is its main focus. Not developing browsers, or even providing search results. Those are merely means to an end. And of course, all the users are targets for ads,
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by clear_dg 8y ago
> If the HN backlash is anything to go by, a lot of people see it the same way as you (me included). HN isn't representative of most users of Chrome. I doubt that we qualify as "a lot" to Google. An extremely vocal minorit
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by clear_dg 8y ago
Unless you use Qt quick which seems to be the way forward, and what many devs with html/css/js background seem to prefer. Qt widgets look close to native UIs but the feel isn't always the same, especially when you have to jug
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by clear_dg 8y ago
Qt qualifies then, at least on Linux.
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Apple Watch’s new auto-911 calls after falls may tumble into legal trouble(arstechnica.com)
3 points by clear_dg 8y ago|0 comments

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