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by lone-commenter 1y ago
> they just add a tiny markup to their prices to pay the eventual fine instead Ironically, this counter-argument applies perfectly to the "US solution". On the contrary, EU's huge fines have a better chance of being effect
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by lone-commenter 3y ago
I just tried asking ChatGPT #5 and it answered this: I'm sorry, but the term "optimystic" does not have a widely recognized or established meaning. It appears to be a combination of the words "optimistic" and "
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by lone-commenter 3y ago
Relevant paragraph IMO: > First, it includes an appeal to trust, which is a line of reasoning with which I don't agree. You can't trust your colleagues, just like you can't trust yourself. A code review serves more purpos
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by lone-commenter 4y ago
To "disable" the Dock — not really: it will pop up sometimes, e.g. when some icon bounces, but anyway — you can defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide -bool true defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 100
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by lone-commenter 5y ago
> but Iraq war was a good thing for Iraq I wouldn't even know where to start. This is such an obviously illogical argument. I mean, man, c'mon.
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by lone-commenter 5y ago
> it would force advertisers to use less effective ad text to avoid filters. That seems counterproductive to me. I mean, ads would still be annoying. And that’s why we block them.
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by lone-commenter 6y ago
> 6. Copy files to/from a flash drive. It's possible (but yeah, it's been a problem for long). Anyway: > 4. Switch between front and back cameras while recording a video. This is the only point that actually affects a t
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by lone-commenter 6y ago
> My father for example always used Android. [...] > [H]e got an iPhone and he find it more difficult to use [...] I guess that's precisely because he is used to Android, not because iOS is more difficult.
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by lone-commenter 6y ago
We may agree that piracy is theft, but 'ALittleLight has a point. From Novembrer 2011 — when it was published — to September 2012 — when the author believes it's been "pirated" — there is a window of just 10 months. No
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by lone-commenter 6y ago
Except the emacs sequence will get you tendinitis in the long run, won't it?
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by lone-commenter 6y ago
> The argument for censorship against stupidity assumes exactly that, that the majority of people are stupid which they are not. It's not censorship against stupidity. It's censorship against bullshitters who spread medical mis
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by lone-commenter 6y ago
The original game in Let's Make a Deal went exactly like you described. Monty Hall opened the remaining doors; no option to switch. Then there is the ambiguity as whether the host will always offer you to switch or just when he hasn&#x
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by lone-commenter 6y ago
Google could have given its users the same advantages of AMP without AMP just by saying: we'll penalize slow and cluttered websites in web searches, in favour of fast and clean ones. That would have been equally painful for the develop
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by lone-commenter 6y ago
> Focus on the things people are saying and not nitpicking their delivery and you will absorb more information. I agree. Form is not so important.
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by lone-commenter 6y ago
Those are typographic eccentricities, to be pedant :) And they're not even that uncommon on the Internet and amongst tech people. (See the Jargon file[1], for example.) But I get your point: pedantry is often needless, and sometimes
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by lone-commenter 6y ago
Pure Saul Goodman style.
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by lone-commenter 6y ago
A better description would be “I know what people that happened to share your current IP address downloaded on BitTorrent”. Given that providers either implement dynamic addressing (unless the user pays for a static address) or NAT, it’s no
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by lone-commenter 6y ago
I meant that it's dubious whether we can reproduce a brain-like machine until we'll understand the matter well enough to either prove it possible or impossible. Anyway, I feel like you. If it's been done once, it can't b
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by lone-commenter 6y ago
We don’t understand something. It’s a complicated phenomenon. So it’s impossible to replicate? I think the “argument” is so silly it doesn’t need to be disproved. If one wants to prove something impossible they’d better avoid logical fallac
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by lone-commenter 6y ago
So do they feed such information only when training the system?
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by lone-commenter 6y ago
Actually, it’s 1/998001 :)
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by lone-commenter 6y ago
> ... we have a small favour to ask. Millions are flocking to the Guardian for quality news every day.
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by lone-commenter 6y ago
I'm perplexed: > Blog posts, sign-up pages, curated lists, and other reading material can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. It's a list, but it's not intended to be consumed the way a list of books or other r
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by lone-commenter 6y ago
The use of check marks and "no entry" symbols throughout the article is purposefully misleading. Chrome gets check marks even for bad features, like tracking; Firefox gets gray marks even for good features, like built-in anti-trac
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Lifewire: A Subtly Biased Chrome vs. Firefox(lifewire.com)
1 points by lone-commenter 6y ago|1 comments
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by lone-commenter 7y ago
"You're using passwords wrong."
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by lone-commenter 7y ago
This made me think of a joking short poem by Galileo Galilei, "Against the Donning of the Gown".* A passage: I now conclude, and turn to you, signior, And force you to confess, against your will, The Greatest Good wi
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by lone-commenter 7y ago
So... being forced to wear clothes at all when in public is a breach of civil rights, too?
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by lone-commenter 7y ago
This won't improve the security, right? Both apps use the same crypto for communication; while regarding the quality of infrastructure and client's code, they are at best comparable. The only point against WhatsApp (and a good one
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by lone-commenter 7y ago
Yes, technology can benefit any field; I know it. But this doesn't make all this startup business around things which are completely divorced from reality worth to pursue. Productivity growth is a myth of the money-centric attitude tha

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