muteor

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by muteor 2mo ago
It’s all stupid, they said the same things about radio, rock music, heavy metal, mtv, tv, books etc. The research they quote is not conclusive and probably paid for by the age verification groups. So it is either mass hysteria or a conspira
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by muteor 1y ago
Kids will just ask strangers to verify the age for them or use a strangers token. I can see the WhatsApp token swapping groups already, you know just the sort of place children will meet actually dangerous people.
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by muteor 1y ago
It does double up as emergency mace if you happen to get into some medieval combat while at the office.
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by muteor 2y ago
I live close to the line so drive past most days. They have been building a bridge over where the track will run (no track at all yet) for 5 years. Oh and the bridge a little further up they built in wrong place so had to remove it and star
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by muteor 2y ago
I too was put off Remix because of react-router, it actually looks pretty good but I was holding off to see if they rewrote the entire thing in The future, and they did! One of my biggest problems with router was not only the constant api c
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by muteor 3y ago
The anti abuse points from their github do not sound convincing to me. There will be a high value in farming accounts to either spam or attack. What do you do when the google proxy is dosing your service?
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by muteor 3y ago
I could imagine governments getting behind this, there are a few proposed laws that require age verification, like the online safety bill in the UK. You could easily see them adding age verification on top of this proposal.
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by muteor 3y ago
They just built over 1000 homes near me, but not one dentist or doctors. Now the small local surgeries are expected to take these new households on. Again government policy not holding up to community needs.
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by muteor 3y ago
The curse of the engineer, always looking at the worst possible outcome :) I have to work hard not to bring this into my non-work life.
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by muteor 4y ago
I was checking out one of the UK firms providing “age assurance”, turns out the directors also had a PPE firm now disbanded of course. That’s all you need to know about this bill…
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by muteor 10y ago
If anyone is interested in this sort of thing, I found this a great article: http://www.grahamlea.com/2016/08/distributed-transactions-mi...
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by muteor 10y ago
I thought that HTTP/2 didn't fix head-of-line blocking and this was why QUIC ( https://www.chromium.org/quic ) existed. From the project page: Key features of QUIC over existing TCP+TLS+HTTP2 include * Dramatically
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by muteor 11y ago
Everyone has missed the only thing you need to know: http://theoatmeal.com/pl/minor_differences4/kids