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by raquo 7y ago
You don't need to be a high level executive to not want to broadcast your location and identity in realtime for anyone to see. This isn't about your choices with mobile devices, this is mandated by the government, and the broadc
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by raquo 7y ago
And the founder of whatsapp is bitter about what Facebook did to it, and is funding signal now. And Moxie is no fan of Facebook either. These aren't some random kids and a VC.
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by raquo 7y ago
That does not seem to account for most political and social issues that you can't do much for alone, but millions of people together can bring positive change with little individual effort.
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by raquo 7y ago
If we really want higher prices, how about we at least get more features for it. Such as built-in privacy protection. Or how about we restructure the whole relationship so that wildly excessive amounts of money don't end up in either V
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by raquo 7y ago
The current situation is sustained by a small minority of users generating the majority of the clicks. That was true before adblock became a thing too. As long as adblock is not pre-installed with any major browser, it won't reach 90%
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by raquo 7y ago
> What part of ruby or java has anything morally or technically even approaching the concept, use case, or meaning of implicits? Dependency injection for implicit params, for one? Also, you can almost see implicit conversions as one ta
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by raquo 7y ago
Scala's version is epoch.major.minor, not major.minor.patch. I though 2.12.(x+1) is generally binary compatible with 2.12.x. Or at least I personally never ran into that issue with Scala itself.
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by raquo 7y ago
Is there an equivalent to "small claims court" in Colombia where you don't need a lawyer if you're willing to do your own research? Maybe threaten to take them to that court for disclosing private information without per
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by raquo 7y ago
Hey, nice! What kind of components are you using? Engine, batteries, etc.? Did you pick those yourself, or borrow the design from an existing system like the e-help for hang gliders?
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by raquo 7y ago
I would say ram-air inflation of parafoil wings is very different – it's dynamic, not static like a bladder pre-inflated with a pump. This Inflatoplane is more of a precursor to modern "tensairity" designs (e.g. some of Prosp
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by raquo 7y ago
Powered paragliders fit the bill, but still require infrastructure like some open space for launching / landing.
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by raquo 7y ago
The sanctions came from liberal nations, to state the obvious. An external enemy, as far as Russians are concerned. The same countries never sanctioned USA over any of its similarly unjustified wars or the coup d'etat-s it organized. I
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by raquo 7y ago
> Russia's liberty deprivation is beginning to show itself - again - in their economic regression (eg falling incomes for 5-6 years) and general stagnation. Let's be fair, the last few years recession in Russia was largely, if
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by raquo 7y ago
I think it's less about the difficulty of manual changes and more about the cost to verify that all of the changes actually work. Dynamic typing on the language side, and a less than perfect test suite on the user side are not a good c
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by raquo 7y ago
I make (web app) components with only minimal regard for cross project reusability. I don't add any features to them that I don't need for the current project, but I do try to keep them small and decoupled. I find that liberal use
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by raquo 7y ago
Your apparent judgement is that the pilots taking part in protests and talking about protests to passengers are a safety issue. Otherwise, nothing you said makes sense. This is the Economist sentence that you're commenting on: > Whe
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by raquo 7y ago
Speaking over the intercom about protestors is not a safety issue. You don't need the obviously politically motivated CCP "experts" to judge that. This has nothing to do with aviation safety and everything to do with (lack of
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by raquo 7y ago
The pilot talking about protestors at the airport he's landing, and supporting them did not imperil the safety of passengers. Claiming that is indeed absurd.
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by raquo 7y ago
Yes well everyone has a different idea of what to include in the costs, that's all fluffy and can be twisted to suit whatever result one wants. Which is why some people choose moral principles that are more rigid. And well scamming peo
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by raquo 7y ago
So you take into account the positive effects of mental health donations but not the negative effects of the promotion of healing crystals. No shit you'll come out ahead. Promoting bullshit has real costs associated with it. Those bull
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by raquo 7y ago
If you don't have a facebook account, facebook likely has a shadow profile for you. Which would carry your phone number, full name, and whatever else they could extract from your friends' phonebooks and whatever other sources they
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by raquo 7y ago
Like what other people mentioned in this thread about prioritization. It's not hard to justify focusing on the most popular browser (which "so just happens" to be Chrome) over a browser that is less popular and not even a sys
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by raquo 7y ago
Yes, gmail, calendar, youtube, etc. are slow and sometimes broken for weeks in various ways in FF. Of course there likely won't ever be hard evidence that they are doing this deliberately. There are many ways for them to achieve this o
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by raquo 7y ago
He was convicted of attempted murder while he was very well alive. He was also charged for many other crimes for two decades, the charges just never stuck because he intimidated the witnesses. Plenty of information about his deeds was recor
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by raquo 7y ago
> Are you suggesting that there is a cutoff below which differences in income don't affect where people decide to live? Of course there is, for plenty of reasons: - Moving away from friends and family is not free, is risky financial
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by raquo 7y ago
If your question is how to fix negative externalities, the answer is "regulation". Otherwise... you can't make people care about every little thing in their lives. Sure we can solve this hand dryer problem with an awareness c
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by raquo 7y ago
My comment is a critique of the content of his article, not an "opinion of what he supposedly thinks" in need of his recognition. If "thinking that" are trigger words now, replace it with "acting as if" to same
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by raquo 7y ago
That article comes so close to defeating its own argument it's painful. If that land wasn't protected with zoning, it would have been built up long ago into a typical sprawling suburbia – the opposite of what they propose. So if i
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by raquo 7y ago
Russia still has military draft. Gotta do something with all that free labour. They do however also have actual professional soldiers, and lots of them. Those should be more trained / competent.
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by raquo 7y ago
I think it's just delayed to make this free preview useless for most commercial applications. They sell this data after all.

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