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by rdancer 1y ago
Marvellous! :w<CR> should count the same as ZZ for the purposes of hiding better solutions, else it's fairly easy to walk up the leaderboard even though the better solutions are ostensibly hidden.
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by rdancer 8y ago
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by rdancer 10y ago
Thank you for pointing that out. I'll try to find the policy release where they say this is not necessary.
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by rdancer 10y ago
Which law? The 2002/58/EC doesn't.
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by rdancer 10y ago
You can enable session cookies only, even in the current UIs. Ditto for third-party cookies. Duplicating UI in a website is a solution looking for a problem. The web devs can nag the 0.01% who don't have cookies enabled, and leave the
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by rdancer 10y ago
When everybody was running Windows on a smorgasbord of hardware / patchlevel / plugins / fonts, it was easy to fingerprint. Are we moving towards a more monolithic landscape where fingerprinting is less able to track individu
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by rdancer 10y ago
The EU Commission and the regulatory agencies actually agree with you. The stupidity is 100% with the web devs and customers.
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by rdancer 10y ago
> Note that you can use your webserver logs for analytics and that doesn't require the cookie banner In the EU, tracking user IPs actually requires consent. Even logging them does.
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by rdancer 10y ago
If you can set cookies, the user has already expressed their consent by enabling the cookies in the browser. As long as cookies' existence is common knowledge (it is by now), there is no need to duplicate browser UI within every websit
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by rdancer 10y ago
This is the kind of nonconsensual sureptitious user tracking that the EU privacy directive 2002/58/EC concerns itself with, not those redundant, stupid cookie consent overlays.
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by rdancer 10y ago
My point is that this will become the new social norm, much like now it is the norm to write short cryptic messages that readers may or may not understand.
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by rdancer 10y ago
That's a very good point. I would argue that insurance is a long-term relationship, it's a very mature industry, I don't expect there will be great savings in changing providers, and finding the best provider means doing due
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by rdancer 10y ago
I'd ask them if I can install another one on the back door. If they're giving me free money, who am I to judge their motivation?
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by rdancer 10y ago
Brick-through-the-windshield tax.
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by rdancer 10y ago
I wonder what they will do once people start using http://the.links http://to.write.longer http://messages
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by rdancer 10y ago
If AAPL were interested in selling more shares (their cash reserves growth indicates they don't), they would usually sell the whole bunch of them at once, either to one investment bank, or a consortium (who then resell it on the open m
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by rdancer 10y ago
The liability in car insurance is virtually unlimited. Cars are very good at killing people and damaging property. You don't have to insure against small payouts (large excess gives you small premiums), and this is an area where the in
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by rdancer 10y ago
Revenue is an iffy yardstick anyway. If you're the only player who is squeezing blood from that stone, it is not to the credit of the other players that they're squeezing harder. Apple still capture almost all profits in the secto
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by rdancer 10y ago
You remember your searches on Altavista, Yahoo, or Hotbot having the same quality as Google???
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by rdancer 10y ago
Don't they traffic shape and have much lower speeds, though? If everybody in a building used mobile data at the full speed, where would the telcos put the base stations? And since the frequency spectrum is shared, how many handsets can
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by rdancer 10y ago
Loads of products have fake bad reviews now, left by competition. The next logical step is fake corrections, and fake silly reviews on own product. I wouldn't be surprised if at some point in the future every product has a 4.75 star av
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by rdancer 10y ago
Mitochondria are self-contained organelles. Gene transfer would be if their DNA became part of the nuclear DNA. What you suggest is that there was first a lateral transfer, and then that transferred DNA was ejected from the nucleus, and the
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by rdancer 10y ago
This is not complicated. My opinion (the statement nicely sums up a defensible political position, and the Tampa Bay Times' assessment is wrong) is based on the facts they brought to the fore, as well as a few of my own — as any argume
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by rdancer 10y ago
It's a segment of the populus who have thus far been uniquely positioned to make up their own mind. That has political implications in a democracy that relies on media to shape the electorate's consensus. As Milo Yiannopoulous rec
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by rdancer 10y ago
it's an elipsis, if you want to get technical: BLM [no less than lives of different colours]
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by rdancer 10y ago
As a conduit of political news dissemination, it services a different segment: namely, the segment of people who predominantly get news online.
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by rdancer 10y ago
The article is correct, though: if you see Ů , it's Czech.
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by rdancer 10y ago
I like how in the last sentence the author hints his approximate age and marital situation. Genius!
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by rdancer 10y ago
The problem with heavy editing of speech is exactly what you say. We find it difficult to dissociate what we see (somebody giving a speech) with what really is happening (editor piecing a narrative together, at the extreme splicing words to
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by rdancer 10y ago
That's your opinion, and you're entitled to it. If you want people protected from harassment and bullying, perhaps it follows that you would enlist the help of some of the more valiant SJWs. After all, who should know more about b

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