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Despite all the negative news lately. . . Well constantly, I have to admit, things like this give me hope.

I do hope it inspires the next generation (at least a couple), to see what we did, realise where we have gone wrong, and push for more exploration.
I don't want to directly block ads, only tracking, so I use ghostery instead of an ad-blocker. Most ads are also blocked, but it is because the sites chose to use ad networks that also track me, not because I am trying to take away their way of making money
Copperhead sells devices that ship open source builds of Android focused on security and privacy without any google server dependencies.

For people willing to install their own operating systems, LineageOS and AOKP also are solid options.

We don't have to choose the lesser of two evils. We just have to be willing to research options that don't have millions to spend on marketing.
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Hmm thats effectively consumption tax of very significant rate (eg 33%).
So what, your point was that the only reason Ireland can maintain a low corporation tax rate is they benefit from EU funding. And here we are today with Ireland a net contributor to the EU and yet they still manage to maintain a low corporation tax rate.
The Liverpool app that sidesteps the banks (local digital currency in Liverpool)
It's not a passive tag. If you only read 3 sentences into the abstract, you find out that it is an active device. This is repeated at the end of the abstract and right at the beginning of page 2 in the introduction.
http://themittani.com/news/rip-vile-rat | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4509291 (Sep 2012)
I don't know if they still do it, but some years ago when I lived in the UK and later when I ordered something from amazon.co.uk while visiting, some items such as DVDs, which were marked as "sold by Amazon" were actually shipped by a channel islands (Jersey?) based company. The channel islands aren't in the EU or the UK's VAT system, so by splitting the order into shipments below the UK's import VAT threshold, they could avoid charging VAT. I don't know if that scheme still works, as non-EU businesses that do above a certain amount of EU based trade need to register for EU VAT. (including getting an "EU" prefixed VATIN)
Language is such a messy affair lol.

I can see where you're coming from. It just sucks that this argument seems to be, "there is no right, get used to wrong shit". And I know, I know, you're debating whether it's wrong at all - but I can't help but feel when people say the exact opposite words than what they mean, it feels wrong. For example, "I could give a damn" vs "I couldn't give a damn" _(and variations of it)_. It's an almost hilariously opposite meaning to what the user intended, yet.. it's going to become the "right" meaning.

Is there no end in your eyes? When does this just start becoming broken English?
Insofar as either position is an assertion of certainty, that's very plausible.
Which is exactly my point.

Put off updating for a couple of weeks because you're got better things to do? You may end up borking your system unwittingly.

Not subscribed to the Arch news feed and intimately familiar with the packages installed on your system? You may end up borking your system unwittingly.

Arch is good for dedicated power users, who want to tinker around. But most of us just want to get stuff done, not mess with the OS.
Do you understand the difference between Arch and distros like Debian? When GNOME ships a new version, it almost immediately hits the Pacman repos. Do that for every package and you're going to have integration issues. Your users also get to be the guinea pigs for new releases. Ship buggy packages and sooner or later your users' systems will install a critical package with bugs. This is why Arch gets "this reputation for breaking during an upgrade." And yes, you're just lucky. When I hear Arch users saying "it hasn't broken for me!" I hear "my girlfriend and I don't use protection, and she's never gotten pregnant!"
$5 trillion/year global fossil subsidies is nothing to sneeze at [1]. And that's not counting indirect fossil subsidies such as $2T wars on fossil/defense's behalf.

It suddenly makes a few $20 billion storm cleanups pale by comparison.

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X16...
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That distinction could be demonstrated by market maturity, which could be further defined by how large the incumbents are and how saturated the market has become.

Google is a giant now, and has made the search engine market both mature and saturated (along with its competitors). Before Google came along, there were several other search engines, but the market wasn't at all saturated. It was much easier to enter that market with a well placed innovation in searching while the market was primed to grow even larger among a set of competitors who had not dominated it yet. The market was large enough that an innovative company would capture first time users and spread itself organically among them, eventually stealing them from other engines in the process.

Conversely, the search engine market has become saturated. To start a new search engine, you'll need to steal users from an existing search engine, because there is virtually no one who doesn't already use one. As a basic concept, it's extremely difficult to differentiate on the core idea of a search engine. You will not beat Google just by offering a new technical innovation, you'd likely have to beat Google by adding search innovations to a novel platform that is emerging to challenge Google before they capture that platform as well. That sort of combination would offer a new fertile market that hasn't been saturated. As an example, a search engine for applications would have been a legitimate threat, had Google not already developed it for Android and Chrome with Apple competing.
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From the OP: "the data is stored in the iPhone's secure enclave and never leaves the device". It appears that this has nothing at all to do with the cloud. And if you don't trust Apple's word here, then you also have no reason to trust that they (or any other handset maker) haven't programmed the camera to surreptitiously take and transmit photos at all times.
I wanted to read this but I honestly don't care about how Windows hacked away a lesser version of a linux machine into their already bloated OS. I'm just going to use linux.
I think installation costs still have to come way down.
I'm not even sure what point you are trying to make with this rant other than what sounds like tax is theft.

Would you rather multinationals were not taxed at all? If something is tricky to get right is it not worth doing at all?

If that's what you believe you're not going to find many on your side.
echo "scale=2; $SECONDS / 60 / 60" | bc

# will give 2 digits after the decimal point, instead of bc -l which gives more digits of precision after the decimal point, than we may usually want for this particular calculation.
I keep reading stuff like this about Apple losing sight of what matters to developers...but I don’t really know what the big deal is. Aside from a frustrating lack of RAM on the latest MBP, everything seems to be just as good as it was before to me. And even the RAM issue can be solved for me by just not using too much horribly inefficient (electron) software at the same time.
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Murdering civilians and journalists was not part of the US military's job, but they went ahead and did anyway. Had a good old laugh about it too. We call that a war crime.

Traitors, every one of them, and every one who defends them.

Manning revealed this information to us. Truly a public servant.

She did good, they did bad.

Fuck 'em. They do not get to be above scrutiny and law.
Care to provide any reasoning for why you disagree? I think of the three it's fairly obvious that Chrome is the worst offender, if I'm not mistaken anything that is typed into the search bar is fair game to be sent to Google for analysis.
Is it that hard to keep existing settings, or is it just that there is an obvious incentive for them to revert said settings to spy on you as you use Windows?

If they had nothing to gain, you could claim it's a misunderstanding or a bug, but when there are obvious benefits into letting such things happen, I'd say you should be suspicious as to why it's even occurring.
You're right! The website should have some screenshots of the product inside, but I'm moving so fast with coding and launching new features that screenshots will be outdated quite quickly...

Can you use a temporary email of some sort? If you use your real email, I will be only sending out product updates, once new features/versions are Live... and not as often as it sounds.

Sorry about that
Wow, it has a Mypy integration, too. Have you had occasion to look at the compiled output? Is it idiomatic and readable Python?
Does the Tetris display actually appear on the Game of Life board? Cool either way!
you can change your pin. you can't change your face.
I'd rather use google than yandex. I don't trust russian companies because of political reasons and their laws about data
Seems like it might be higher. Wouldn't all the 100mph debris crack the panels?

I don't think they're impact resistant ?
>Not quite.

The one that pays the actual tax is the one getting the last (most valued) item, i.e. the final user (consumer).

The way it is collected (incrementally) is not connected to WHO pays WHAT.

If an user pays 122 € (100+22 €) that is the total tax (and is payed integrally by the user).

The government gets in total 22 € (integrally paid by the customer at the end) but it receives that amount in (say) 3 steps by differnt actors:

1 - 10% of 30= 3 The manufacturer buys the raw material, pays the VAT to the supplier that (hypothetically) has no preceding VAT costs and thus must give to the government the whole 3 €

2 - 22% of 80= 17,60-3= 14,60 then he does something with it and resells the product for 80 (i.e. it adds value, reselling it for 80 + VAT to a shop) and has to give to the government the differnece

3- 22% of 100=22-17,60=4,40 the shop sells the item to a consumer and has to give to the government the difference

The government gets 3+14.60+4.40=22 €
The final user has paid 22 €

The incremental collection method allows to have the tax largely paid in advance, but the amount at the end comes out of the final user pocket.

The Wikipedia has it very clear:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_tax

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_tax#With_a_value-a...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/VAT3b22....
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That reads like a barely veiled attempt to justify racism as something that "everyone does".

Because it's well-known that stereotyping works on everyone. And yes, black people can be racist against whites, or also against other blacks.

But that doesn't justify anything. In the particular case of the US, it also ignores that white (men) overwhelmingly control the levers of power, answering your question with a resounding "nothing bad".
I definitely see a way around it. An open standard, based on USB-C 3.x would be ideal.

The docking station for my Thinkpad doesn't lock me into a specific software ecosystem. I see no reason why a hypothetical phone dock should be any different.
I also love Arch, the only thing off putting is how hard it its to realize full disc encryption. I used Arch Anywhere but it works only with when choosing bios emulation and full disc encryption didn't work, Antergos makes too many choices for me, the base Arch image is to much work to install (where I have Solus or Ubuntu running in 20 min).

I did like it better when they still had their own minimal installer. I don't mind installing X and a DE but setting up encryption and partitioning manually is too much for me.

I love it most that you can really do anything with Arch, the wiki is very very good on any subject. Any suggestions on good Arch installers that just give you a working encrypted system (like Arch Anywhere but working)?
That's not true at all.
Permutation City.

Don't know what else to say without spoilers. Read it.
Thanks for the advice! I'll look into that
Some states/locales still don't allow resale back to the grid. I wish Texas did.

Edit:clarity
> Off the top of my head, Google requires you to own any new third-party dependencies you pull into the source tree. Therefore, Google engineers think very carefully about their dependencies.

And I doubt the same Google would just download some random executable on the net and use it in production instead of doing a extensive source code review and building the executable themselves if they can. My point exactly.
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Which is why it's nice that none of the biometric auths can be used without also having a PIN for backup auth. And also why it's nice that you can disable biometrics entirely.
Modern microcontrollers can be had in the sub-$5 range that support hardware implemented encrypting algorithms. Mostly it's a worthless feature but we aren't far out from it being more or less standard even in the $0.20 guys.

The bigger issue is that the entire point of this system is to remove cost of deployment and maintenance for cheap highly distributed lo-fi systems. The cost of keying all those devices for encryption would defeat the purpose. Also the added data overhead of the encryption would possibly exceed the amount of actual data you are trying to get out of the system. Also, why do you even want to encrypt it in the first place?
Personally, I have literally never had any issues with apt. Not when I ran straight Debian, not when I tried Ubuntu and not now with Mint.

I may not be stretching its capabilities quite as far as you may be doing, admittedly.
That's mostly wrong in that the opioid crisis overwhelmingly affects the rural white population, not urban.
Not only that but they provide better service than US shippers to China receive from China Post. (speaking as a US shipper to China)
May not be exactly what you're looking for, but take a look at https://www.genexus.com/products/genexus?en [disclaimer: used to work there three lifetimes ago]
> Ethiopia is actually often mentioned as the only country in Africa that wasn't colonised

> Finland was never a colonial power, by the way.

That was the whole sarcastically made point of the grandparent comment. Rich non-colonizing states vs. poor non-colonized states.
> I switched to Arch right after the systemd transition, so I'm sure I missed a big opportunity for breakage.

I experienced that transition and while you had to read the wiki somewhat carefully, I remember being a bit 'disappointed' afterwards as to how smooth/uneventful it was, it sounded way more scary than it actually was.
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> The company that goes and builds this themselves instead of paying a small fee for it, would be a pretty stupid company haha...

There is a fork without the adware now, so the smart company will use the fork to get rid of the stupid ads.

https://github.com/WedgeServer/wedge
> TouchID was removed because it took up space on the front of the phone and Apple wanted the screen to be bigger. There's no deeper reason than that.

The Pixel handset has the fingerprint sensor on the back of the phone. It appears to work quite well. Much of this needless outrage could be obviated by allowing multiple simultaneous biometrics for auth; while taking the phone out of your pocket, place your finger on the sensor to initiate FaceID.
Used to love arch Linux when I was younger but every other major update when break the x-server.
Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability (CIA). Those are all part of information security.

This is actually quite interesting, since it is a bit like CAP theorem. When you increase confidentiality and integrity, you might be affecting availability in a negative way. Take Dropbox as an example. Since they don't have efficient end-to-end encryption offering, they can offer you password resets (=availability of data is good). Add in secure end-to-end encryption and password resets won't be enough, you need to have in addition good backups for the encryption keys to ensure access to the data.
Sure, but the response shouldn't be "sorry", it should be "here's our process. Thank you for the letter from a judge changing your name, we'll confirm that with the courthouse and should be good to go."
Does group B have any sense of community? Offline, not Online.
It would be awkward to smile/pose before/after a funeral, just because I need to call my mum or check my email...

That being said, I do think that there could be a legitimate use case here. One could set up a particular "emotion" (a face pattern) associated with someone forcing them to unlock a phone using their face. I mean, if someone pulls a gun or a knife on me, I'll probably just do as they say and look at the phone, rather than risk an additional hole in my body. But unlocking a phone and sending a distress call is something I could live with.
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Google has plenty of non-VAT-collecting consumers as customers. For instance, anyone who purchases apps or makes in-app purchases.
I've tried Google Takeout, but I have several hundred gigs of photos, so uploading them elsewhere will be a pain. Plus, wherever I do upload them will be lacking many of the features from Google Photos.
>but trying to regulate search as a utility is a very bad idea, because it's bare naked government regulation of speech.

The hard and expensive part is building the index. Treating that as a utility that lots of search engines can hang off (in much the same way DDG hangs off bing) has none of the implications for freedom of speech.
The thing is though, you actually require a server and apache etc for the PHP example.

For a front office/business person who doesn't do IT as a full time job but has a reasonable grasp of technology, they can create something "good enough" quite easily, without having to go through the whole Corporate IT process.

This is also why Corporate IT doesn't like the Front Office getting Access, as they still ask for support when their home-brew app goes wrong.
People shouldn't use ChromeOS, but Chromebooks are fine.
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DeepL translator (https://www.deepl.com/translator) could be a nice alternative; but the number of languages is more limited.
The comment was aimed at the Snowden example. If Snowden thought his pin was compromised he could always change his pin, but once his face is compromised what does he doe?
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Normal Irn Bru is just made from sugar and rust (OK, ammonium ferric citrate if you're being picky) so it doesn't taste like ginger.

I do recall there being a "spicy" variant a few years ago that did taste a bit like ginger but, as I can't stand Irn Bru at the best of times, I don't recall the details.

Source: married to a Scot that basically lives off the stuff. Bit surprised she isn't magnetic.
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duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15243529
What about if you're a site owner and want analytics but not from Google?
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Is it only for English -> Hebrew translation, or am I missing something?
> Js isn't deterministic to that level of granularity

Why not? I linked a test app [0] in my post that generates generate PCM data on demand, and fast. It works deterministically on all the browsers. Mozilla certainly implemented AudioData back in 2011 and it was fast enough for them.

> He'll I wrote a tron game and did the audio using audio node chains and managed to get something really close to the real tron cycle sounds, without resorting to sample level tweaking

Why couldn't this be a high-level userspace library like three.js? Yes, with a lot of creative energy, you can recreate a lot of sounds, I'm willing to believe that. But I think a low-level API would have been more useful from the getgo.

[0] http://magcius.github.io/spc.js/spc.html
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There are better ways than a broken tax system to help less attractive regions, for example less deflationary pressure from countries like Germany.
A deal better than the status quo is possible
Same here with Ubuntu.

I started with Slackware 2.0 back in the day, used all major distros, had a FOSS zealot phase for a few years.

Now all my desktop devices run either Windows or Ubuntu.
> I switched to Arch right after the systemd transition, so I'm sure I missed a big opportunity for breakage.

I've had a server running for several years on Arch. The systemd transition wasn't bad. I didn't have any custom init scripts to migrate, so it was mostly update & reboot. Arch is a great install once and update forever system. I even migrated my install in-place from x86 to amd64 after upgrading the CPU. There's a wiki article for it! https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Migrating_between_archi...
Just to be clear, what these merchants are doing is shipping into the UK and falsified customs forms. As Borders and Customs can't inspect and assess every single package, they slip through. However, if these companies filled out the forms properly, the end consumer would be picking up that VAT.
We really need some open source OS for smartphones, or rather some smartphones that support anything you throw at them.
Alliances are groups of Corporations (Guilds in many other MMOs) and all are player led groups. Some alliances are based off other online communities, eg Goonswarm (Something Awful) and Dreddit (Reddit). You train up a few skills and then you can create a corporation. You can then join an alliance if you want. It also costs ingame money to keep the alliance going.

I was an alliance director in a small alliance (10 corps, 500 members) and it's hard work. Dread to think what it's like running CO2.
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I seem to recall a video-based one that did something like this - it would tell you to make a specific facial posture to unlock the device, maybe Google's?
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That's sort of the point I was making. The machines were barely used, so they should still be worth a lot.
I'm talking about two factor auth.
Piwik seems to work OK for me.
Nope. In that article, it says that Google is paying them to remain the default search provider (exactly what Mozilla used to do with Firefox).

Definitely different than Apple "selling search requests". If you switch your search provider to anything non-Google, (presumably) Google is not going to get your search requests.
All three news stories describe the same event -- Dec 2016 stadium attack by TAK, which is not PKK. TAK broke out of PKK as a new separate group because of PKK's willingness to compromise with Turkey.

So again, can you substantiate your claim that modern PKK is a terrorist organization?