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surely they're talking about the opening only, where the best moves have been analyzed to death. once you're in the middle game and it's a position that's new, you play the best moves.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone responsible for verifying accounts in Indonesia took a bribe.

so Apple and Samsung get most of the profits, and Google has to pay a huge fine for doing the open source thing and letting 3rd parties build handsets. If Google just built their own handset, kept Android closed-source and charged €800 a phone, the EU would have no problem with that but we'd all be worse off.

I think they compromised Teamcity, or at least I've heard a lot of mentions of Teamcity related to this hack, I could be completely wrong. But it's possible they just got admin access to the Teamcity build server and added their code just before the build was deployed. So not really compromising the compiler per se

New Google accounts start off with little trust. New apps start off with little trust. Established apps should have good trust along with Playstore verified developers. Android is destroying a lot of great file manager apps with the new scoped storage. These are great apps that have been in the store for 5 years plus. Surely these can be trusted.

Of course, there'll be ways around this but it would stop a lot of dodgy apps. Of course, this is a lot harder as it sounds as you'd need all Android apps that want access to sensitive APIs to interact with the Playstore API. But it's better than Android just imposing systemwide security changes that break a load of apps.

We don't need a security standard for apps from bluechip companies, we need better vetting of apps uploaded by nobodies to the app stores. And the Chrome plugin store while we're at it. I always thought Google should have a score system for Android developer accounts. You need to earn trust to have access to sensitive Android APIs.

James Damore must have read that book as well, he lied on his CV saying he was a FIDE master.

I'm always fascinated at the esteem chess is held in for some reason. I don't have a high rating (lichess rapid ~1900) but to me, improving at chess is the same as improving at everything else: practice.