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go fuck yourself

Designers don't cause terrible designs like this. MBAs and marketing droids do.

What you describe is not inheritance.

20 years ago when the internet was just hitting its stride, it would be unthinkable for any individual or organization to systematically attack anyone on the internet for the content they created.

The fact that so many have devolved into a religious fervor over silencing any views they don't like is anathema to the fundamental purpose of the internet itself.

Edit: and entirely predictably, I am being attacked for saying this. HN is part of the problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWsoft

With QUIC, however, the identifier for a connection is not the traditional concept of a "socket" (the source/destination port/address protocol combination), but a 64-bit identifier assigned to the connection. This means that as you move around, you can continue with a constant stream uninterrupted from YouTube even as your IP address changes, or continue with a video phone call without it being dropped.

This is the ultimate dream of every surveillance company & gov't. Of course Google is solving this "problem."

Preventing educational debt from discharge in bankruptcy is one of congress's greatest crimes. The fact that they exempted their own children from the law is just the icing on the cake.

Just another example of the utter amorality of the silicon valley mindset–which has been exported globally. Everybody cares about what they can achieve technically, while virtually no one cares whether they should or not.

Essential has nothing to do with it. Upgrading to a ten year old standard as a minimum is not burdensome. If these services are so critical, they have far bigger problems due to these gaping security holes.

Murdoch was already on Tesla's board of directors. This is simply a promotion.

This says far more about the credibility of wikipedia’s editors than it says about Breitbart.

That’s exactly how the Web was at first. I clearly remember downloading Mosaic in the summer of 1993, a few months after its release. I clicked around for a few minutes, but quickly ran out of content. So I went back to gopherspace, which was rich and endless in comparison.

Anyone have an alternate source? Force.com itself is a tracking domain that I block.

What do you need it for that it actually prevents? I've used this for close to a decade, and it has never broken anything. Sounds like FUD mate.

Because security and usability are inherently at odds, and Apple has always erred on the side of usability, until the security downsides are simply to great to ignore. This has been the pattern for every single security improvement in Mac OS X.

If you understand the tradeoffs, you can do a wide variety of things to massively increase the inherent security of your Mac by changing system and app configurations.

One of the great things about using unbound is how easy it is to blacklist entire domains, without having to know the name of each subdomain ahead of time. I've been doing what pihole does for over ten years using pfSense. I'm up to 437,000 fully qualified domain names blocked, and over ten thousand domains blocked outright. It has been years since I've seen an ad.

Yes, it already exists today, and it's built right into Brave.

https://brave.com/publishers/

It's time to repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Either internet companies can exert editorial control like this, or they can be free of the consequences of the libel, criminal threats, and intellectual property crimes they are party to. But not both.

Because race is genetic and genetic variations lead to wildly disparate "outcomes." Your zip code is one of the weakest influences on your health and lifespan, relative to other scientifically proven factors.

This data is meaningless for analysis without exposing the racial breakdown. That South Dakota county is almost certainly nearly all American Indians. The big red patch in the south is very likely largely influenced by lower African American lifespans.

Hate speech is not free speech

There is no such thing as "hate speech." It has no legal or rational construction. Hurt feelings and strenuous objections are no basis for law.

Apple Maps provides exactly the same feedback on user corrections. Try it out.

The time is fast approaching when all of these internet data funnels will have to choose whether acting as editors and publishers is worth the cost of facing the liability for everything they publish. The only reason the internet has worked, more or less, to this point is that you could stand up a service where other people could speak, and not be bankrupted as a consequence of what they say. That time is nearly over.

Your comment assumes "drone" means anything like we have today. Any fighter designed in the last 40 years could be made substantially better by removing the pilot and everything necessary to keep him alive and in the fight.

Steve was once asked about Apple's commitment to Java by one of the engineers working on it. SJ called Java "a big, fat pig." It was on its way out of the OS within the year.

Looks like they ignored the national origin of the people tested. Norwegian IQs didn't drop. The average population of people living in Norway dropped.

The first chart in this link shows why: https://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/statistikker/innvbef/arkiv/...

Most schools try to teach the fundamentals.

No, they don't. Read as many thousands of resumes from across the planet as I have, then get back to me.

This article treats "CS graduates" as interchangeable cogs, where the only variables are race, parents' income, and where they grew up. The reality is that particular tech companies have very specific needs around the kind of training someone has. CS curricula vary widely in terms of technologies and depths covered, and applicability to real world problems.

A company like Apple has litte use for someone who has only ever worked on IT-focused Java development. A company seeking the latest AI talent will never find it at a school that trains students on the latest web middleware. And once companies realize they're getting a lot of well-prepared candidates from a particular program, of course they're going to focus on those schools. It would be a waste of time and scarce resources to do otherwise.

$ wc -l /etc/HOSTS 220572 /etc/HOSTS

Not only doesn't it have any negative performance impact, it makes most websites 10x faster.

(And no, there's no dead weight in there. Every single one of those is still resolvable as of a month ago.)

Here's a longer list, suitable for pasting into your hosts file.

http://pastebin.com/QX5dWnFQ