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Au Revoir 8 years ago

Wow, thanks for the link. That was a very interesting read & sad story.

It might be conceivable on smaller subreddits, but on the big ones it would basically just drown everything into a sea of low-quality threads. I got the feeling that the vast majority of threads never ever make it to the "front page" of their subreddit.

The War ISIS Wants 11 years ago

Well, Robert A. Heinlein took the problem by the other end in Starship Troopers, military service is not mandatory, but required to be able to vote. So the only people that might be capable to rebel are eventually the only ones that won't.

The War ISIS Wants 11 years ago

That makes you want to get a job or raise unemployment subsidies, not go kill people in the street..

I can't tell if your post is sarcastic or not. If you cannot prevent terrorist acts on your soil, the solution is pretty obvious then, it's not to give weapons to everybody or to hire 20% of your population as cop, it's just to be sure that you're not giving reasons to anybody to come and bomb you.

That's the only realistic & cost-efficient approach given the threat model.

You don't need anything beside regular tmux for that, since if your computer crashes but not the remote host, and if you were using tmux on the remote host, the tmux session will still be open, just ssh again and "tmux -a" and you'll jump back into the tmux session exactly where you left it.

If you think about it, the only thing that RSS/Atom was ever missing from becoming what Facebook/Twitter are today is a central aggregation point in the cloud. A smart startup [...] could potentially spell the death of proprietary timelines.

I've got the feeling you underestimate how important this central aggregation point actually is. Imho I'd even say it's the paramount reason Facebook/Twitter are still the top dogs, people are just attracted to the (unique) aggregator which already has the most people.

it is always better to go for the new places where there are no dominant players

It's funny, I've heard several times the total opposite from startup founders ("It's easier to go for a big market and to chunk some % in order to get viable, rather than going on a totally new market in which you'll have to both be better than the competition and convince the clients that's it's actually a promising market")

If someone offer you a product cheaper than you can make it yourself, take the offer and find something better to do. Everyone looses(sic) by protectionism.

Uh? Protectionism has historically worked exceptionally well to develop your own industry, as a matter of fact, all the big players heavily used protectionism in their time to nurture their industry before being big (England, USA, China, South Korea). You just cannot compete with an on-going industry while starting from scratch, so your industry will never take off.

Protectionism is only good if you're already the best in town & want to be sure that you keep the upper hand, but it helps in no way the under-developed country.

I don't see why you find the idea that strange, an anti-virus is already running on your computer, hooking all your programs, and sniffing on your connections. Offense & defense have always used virtually the same techniques.

Why Open Offices? 11 years ago

They also are probably smart enough to just seek the most efficient way? I don't think hypothetical founder nostalgia is a strong enough explanation.

Google hijacking the keyboard to only be able to navigate through their search results instead of letting the user scroll the page with keyboard as usual is indeed pretty annoying imho..

That's bullshit. Most of the greatest music compositors through History were broke as shit, even when being famous while being alive.

The massive PR hit they're taking means their company will most likely die. And "compromising" someone merely by letting one download stuff is at best a gamble, any decent infosec professional will examine this stuff with the same precautions as when analyzing malware.

Banning cleavages again makes sense... Otherwise the site would turn into a softcore cam site with gamers.

Wait what? I've never seen or heard of anything remotely close to "softcore cam" on Twitch, I find it extremely stupid and rather discriminatory to ban cleavage for female gamers. It's a very bad omen for further possible restrictions imho.