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That is a very strong assertion. Please provide the WTO ordinances in question and/or case law. Unfounded assertions do not add to the discussion. Do you seriously believe Apple wo…

Are all the display options using PWM now? I’ve been staying with the XR because the XS caused headaches for me. Curious if they’ve gotten their frequency up to a bearable level.

The assertion that other countries should simply abandon their sovereign regulators' powers is baseless hubris. The fact that the US seems happy to allow corporate titans to reach …

You didn't look very hard[1]. It's a research project funded by grants and donations, and as far as I can tell they give away their databases[2]. [1]: https://plantnet.org/ [2]: ht…

Saved you a click: by starting a shared Slack for their teams to collaborate. Neat factoid but this article is not exactly information-dense.

1) Your comment added nothing, but then this wasn't a high-value thread anyway. 2) Any pronoun in that case would be superfluous. "Holy crap! Congratulations!" would be far more in…

Title is evidently incorrect: the link itself clearly states they just disabled this functionality for Free accounts. I can verify it still works for Pro/Plus accounts with existin…

You're building a strawman. No one is calling for "a Utopia-esque society where there is perfect freedom of choice [and] perfectly equal distributions of any sort." One does not ne…

Youtube Red is not available in most of the world: > available in the United States, Australia, Mexico, New Zealand and South Korea.

But... your previous post specifically says "China is willing to kidnap people out of Thailand" and goes on to say "I really hope the U.S. never comes close to this". Can you expla…

I don't think you've been paying attention: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/fear-materialized-bord...

This is unfortunately not a new issue: https://github.com/josegonzalez/real-aws-status

That's approaching a chicken-and-egg problem. Other parties are working on verifiable open hardware, but their work is only worth so much if any useful software can be tampered wit…

Agreed, and giving Apple this much credit for "look how well these work with my USB-C Android phone!" compounds the irony beautifully.

I'd suggest Arq + Amazon Drive.

https://cloud.google.com/preemptible-vms/

Any plans to offer a 16GB RAM version? The commentary from Qubes users in the 3.2 release thread [1] seems to indicate 8GB would be borderline for Qubes. [1] https://news.ycombinat…

I'll bite. The original article is from the Register. If you work at Microsoft and read HN I'd expect you have a reasonable idea of their average article quality. I don't think the…

Activity Controls is whether or not Google logs Web/App activity. The Ads opt-out controls interest-based ads as a whole, including from Web & App Activity if enabled.

Tangential: please stop abusing ellipses, it makes your (otherwise fine) writing unduly difficult to read. http://writing-skills.com/five-annoying-ways-use-ellipsis http://www.holy…

If you read further, they clarify that's 585k through the end of the year. So factor in a termination package for them and the 585k is less than half of their yearly salary, so the…

You linked the wrong/outdated software: https://github.com/Googulator/TeslaCrack/commit/ca30a5320ebb... > The extensions '.xxx', '.micro', '.mp3' and '.ttt' have been reported for …

Turn on the setting to warn you when the other party's encryption key changes and go about your business. This is non-news unless you have unusually good cause to worry about targe…

`rm -f` ignores nonexistent files so you could omit the `if` to be concise.