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"I’ve read many articles on the same topic but never found it presented this way" it reminds me a lot of a description I saw in a video with Jonathan Blow talking about precedence …

Not sure I'm gonna get any replies, so I don't want to just leave this as a message of support for the bill. It is concerning. I think I saw MidnightBSD said it seemed like they we…

This looks like previous discussion of the bill that became the act: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45244049

Doesn't this law just let parents set up age-labelled accounts for their children with the idea that apps not suitable for children won't be allowed under those accounts? Seems no …

I like open source and I don't want to lose it but its ideals of letting people share, modify and run code however they like have the same issue as what the AI companies are doing.…

Faster and more complex hardware can also have bugs or back doors, as can cheaper hardware. That said, I'm not happy with buggy and untrustworthy code either.

> People will literally create blacklists of sites, and if you don't follow the blacklist you'll get added to it. I imagine some will, but hopefully that won't be the norm. Beehaw …

On Twitter and Tumblr you can make extra accounts to participate in discussions you're interested in, and select people to follow based on that, so the feed system is okay for talk…

One thing I really want to know is what data can apps access. Is it like most phone apps where my data in one app is secure if some random game would like to read it? Do the apps o…

This is true. What I find puzzling is that advertisements have most of the same issues but many people accept them. You could argue that people's acceptance of ads suggests they sh…

Compared to a regular welfare system where they stop paying if the recipient has the ability to support themselves / doesn't need it (from each according to his ability, to each ac…

What about postal voting? Probably less of a threat because it's not that common I guess. But does it mean there are no countries complying with secret ballot demands?

In Australia we have the option of voting for someone as our first preference, and letting them direct your lower preferences for after they get eliminated (according to their prev…

Primary voters' optimal strategy, if voting within their preferred party, should also be to pick a centre candidate, so they will win. Could get complex if people vote in the oppos…

I would suggest voting for the lesser of two evils if you'd do that in a plurality voting system, plus whoever else you like better. Though there might be three equally likely winn…

Say I have two categories, programming articles and non- programming articles, and some other data about each article. And I want to predict whether the article will be interesting…

Here is a discussion of Intel limiting the code that can run in security subsystems in their processors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11007060 I'm not saying this is accept…

They don't control the supply of search services so much as they control the supply of eyeballs.

A better analogy is a piece of paper. Like a mirror, it reflects rather than thermally emits the light, but unlike a mirror, it scatters the reflected light, limiting how much it c…

I made the file DanBC referred to above, and wondered about how much computation you could do with iterated decompression (specifically, deflate-type decompression). Could you make…

Interesting, is there a description of how it works or cheats?

So long as it used the usual deflate algorithm, and you don't need to deal with recursive compression as in the article, yes. The size counter program would be structured similarly…

If the author had a reason for why they didn't like non-monetised free clones, it wasn't clear to me, so I'm going to make up some possible reasons, so there's something substantiv…

Password authenticated key exchange should do what we want. I was hoping WPA2 would have have used it already. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password-authenticated_key_agre...

I still don't feel like I know the relationship between the perpetrators and google. Subcontractors, employees, or what? But I would be surprised for that apology to happen if ther…