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So, I've just been reading this HN link (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38227463) and it got me wondering about near-term profitable use cases for Starship. Would it be possi…

Maybe move all data centers into geostationary orbit. They would be solar powered with direct communication between each orbiting center and transmitters/receiver stations on the p…

> thus alleviating the need for the developer to release a new version through the app store review process I'm not an native app developer but this seems like a win, right? I wond…

> it seems rather clear to me that all these things cannot and will not be resolved on the implementation level Absolutely! This is why we need good legislation. Tech issues will n…

> surgeon general moment I get the impression that the GDPR is ushering in the surgeon general moment that you mention. It's slowly starting to improve the health of the web. The l…

Not sure if you're being humorous but just in case, it means the 'making of a sigh' as in 'generating something new' rather than a 'group of people'. As a joke, it works for my gen…

Nice read. Firm supporter of Web Pi (3.1415). When it comes to building for the web today, I'm always amazed that "so much can be done with so little" and yet the default is the op…

Upvote for 'Oh Goodie' and the humour in general. But had to reflect on the sad reality of the following being in green! > spend 99.58% less money on health care That is apparently…

Disagree. The key information is no longer than an average privacy policy (and frankly, less complex) and whereas there are millions of privacy policies (which no one ever reads), …

This kind of 'leakage' is key to personal profiling. If this ruling becomes widespread, profiling may prove much harder to do (which is a good thing). Edit: clarification

I really like that quote. It seems like it would work just as well for programmers too: "I didn't have time to write a 100 SLOC, so I wrote 1000."

> And, a high percentage of websites load as slowly as a sick turtle awaking from a long slumber. I love that the full page makes just 2 requests (1 html file and one favicon). 20K…

> More importantly, topics are thoughtfully curated to exclude sensitive categories, such as gender or race. 'Thoughtfully curated' by whom? The user or Google? This seems like it'…

> Again, all I am arguing is that if you use a sequential test, you should analyze it accordingly. I hate to be picky and negative but this doesn't seem like a justification for th…

Wow. This is so useful. I'm always left a bit speechless when I come across something really useful like this. It should be a first stop for all would be entrepreneurs. Thanks.

Thanks. That was a really good explanation and covered all the bases. Makes you wonder if there's a business case for implementing a one-off payment mechanism for response time. Fo…

Yep. Kind of like "we value your privacy" means "we don't give a shit about your privacy". I guess the only way to uncover a platitude is to test it. The problem with "We are liste…