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> There will be false positives and negatives. Lots. And as usual, the people who appear to be targetted with the laws (the four digital horsemen) will figure out simple workaround…

So I take it you implicitly agree with the original article's thesis?

I'd be careful reading it: Kuhn is excellent at building narratives, and what is more narrative friendly than revolution? In reality science is far more messy than he acknowledges.…

> Who really wants to take a Hyperloop from Houston to Dallas? Presumably people living there, about 12 million of them. > And even if you can, then you need to rent a car just to …

Actually fingerprints are relatively easy, if painful, to change. Your point stands, of course.

> To me, this says more about Ars than about the (non)issue at hand - it's finally slid down to the level of a typical net publication. One swallow does not a summer make!

> Gibbs said in the TLS article that he did his research for an unnamed "television network." Given that Gibbs' main claim to fame before this article was a series of books about h…

Well, you can, but you probably won't get any serious critique and people will dismiss you (it seems like rightfully so in this case).

> Sure, dlopen does tons of more stuff behind the scenes, but ultimately it is about loading bunch of bytes into memory and executing those as functions. That's pretty much mprotec…

Agreed; grew up in the Berkshires and these were just a gimmick. I never saw them.

> but I think the social expectations are much clearer than when a team uses email for everything. In my experience, this is typically the expectation to respond immediately regard…

Wait you think email is LESS searchable than Slack?

> All links are curated by hand from Hacker News. My fear is that I have a different taste than you. How do you curate it?

Morally or nutritionally? These are two entirely different evaluations.

It's not clear why Google relies on demanding browsers change to provide the experience the users expect.

> You can have natural scrolling, an accurate reader view, a working back button and other highly performant features in a mobile-optimized HTML and CSS standard like AMP. In fact,…

That's an ethical problem, which is orthogonal to the fact that this fake meat is basically a soy hot dog in terms of nutrition.

Is MSG considered an artificial flavoring? I was under the impression that it is both naturally occurring in biology and that its health problems are greatly over-exaggerated. None…

Taxes ≠ rents.

I'd hazard a guess that most people don't differentiate between race and ethnicity. I'm not sure why you'd conflate the two, to be honest—understanding your race is fairly necessar…