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> I think we should see this as simply silly behavior by a government.[...] This is an administration that seems to be keeping track of who its friends are and aren't, and likes to…

> Google's existence has spawned a horde of SEO spam sites that dilute and push down real content on the internet They don't push real content "down the internet" they push it down…

> The question is, does it fulfill a cookie-using website's requirements under GDPR without additional UI It cannot. That's the whole point of the GDPR. It forbids tracking without…

> So what you paid for as an investor was a bunch of R&D research on how to replace natural and free sunlight with LEDs. (The fact that there are investor decks out there pitching …

> I was surprised to see "sprawl" called out in the op because that is directly opposed to the flattening of building restrictions and the deregulation that is being pursued by bot…

> That's not a data protection problem, however. No data protection law forbids digitization of government services. It's a common excuse, though. It's a super weird one as well. T…

There's video de- and encoding as well.

> Money, it turns out, wasn’t the point after all. Not the only point. Asking them if they wanted to do the sales team job without compensation would get you the obvious answer. Th…

Interesting. So it only shows images that were transformed / mixed to get the output, but does not show images used to learn how to transform / select them? Sounds very much like a…

> I write a lot of C and still find it tricky when I have to go look at some random C codebase Absolutely. C Code is not necessarily easy to understand. Not at all. But the C parts…

> I am always shocked when I learn the some code I wrote as throwaway-tp-be-done-right-later 10 years ago is still in use. That's because your "quick throwaway" code solves a real …

> what did I miss Mobile is eating the web. Mobile (Android - it's all Safari on iOs) Firefox is a bad experience.

Print can charge for ad placement, not impressions. But that's only possible because the number of subscribers, size and number of print runs, circulation are well known and hard t…

> But you're also saying without that protection, the market would be more consolidated. I read it as 'the market wouldn't exist at all'. The margins would either be a lot thinner,…

> One of the solutions could be to freeze and compress background tabs. FF can do it, but it only triggers in low ram situations and detection is wonky, disabled on Linux. I found …

It does not. I find the wild, anti-competitive cross product "synergy" the big tech companies are employing just as concerning as privacy violations. (E.g. Google search pushing Ch…

> I tried to, as much as time permitted, give the historical context for the math I was teaching. This is great. Funny how teachers generally aim for their students to 'understand'…

> Advertisers are measuring the actual effectiveness of their ads, and paying for that only. Therefore falling effectiveness means falling prices and you have to increase the quant…

I don't think the license is too important as there's always a chance the software gets abandoned instead. Rather look at how many organizations are paying for contributions. If it…