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In an ideal world unused laws would be scrapped and complicated laws would be simplified. One could even come up with a criterion: the entire law book should be readable in 10 hours by a layperson.

None of us know which of our actions constitute a crime. Even worse, in many cases neither does anyone until someone goes to a court and a precedent is set. This is a terrible system.

You can ignore politics, but politics will not ignore you. What you're doing is burying your head in the sand, not avoiding.

Learn about the quantum eraser experiments and your jaw will drop.

https://youtu.be/8ORLN_KwAgs

Also 10 GHz is possible with some knowledge and effort. See the hams on Youtube reaching QO-100.

Millions (billions?) trust Facebook too. Yet, Facebook kept the Instagram brand and it paid off.

There's no way they are that stupid. TSMC alone has the power to shut down a huge number of electronics companies in both China and the US. Remember the HDD crisis? Anything happening to TSMC would dwarf that. Nope, Taiwan is not giving up their biggest playing card. That would amount to suicide.

I hate the SOLID principles. Especially that they're called principles when they should've been called design patterns at best. In our era of multi-paradigm software engineering OOP is nothing but a tool among others for structuring a program.

Designing all classes in your software to be "extensible in the future for new business requirements" is such a useless (and in most cases, harmful) goal. The number of classes and interfaces should be kept to a possible minimum. In fact, the number of lines should be kept to a reasonable minimum. Rewriting code is good. Refactoring classes to be more generalized (when it actually is needed) is good.

These so-called principles are such newbie traps and they go against the only principle in software engineering, the only law of the land that I recognize: your code should be simple and readable.

It shouldn't be too expensive to build and deploy GPS disciplined oscillators based on commodity crystal oscillators (temperature compensated or ovenized). Only one would be needed for a whole datacenter, then local NTP would provide it to the LAN. No need for fancy telecoms grade Rubidium/Cesium stuff.

Is this going to be legal in the US under EARN IT?

What's even worse is that once Amazon collects enough data they'll be able to compete more effectively with these retailers and eventually kill them.

I don't understand why Quora and Pinterest still aren't unlisted by Google. My only guess is that their executives personally know each other.

No. Even if proprietary, you can find very detailed datasheets and guides to program most of those. Try finding a Broadcom SoC datasheet and you'll quickly understand what I mean. They're protected like nuclear launch codes.

No, thank you. If I'm going to buy a hobby computer it absolutely shouldn't have a proprietary SoC without a public datasheet. This rules out anything by Broadcom.

Governments are focusing more and more on end-to-end encryption. It can be banned within the next 5 years. They could need to manufacture some consent before that (e.g. mention e2e in the news every time a major crime is committed).

Sandstorm is also an extremely security-oriented way of running packaged apps. It uses an advanced sandbox that has defeated many kernel zero-day vulnerabilities. It utilizes the Cap'n Proto serialization + RPC protocol, another security-oriented project of Kenton.

Security is critical for a platform for self-hosted apps. One vulnerable or malicious app shouldn't be able to compromise your entire platform. Docker-based solutions don't provide this.

>If Spotify can't make money on the Apple store why not just charge whatever they need to, pretend it doesn't exist, and go for customers through different channels?

Because Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store are where everyone is.

With public key encryption? Very unlikely.

Surely you mean cellular automata, not finite automata.

If industries can't self regulate and play nicely, the big bad government will come with their regulations and I'm sure they won't like those.

It'll be incredibly frustrating to have to think about which USB-C device is compatible with which. You want to make a proprietary charger? Use a custom connector and stop confusing end users.

Or maybe instead of crying and groveling at Google's feet we could get up in arms and create a better platform.

But, oh, we can't make it a centralized platform because then we'd have to replicate something similar to Youtube's copyright system to avoid getting litigated to death by media companies.

So how about a federated or fully distributed platform? That could work... except it couldn't use regular payment processors because they will block payments.

I seriously believe cryptocurrencies were the final piece to this puzzle. Maybe we'll see a resurrection of cryptocurrencies in 5 to 10 years, like the one the internet had after the dotcom bubble.

It's very ironic that you're defending China's position on mass surveillance tech while complaining about leftists.

Why not if it works for their use case?

Have you used a Windows program that comes with all its dependencies (e.g dlls)? Have you used OS level isolation to deny some resources to some processes?

...or Amazon will operate without a profit until it captures the entire market and then things won't be so rose tinted.

Federation is good enough for practically everyone.

Regarding the HN comments, it's understandable that everyone is cheering for AMD considering the Intel monopoly since the Athlon XP era.

If you think about it, Uber and Lyft literally built their businesses on breaking taxi laws of every city they operate in.

No, why should they?

I don't understand all the hatred towards containers. It's simply an OS abstraction to facilitate isolation. What's wrong with that? In fact I'd love to see more containers, especially on the Linux desktop: for example a container aware compositor that could render windows from container processes and color code their borders, like Qubes does.

I have nothing against VMs either. But even when they're tiny (as in the case of unikernels), do VMs scale as much as processes? I'm skeptical. Maybe someone has data.