> friends have turned from dovish "can't we all just get along" types into rabid "Russia Delenda Est" types
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(Or, for a quick and dirty fix, always redirect master to the main branch)
I think the exact time difference doesn't matter so much as everyone can be at work simultaneously at least 70/80% of the time.
(Though this would all probably swept aside as soon as somebody reverse engineers the vaccine.)
And yes, a local PC can work out to lower prices due to specific tax arrangements, sourcing components straight from manufacturers and assembling them locally.
Your common knowledge isn't necessarily everyone's common knowledge; what you perceive isn't necessarily what it is.
Every day there are many people just starting to code. There are cultural and regional differences. They might not have hit the exact spot in which this information appears.
Knowledge also disappears, fades, gets censored or destroyed, gets mixed up and remembered incorrectly. You might take something as a given and misremember it 20 years from now. You might read your own code 5 years from now and not know why something's there — something that was taken to be obvious.
https://github.com/facebook/zstd#benchmarks
AFAIK (I haven't looked much into it since 2018) it's not widely supported by CDNs, but at least Cloudflare seems to serve it by default (EDIT: must be enabled per-site https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168396-W...)
Then again, corporate communication is often a game of being as cynical as you can get away without getting arrested or having your business shut down, so maybe there's some meta-honesty here.
Here you have a bank and a company known for secrecy.
But you acknowledge this;
> random CSRs don't get a pithy explanation
What the throwers of hissy fits are pointing to is that, by building blackboxes, you can get whatever result you want (which doesn't mean all results are expected) with plausible deniability.
...which have nothing to do with the Open Web, mentioned in the parent reply. Both require participating in, and consequently adhering to the terms of, stores operated by third parties.
In practice, a biased statement can bring better counterarguments: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
The underlying argument of critics of algorithms that make decisions, in government and in private companies, is that this technological apparatus becomes a justification in itself: if a mistake is made, blame the algorithm; if the algorithm says so, it must be right — we can't make exceptions.
Over time, people and institutions begin to shape their own actions so they don't fall afoul of the criteria that can be reverse-engineered out of a black box decision-making system.
Regarding "this isn't technology", this doesn't invalidate the criticisms: part of the argument is that, indeed, what gets called "technology" often shouldn't be simply described as technical tools and processes. They're often the opinions and goals of individuals (politicians, bureaucrats, and other wielders of power) transformed into code, data and other technical artifacts; sometimes this transformation merely hides the underlying sources of these opinions and goals.
- Whoever gave cachet to certain characteristics that are present at specific points of the grass
- Whoever made it desirable or necessary that passersby reach a certain location at the periphery of the field
- Whoever set up restrictions to entry at certain locations around the periphery of the field
- Whoever made any changes to the field (including non-human intervention)
More generally, culture at large and historical precedent.
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Imagine a green field of grass.
There are minor differences across the field, but some of these differences can be noticed: a slightly darker patch of grass, a slightly yellowed patch of grass, some stones of varying sizes, a section that is slightly raised from the rest of the field.
Around the field, other things can catch the eye: there's a road to one side, some trees of varying sizes, one currently in bloom.
Over the seasons, the profile of this grass changes. At some point there was a park bench to one side of the field; later, it was moved to another side. There was once a storefront near to one side of the field.
(This would do nothing about money buying influence — as long as the donors are known, their wishes would be carried out by at least the major parties)
It's the best service shop I've dealt with.
Isn't it the reverse, local fonts can be used for fingerprinting?
(There are some snags with remote fonts — rendering bugs/exploits — but they're not exactly low hanging fruit anymore)
EDIT: I see what you mean by tracking. If the fonts are loaded with a third party script, this is indeed a problem. If the font files are served by a third party directly (without some intermediate script), this could be remedied with an extension that strips headers. It would obviously run afoul of this only do one thing rule from Google, the company that once attached Google+ to its search results.
Yes, it's a reasonable demand. If public opinion is asking something of Apple, and its CEO chooses to answer, every aspect of the answer is open to scrutiny. Gruber indeed lists the specific evidence he would expect:
> - When was HKmap.live “used maliciously to target individual officers for violence”?
> - When was it used to “victimize individuals and property where no police are present”?
> - What local laws in Hong Kong does it violate?
It's unlikely that a CEO would be so thorough. Apple is particularly obsessed with secrecy, and tech companies in general seem to not want to disclose details when they restrict access to a product or platform.
But it's still a reasonable demand from an individual standpoint.