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dqybhon Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse

>Otherwise, the whole point of democracy (one human, one vote) is useless, as the rich can simply buy ads to influence enough people to follow their goals.

As they've always done through the media? The hardest thing to swallow, for some people, is that democracy is deeply flawed, and these things openly show it. Until now they've been free to ignore it.

dqybhon Seafood Without the Sea: Will Lab-Grown Fish Hook Consumers?

Retraining is hard and will become useless when more and more jobs are destroyed. UBI is an example of "For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong". So what do we do?

dqybhon Signal, a fast, secure and simple messenger endorsed by Snowden

"endorsed by criminals" is now marketing blurb :')

dqybhon What It's Like to Work on Ultra-Violent Games Like Mortal Kombat

Thankfully, Google has: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer_mom

dqybhon Both Windows 10 and Chrome OS are embracing the Linux kernel

>Having said that, I think the compromises the "Open Source" community has given to commercial companies like Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Oracle have done much much much more harm to the community and goals than " Stallman acolytes" ever have.

So what? First, when you develop software you get to choose the best licence for you. Open source means that big companies can use your software. If you open the source under a permissive licence then it's because you wanted that to happen and didn't expect anything in exchange.

Second, users have the choice of what software they run, and they aren't going the way of Stallman acolytes. Why? Well, we all have our reasons.

But all in all everybody wins.

dqybhon Ask HN: What's preventing us from achieving seamless video communication?

I wouldn't expect a mid-ranger phone to be fast and completely reliable. That's why it's just a mid-ranger. The price is a compromise; you get shitty radio hardware and shitty software so you get shitty videoconferencing.

dqybhon For many young South Koreans, dating is too expensive, or too dangerous

>His point wasn't about happiness for either party, it was that men simply had more societal control and rights than woman at the time arranged marriages were common - so it wasnt so much a partnership as it was one party having a huge amount of control over the other party's autonomy.

Meh, in my experience (Indians I know) females in both families have the same amount of power when choosing a mate, even more power than males I'd say.

>This is just sexist

Reality is sexist. Both genders are different. That's just the way it is.

>making frankly unwarranted generalizations about how both genders date

You have statistics here, which paint a broader picture: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19601600

>reiterating the shirt 80/20 meme spouted by right wing incels

Why is my argument bad? "People I don't like say the same thing" is not an argument.

>proposing a system that takes away both party's freedom of choice with relationships because it's "unfair" to men

I didn't propose that we go back to arranged marriages, and I agree that there's no easy solution. In fact I've got nothing to propose. The fact that there's no solution doesn't mean we should just pretend there's no problem.

dqybhon For many young South Koreans, dating is too expensive, or too dangerous

"Red pillers say X, hence X is false" doesn't sound like an argument. There are also statistics that support this point of view, namely https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19601600 which was discussed a month ago.

I always feel like this is swept under the carpet because 1) victims are male, and who cares about males, and 2) there is no easy solution to it.

dqybhon For many young South Koreans, dating is too expensive, or too dangerous

Men and women have the potential to be equally unhappy when you force a partner on them.

Also, giving women free reign is causing great inequality between men and women in their chances of having a partner and forming a family, which I believe will be problematic in the future. Very well explained by this other user: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19891412

dqybhon For many young South Koreans, dating is too expensive, or too dangerous

>No, civilization is not becoming inhospitable to humans, this is literally the best time in history to be alive, civilization has never been more hospitable than it is today.

According to the dictionary "inhospitable" means "Unfavorable to life or growth", and it's much harder for me to have one children than it was for my grandparents to have five.

dqybhon ‘eyeDisk’ USB drive secured with iris recognition reveals password in plain text

For a project like this to be considered secure, it should have an open, public design to begin with. That's even more important given the fact that they used Kickstarter.

dqybhon A Geocode Is Not an Address

Non-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead_Locator_System

dqybhon Rewards for loyal spenders are 'a honey pot for hackers'

Hmmm, from the title I thought this was going to be about how people exploited the weaknesses of these reward programmes to get more stuff for free.

dqybhon Twilio Super SIM

You can always use OTT voice.

dqybhon Twilio Super SIM

Depends on the country, no? In Spain you get like 1 to 3 GB (depending on the operator) for 7€. And that's with very cheap operators with poor support.

dqybhon Twilio Super SIM

Interesting that they do this because they know infrastructure costs vary between countries but they don't give a shit about the price of electronic goods, services, etc in the single market.

dqybhon Frequently Used Linux Commands – A Real World Statistics from 10M Commands

The one in line 26 has a space to the right. What a team of experts has assembled this list, lol

dqybhon Cats rival dogs on many tests of social smarts

This is the most bugman comment I've read here in a long time.

dqybhon Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made

It's "literally" in the bio.

dqybhon India orders anti-trust probe of Google for alleged Android abuse

Isn't it election time in India?

dqybhon Google launches new “portal” HTML element

https://github.com/WICG/portals/blob/master/explainer.md#ifr...

Heh, "we considered this but it's hard to do in Chrome".

But they don't give a shit if <portal> is hard to do in Gecko, of course.

dqybhon Database IDs Have No Place in URIs (2008)

If you're afraid of Google bombing, the redirect is not even necessary, just make sure the <link rel=canonical> tag contains the correct URL.

dqybhon Database IDs Have No Place in URIs (2008)

In the case of URLs, you can have /questions/:id/:slug, and then load the question by :id, but if :slug doesn't match the slug you've got in the database, then return 404.

dqybhon Microsoft Confirms UWP Is Not the Future of Windows Apps

Nope. Github Pages + releases disagree. I know of many applications that are distributed that way. Hexchat for example.

dqybhon MS Office in Wonderland [pdf]

Kinda validates my belief that the only way of dealing with Office documents is uploading them to Google Drive and opening them there.