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necessityon NASA's plan to save Earth from a supervolcano

BBC.com as of late has been turning into Clickbait.com

necessityon He created a Wikipedia article per day for a year, including on his wedding day

It's not the English Wikipedia.

necessityon The FCC.gov Website Lets You Upload Malware Using Its Own Public API Key

it was just a prank bro!

necessityon Uber, Mired in Corporate Scandals, Sees Uptick in Bookings

Except Uber didn't do anything deserving of a boycott.

necessityon Let Consumers Sue Companies

>This makes zero sense. It's on par with saying "dude just turn off javascript".

That's what you actually should do, I use NoScript and it's perfectly fine. Stop bitching and demanding people force others into the things YOU want.

necessityon Uber, Mired in Corporate Scandals, Sees Uptick in Bookings

Are you comparing child label to a a shitty corporate environment? And where did you get "hotbed for discrimination" from?

necessityon Let Consumers Sue Companies

Don't do business with companies that have such contracts? If there is no choice in a given sector then the issue is a monopoly not the contracts.

necessityon Defending Internet Freedom through Decentralization: Back to the Future? [pdf]

The risk of a centralized web is censorship by government.

It's that simple. Other things may be a risk also, but not because of a centralized web.

necessityon 1950s New York City’s ‘Mad Bomber’

That's fair, I will be more civil. But I don't think I am able to edit my comments.

necessityon Lazarus – A Delphi-compatible cross-platform IDE

IIRC Delphi compilers are usually single pass and thus really fast

necessityon 1950s New York City’s ‘Mad Bomber’

I don't want to post about politics either, but people post ideological stuff, ideological replies should be expected, no? When I started using the website it was more focused on what it was meant to be, and I don't think I ever discussed politics then. Then the American elections happened and people started posting politics all the time. Well, political replies ensue. I flag posts that are purely political, I don't just reply to them.

necessityon 1950s New York City’s ‘Mad Bomber’

>anti-communist red scare

McCarthism was as much anti-fascist as it was anti-communist, but of course commies would rewrite history to play the victims. Read the actual laws, it never mentions communism without mentioning fascism in the same sentence.

necessityon Can a Living Creature Be as Big as a Galaxy?

Given no context I would have guessed that this comment was made on a Star Trek fan forum.

necessityon App sizes are out of control

Don't download them? Out of those apps the only one you actually need is Uber, everything else can be replaced with a web browser. I don't download anything larger than 5MB unless I absolutely need it.

necessityon Why the feds took down one of Bitcoin’s largest exchanges

Aside from theft - of which the only evidence is money passing through the wallet of people associated with him - it seems that no crime was committed. Another attack on Bitcoin, and the war on drugs continues to kill more than the drugs themselves.

necessityon Using Deep Learning to Create Professional-Level Photographs

Still lame, just cropping and increasing saturation/contrast. Some of the pictures in the blog post look worse than the originals, they are artificial.

necessityon Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says

Facebook is a company, a superfluous one even, no need is forcing you to use it and there is no need for it. Don't like the don't use it. Don't like tracking configure your browser accordingly and get a blocker. It's easy and free.

necessityon New Skype Update Is Horrible

What are better alternatives in terms of call quality? Hangouts is pretty bad and WhatsApp is awful in my experience. Despite the bloat and the UI Skype is still the only good experience I had.

necessityon Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O.

I'd say the media, who was already after Uber.

necessityon Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O.

That's only if you confuse the business model/company with the image of its CEO.

necessityon Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O.

I believe that (much) more relevant than that is what regulators do with these services around the world. For the people it doesn't really matter if it's Uber or Lyft. We are already seeing a protectionist wave of regulations getting rid of affordable transportation throughout the developing and the developed world, I can only imagine that when self-driving cars actually hit the market for good it will be on the whole forbidden in some countries...

necessityon Your own company? You can do it (2011)

Not in Brazil no you can't.

http://www.doingbusiness.org/data/exploretopics/starting-a-b...

necessityon Updates for older platforms to protect against potential nation-state activity

I wouldn't be surprised if some traffic-related agency was using Windows98, I've seen everything from supermarkets and grocery stores to banks and post offices using Windows98 here (Brazil).

necessityon Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think

Don't like it don't use it.

necessityon Scraping Tinder selfies to make a dataset for AI experiments

When I upload my photos to Tinder or Facebook I assume they are stored forever and may be used for any purpose by anyone. Any person who assumes otherwise is a fool.

necessityon Whistleblower uncovers London police hacking of journalists and protestors

Doesn't seem like a reputable source.

necessityon Receding glacier causes Canadian river to vanish in four days

Booo it's the ghost of global warming! Always threatening, never happening.

necessityon Loss of Coral Reefs Could Cost $1T

Why? The poor who benefit from cheap energy don't give a fuck about tourists loosing their fancy attraction.