nicky0

Yes very much so. I maintain an established Mac app and it's almost entirely Objective-C (and the bits that aren't are in C and JavaScript)

At least .yu was completely terminated. Wheras the confiscated .eu domains are now being re-listed for anyone to register! Anyone can now claim my old email address and I can do nothing to stop it. This is what bugs me the most about the whole thing.

Only idiots would compain about passport control queues. It's nothing like the .eu domain issue at all. A costless administrative accomodation could easily have been made.

Well we haven't actually had an election since 2019

> The public

51.8% of the voting public

> Your proposed solution of grandfathering existing registrations would cause confusion or uncertainty for end users (site visitors) who could not ascertain with confidence that the organisation with which they were dealing was actually in the EU, or registered to an EU citizen or body.

I don't buy that argument. A UK citizen can still register .eu TLD through a company they control in the EU, if they have the resources to do so. The EU's decision to rescind registrations for former EU citizens only really affects non-wealthy private citizens. The wealthy, and large companies, can get around the rule.

Secondly, there is precendent for this kind of thing. When Soviet Union broke up, .su domains registrants were allowed to keep their registrations despite now being Ukrainian or Estonian or whatever citizens. Similarly when Yugoslavia broke up, .yu registrants could keep theirs, they weren't forced to surrender.

Edit: And a union of nation states is not like a golf club. You cannot reduce the argument by analogy to a sports club membership. A political union is much more complex than that.

Citizenship, free movement etc., or course those could not continue after Brexit. Those are politically fundamental.

But when it comes to internet's DNS system, people have lives and businesses that are contingent on maintining exclusive control of a given set of characters on a DNS server. Basic security of the internet is built around the expectation of being able to maintain indefinite control of a domain.

Sure, the EU rules said domain owners must reside in EU/EEA but I expect that the possibility of a country leaving EU was not considered when that rule was written (certainly, I did not consider it at the time I registered the domain). It would be prudent and reasonable to revisit those rules in light of such a significant and unexpexted event as Brexit and the significant problems it would cause to affected existing .eu domain registrants. But no, this was simply impossible -- rules are rules! /s

Edit 2: Indeed, the EU did rewrite the rules. Because EU citizens remaining residing in the UK would also lose their registrations, the EU rewrote to rules to allow citizenship as well as residence to be a qualification for domain registration. So the argument that the rules were fixed in stone and known by everyone, and so should not be changed, does not hold water either. The EU did change the rules to account for Brexit. But chose to do harm to existing domain registrants from the UK anyway for no apparent benefit to anyone.

Let's not get into Brexit mud-slinging. I simply contend that EU could have made a more reasonable accomodation for existing UK holders of .eu domains.

Well, I'm a citizen of the UK and I voted in the referendum to stay in the EU.

The EU could have agreed to change its TLD ownershipo rules rules (which they actually have done recently, so the rules are not set in stone) to introduce a grandfathering-in provision if they had wanted to. Close it for new registrations but allow existing resistratnts to continue to renew.

But it seems they chose to be dicks about it, perhaps to spite the UK I guess. Maybe to send a warning to other truculent EU countries. I can't say I understand their reasoning. Perhaps just petty bureaucracy at work.

But now that the precedent is set, other EU citizens should be very wary of using .eu domains. There's no guarantee that your country will remain in the EU forever either.

I would argue for a "grandfathering in" provision. Both in the Brexit case and your hypothetical Scexit.

So, if Scotland became independent, the remaining UK might close the .uk ccTLD for new Scottish registrations but existing domain holders should have the right to retain their registrations indefinitely.

I think it's ethically wrong to forcible take away someone's domain name without exceptionally good reason (such as abusive use of domain or whatever).

(Yes, I am a UK citizen. By "the .eu thing" I was referring to the situation as described in the article.)

I'm still salty about the .eu thing. I was an EU citizen for 42 years of my life and I used a .eu domain as my primary email address for many years. Not only did the EU decide I could not longer have it, they've made it available for anyone to register.

Hundreds of my website registrations were tied to that email address. Thankfully I had sufficient advance notice to tediously re-register the majority of sites to a non-.eu domain email. But there are still a few I didn't catch.

Thanks for that, EU. (Edit: thanks also to the Brexit voters, yes .... but I still contend that the EU could have made an accomodation for existing registrants to hold onto their domains, instead of take them away and re-list them for anyone to get.

Edit 2: Of course, any Brit well-resourced enough to set up some kind of shell company in EU to hold on to their domain will have been able to keep it. So the claim that "UK people should not be able to own .eu domain. It's confusing and misleading" does not hold water ... it's perfectly possible to do so even today by various trickery. So this decision only affects regular people. Not big business or the very wealthy.)

But I'd rather they ban eavesdropping not make my call really annoying.

Not a well thought through law and clearly needs an update to restore usability to the web

Yet you are happy enough to stop at "the intention was good".

I imagine you smiling happily every time you have to click "set cookie preferences ... reject all".. ahh good old EU looking out for me, how wonderful they made things.

Don't play dumb. I mean the regime, the one with its hands on all the levers.

The one that wants you to pay attention elsewhere.

I still think no other platform can do what Twitter does. None other has the same reach and cultural relevance. Now it's been purged, it's positioned to be a real force for good.

Niche alternatives like Truth are sideshows.

They could save money by not building any rockets at all, that's much cheaper.

Because learning and improving is part of the pleasure of chess. It's a game you can enjoy to play, but also enjoy to study. As you improve, there's a tangible sense of progression which is rewarding. And the scope for progression goes very very deep.

Not all other games have this feature. If I play Catan with my friends, it's fun, but then the game is over. I'm not going to analyse my game and discover new tactics or strategies, like I will with chess.

Icarus flew too close to the sun

It's amusing that you posit the notion that instead of launching the rocket (its entire purpose to exist), they might disassemble it for scrap to save some cash.

Don't know the cost but the rate of development is so fast they don't want to keep the old ones anyway. It's not like they would keep it and use it for anything except scrap metal. The technology is so out of date compared to the models waiting to go. Blowing it up or ditching it in the sea is basically an easy way to get it off the pad to make room for the next one.

Old Twitter had that "relevancy" because it was was blessed by the regime. It toed the line and supported the messaging that those in power wanted to be put out. Now it doesn't do that, so it's become even more important, even if seemingly less relevant to those still worshipping inside the church.

I'm confused. You're comparing Twitter's audience today to 10 years ago and you think it has _declined_? How confident are you on that?

Good point. Are there any code-semantics-aware diff tool out there though?

But muh SEO

How would you feel about the existence of a website where I could paste into it a text box any Hacker News username, and it would reply with an accurate estimate of the job history, location history, political opinions expressed, net worth, age, marital/family status, other websites/forums frequented and usernames on those sites, etc. of that user?

How would you feel if a browser plugin displayed these details next to every username on Hacker News?

Yes, a very good point. The goal is not "build a rocket". It's "build a factory for building many rockets".

They recently changed the pricing. It's now $5/mo for 300 searches or $10/mo for unlimited searches.

I'm on the $10 because it seems I do about 600 searches a month.

For me it's a bargain, I could never go back to Google.

Missing the point.

It's a different development approach.

NASA with SLS spent a much longer time and much more money to build ONE rocket, which HAD to succeed. It uses well-established technology and pushes few boundaries.

SpaceX philosophy is to build fast, launch, and iterate on unproven, innovative ideas.

And somehow you extrapolate from "meeting with politicians and border patrols" to shooting migrants from space?

No scientific difference. It's political. A president can trumpet it as a great achievement for humanity. Helps with getting funding & public support, yada yada.

They chose not to maintain it, instead to focus on the Shuttle.

I'm sure if the political will had been there to maintain the Saturn V/Apollo capability, they could have.

Why do you still consider any of this necessary at this point?