Very interesting article and it gives me hope that creating a couple of decent APIs or bots can return a reasonable passive income that could make it easier to switch jobs in the future or enjoy an extra vacation a year.
Why would that be any different to getting assigned somebody's previous IP address by DHCP? It's non-incriminating because it can be demonstrated you didn't control that IP during the time illegal content was uploaded.
Hawking's reputation will last as long after his death as that of Sagan, Gould, Boaz, Lysenko, Morris or any of the other popular culture performing cranks of this century. About ten minutes.
>Google is a private business and they can do what they want,
This kind of an argument shows up every time Google or Facebook or some other megacorp does something detrimental to free speech. It would be a reasonable thing to say if they didn't control millions of conversations every day, show millions of ads to millions of people, and so on. When a company has a budget that would put it in the 20 biggest economies in the world if it were a country, this kind of a statement no longer applies. It doesn't matter that it's privately owned, its very existence impacts the lives of most people in most developed countries in the world, if it infringes on free speech, it should be regulated.
I don't see anything conductive to actual work that slack has but IRC lacks. the software industries and choices of tools such as chat clients are fashion-driven and most people will be hard pressed to provide a reason why they prefer slack or discord or whatever the newest shiny toy is other than "it's popular". They're popular, in turn, because their owners have marketing budgets, and decentralized, superior alternatives don't, because they are not commercial products. Just accept that any choice of tools or technologies is typically at least 95% irrational and dictated by marketing, not by rational reasons or calculations of risks and benefits. It used to be that companies would never risk third parties getting hold of confidential internal communications, nobody cares anymore though.
Into the Breach is a fantastic, complex game that at the same time feels very approachable and simple in scope, so good work on the interface.
It often feels like a very complex variation of chess. The maps are small and there are very few categories of objects in them, which makes the game easy to play but hard to master.
Most people, me included, come to Hacker News for their tech-related news specifically because they don't want to see these kinds of useless, clickbaity, virtue signalling pieces.
The guy running the show at the Appimage organization routinely runs a bot that automatically creates thousands of issues asking maintainers of random repositories to create Appimage builds, or if there already is an Appimage build it asks them to comply with good Appimage practices, or to fix paths or icons, and so on. Why can they do that with no problems while this less known but more useful bot can't? According to the description here, the bot was useful because it was fixing minor issues in an automated, easy to integrate way with no reasonable downsides to maintainers (other than having to eyeball the pull request and merge it).
Krakow thrives under the so-called "authoritarian" (actually very mundane and liberal) government. The conditions for the growth of the tech sector are there, and most people working in it agree that they are better off than they were a couple of years ago and it's still getting progressively better.
What is the risk of just ignoring this letter altogether? Surely it would not hold in any court of law due to overwhelming number of examples of prior art, widespread use, and vague wording of the patent?
The title is very misleading. It's a description of smart contracts and their history, but there are no actual holes mentioned, especially not in the context suggested by the title. only the last paragraph mentions that particular contracts written by developers might contain holes that would be difficult to detect, but there are no fundamental holes in the concept or Ethereum's implementation of smart contracts. I feel like this article should be flagged.
There was similar wage suppression (or should I say, wage theft scheme) in Silicon Valley until very recently. That's why the wages skyrocketed. If the scheme could be broken up in one industry, it can happen again in others.
If even Google cannot penetrate this market then it's for all intents and purposes 100% impenetrable. Unless somebody comes up with a radically different strategy, the ISP market in USA should be considered monopolized and should be broken down by the government (fat chance). In any case, it's game over for consumers - abandon all hope.
Yes, because celebrities are known for genuine reactions in media and not maintaining a carefully crafted public persona for the purposes of publicity.
I assure you none of them lost any sleep over this. All those carefully planned and shot takes were "leaked" completely accidentally at exactly the right time to ensure maximum media uproar and their personas appearing on the front pages of every tabloid in the western world. If you think they play by the same rules as you and me, you are naive.
Even if thousands of businesses across Europe depend on tracking users, I do not think it's enough of a reason not to fight against it, and i would be very happy if those businesses go belly up tomorrow if tracking is outlawed. A business so dependent on completely immoral, outright evil intrusive surveillance does not deserve to be kept alive by exploitation of our rights.
There is really no way out of the redirect chain here, but if you want to avoid malicious redirects on many other websites you can use the Neat URL extension.
Airlines don't care about privacy, security, user experience, prices... There are many things you don't have to care about when competition is low and barriers to entry are incredibly high.
As an aside, turns out 9/10 decoy bombs and bladed weapons are smuggled onboard with no problems in tests. All the security theatre and voodoo rituals requiring passengers to switch off all electronic devices for no actual reasons and it's still trivial to hijack a plane.
This could be a good alternative for SETI or that protein folding project but if it somehow turns into a plague of attempts to shift the computing requirements of running the backend onto the users, our content blocking lists will have to grow a little bit longer again.
With 1.5 billion people you could find some who disagree with literally anything you could say about the situation in their country or about the world in general, I'm talking about the general sentiment.
The Chinese don't care about "dictatorship". Their lives are largely unaffected. Sure, sometimes a political rant gets deleted from the Internet, but it has little bearing on actual daily life.
They openly mock western liberal values, they have their own slang for it. It seems so natural for the westerners that all countries will naturally drift towards democratic governments and more freedom, but it seems that some regions of the world just don't work that way. Just like Middle Eastern countries work best (as in, remain relatively stable) under military dictatorships, China seems to prefer authoritarian rule that at the same time doesn't really get in the way of them living their lives the way they're used to. It's a tough pill to swallow, but some nations just don't like democracy and don't want to implement it in any form.