> I think we should see this as simply silly behavior by a government.[...] This is an administration that seems to be keeping track of who its friends are and aren't, and likes to be the center of every story. They…
> Google's existence has spawned a horde of SEO spam sites that dilute and push down real content on the internet They don't push real content "down the internet" they push it down the google rankings. And while Google…
> The question is, does it fulfill a cookie-using website's requirements under GDPR without additional UI It cannot. That's the whole point of the GDPR. It forbids tracking without informed, explicit user consent. Users…
> So what you paid for as an investor was a bunch of R&D research on how to replace natural and free sunlight with LEDs. (The fact that there are investor decks out there pitching that energy costs could be offset by…
> I was surprised to see "sprawl" called out in the op because that is directly opposed to the flattening of building restrictions and the deregulation that is being pursued by both the state and housing activists…
> That's not a data protection problem, however. No data protection law forbids digitization of government services. It's a common excuse, though. It's a super weird one as well. There's no extra special data protection…
There's video de- and encoding as well.
> Money, it turns out, wasn’t the point after all. Not the only point. Asking them if they wanted to do the sales team job without compensation would get you the obvious answer. They wouldn't. Money is the point, it's…
Interesting. So it only shows images that were transformed / mixed to get the output, but does not show images used to learn how to transform / select them? Sounds very much like a human would do it. If I 'know' how to…
> I write a lot of C and still find it tricky when I have to go look at some random C codebase Absolutely. C Code is not necessarily easy to understand. Not at all. But the C parts itself are? In C you seldom wonder…
> I am always shocked when I learn the some code I wrote as throwaway-tp-be-done-right-later 10 years ago is still in use. That's because your "quick throwaway" code solves a real problem. It is useful, it works, it is…
> what did I miss Mobile is eating the web. Mobile (Android - it's all Safari on iOs) Firefox is a bad experience.
Print can charge for ad placement, not impressions. But that's only possible because the number of subscribers, size and number of print runs, circulation are well known and hard to fake stats. The web cannot do that…
> But you're also saying without that protection, the market would be more consolidated. I read it as 'the market wouldn't exist at all'. The margins would either be a lot thinner, allowing less experimentation and…
> One of the solutions could be to freeze and compress background tabs. FF can do it, but it only triggers in low ram situations and detection is wonky, disabled on Linux. I found the auto tab discard addon [0] to be a…
It does not. I find the wild, anti-competitive cross product "synergy" the big tech companies are employing just as concerning as privacy violations. (E.g. Google search pushing Chrome and other services, Chrome sync…
> I tried to, as much as time permitted, give the historical context for the math I was teaching. This is great. Funny how teachers generally aim for their students to 'understand' instead of merely 'replicating' (from…
> Advertisers are measuring the actual effectiveness of their ads, and paying for that only. Therefore falling effectiveness means falling prices and you have to increase the quantity of ads, to earn the same money (and…
I don't think the license is too important as there's always a chance the software gets abandoned instead. Rather look at how many organizations are paying for contributions. If it's all resting on a single back there's…
The article makes a decent point: Websites will have an incentive to prove their visitors are not children. > It is virtually impossible to identify and segment your user base and apply the bill's protections to only…
> several legal frameworks which actively oppose the idea (ITAR, IP and copyright, etc). The idea seems pretty silly to me. IP and copyright do apply to (otherwise free) speech. That's the whole point of them. The…
Well... that's an old argument (the PGP book) and there's even support from the courts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junger_v._Daley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
Doesn't it make search worse though? I don't like my searches to end at paywalls and Google being able to do more of that doesn't seem an advantage.
> They continued building up their nuclear power plants well into the 1990s but failed to bring construction costs and delays down like your comment suggests. Absolutely true. It proved expensive even at large scale and…
You might even land the ultimate innovation of doing both by "inventing" AJAX! (Just call it something new, like piped hydration)
> I think we should see this as simply silly behavior by a government.[...] This is an administration that seems to be keeping track of who its friends are and aren't, and likes to be the center of every story. They…
> Google's existence has spawned a horde of SEO spam sites that dilute and push down real content on the internet They don't push real content "down the internet" they push it down the google rankings. And while Google…
> The question is, does it fulfill a cookie-using website's requirements under GDPR without additional UI It cannot. That's the whole point of the GDPR. It forbids tracking without informed, explicit user consent. Users…
> So what you paid for as an investor was a bunch of R&D research on how to replace natural and free sunlight with LEDs. (The fact that there are investor decks out there pitching that energy costs could be offset by…
> I was surprised to see "sprawl" called out in the op because that is directly opposed to the flattening of building restrictions and the deregulation that is being pursued by both the state and housing activists…
> That's not a data protection problem, however. No data protection law forbids digitization of government services. It's a common excuse, though. It's a super weird one as well. There's no extra special data protection…
There's video de- and encoding as well.
> Money, it turns out, wasn’t the point after all. Not the only point. Asking them if they wanted to do the sales team job without compensation would get you the obvious answer. They wouldn't. Money is the point, it's…
Interesting. So it only shows images that were transformed / mixed to get the output, but does not show images used to learn how to transform / select them? Sounds very much like a human would do it. If I 'know' how to…
> I write a lot of C and still find it tricky when I have to go look at some random C codebase Absolutely. C Code is not necessarily easy to understand. Not at all. But the C parts itself are? In C you seldom wonder…
> I am always shocked when I learn the some code I wrote as throwaway-tp-be-done-right-later 10 years ago is still in use. That's because your "quick throwaway" code solves a real problem. It is useful, it works, it is…
> what did I miss Mobile is eating the web. Mobile (Android - it's all Safari on iOs) Firefox is a bad experience.
Print can charge for ad placement, not impressions. But that's only possible because the number of subscribers, size and number of print runs, circulation are well known and hard to fake stats. The web cannot do that…
> But you're also saying without that protection, the market would be more consolidated. I read it as 'the market wouldn't exist at all'. The margins would either be a lot thinner, allowing less experimentation and…
> One of the solutions could be to freeze and compress background tabs. FF can do it, but it only triggers in low ram situations and detection is wonky, disabled on Linux. I found the auto tab discard addon [0] to be a…
It does not. I find the wild, anti-competitive cross product "synergy" the big tech companies are employing just as concerning as privacy violations. (E.g. Google search pushing Chrome and other services, Chrome sync…
> I tried to, as much as time permitted, give the historical context for the math I was teaching. This is great. Funny how teachers generally aim for their students to 'understand' instead of merely 'replicating' (from…
> Advertisers are measuring the actual effectiveness of their ads, and paying for that only. Therefore falling effectiveness means falling prices and you have to increase the quantity of ads, to earn the same money (and…
I don't think the license is too important as there's always a chance the software gets abandoned instead. Rather look at how many organizations are paying for contributions. If it's all resting on a single back there's…
The article makes a decent point: Websites will have an incentive to prove their visitors are not children. > It is virtually impossible to identify and segment your user base and apply the bill's protections to only…
> several legal frameworks which actively oppose the idea (ITAR, IP and copyright, etc). The idea seems pretty silly to me. IP and copyright do apply to (otherwise free) speech. That's the whole point of them. The…
Well... that's an old argument (the PGP book) and there's even support from the courts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junger_v._Daley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
Doesn't it make search worse though? I don't like my searches to end at paywalls and Google being able to do more of that doesn't seem an advantage.
> They continued building up their nuclear power plants well into the 1990s but failed to bring construction costs and delays down like your comment suggests. Absolutely true. It proved expensive even at large scale and…
You might even land the ultimate innovation of doing both by "inventing" AJAX! (Just call it something new, like piped hydration)