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New comment by rue in "All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert"

rue — Sat, 04 May 2019 19:26:56 +0000

…This one?

This one isn’t very privacy-friendly or open. And that raises all the previous questions again. Should they maybe have learned something about clandestinely fucking with people’s systems?

New comment by rue in "All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert"

rue — Sat, 04 May 2019 19:22:11 +0000

Look, at this point it’s not the user’s responsibility to “chill out”. It’s very much Firefox’s responsibility to try to repair their reputation by:

1. being completely transparent about all the mechanisms that data or code can be pushed to or pulled by the browser, or pushed from or pulled from the browser; and

2. having a toggle for all of them, yes every single one, in Privacy & Security.

New comment by rue in "They Don’t Make Music Like They Used To"

rue — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 14:32:46 +0000

Both sound like Nickelback to me so I don’t know…

New comment by rue in "EU Cancels 'Final' Negotiations on EU Copyright Directive"

rue — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 00:49:49 +0000

Some of the comments here are a little too optimistic, although this is a victory.

The fight is not over yet. The directive needs to be written, and ideally in a way that prevents this from being brought back to the table again.

New comment by rue in "EU Cancels 'Final' Negotiations on EU Copyright Directive"

rue — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 00:47:40 +0000

Sure, but copyright vampires have been setting this up for years.

New comment by rue in "Hey Google When did I ask you to read my purchase details"

rue — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 17:46:00 +0000

They’re reading everything. It says so in the TOS.

New comment by rue in "Taxing Top Incomes in a World of Ideas [pdf]"

rue — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:18:25 +0000

Even if that were true, would that have reduced innovation? How many other innovators has Amazon crushed—fueled by the “top income”?

New comment by rue in "Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2019"

rue — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 00:05:10 +0000

Have you considered how, say, a recruiter might view your CV differently from someone just getting started?

New comment by rue in "The game-day caffeine routine that powers the NBA's most frequent flyers"

rue — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 18:16:18 +0000

They don’t need to, but they have found it to be more… optimal.

New comment by rue in "Marriott Concedes 5M Passport Numbers Lost to Hackers Were Not Encrypted"

rue — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 23:27:26 +0000

I would not imagine even the legal requirement would reduce the safeguarding requirements nor allow an increase to the necessary retention period.

New comment by rue in "The game-day caffeine routine that powers the NBA's most frequent flyers"

rue — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 23:24:05 +0000

Not sure what you mean by optimize, but MLB teams often play several games against each other in a row.

But that’s slightly different because it could be seen to change the dynamic form performance over a season to fewer best out of N events.

New comment by rue in "Please do not attempt to simplify this code"

rue — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 22:50:21 +0000

God, Go is tedious to read.

Also, just use a code formatter that rejects any incorrectly styled code.

New comment by rue in "Meet the Bros of /r/WallStreetBets Who Lose Thousands of $ Day–And Brag About It"

rue — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 22:47:18 +0000

The house always wins.

New comment by rue in "Tech Unicorns Are Going Public at Near-Record Pace"

rue — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 16:35:18 +0000

It’s the share that’s being traded. It doesn’t matter whether it represents reality. All that matters is that the guess about whether it appreciates or depreciates is correct.

New comment by rue in "Rust 2019 and beyond: limits to some growth"

rue — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 15:55:46 +0000

In all likelihood an entirely new product will be a better fit in that case, anyway. Especially if whichever direction you do pick completely precludes what you decide not to do.

In practice (and with some experience) most decisions do not prevent revisiting them later.

New comment by rue in "It’s probably time to learn Chinese"

rue — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 00:37:53 +0000

50 years from now, translation technology has made speaking foreign languages obsolete.

(Except for your own benefit.)

New comment by rue in "Burnout, stress lead more companies to try a four-day work week"

rue — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 10:45:52 +0000

That would be why you also unionize the nurses.

(And also not subject basic rights like healthcare to market forces, but that’s a bridge a little farther.)

New comment by rue in "Tech Unicorns Are Going Public at Near-Record Pace"

rue — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 22:43:56 +0000

The market isn’t related to the companies it ostensibly comprises at all.

Any changes are related to the expected value of the stock, not the company itself.

New comment by rue in "K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee pod system"

rue — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 22:25:13 +0000

If a tax is prohibitive, then by the same logic there will be loopholes for necessary usage.

New comment by rue in "Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb Twitter war"

rue — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 20:04:04 +0000

I think that goes to say that probability isn't really useful to most people when we're talking about elections.