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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security on Thursday September 14, 2017 @09:55AM (#15247997)
There still must be another mechanism to access it like a password. What if the camera fails? What if you get punched in the face that day?
Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors on Monday September 04, 2017 @12:57AM (#15165829)
I really like your analogy, but what did you mean by "anything is better"?
Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors on Monday September 04, 2017 @12:43AM (#15165783)
I used to be inspired by the Venus Project years ago. Unfortunately I realized it is extremely utopian and things needs to change in a more practical sense if we want a good chance of succeding.

I'm currently very impressed by the work of Prof. Richard Wolff, an economist that heavily criticizes Capitalism and tries to make actual practical changes in the lives of people starting from their workplaces.

Here is a talk he made in front of Google employees (the irony): https://youtu.be/ynbgMKclWWc

Re:The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons on Saturday September 02, 2017 @09:07AM (#15155781)
And to block competitors from selling out their own products (AMD in that case).
Re:The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons on Saturday September 02, 2017 @08:54AM (#15155722)
This is a very good overview of bad anti-consumer practices Intel has done throughout the last 30 years: https://youtu.be/osSMJRyxG0k
Re:JavaScript is Eating the World on Friday August 25, 2017 @02:57AM (#15096691)
Can you elaborate why? Aside from install times which there are solutions for.
Re:JavaScript is Eating the World on Friday August 25, 2017 @02:54AM (#15096674)
I still don't see the point, you'll probably need to pull dependencies whether you use is or any other language.

And as for build tools, people like to complain way too much, maybe they prefer just using bash scripts instead..