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Re:The Spite Software License on Sunday September 13, 2020 @09:17AM (#24460651)
Alternative: Publish a blog about the spite license, and then anyone who reads the blog knows the contents, but has not read the license itself!
Re:Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance on Saturday September 12, 2020 @10:16PM (#24457637)
Thank you!
Re:Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance on Saturday September 12, 2020 @09:27PM (#24457420)
Crypto != cryptocurrency
Re:SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B on Saturday September 12, 2020 @04:46PM (#24455510)
I wish they went public. I’d love to invest in them long term
> Firm Will Pay a Total of $38 Million in Penalties to Settle With Regulators

$38 million!?!? That's a expensive mistake for not submitting some paperwork that should be automated.

I'd like to see a list of international government agencies and what they can/do charge for penalty fines. I suspect that the United States SEC sets a high bar compared to some of the smaller fines I've seen elsewhere. GDPR appears to be one of the top contenders

https://www.tessian.com/blog/biggest-gdpr-fines-2020/

Re:Assange Hearing Day 8 on Thursday September 10, 2020 @06:36AM (#24430908)
>> particular the Java script of the messages allegedly between

Sounds like they were conspiring via a web-based client and the prosecution is going to read the functions to the jury ;-)

Re:Assange Hearing Day 8 on Thursday September 10, 2020 @06:35AM (#24430897)
It’s almost worth asking what those 11 were. The prosecution must have really failed
Re:Grail S-1 on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @02:53PM (#24424411)
I had not heard of them, but their mission statement in the S-1 is simple enough:

>> Our mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured.

Re:The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @02:50PM (#24424371)
Congrats Eric! I've been excited about this since your original announcement.

I'm hoping that you'll offer an index fund to make it for passive investors (and dollar cost averaging) to put more money in this exchange, with less effort, and push the wall street incentives toward longer term.

Re:The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @02:42PM (#24424263)
Forgive the stupid question, but what's the continuity plan LTSE shuts down in a decade. Who does my share of MSFT go to?
Re:GitPals – Find team for cooperative development on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @02:35PM (#24424197)
To expand on this idea, it would be cool if you could define a finite task you need (such as a user story) and exchange that for some other finite task that someone else needs. They work on your user story (in a skill they have) and you work on theirs (in a skill you have). Like bartering.

Right now, I see "Wanted: UX designer" but that doesn't tell me if they just need a menu bar, or an entire front-end for a mail client

Not even in the same ballpark of relevance. PR is different than HR
You can actually mute the “microphone” feature (which is an electric disconnect internally, someone on HN mentioned before), and just use the smart speaker capabilities through the app, for playing music & setting smart home routines.

So even those who don’t speak can use it

Re:The Fed now owns nearly 1/3 of all U.S. mortgages on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @07:54AM (#24420008)
>> Morgan Stanley analysts pointed out in late March that the buying was running at eight times the pace seen in prior episodes of Fed purchasing under programs known as quantitative easing.

8x increase over QE is crazy. Is that 8x mortgage bonds or 8x bonds in general?

The screenshot shows a request, not a demand. The tweet’s headline is clearly clickbait
>> they send their staff of high powered attorneys to shop for an amenable forum and file the SLAPP lawsuit that your org can't possibly afford to defend in a court you've never heard about

Do you have an example of Amazon doing this?

Re:ProtonDrive Security Model on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @02:35PM (#24411400)
It looks like you are correct, but only if you let them generate the password. If you define your own password, then you would have to share it via another channel-

>> While the Proton server will know the URL, it will never receive the password.

>> When creating a new shareable URL for a file, the web client will first confirm that a share directing to the file exists. The passphrase of this share must then be encrypted with the new password associated with the URL. This new password is either randomly generated by the ProtonDrive client, or is specified by the user.

>> In the case of randomly generated passwords, the user can choose whether they want to include it at the end of the URL, equivalent to sharing the content publicly. This section of the URL isn’t shared with Proton servers, making the password and the content inaccessible to Proton. Alternatively, the user can choose to share the password separately.

>> In the case of user-defined passwords, this option isn’t available and the password must always be communicated separately.

Re:A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @08:11AM (#24407617)
Ya, the few I clicked on look like this is a random collection of ideas, tips, and tricks. Not falsehoods and logic

Clickbait with a lot of effort but poor delivery of title and expectations

I’m glad I watched that. Looks like the movie is a waste of time
That is incredible sensitivity. How does one calibrate something, or also not suspect the instrument is affected by other environmental variables?
Re:Chanakya on Saturday September 05, 2020 @08:09PM (#24387836)
Which is the priority?

> we will have lost those manuscripts forever.

You do realize that starvation results in millions of lives lost forever. That’s why I donate to food & local water/well charities Today. Manuscripts can be photographed and transcribed later.

Tibet and Vietnam come to mind. Hong Kong most recently (violation of treaty). here is a full list for you

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_P...

Also, as a democracy the US has released information about those events. We don’t expect the PRC to release evidence they behaved poorly (since they already forbid talking about TS)

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