lumisota | 8 years ago | on: Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016)
For the most part, no new law needs to be put in place. Anti-trust legislation should protect consumers from these practices.
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lumisota | 8 years ago | on: Google faces UK legal action for bypassing iPhone privacy settings to target ads
"UK" is a bit misleading -- the representative action applies to residents of England and Wales only.
lumisota | 8 years ago | on: Hello, world: this is WikiTribune
arguably, neutrality is an impossible task. where there is any editing or selection involved (be it by a person, or by an algorithm), neutrality disappears.
lumisota | 8 years ago | on: How to Stop Advertising Notifications from the Google Photo App
The linked article was for iOS 10. iOS 11 deletes the apps properly: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208094
lumisota | 8 years ago | on: Apple HomePod – a missed opportunity
Based on numbers [0] released by both companies over the summer, Spotify has twice as many subscribers as Apple Music does.
Surely their having achieved this with limited market reach is positive for them, and not for Apple?
[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/31/16070982/spotify-60-milli...
lumisota | 8 years ago | on: Tesla Semi
the iPhone 8 and iPhone X use the same glass
lumisota | 8 years ago | on: UK parliament to get binding vote on final Brexit deal
The document you're quoting is not law. The referendum itself was non-binding.
lumisota | 8 years ago | on: iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad for User Security
You can 3D Touch the Settings icon to jump to the WiFi settings.
lumisota | 8 years ago | on: Jessica Alba's Honest Co. Slashes Its Valuation
Nominative nondeterminism?
lumisota | 8 years ago | on: MacOS High Sierra
Alternatively, Settings > App Store > uncheck "Download newly available updates in the background"
lumisota | 8 years ago | on: Same day ACH: moving payments faster in the USA
Anyone doing so would also require the name and address of the account holder.
lumisota | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: How did you ship your Kickstarter
Check out https://www.blackbox.cool.
lumisota | 8 years ago | on: How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists
Keshav's "How to Read a Paper" [1] is a good guide, though perhaps less in the "for non-scientists" camp.
lumisota | 8 years ago | on: Verizon is killing Tumblr’s fight for net neutrality
Sure; companies are required to generate value for shareholders. That does not necessarily mean profit.
lumisota | 8 years ago | on: Verizon is killing Tumblr’s fight for net neutrality
"Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.": http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/13-354.html
lumisota | 8 years ago | on: Casper, Mattress Maker, Raises $170M and Plans I.P.O
The sentence that follows the quote is "So unless you discover a competitor with the sort of lock-in that would prevent users from choosing you, don't discard the idea.". Most of the winners in the examples you gave had insurmountable lock-in (network effects, etc).
lumisota | 8 years ago | on: 16 Years with IPv6
They already charge on AWS. The cost of 1 IP is built-in to the hourly cost, with extras and those attached to stopped instances charged explicitly.
lumisota | 9 years ago | on: HTTP/2 is not the future, it’s the present
I think the more interesting question is why consensus couldn't be reached on requiring TLS as part of the standard.
lumisota | 9 years ago | on: HTTP/2 is not the future, it’s the present
The standard [1] doesn't require the use of TLS/HTTPS. However, all of the major implementations only support HTTP/2 over TLS.
[1] RFC7540 - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7540
lumisota | 9 years ago | on: Horlicks, a drink Brits go to bed with and Indians wake up with
This appears to be an Australian version.
UK: http://www.ovaltine.co.uk/media/22661/ovaltine-original-addm...
