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nidificate | 6 years ago | on: Remember QR Codes? They’re More Powerful Than You Think

But you can buy NFC tags for relatively cheap.

nidificate | 6 years ago | on: Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90%

Do iOS or Android have any requirements vis a vis HSTS or HPKP?

nidificate | 6 years ago | on: Twitter to ban political advertising

Is it easier to corrupt one institution or five?

nidificate | 6 years ago | on: Zuckerberg doubles down on Facebook political ads policy after Twitter ban

How many people would be willing to pay $10/month for something that they currently get for free?

nidificate | 6 years ago | on: Zuckerberg doubles down on Facebook political ads policy after Twitter ban

Often times in politics, what is a "lie" is more a matter of opinion rather than fact. Who gets to be the arbiter of truth?

nidificate | 6 years ago | on: Zuckerberg doubles down on Facebook political ads policy after Twitter ban

Facebook makes more than $5 per user but the average is brought down by lower revenue in Asia/Pacific. For users in US/Canada the revenue per user is over $20.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/02/facebooks-revenue-topped-5-p...

nidificate | 6 years ago | on: A military historian’s analysis of Spartan myth

> Spartan planning is both direct and unrealistic: find a choke-point, fortify it and hold it indefinately with a hoplite army. Attempted at Thermopylae this plan fails; the Battle of Thermopylae is often represented in popular culture as an intentional delaying action, but it was nothing of the sort – Herodotus is clear that this was supposed to be the decisive land engagement (Hdt. 7.175; Cf. Diodorus 11.4.1-5).

nidificate | 6 years ago | on: A military historian’s analysis of Spartan myth

Xenophan and Plutarch probably hit a bit to do with it.

nidificate | 6 years ago | on: Notepad++ 7.8.1 Release “free-uyghur-edition”

Not exactly new : https://twitter.com/Notepad_plus/status/673818785674080256

nidificate | 6 years ago | on: Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behavior on GitLab.com

It was opt-out, not mandatory.

nidificate | 6 years ago | on: When XML Beats JSON: UI Layouts

This already exists. They are called custom elements.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/custom-elements.html#...

https://github.com/w3c/webcomponents/

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components/...

nidificate | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?

Compare that with the version in GNU Coreutils[1] that is 50+ lines long so that false[2] can be written as:

#define EXIT_STATUS EXIT_FAILURE

#include "true.c"

[1] https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/true....

[2] https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/false...

nidificate | 6 years ago | on: Amazon won't spin off AWS. That's hurting AWS

Even if AWS was spunoff, surely it would still be owned by Bezos just as much? I assume in spin off proportional ownership by shareholders remains the same. I also don't see why their policies vis a vis government would be any different if they were a separate company. So, the argument comes down to people not being smart enough to realize AWS isn't any different as a separate company.