rlidwka

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

There is another basic choice: write a code that is intentionally incompatible with ad blockers.

They can name an important navigation element "ad", so ad blocker will hide it for example. Then, when a bunch of users start complaining that the website does not work, point out that it's all ad blocker's fault (because without it everything works).

I've seen a few precedents already.

rlidwka

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

You can store this hash on the server and use it as a password. If this hash gets stolen, the attacker will be able to log in on YOUR website, but not on other websites user may share passwords with.

After that you can ditch server-side hashing, and use authentication protocol like CRAM-MD5 (I don't remember what the modern alternatives are) to protect against network traffic interception. While still not technically storing your users' passwords in the database.

EDIT: Using asymmetric crypto with a private key derived from the password would probably be better. But still, client-side hashing DOES gain you something.

rlidwka

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

I'm afraid there are plenty of potential victims out there for both FBI and Al-Qaeda. So one organization does not really interfere with another.

rlidwka

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.

// quoting https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/

rlidwka

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Potentially, higher acceleration/deceleration would allow a computer to use simpler collision prevention algorithms. Also, there is no shifter there.

rlidwka

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

> Without inheritance, as soon as you want to cast mixer to something else, you're either relying on binary wizardry by the compiler

Why would you want to cast mixer to something else? What real-life task does it solve?

> If we assume we have both a hardware mixer and a soft mixer which both have the set volume method, we wan't polymorphism so we can treat them equally.

Polymorphism isn't OOP feature. You can have overloaded `mixer_set(struct, int)` without any OOP wizardry involved.

rlidwka

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

> Personally I believe that psychiatry can be both a science and not a science

Like alchemy, astrology or theology? Or medical sciences in middle ages?

Like all those "sciences", psychiatry lacks a solid base, a set of verifiable facts which entire science is based upon. Why those disorders happen? Which substance causes them? Anybody can answer that?

rlidwka

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

> Do you believe that psychiatry provides us valid knowledge that allows us to

No, it really doesn't.

If someone comes into a clinic and ask psychiatrist for a help, he is gonna be diagnosed with some kind of a disorder 100% the time.

But if you think about it, it's not psychiatrist who determines if the person is healthy, it's the person himself. If you meet with a psychiatrist, you have a disorder. Period.

> treat individuals who have mental influences that cause them to be a danger to themselves or society?

It reminds me of an old Soviet practice to treat people who were under influence from Western countries. Quite obviously, it was considered a mental disorder which was dangerous to themselves and for the (Communist) society. So those were usually locked up in a psychiatric clinic and never heard from ever since.

The methods to determine if a person is "ill" never changed. "I think that person has disorder, so let's come up with a disorder that fits more or less." As mentioned in the article above, the response should be: where is your blood test?

> If not, by what means to propose that we do so?

Quite easy really. Whether a person is a danger to society or not, should be determined by a court jury based on his previous actions.

rlidwka

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

I remember some people being offended by an auto-generated captcha text.

rlidwka

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Better solution is:

    BEGIN TRAN; DELETE (without where clause)

... on the same line.

I've lost a lot of data to "oh lets find that line in mysql history... up, up, enter, FUCK"

rlidwka

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

I've read a few. Admittedly, I've read ToS less times than I've clicked on "Accept" button.

Nonetheless, there is an external "Just let me ignore this!" button here:

http://bugmenot.com/

It lets you bypass registration with the most extremely annoying websites, so you don't have to register.

Or just keep your privacy, browse using TOR/VPN, and you can ignore ToS completely with no real-life consequences.

Thankfully, the battle between users and lawyers usually favor former.

rlidwka

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

The way to ask politely is to provide "close this popup" button at an easily accessible place.

Saying "you can't view this content unless you register/disable adblock" is NEVER polite, no matter how many times you say "please".

rlidwka

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

That's what being politician means. This job isn't about solving problems, it's about making an appearance that you solve them.

Suppose a terrorist did something with his shoe that he wasn't supposed to. Here is how it should be solved:

"Based on our research, the probability of dying because of the terrorist attack is XXX, which we can reduce by YYY using blah-blah, therefore we should allocate ZZZ funds in that area."

Would you vote for this guy? Well, most people won't even understand what he is talking about.

So here is what happens in practice:

"Okay, I don't know how to decrease national debt or prevent poverty, so let's find something else. Oh hey, terrorism! I know how to solve it. Forbid shoes at the airport. Sounds simple enough. So we can say 'we successfully fight terrorism'. And just in case people don't care enough, make this issue the most important one and add 'hey, think of the children' into the mix."

So the general population becomes scared of terrorism 'cause guys running for office told them they should be.

It's not politicians who are stupid, it's people who vote for them.

rlidwka

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

If he doesn't own BMW car, he didn't receive a written offer and can't really act on it.

You have to refer to actual written offer made to one of their customers. The argument that "I didn't see the written offer, but I believe it exists" doesn't seem very convincing.

edit: "own" is defined loosely here, you may ask a friend for a copy of the offer, or rent a car, or download it if someone publishes it on the Internet. But if you have never seen the offer, I'm pretty sure you're not in a position to enforce it.

rlidwka

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

"Popularity" and "Thanks" happen, those aren't very strong emotions. Sure people +1 post or two, but it wears off quickly.

"Mercy" is a very popular way to counteract -1's, but it disappears if we get rid of the ability to minus a post.

I believe "Contributory" is very rare as is. Hard to distinguish it from "Agreement" though.

rlidwka

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

In a professional context it is essential that people can express disagreement provided they write exact reasons why they disagree.

You know, "+1" usually has only one meaning:

   - "I agree with whatever you're saying".

"-1" has however two separate meanings:

   - "I disagree with whatever you're saying because I believe that blah-blah-blah (reasons here)"

   - "I disagree with whatever you're saying because fuck you that's why"

And "-1" button doesn't distinguish between those two cases.

rlidwka

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Hmm... I wonder, if they put everything (both navigation and ads) on the same canvas (maybe pixel-by-pixel even), is there any way to block ads inside?

If webgl will be adopted widely enough, this might even look plausible for some.

rlidwka

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

"unlimited plan" means "you pay for a bandwidth instead of an amount of data downloaded". And if you're able to download 2TB in a period of time, you have the right to do so.

Yes, I know, common carriers are overselling bandwidth like hell, but it's not a good excuse for blaming customers for using the service they paid for.

rlidwka

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

It doesn't list the word "Belgium". Even though according to Douglas Adams that's the most offensive word in the galaxy. :)

rlidwka

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

> It is, to its very roots, a bad word.

Even if every single human being using it was meant to be insulting, it still wouldn't make it a bad word.

Because there are no bad words. Just like there are no bad numbers or bad colors or bad images. Information can't be good or bad. It has no such property.

A message becomes offensive only when its sender said it with the intention to be offensive. And the same message could be offensive in one case and not be offensive in others. Context matters.

> They are not trying to get people to say "r-word" instead of the r-word. They want people to be more thoughtful and stop using the term altogether.

It doesn't work like that. There will always be a word for mentally ill people. And there always will be some asshole who will try to use it against anybody who he doesn't like. Then it becomes derogatory. And it starts all over again.

They ("r-word campaign") will just change one word with another word (and burn a bunch of books containing the old word in the process). They will never change how people think.

Well, actually... you can remove all negative words from the language like it was suggested by George Orwell in 1984 novel [1]. Then "bad people" will have no words to express what they're thinking. But I really hope you aren't intending to go that way.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

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