bolder88 · HackerTrans

Increasingly?

This demo is impressive, but apart from the LocalStorage, this exact same code would have worked just the same 15 years ago.

The web has been a great runtime for a long long time.

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Pretty sure most immigrants do not want to be "integrated".

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Sure it does. You just have to change some setting in /proc. The default may be 64k

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Probably the lack of recognition is due to it making money. Being profitable is so "old economy".

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Should you really be able to patent anything in a water pistol or nerf gun though?

Protecting the name of course is one thing. Nerf and supersoaker are brands. But I don't think anything within the toys should be patentable.

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You're not creating anything though. If you print money, you're just devaluing all the current money, and stealing from people who already have money.

I'm not convinced twitter has created anything really valuable. Or anything that will be around in 5/10 years time.

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This should not be on hacker news. Who really cares about random teenagers throwing hissy fits anymore?

There is no "anonymous".

If you didn't see it, I'd recommend the final episode of "IT Crowd", where an "anonymous" member is unmasked as a scruffy teenager whose mum tells him its time to go to bed.

If this wasn't titled "An open letter", and signed "Anonymous", it would just be the random ramblings of some internet user. But those two magic linkbait phrases, and suddenly it's of some importance? bs.

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AWS isn't the issue. It's poorly engineered software. Probably using some fashionable backend, instead of tried and tested battle worn efficient software.

Another example would be Reddit's mammoth hosting bill.

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If you print some more money is that wealth?

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> When $25b of wealth is being created

Woah there. I think this is the fundamental issue. $25b of wealth hasn't been created. It's not free money. It's a scam.

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edit: Deleted due to the overwhelming amount of Guardian readers/conspiracy nuts in the comments section, who aren't able to listen to reasoned debate.

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No, we shouldn't bother trying to plug those leaks.

Current situation:

  * You request website A, which includes 3rd party code from C. C drops a cookie
  * You request website B, which includes 3rd party code from C. C knows you previously visited A.

New situation:

  * You request website A, which includes 3rd party code from C. Website A sends details of your visit via a backchannel to C.
  * You request website B, which includes 3rd party code from C. Websites B sends details of your visit via backchannels, and C knows you previously visited A.

Wouldn't you rather such tracking to be out in the open and easily blocked - stop accepting cookies, rather than them creating backchannels to track you instead?

Yes - You should give up if you think you will able to continue sending websites HTTP requests directly, whilst not being tracked.

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Good. This recent war against cookies is futile and silly.

If you visit a website (Assuming you don't go via some anonymizer proxy), they can track you, and they can pass your details to any 3rd party who wishes to also track you.

Cookies are the easiest way for them to do that, but its absurdly naive to think that if you block cookies then people won't track your browser activity online.

If you don't want to be 'tracked', stop generating HTTP requests, or do them through an anonymizer service. And good luck getting any website to work properly.

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If you haven't seen it, I'd recommend watching "An idiot abroad". It's a great travel show with Karl Pilkington. He goes to foreign lands and tells it how it is.

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Yes I am complaining about the £280m send to India. There are a lot of other causes closer to home that would benefit greatly from it.

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So you believe that the current British, should be paying money for crimes committed by their ancestors?

Personally, I don't think people should pay for other peoples mistakes, even if they happen to be born in the same country.

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Thanks, I copy and pasted the wrong bit. But the point stands.

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I don't think that's true at all. I think the majority of the UK see a space program as a fairly useless endeavour - big boys playing with their toys.

The UK does certainly see sending millions of pounds overseas in foreign aid, as a bad idea.

And sorry again for my original copy&paste gone wrong. I copied the wrong part of the article which mentioned remittances rather than foreign aid.

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As stated elsewhere, foreign aid from the UK to india is £280m. But I'm glad that's such a miniscule amount to you.

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Yes apologies. I copy and pasted the wrong bit from a badly written gruaniad article.

The point stands though. Whether it's billions or millions, it's still a ton of money which we shouldn't be giving them in aid.