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glomph··on Twitter’s stock falls toward IPO-level prices
Honestly I still don't understand them. They are not always in chronological order and their seems to be no logic behind the way tweets are grouped.
glomph··on Facebook Ordered by Hamburg Regulator to Allow Pseudonyms
Many of my friends already use pseudonyms on Facebook. They just use ones that look like a real name. Their reason is just that they want to be able to tell new friends something to search and still be invisible when they look for jobs etc.
glomph··on New Court Evidence Reveals Hollywood’s Plan to Smear Google
The real reason is that they fight very hard to seem like a neutral search agency. They wouldn't want to jepordise that for a squabble with hollywood.
glomph··on If David Cameron bans secure encryption he can't intercept
You would be very surprised if that didn't happen!? Seems like a long shot prediction to me.
glomph··on If David Cameron bans secure encryption he can't intercept
I think the sane thing to do is assume they are going to ask for legislation to force large companies that do online communication (facebook, whatsapp, twitter, apple, etc) to keep their system potentially and practically back door capable. That is something that would be possible to implement. It is also something with a historical precedent (look into how they responded to the BBM situation after the London riots).

If we don't want that to happen then the smart thing to do would be act as if that is what they are proposing.

If they propose something even worse it isn't like it will have been wasted effort.

glomph··on New iPod touch
Right but the alternative is to have to go through and decide what music I might listen to.
glomph··on Show HN: Democracy.io by EFF – Write to your representatives
This UK site https://www.writetothem.com/ that does a similar job works fantastically. Using it took a significant amount of pain out of working out where to send my emails, what I had to include to be likely to get a response and so on. Even moreso in writing to MEPs. It also allows them to measure responsiveness and publish that.

I think this is great!

glomph··on Reddit Chief Engineer Quits After Less Than Two Months on the Job
spez the CEO has made public time commitments for certain updates.
glomph··on How I got XSS’d by my ad network
Could this be illegal? I mean the EU for example has pretty strict requirements on what you can do with user information.
glomph··on Feynman Algorithm
That isn't really the same thing.
glomph··on Streamus updated to be compliant with YouTube terms of service
Honestly reading the conversation I think Youtube made it pretty obvious what they were going to require. The dev seems to be willfully ignorant in his replies.
glomph··on The Ketamine Connection
It is a pretty standard problem with people that get heavy into ketamine though.
glomph··on An unexpected benefit of open-sourcing our code
I didn't read it like that. The point was only that from an external perspective the act of open sourcing doesn't have any cost to be given code.
glomph··on Basic Facebook
You can download the apk and it will work on any phone. So you can either trust somewhere like http://www.apkmirror.com/ or use one of the various methods of ripping the apk from the play store.

I use lite for notifications because my phone has limited space and I find the website to be good enough.

glomph··on Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin
They also pay their mods right?
glomph··on Silk Road: Undercover agent admits stealing Bitcoin
That would be a bad tumbler design. A better design pays you out in bitcoins that have no connection to the bitcoins you paid in. Say you pay into wallet A and someone else pays into wallet B then you could get paid entierly out of wallet B. Then the only person who could follow the path would be the owner of wallets A and B.
glomph··on Life paint
Point D is absolutely ludicrous. You think the chance of major injury in a cycling accident is HIGHER than a car accident? Are you mad?
glomph··on The man with 1,000 klein bottles under his house [video]
It has an inner surface and an outer surface, the same as a sphere. They didn't say it had an edge.
glomph··on Airbnb and Uber’s sharing economy is one route to dotcommunism
Couchsurfing did catch on.
glomph··on Some men just want to watch the World Burn
It's a quote from batman...
glomph··on Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code
Sweet!
glomph··on Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code
Would be neat to have private rooms.
glomph··on Is it better to buy or rent?
There is risk in the mortgage as well though. The value of the house could drop.
glomph··on “Why does Chrome not have a good tab management system built in?”
Bookmark all tabs is good but it doesn't update as you carry on with the project.
glomph··on “Why does Chrome not have a good tab management system built in?”
Jeez it is so hidden! Ctrl-shift-E if anyone is wondering. I had no idea.

Slightly annoying it is per window though. I sort of expected the next window I opened to be able to 'boot' up an existing group. This seems to be just tab grouping rather than projects in any meaningful sense. They are only in session data and they don't sync.

glomph··on Introducing Apple Music
Funny that they chose exactly the same name as google.
glomph··on The Machard Knot and its 16-year-old inventor
That appears to be a slightly different knot. The final stage where the bottom loop goes through the top isn't done for an autoblock.
glomph··on Hound voice search NLP demo [video]
Google Now gets one and two and flunks the third. Interesting test.
glomph··on Which airlines ban the use of Knee Defenders during flight?
This thread is incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3dYS7PcAG4

glomph··on Which airlines ban the use of Knee Defenders during flight?
Agreed. Makes me think of this Louis CK bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3dYS7PcAG4
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