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jdormit··on Moving beyond localStorage
> if you have auto-update, or if you can inject code into the client, that privacy guarantee can be revoked at any time

Anytime you use software built by someone other than you, any guarantee can be revoked at any time - the distributor can put whatever they want into the software! When a distributor makes claims about the privacy/security of a product, at some point you either trust them and take them at their word, or you don't - in which case, it doesn't matter what they say.

Unless the product is open-source and self-hosted, that is.

jdormit··on California man fights DUI charge for driving under influence of caffeine
I feel like you'd have to drink a lot of coffee...
jdormit··on Show HN: Pymterm – A multiple tab terminal emulator implemented in Python
Is there anything that differentiates this from gnome-terminal, iTerm, etc?
jdormit··on Vivaldi – A Browser for Our Friends
What is the browser mistake?
jdormit··on Vivaldi – A Browser for Our Friends
Care to elaborate?
jdormit··on Infant simulators don't prevent teen pregnancy
No hard data on this, but I assume that most teen pregnancies occur in demographics that are unlikely to care much for data visualizations. 77% of teen pregnancies are unplanned [1], so these parents did not "decide" to have a child - they were just not careful.

[1] https://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/adolescent-health-topics/reprodu...

[Edited because I forgot to link the citation]

jdormit··on Tit-For-Tat Office Hours with a Seed-Stage VC
I'll keep an eye out :)
jdormit··on Tit-For-Tat Office Hours with a Seed-Stage VC
Will you post some results/thoughts to let us know how it went? Nothing specific about the conversations, obviously, just some general conclusions.
jdormit··on Sovereign Software: peer to peer democracy
Is there a reason that almost every blog post/platform/organization I've seen that involves some sort of block chain tech invariably starts spouting hyperbolic, overblown rhetoric about overthrowing the social order? Block chains are a really promising technology, but these types of manifestos really hurt the community's credibility.
jdormit··on Announcing OSS-Fuzz: Continuous Fuzzing for Open Source Software
On the other hand, I use Chrome on my Windows machine - the constant dialogs that pop up over the Edge shortcut whenever I load up Chrome telling me how great Edge is are really tiresome.
jdormit··on Fitbit is reportedly buying Pebble for around $40M
Have you seen Fossil's smartwatch line[0]? Quite stylish, in my opinion.

[0] https://www.fossil.com/us/en/wearable-technology.html?gclid=...

jdormit··on 'Millennium' is full of gratitude for the staggering advances of 1,000 years
Sure, but WWII was a historical anamoly, not a "historical norm". "World peace", to my mind, implies _no_ wars, not just 'less conflict than the biggest war in history'.
jdormit··on Funding the Web with Brendan Eich [audio]
From the episode description:

> Brendan Eich, founder of Brave and creator of JavaScript, joined the show to talk about the history of the web, how it has been funded, and the backstory on the early browser wars and emerging monetization models. We also talked about why big problems are hard to solve for the Internet and the tradeoffs between centralization and distribution.

jdormit··on 'Millennium' is full of gratitude for the staggering advances of 1,000 years
> We're in the middle of the longest stretch of world peace in history.

If you don't count the Middle East or Africa, I suppose.

jdormit··on How I stopped the RSI pain that almost destroyed my programming career
That is slick! I'll be using this next time I go to the gym. One of the big problems it solves for me is boredom - I lifted for a couple years but couldn't stand doing the same workouts week adter week. I do realize you're supposed to switch it up, but your app makes it easy :)
jdormit··on Into Rust
Can anyone offer a comparison between Rust and Go?
jdormit··on Professors Make More Than a Thousand Dollars an Hour Peddling Mega-Mergers
Your reply lead to a much more productive discussion than your downvote.
jdormit··on Google Trends Electionland
I would argue that 87% is an unacceptable margin of error given that we are talking about the presidential election.
jdormit··on Cartographer – A real-time simultaneous localization and mapping library
Can you link to your company's website? This sounds interesting.
jdormit··on Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phone catches fire on Southwest plane
That's the funniest thing I've seen all day.
jdormit··on Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars
Have you heard of Surge (https://surge.sh)? Pretty nails the 'low cost and minimal complexity' target for static hosting, although I don't know how well it scales.
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