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Reminds me of ice-nine from Cat's Cradle.

x3con FDA Approves First CRISPR Cows for Beef

Being out in the sun itself would be a huge step up in quality of life of cattle. Doubt free range cows represent a majority.

x3con Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source

Withdrawing a service is very different from delivering a malignant service. McDonalds is withdrawing from Russia instead of serving contaminated Burgers.

x3con Karmada: Open, Multi-Cloud, Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Orchestration

Regardless of multi-cloud deployment preferences, multi-cloud readiness has tremendous value in itself.

Biggest of the values is having the freedom and choice to pack up from one cloud and go to another at the drop of hat.

Another equally important reason is to provide some commoditization of cloud providers so they don't grow all powerful.

It also keeps cloud market open for new entrants that can come in with better/different value propositions than the existing players and stand a fighting chance of playing upon merits.

Unless you (as in general developer and not you specifically) want cloud providers to become massive rent seeking institutions, keep optionality in the ecosystem.

x3con “ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them”

There’s a difference b/w how things are and how things should be. The former doesn’t excuse away the latter.

x3con Icons – Google Fonts

Great to see Social distancing related icons in the list.

x3con In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a voice

More than the abstract notion of it being a communication platform, it's the specific usecases that open your imagination to the unlocks connectivity is bringing. Using WhatsApp to report timber theft is something I would never have guessed.

I thought you'd have guessed the spirit of the comment since you're so adept at guessing.

x3con In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a voice

More than the statistics, it's the stories that open your imagination to the unlock connectivity is bringing. Using WhatsApp to report timber theft is something I would never have guessed.

x3con GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran

Since I can’t edit the comment, I want to paste this here so readers are informed about the extra mile Github travelled as well.

  Advancing developer freedom: GitHub is fully available in Iran

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25648585

x3con GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran

I doubt GitHub or any org is changing their SOP based on my comment. But the mere existence of a scenario equivalent to the one in question in the operating guidelines suggest there is room fur sanity to prevail in the interpretation of the law.

x3con GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran

Not as per the letter of the law.

https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/...

x3con GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran

This particular case was overreach by Github and not the US Lawmakers.

https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/...

  118. I have a client that is in Iran to visit a relative. Do I need to restrict the account?

  A: No. As long as you are satisfied that the client is not ordinarily resident in Iran, then the account does not need to be restricted. See FAQ 37.

Source: https://twitter.com/Hamed/status/1346433510786138114/photo/1

x3con Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D

Sorry... webRTC doesn’t work on ios Webviews and hence non Safari iOS browsers. It should work in Safari. Momentary brain freeze.

x3con Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D

iPad / Safari (and by extension, all apple mobile browsers) doesn’t support camera access from browser.

x3con Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy

They aren't mutually exclusive

x3con AWS Proton

Render.com

x3con U.S. sues Visa to block its acquisition of Plaid

Why not?

x3con Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms

Technically, 1.01001000100001... can be normal depending on what ... stands for. :)

x3con React is becoming a black box

Is there any other way to save comments in your history besides commenting on them?

x3con Scientists who never won a Nobel Prize

For me, the most notable absence is Gandhi for Nobel for peace.

x3con Apple, Epic, and the App Store

That logic doesn’t scale of for other countries that have friendly micro transactions platforms..

x3con Apple, Epic, and the App Store

What about other countries where micro transactions are not that expensive... eg. UPI of India.

x3con Apple, Epic, and the App Store

Because Walmart owns the physical space but apple doesn’t own the physical device.... Apple has set up shop on the real-estate (the device) that it sold over to the user. I’ve seen this argument plenty of times and it rings hollow to me every time.

x3con The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary

It's the same strategy that Google follows for Android. The secret juice of the Android app ecosystem is in the Google Play services... And that's entirely proprietary. So even though the OS is open source, it's impossible to truly build an alternative ecosystem. I agree with the author that the marketing rings falsey.

x3con DHH: The HEY stack Vanilla Ruby on Rails, MySQL, redis, stimulus, elastic search

Are the apps then just web view with a wrapper? Or its using react-native for apps?

x3con Tacit knowledge is more important than deliberate practice

Immersion builds tacit knowledge. Deliberate practice may or may not require immersion.

x3con India’s contact tracing app is going open source

Server side code will be released as well.

x3con NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract

What's the beef between IBM & Palantir?

x3con UK scientists dropped from EU projects because of post-Brexit funding fears

Great. Now make the journey from here to there.

x3con Knowmail – AI for email

http://blog.estimote.com/post/97824495825/ios-8-pushes-locat...

It's context cum geofencing. I might be mistaken though.