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by 908087 9y ago
Sure, if you consider staring down at your phone in public a social activity.
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by 908087 9y ago
Why is it that the worst tools and companies constantly seem to end up floating to the top in terms of popularity?
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by 908087 9y ago
Except in that experiment Facebook was intentionally trying to manipulate users' emotional states.
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by 908087 9y ago
Advertising didn't previously involve putting society in a glass bubble of 24/7 surveillance and granular manipulation.
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by 908087 9y ago
The DEA regularly takes everything from the people it targets, and throws them in a cell. When those people get out, they get to look forward to struggling to find any kind of work for the rest of their lives. The people perpetuating thi
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by 908087 9y ago
> Amazon is rich with the most important resource in asset management: trust. I'm sorry, but what? I don't even trust Amazon to deliver eclipse glasses that aren't counterfeit, and I know most of my friends/family fe
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by 908087 9y ago
"Move fast and break every thing"
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by 908087 9y ago
Is that really a thing now? Sounds like it would have the opposite of the intended effect on most people. How awkward. "I don't really have much to offer, but this DNA surveillance company says I have great genes!"
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by 908087 9y ago
When something is a problem, you should shine more light on it, not avoid talking about it because it "isn't a surprise". The general public has a short memory for this kind of thing, and no, not everyone is aware of the trad
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by 908087 9y ago
I wouldn't put it past SV VCs to throw money at something like that in the name of "disruption", ethics be damned. I can almost picture the founders talking about "changing the world" and "disrupting the resta
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by 908087 9y ago
They won't, because commercial mass surveillance is an essential part of modern government mass surveillance.
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by 908087 9y ago
My point was that it would be impossible for someone to remotely pilot a vehicle that had lost connectivity.
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by 908087 9y ago
Being fixed-pitch isn't the only thing that makes autorotation on these impossible. Rotor system inertia is incredibly important in autorotation, and this fact will pretty much make autorotation in quad+-rotor aircraft a no-go. The onl
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by 908087 9y ago
There's a problem here, though. Drones can't autorotate, and autorotation is kind of an important safety feature for helicopters carrying humans.
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by 908087 9y ago
Helicopters are generally safe, but Robinson helicopters are the exception, and are unfortunately incredibly common due to their comparatively low cost.
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by 908087 9y ago
That would be great, if not having the ability to drive was the only reason you wouldn't normally send a 7 year old out on their own in a car to travel a number or miles without an adult present.
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by 908087 9y ago
> In normal situations where manual intervention is required, I believe the plan is to have a Waymo employee drive it remotely, not have the passengers drive it. What if the car doesn't have a network connection for whatever reason?
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by 908087 9y ago
"Halt and stop resisting, citizen 9874653792! Google has observed you engaging in the consumption of unauthorized plants. Prepare for re-education factory enrollment." What could possibly go wrong?
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by 908087 9y ago
So would it be safe to say that they "hate" those subjectively-defined groups, and that they themselves are therefore a hate group?
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by 908087 9y ago
You're also probably a lot more likely to receive products that aren't counterfeit when ordering from Target/etc. I've pretty much completely stopped using Amazon for that reason. It's just not worth the risk.
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by 908087 9y ago
Makes me miss the pre-Goog/Face-ification version of the web, when people created sites because they wanted to, and not because they thought they could monetize them or use them to gather private data.
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by 908087 9y ago
Among the companies I'd trust with anything related to my health or associated data, Uber ranks right next to Equifax.
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by 908087 9y ago
First and most importantly, because I want to be sure people aren't dating/befriending me because of what I have. This is unfortunately something I've already experienced a couple times. Second, because my experiences with m
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by 908087 9y ago
Personally, there was a point where I had / was making enough that I felt the need to conceal that fact from people, particularly when I first met them. This meant that I had to go as far as to conceal much of what makes me who I am f
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by 908087 9y ago
They always have been. In what world would sending confidential information to someone who isn't supposed to have access to it not be considered a breach? Intent doesn't matter in these situations.
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by 908087 9y ago
Over the past year the toxic portion has grown from "parts of" to "the majority of".
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by 908087 9y ago
> I am not sure if the subscriber base is technically illiterate or users that hold a given coin have a strong incentive to dismiss any criticism. As with basically every cryptocurrency (or technology, for that matter) related sub on re
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by 908087 9y ago
Bored trolls don't care who you are. Slashing tires and breaking windows would require them to leave the house and settle for just a few targets. Automated attacks on IoS devices allow them to cause problems for a large number of peo
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by 908087 9y ago
So in the future it won't even be possible to visit a friend's front door without being tracked by Google/Amazon/Facebook/etc? A while back a friend of mine bought one of these "cloud"-connected doorbells,
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1984: CIA smuggles cocaine into the US 2018: FBI smuggles Apple engineers out of the US

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