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by Ajedi32 2mo ago
What an awful article. Just spent like 10 minutes digging through a pile of ideologically loaded buzzwords and implied accusations of racism trying to find anything concrete the authors are accusing Target of actually doing. Closest thing
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by Ajedi32 2mo ago
There are other people in those bubbles, it's not an isolated void. HN is one such bubble. Yes it's a smaller bubble, there's not nearly as many people here as there were watching broadcast television back in the 1980s, but i
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by Ajedi32 2mo ago
Maybe we just need a standardized way to publish a dump of your content to BitTorrent? Remove the incentive to scrape.
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by Ajedi32 2mo ago
Those hosting content for ad views, or for fame or other personal gain. Sites like Wikipedia or developer documentation pages which exist to distribute knowledge for its own sake don't have any reason to care whether that knowledge is
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by Ajedi32 2mo ago
If "getting the knowledge out there" is the motivation then it shouldn't matter whether the knowledge gets filtered through an AI or not.
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by Ajedi32 2mo ago
Yes, there's certainly less of a monoculture now that people have greater choice in what media they consume. Personally I have trouble seeing that as a bad thing. Greater diversity of taste, culture, and opinion makes for a richer, mor
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by Ajedi32 2mo ago
I think there's a point of diminishing returns here. A more competent lawyer can only do so much if you're wrong on the merits, assuming your opponent also has a decently competent lawyer.
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by Ajedi32 2mo ago
If you want to secretly record someone in public, aren't there already plenty of much subtler ways? Pinhole camera in your shirt pocket, normal glasses with a hidden camera, camera integrated into a hat, etc? "Disable the recordin
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by Ajedi32 2mo ago
I don't see anything here to suggest that they don't care. Is the fact that 9.2/100,000 full time workers keep getting killed every year in the construction industry proof those companies don't care that they're get
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
Yes sorry, man-workyears not man-hours. > "Our automated review found nothing wrong with [this ad that implies a young child performing sexual activities]" That's also a screw-up, and they should be fined accordingly, prop
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
Perhaps, but when you're operating at any significant scale accidents become a statistical certainty. 0 screw ups, ever is not a realistically achievable goal. And if some limited number of screw ups is allowable, that necessarily beco
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
Yes it's meaningful, and the fine amount should reflect that. But hypothetically, if it's (just throwing a random number out there) 1 image in 50 billion, and Facebook gets more benefit from the 50 billion good images than society
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
As it should be. If the cost of fixing the problem is greater than the amount of harm the problem is actually causing to society, then it shouldn't be fixed. Set fine amounts accordingly. (Whether we actually do set fines this way is,
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
> there are many streams that no one ever canoes down, because it would be an enormous pain. There isn’t a way to represent this is OSM today Had you considered `canoe=discouraged`? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki&#x2
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
You could store the ID in a tag. They already do this for e.g. wikidata[1] and gnis[2]. Though I kinda doubt they want to support maintaining these for every single project that wants one. [1]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org&#x2F
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
I agree with you in principle, but from a practical perspective if you make piracy that trivial you'll get a lot more pirates, maybe even accidental pirates. I think as a compromise I'd be okay with some kind of license database
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
Yes, and as I said that's a problem with the laws, which "put the onus on Google to verify the user's age". If it were legal for the device itself to somehow determine the user's age without involving Google at all,
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
You're seriously proposing letting governments decide which of their citizens are allowed unrestricted access to the internet? Of all the 3rd parties who could be responsible for this, I trust the government the least . But really t
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
Well, the API itself seems fairly well designed from a privacy perspective. It only shares age ranges, not specific ages, and only if you allow it. The data is also fuzzed to prevent an app from determining your exact birth date, and it&#x2
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
This is the same mentality that drives companies to sue cybersecurity researchers for exposing vulnerabilities in their software instead of fixing the software, or to insist on keeping software closed source for "security reasons"
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
If you can convince a jury with that story then it might work. Personally I wouldn't buy it. Would you?
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
The government can throw people in jail too but if you kidnap someone and lock them in your basement that's a crime. This is no different.
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
Yeah and to be more precise the problem isn't really that individuals don't get tax incentives for buying their own plan, it's that employers don't get tax incentives for giving individuals money to buy their own plans
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
Yes. Employers get huge tax incentives for providing insurance, while individuals don't. This ensures that the only economical way to buy health insurance is through an employer, which means you are not free to change plans without cha
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
Yes, the title gave me whiplash because I went in expecting an argument for socialized healthcare, then read a couple paragraphs and realized the article was actually presenting an argument against government meddling in the healthcare in
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
The passkey design does take this into account, it's only the implementations that don't.
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
Because as I just outlined, passwords, even when stored in a password manager, can be misused. (Phished, set to something weak/guessable, reused on multiple sites, leaked in a database breach, etc.) Password managers make it easier t
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
"A better version of password syncing" is exactly what Passkeys are and ought to be. Just like passwords, but unphishable, unguessable, not reusable across sites, not vulnerable to data breaches, and with better UX. Stranding priv
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
> That's just wrong. I use android, my partner uses ios. If he creates the passkey in safari, it's not going to get synced over to my phone It would, if the people implementing it weren't all so obsessed with pushing their
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
Compared to multiple competing privately run systems, which you can opt out of even if you're in the minority ? Yes.

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