Chaebixi

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by Chaebixi 9y ago
We must destroy the village to save it.
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I believe, officially, their role is foreign signals intelligence.
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> 10 years isn't true...RAD5500 Maybe it is true for him. This isn't my area, but the Wikipedia article for the RAD5500 says it's for " high radiation environments experienced on board satellites and spacecraft,&quo
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> and you'll learn he's an intelligent guy doing no harm. Bullshit. He's an intelligent guy who used his his abilities to blatantly subvert the public good for personal profit. There are a lot of smart, greedy people out
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And the reception to the use of those words indicates the likelihood that the forum can support insightful or deep discussion.
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
What was once an open place is now very, very constrained. The acceptable range of viewpoints has ratcheted into a narrower and narrower consensus, to the point where the discussions are boring and you have to be careful to not make them i
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
I'm skeptical "the active MetaFilter community" is actually representative of "the MetaFilter community." It seems like is just the fraction who likes or at least tolerates the way it is now.
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Or severely limiting automation a la the Dune universe.
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> In my generation, parents said the same thing about TV. I lived through the transition, and the internet/smartphones are definitely worse than TV. TV gets boring (or there's nothing on), the one NES game you got for Christmas
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> I think the word "curate" is interesting here, as in, pick for emphasis. I think maybe a mistake that SO makes is to close or remove topics, rather than "deemphasize" them. Questions should also "age" and
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That assumes the original question asker is still even active, which is not a reasonable assumption on a crowd-sourced platform.
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There should be a browser that explicitly attempts to present the blandest, most common profile to websites to foil tracking.
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> I don't actually accept "the current state of affairs is bad" as a justification for new regulations. And I don't accept "a previous regulation turned out to be pointless and annoying" as an argument again
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> My bet is that iPod touches are for industry. My understanding is that they're for children, to help get them hooked into the ecosystem when they're young.
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> They can be far reaching but again they can't breach the sandbox False, they can breach the sandbox. The sandbox is software and it has exploitable flaws until proven otherwise (which hasn't happened). Look, like I said in a
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
Exactly. I wouldn't have a problem if people were saying "iOS is more secure than X" or "You should pick iOS because it's one of the most secure OSes, but you should still be careful." But nooo, the fanbo
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> The organizations with enough resources to hack iOS devices aren't interested in sending mass emails to steal bank account details. The average iOS user who keeps their device up to date simply doesn't have to worry about mal
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
So, in other words, iOS is insecure and vulnerable to malware. Governments don't have special hacking powers, they mainly have money and manpower. It's true, iOS might raise the bar a little bit compared to some other systems, but
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
That's just marketing hype mixed with a little bit of goalpost moving. "Has never been more secure than it is now" != secure. > A while back Apple started pulling anti-virus apps from the app store presumably because they
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> You can't get viruses on iOS unless you're jailbroken - Apple's walled garden pretty much guarantees that. No. Apple can't guarantee their software is secure, so their walled garden doesn't guarantee anything l
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> Not sure what you're talking about. They changed their add-on API and are in the process of deprecating the older one which allowed for radical UI changes. That's probably what he was talking about.
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This opinion is based totally on "The Big Short," so take it with a grain of salt: It seems like the people who can predict a crisis correctly are the ones who actually do the legwork to verify the ground truth, in detail, when
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claimed to be the fastest processor in the industry. Defined how?
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> Truth is, these things are so much more stable and secure that most projects running on large hardware (think Oracle anything) would end up saving money by running on a mainframe. Stable, maybe, but probably not secure. The software s
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> Who's buying these things? Probably most of companies that were doing anything requiring scale and reliability before the 1990s. These were something like the big data tech of that era.
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It's still very sloppy thinking.
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> I think the main driver of this is simply the changing demographics of TV viewers. Ever since the rise of the Internet, social media, and smartphones, traditional television viewing hours have been plummeting for some demographics. No.
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Bringing a brick to a gunfight seems even less intelligent than bringing a knife.
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There was an interesting article I read a few months ago that observed that the ease of communication that the internet provides has actually crippled movements for social change. In the past building the infrastructure to coordinate and
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> There's something feudal about a traditional noble class entrenching its power, no? The "traditional noble class" is not "White men." In fact "White men" aren't even a class in that sense.

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