Chaebixi

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by Chaebixi 10y ago
> And they do most secret stuff with typewriters and photocopies these days, so i've heard. Snowdens revelations had a big impact there. I think I heard the first heard the "Russia switches back to typewriters" story pre-S
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
> Upvoting something is not bad, but it becomes bad if every upvote is not based on an expressable reason beyond I agree, support, etc. with no valid reasoning. But that could just end up being a lot of noise, and it doesn't really
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
> My favourite is when I go back to old code, think "why on earth was that written that way" and then proceed to rewrite it. Then after an half an hour in I realise that my rewrite is worse than the original method I used. ...a
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
If MBAs often come with a particular ideology and attitude that you want to avoid, then it makes sense to not bother trying to find the good ones. A successful miner wants to focus on the rich ore.
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Those Indecipherable Medical Bills? They’re One Reason Health Care Costs So Much(nytimes.com)
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My understanding is that all electronics are essentially analog, but we make them digital by assigning arbitrary thresholds digital meanings (e.g. everything < 5 is 0 and everything > 5 is a 1).
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
> These are made at great effort and expense by Lexis/Nexis, a private company. According to the article: > the annotations, which were copyrighted and owned by the state If the state published an official version of its code and
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
I was talking collectively about the ad-men and the companies hiring them. And yes, I think the group lacks the maturity and willpower to act ethically in the face of competing pressures.
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
> That's considered "spray and pray" today. Today advertisers want data, data, data, and micro-targeting is everything. And even with all that, the most of the targeted ads aren't any more compelling than content-base
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
> There most be an increasing amount of hardware/software with egregious business value (hundred million+) with a decreasing number of surviving/available designers etc. See COBOL . https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
> And by and large these people were usually members of the ACM or IEEE. > But its a shift that makes depending on professional orgs more worthless than ever before. I don't think those organizations have ever had any "teeth
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
> How about ads with privacy? They are not mutually exclusive. Yeah, but internet advertising fetishizes "personalization" and quantitative metrics, which are predicated on invasions of privacy. Advertisers could put those toy
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
> If engineers would refuse to implement privacy invasions, they wouldn't happen. That'll never work, as long as it's just a personal ethical thing. There's always someone who would rather take the money. Now, if the
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Do those things have identities as independent nations/cultures?
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
> But the EU does have a directly elected parliament? So where's the lack of democracy in the EU? I'm not a European, but could it be that the bloc has gotten so large that an individual's vote is so diluted that it feels
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
> Please name the country which achieved its legendary prosperity through a planned economy, protectionism, or a programme of economic isolation. Do you think that free-trade economics represents the perfection of economic thinking? My p
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
> What other ideologies allow for other possibilities? Literally every one that thinks more broadly than immediate goods vs. money-price in an economic transaction.
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> You can't pay an American worker 20 times as much to make the same product in the same number of hours. That's not true: you failed to mention the possibility of the customer paying more to make up for some of the difference
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
My guess is they'd just use price as a gatekeeper, rather than spending time to do a background check of their customers. I doubt any of these data feeds are cheap.
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
Contact your state reps. Even if the federal rules go, state-level rules can help mitigate the damage locally, and perhaps even nationally [1]. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/26/technology/internet-priv
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
> Now everything is fragmented, and I constantly have to remember how each person in my life prefers to communicate, open the right app I think this is true to an extent, but I think messaging isn't as simple "get this text to
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
Now that I think of it, it might not even be the shippers doing the diversion, but Customs and Boarder Patrol: http://www.joc.com/regulation-policy/customs-regulations/us-... : > Tarek Morsi can almost set his c
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
That's a good point, but I'd imagine they could do better in that regard by picking bland corporate project names (e.g. NextGen, Aurora, Cheetah, Phase 2).
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
>> Also included in this release is the manual for the CIA's "NightSkies 1.2" a "beacon/loader/implant tool" for the Apple iPhone. Noteworthy is that NightSkies had reached 1.2 by 2008, and is expres
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
> Would you support the same penalty if your local bookseller was found to have purchased a batch of counterfeits? The difference is that Amazon a sophisticated, knowledgeable seller with a lot of smart people who undoubtedly understand
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Evolution of the Fridge Computer (2008)(orangecone.com)
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
Probably so that you can show off cool new tech as a trade show. IIRC, people have been trying to stick computers in refrigerators since the first dot-com boom. It made little sense then (and even less sense now), but it has a superficial
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
> it's easy to understand that they want to make a profit, and if you design a "once in a lifetime" product, you'll find yourself out of business within 10 years or so after everyone owns said product. I don't th
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> Are you aware that the name "Oracle" comes from the original CIA contract? I'm not saying that companies should shun the CIA, so that's irrelevant. The distinction I was making was between providing generic product
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> My friend Chris Rohlf has a snarky dismissal of a lot of "hardware hacking" and "IOT" security conference talks: "look at this debugger debugging! > Stories like this call that snark to mind. "Look at t

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