DashRattlesnake

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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> It’s almost like there should be some place to work out questions of fact, publicly, with a focus on evidence... maybe a judge and some lawyers, I don’t know, some kind of koort... quort... court. This kind of snark is obnoxious and ne
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> Is Chinese public sentiment in favor of this ever increasing surveillance? How would you know? They have an internet that's openly censors and filled with pro-government propaganda. Many of those articles are basically cheer-lea
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> Wait, am I stealing paper when I use a public restroom? In China most public restrooms don't have any toilet paper and you have to bring your own. If this one is stocked with free paper, they may be trying to prevent people from
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> why quibble over the word? Framing, which is very important in political discussion (e.g. estate tax vs. death tax).
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
Addiction
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
It's a mistake to focus too much on one problem to the exclusion of all others. There are problems caused by government intervention but also problems caused by the lack of it.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> capital flowing to those who are best able to convert it into the most happiness for the most people Capital flows to those most able to make money, which isn't necessarily by "converting it into the most happiness." Yo
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
IIRC, by being a ubiquitous mobile payments platform.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> Why pay for a news subscription when you can get “news” for free on Facebook and the like. Did you miss the whole Facebook "fake news" thing last year?
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
Yes...if you strip out so much context for the similarity to become meaningless.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> It's just technology: Some will use it for good and some will use it for evil. Isn't that the mantra we've been repeating since forever within the hacker community? This smells like a troll.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
It would also be a great help in controlling dissenters and subversives. Once we have the infrastructure in place, it's there for anyone with enough power to use for any reason...
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
Is there any effort to collect those photos/accounts for later release, say after the person's death? I understand the reluctance for them release publicly right now, but it would be a shame if it was all effectively lost because
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
Fastmail certainly is comparable.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
I haven't used it as much, but it seems just as good for single-person use. It's WebDAV IIRC. I haven't tried to use any "shared calendar" features.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
Yes, I do. The only thing I miss is tagging/archiving. Fastmail uses a traditional folder paradigm, and archiving only moves the message to a special archive folder. Their login 2FA options are as good as Gmails, and I like their mai
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
https://www.fastmail.com/ It costs $5/month if you want to use your own domain. I've pretty much stopped using Gmail, etc. and switched totally to them.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
The problem with demanding better sourcing and information about this event is that has been brutally suppressed for thirty years . The attitude you espouse, while normally the correct one, here only serves the interests of the censors to
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> I've never really understood the desire to use the button on the display to turn off monitors - does allowing the monitors to be switched off by the OS not solve basically the same problem ? Right now, my monitor is in my bedroom.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
The content of "places" feature looks like it's managed by a machine learning algorithm, and it appears to be a disaster (from a user perspective). It incorrectly merges and proposes bizarre categories all the time. There wa
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> If $4700 in ads could sway an entire US Presidential election That's a little disingenuous. IIRC, Facebook identified at least a $100k more on its platform, and they permitted finer-grained targeting than Google. You're righ
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
That's a pretty disingenuous comment: First, your characterization is probably accurate if restricted to the "first wave" feminism (of a century ago), but, IIRC, I think we're on the "third wave" now. Second,
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
I think students should definitely be able to offer polite feedback to their professors, like you describe. However, students definitely shouldn't be in a position to dictate the curriculum, which I think is more what the grandparent
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> So I think its more a personality type selection than actual thought process or belief. Yep, I think that's an important insight. I know a few people who grew up in very evangelical/conservative Christian communities who la
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
I agree, they should be expelled for deliberately disrupting a class like that (or at least be forced to drop it with an F on their transcript). I think the lack of an appropriate response like that is what "gave these people the idea
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
The scandalous thing isn't this scale or the effects of the Russian effort, but that it occurred at all. Russia, unlike those other actors, is not permitted to get involved in US elections in this way.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> For instance, we can't reasonably authorize Isis propaganda on public forums, can we? I think we totally can and should. We just need to invest in the infrastructure to identify and respond to it.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
If you want decent software support, you have to go with whatever the manufacturers consider fashionable.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> Contact amazon and tell them to mark your account to not use them. I've tried this several times (to drop Amazon Logistics) and reps say they can't do that.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
...and one data point that is unnecessarily consumerist. True technological progress isn't going to be presented at a fancy keynote, it's going to be messier.

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