GVIrish

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by GVIrish 9y ago
While it is possible that this whole incident was due to some sort of shared hysteria, I don't think one can elevate that to the most plausible explanation for a few reasons: 1. This has a national security and counterintelligence aspe
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> Look at the bright side: someone can have a recording of you saying something crude and disrespectful and describing sexual assault, and if you're running for president you won't even have to admit it was you anymore, because
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I think there are a couple of different problems driving overly complex software. 1. Cargo-culting. The article talks about this, but one thing I've seen consistently over the years is that something new comes along, and people latch
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I shudder to think about the lasting damage to America's reputation this administration has caused, and what the geopolitical implications of that may be. I think the political instability of the US will create strategic opportunities
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This revelation brings a lot of things into focus for me. One, is that it finally sheds light onto that very large and disruptive attack on State Dept back in 2014. It was assumed it was a state actor, and now we know it was Russia. Secon
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I think a key point Yegge made there is that Google is not paying attention to the customer. Instead, Google is maybe devoting too much focus to responding to the competition. Starting with uncovering and serving customer needs and desires
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> If you look at "less woke" developing countries around the world, they don't have this sense of social justice because they don't have the luxury. So they do whatever is possible to increase their GDP. They don&#x27
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Agreed. My thing is, if a sports stadium is gonna be built with public money, it should belong to the public and the team owner should have to pay rent and/or revenue share. Otherwise, why should a billionaire (or group of wealthy pe
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> If there is some learning in there, it's minimal. If you really want to hold a conference where people learn, how about we stop having them in Vegas, or some other warm weather, party destination. That seems to me to be problems w
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I think we're going to find in the coming years that there is a lot of white collar crime going on at any time. It seems like it would be foolhardy to attempt this stuff, but greed compels people to do stupid things all the time. Weal
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I think Amazon (or Google) needs to solve the problem of skill discovery. I would love to be able to ask Alexa, "What do you know about X" and it could respond with a list of skills or categories of skills so I could at least kno
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Yep. I have to wonder whether the iPhone X is just Apple's way of taking advantage of the customer segment that is price insensitive and actually wants to spend more to get an iPhone that is rarer as sort of a status symbol. The Wall
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I have been using Nexus phones for about the last 5 years now, and I would say that a iPhone is clearly a better piece of hardware than a $100-200 Android phone. But for the top tier Android phones I'd agree that the reasons for payin
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It could well be propaganda aimed at securing funding for pie in the sky military spending. But consider what would be the logical course of action if you're a government who comes across evidence of extraterrestrials, especially in d
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Option 3, intelligent life that builds a civilization is not common in the universe, so they want to study us. Much the same way we study great apes or dolphins. In that case, they might want to observe us without interfering to see how we
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I mean, you are getting free content in return though. I am very much against give-me-your-email-first designs that obfuscate what the actual product is or does until you fork over an email. But asking for an email address in a straightfo
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I don't think it's that they couldn't, it's that they consistently choose not to. Nintendo's first party titles are arguably much stronger than those of Sony and Microsoft, but Nintendo is not particularly interest
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I think the more general market would've bought the new Macbook Pros either way. If they were the same thickness as before with more RAM and a few more standard ports, the casual users would've bought them up and the more profess
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I think there are a couple of reasons vehicle infotainment systems are somewhat bad across the board. For starters, cars only get redesigned about every 5 years. That means that most major models that are on the market right now, have only
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"Don't Ask Customers What They Want" still gets it wrong. It's not that you shouldn't ask customers what they want. It's that you need to intelligently examine customer feedback and decide A. If a problem nee
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State and local police did enforce the HOV lane laws, usually by catching people on either the on or off ramp. Now if you don't have the EZPass transponder they'll just mail you the bill. A decent amount of people used to cheat i
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The hybrid car exemption for HOV was supposed to be temporary but it kept getting extended for years. New hybrids couldn't get the special license plates but if you got in before the cutoff you could keep the license plate and keep tr
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They've got multiple camera stations and EZ Pass scanners so they'll just mail you the bill now. Before a cop had to pull you over to catch you cheating in the HOV lane.
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Cuba has been a long time ally of Russia, and Russia has been aggressively trying to reassert their power on the world stage. The other thing is, that a large part of the spy game is that intelligence agents often work out of embassies. Th
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My friends who have visited or lived in Italy say the same thing. I kinda experience the same thing with Latin America. It's relaxing to be in a place that isn't all about the rat race, but it can be irritating when you want to g
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That is a realllyy simplistic way of looking at things that doesn't at all speak to the issue at hand. Is there still lots of plant cover? Sure. But when you get into what types of environments are intact and healthy enough to suppor
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If a series of stupid policy decisions are made that constricts jail cell supply so much that even dangerous suspects are not detained, then yeah. But there is a lot of social benefit to not having people sit in jail awaiting trial if they
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Posting the same canned response twice in one thread doesn't advance the discussion at all.
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Twitter is a business, and they get to choose what sort of business they want to be. If they want to be totally hands off, they can do that. But if they want to set a tone for how people use their service, they can do that too. Reddit is a
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Is he pleading for actual censorship though? It sounds more like he's saying that the platform should help people avoid content they find offensive. So someone is free to post their racist and misogynist memes but someone who doesn&#x

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