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by IX-103 3y ago
Disrupted by a whom? Microsoft? Facebook? The company formerly known as Twitter? Even if one of these takes over we'd just be trading masters. And that's ignoring how Alphabet's core business, Search, has little to fear from
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by IX-103 3y ago
False. https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/9682282?hl=en Google doesn't like fingerprinting. That may be because they already have all your identities and don't want competition, but they still d
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by IX-103 3y ago
Try implementing Photoshop as a web app without it.
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Not really. Total transparency requires effective communication. Effective communication requires a shared context* to be efficient. The larger the organization, the less shared context, the more overhead is spent catching people up on thin
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by IX-103 3y ago
Interesting. That sounds a lot like what Akihabara (in Japan) used to be before it became the over-commercialized geek-trap it is now.
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It's normal now, and as you mention "limited liability" now applies to all corporations. As grandparent poster mentioned, however, this sort of capability originally required a special dispensation from the crown (or an act o
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by IX-103 3y ago
"Education costs exploded in the last 50 years because the government got involved" You do realize that the reason costs have increased is that State funding for public Universities has been significantly cut over that period? Thi
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by IX-103 3y ago
It's still for a ways to go though. Much of the documentation I've read (2D physics) is incorrect or outdated. It also kind of assumes you already know everything, which is somewhat annoying. Still, it's making good progress.
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by IX-103 3y ago
Do you have evidence that these companies are using the microphones in their devices for tracking? Or that they are using "all your emails" for ad targeting? If not please quit kicking that strawman. There are real privacy issues
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Because changes in climate mean that the existing infrastructure (in the form of cities, farmland, etc) that are optimized for the current conditions are no longer optimal. Very few cities are designed for conditions below sea level or in a
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by IX-103 3y ago
Lol. Good one. These protocols are completely independent of the content that you can send over them. For the most part they reuse TLS so the encryption is the same (and uses the same certificate authorities) so any man-in-the-middle proxie
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The argument for having insurers cover routine care is that prevention is cheaper. Ideally insurance companies would gladly pay for that since it would save them money in the long run. The problem is that companies are penalized for long-te
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If Googlers had that kind of insight and influence then the layoffs a) wouldn't have been a surprise and b) wouldn't have happened at all. Personally I think it's unlikely Google would disable accounts for that. They're
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Not to mention they're immediately hiring to replace those workers that they laid off. The management is either incompetent or they're trying to depress wages. They openly admit they're trying to achieve "durable savings
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Yep. Not too mention the actual layoffs that are going on. If you actually look at the hiring for the companies with these layoffs then you find that they are actually growing their workforce while still announcing layoffs. That seems almos
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That sounds nice, but doesn't seem to match what Xwitter is actually doing.
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And the laws are such that you can't even import the nice small cars they have in Europe. My options for a small electric car in the US are the Chevy Volt (retiring at the end of this year) and the Nissan leaf (retiring at the end of
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by IX-103 3y ago
Yep. J-walking laws were completely promoted by car manufacturers since pedestrians got in the way of drivers. Basically pushing everything that was not a car off of the roads.
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by IX-103 3y ago
I think it makes sense for the library of Congress to archive the Internet, but I think that should be independent of the Internet Archive. We really should go back to requiring items that want copyright protection to send a copy to the lib
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From what I've heard that type of information is only held on a special higher-security "logs" cluster and the code accessing that data is subject to additional review by Google's privacy division before it is allowed ac
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WASM uses a Harvard architecture, so the instruction memory is separate from data memory. You can't change the program from within the program because you can't write to that address space.
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by IX-103 3y ago
I wouldn't say "a lot". Though the multi-process model Chrome uses and the V8 sandbox do provide a lot of security isolation (more than just running the browser in a VM). Though a lot of these protections are disabled on lo
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Computational electrodynamics. We need to design better geometries for reactors so that we can channel the plasma flow to better improve containment while quickly removing wastes from the highly compressed energetic region where fusion most
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by IX-103 3y ago
Would you prefer to spend the money on arresting people and keeping a large prison population or would you rather spend money on rehabilitation programs? Either way you're going to spend money, but I think that the latter approach woul
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Because knowing what something is tells you less about how to get there than the paper does? You can see the exact chemical structure of the material and still have no idea how to create it. Especially for composite materials like these whe
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by IX-103 3y ago
How hard would it be to smuggle a cell phone to snap a picture? Don't build a false dichotomy.
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Yes, the police are to blame for the rash of murders and arson is clearly the fire department's fault. It takes two to perform regulatory capture -- unless one of them can buy votes from lawmakers. And guess what the "market"
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by IX-103 3y ago
Do you mean Communism instead of socialism above? Socialism has nothing to do with "seizing the means of production". For socialism it is sufficient to regulate private industries to achieve social good. And flavors of socialism a
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The world is too messy for naive morality and honesty. People are too easily swayed by anecdotes or irrelevant facts. In your "moral" world of brutal honesty: the children of serial killers would never find work, people who were
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That's not strictly true. There's some recent work (as fascinating as it is incomprehensible) on generating datasets that share most aggregate properties with the actual dataset (measured through joint probability distributions),

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