JaRail

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by JaRail 7y ago
I'd assume they're mostly fines against foreign or shell companies. What's effectively a shell company is set up to forward calls, then goes out of business when caught.
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by JaRail 7y ago
They'll buy tons of phone numbers from all over so they always have local numbers to call from. They just use VOIP software to route it to wherever the call center is located. As far as their provider is concerned, they're probabl
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by JaRail 7y ago
I'm excited to see improvements and results to the Google Assistant's on-device call screening. It's a step up from voicemail but I'm not sure how willing people will be to participate. For example, someone calling from
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by JaRail 7y ago
GV's block of phone numbers is probably considered low-value targets. Scammers get more value by talking to customers from big telcos. It's the whole "you don't have to outrun the bear, just your friend" kind of thi
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by JaRail 7y ago
Interesting to see how much more excitement there is for AI in the developing world. They're the ones with the biggest problems so it makes sense. Seems NA/Europe feels like they have the most to lose. While the reality should hop
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by JaRail 7y ago
Automation + human classifiers + user reporting. The stuff automation gets wrong or isn't confident about goes into the training set and the system improves. Even if they lose money by manually reviewing a small ad that was flagged as
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by JaRail 7y ago
Real people with real friends and families in mainland China, yes.
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by JaRail 7y ago
Running an outright dirty campaign would break ToS. So even if they were protected from deletion by virtue of being a politician, their tweets would no longer be included in feeds. It'd be political suicide. Proper enforcement is hard.
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by JaRail 7y ago
Those advertising methods don't allow you to micro-target based on people's private behavior. Micro-targeting and machine learning lets campaigns (like Cambridge Analytica's) generate what's effectively a thousand differ
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by JaRail 7y ago
I have a hard time buying into that contrarian view in a post-Cambridge Analytica world. If anything, it feels like whataboutism to me. While Twitter is trying to deal with the mass corruption of democracy around the world from micro-target
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by JaRail 7y ago
Seems pretty conflicted with their "think globally" core value. Maybe they should update that one to "divide and conquer."
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by JaRail 7y ago
And engineer some safe small-scale reactors for container/cruise ships. It's a crime we aren't hedging our bets on renewables with some next-gen prototype reactors.
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by JaRail 7y ago
They need to fix their reputation of awful privacy violations. While the reputation is more out of fear and speculation than it is of actual understanding, they still need to fix it. So when companies like Apple are offering great security,
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by JaRail 7y ago
> In America, all we want is “drill, baby, drill” Actually, it is much easier to build a pipeline, now that I think about it..
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by JaRail 7y ago
If they're worried about kids, maybe they should have asked to not enable E2E for Messenger Kids. There's already a feature to let parents see their kids' messages. I'm pretty sure they have no plans of breaking that. Go
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by JaRail 7y ago
It'd be a really interesting project to data-mine a large number of IDEs at a company like google. Use machine learning to predict fixes to lint/compile errors, and surface those suggestions in the IDE. Would also be fun to do it
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by JaRail 7y ago
Might also have needed a higher sample rate. For battery life concerns, I can see them implementing some of the fall detection logic in hardware as well. For example, a high shock or shaking could trigger the fall-detection software to wake
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by JaRail 7y ago
Would just be called non-JS. However you don't need to avoid javascript completely to cater to non-js users. The term "progressive enhancement" is used for a site that works without javascript but gets enhanced when it loads.
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by JaRail 7y ago
Of course. But within the JavaScript community, it has taken on specific meaning: no 3rd party libraries at runtime. For "vanilla js," I can still have compilers, type checking, advanced ECMAScript 2019 features, local storage, we
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by JaRail 7y ago
When you're not using frameworks/libraries, it's typically referred to as vanilla js . Probably the name stuck thanks to this amazing satire of a js library. http://vanilla-js.com/ . This was basically around
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by JaRail 7y ago
The trick is to keep your karma below 500. xD
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by JaRail 7y ago
The actual like is pretty small, about half a KB. Just a light graphql query that responds with updated counts for different reactions (happy/sad/etc). They definitely batch it with some other stuff though. Batching is really impo
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by JaRail 7y ago
The exact details would depend on what they do with the uploads and the specific countries they're uploaded to/from. I'd presume they do this for security and debugging purposes, not to 'steal' the libraries. Like a
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by JaRail 7y ago
Well you've basically got two other options * webapps -- we tried this (iPhone v1) and they were awful. The web keeps improving but apps have consistently been years ahead. * native software -- still too difficult to secure reliably. W
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by JaRail 7y ago
> Not wearing a seatbelt can put others at risk for injury liability. Wow, I'm surprised that has never occurred to me before. I guess that to most people, such as myself, the trade-off is so obvious from a personal safety point of
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by JaRail 7y ago
> having no automatic update mechanism Ignoring the windows store, this is really more of a "let developers handle their own updates" situation. The vast majority of modern windows software updates itself directly or through a
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by JaRail 7y ago
Google's employee shuttles/buses are a decent example too.
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by JaRail 7y ago
He offended a broad class of people. Women shouldn't have to pick and choose who they feel comfortable working with around the office. Or worse, be forced to work with that guy. Once he expressed views like that, his fate was sealed. Y
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by JaRail 7y ago
The point of incognito was never to hide that fact from the sites you're visiting. The point was to not leave a trace on the machine you're doing it from. Basically, it's for porn, not news.
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by JaRail 7y ago
Exactly. If you look at the rating for a McDonald's, the rating is "how clean is the bathroom and does the ice cream machine work?"

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