Kaveren

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by Kaveren 8y ago
Yes, I was loose in my use of the term "runtime" and sacrificing correctness. Writing "runtime component" rather than "runtime" makes it more misleading. I probably should've worded my original comment mor
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60 FPS is not enough, many people have monitors with much higher refresh rates (120 hz, more). You have virtual reality which basically requires a higher refresh rate than 60 FPS to begin with. Using a runtime component for garbage collecti
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by Kaveren 8y ago
> "This manipulation was allegedly done through chat rooms with such names as “The Cartel,” “The Mafia” and “The Bandits’ Club,” If this is true, it would seem most unwise to discuss your cartel in a chatroom named "The Carte
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I don't find these sorts of articles valuable. The template is simple: Write generic advice that sounds nice, and is never controversial. Make sure it's super vague so you don't have to take any accountability for it, you can
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by Kaveren 8y ago
Alternatively, we could stop pushing for government regulation of absolutely everything considerably possible. The desired culture of micromanagement is not productive. The phrase "unchecked algorithms at scale" does not mean anyt
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by Kaveren 8y ago
> "So I think we need something like the FDA for algorithms." I can't say for sure that the author or interviewee even knows what the definition of an algorithm is. No, the government absolutely should not be involved in
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> "Women tended to be more prosocial and less negatively reciprocal than men, with differences in standard deviations of 0.106 for altruism (P < 0.0001), 0.064 for trust (P < 0.0001), 0.055 for positive reciprocity (P < 0.0
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> "Communities can elect and impeach their own mods by voting. If a mod behaves inappropriately, users can disable that mod locally as well." This sounds like it's definitely vulnerable to abuse. Democracy is nice, but I&#
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by Kaveren 8y ago
The idea is that if you allow someone blocking someone else to make all their replies to your tweet go away, people will just over-use the block feature for anyone they even mildly disagree with.
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You did not deny any of these claims about the Chinese state: 1. Government surveillance of domestic citizens is far more intrusive than in any Western country. (NSA revelations are not a refutation). 2. Prominent citizens get disappeared.
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That's not a denial that anything I said in the above comment is factually correct. It's like being told you can't judge what color an orange if you've never eaten one.
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Disappearances of citizens with forced apologies, if you say anything against the government you are crazy, Internet about as free as a house in the Hollywood Hills, other human rights abuses, social credit scores, total government surveill
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That takes the social out of social media. Also gives way to a complete echo chamber.
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by Kaveren 8y ago
I recommend setting network.IDN_show_punycode to true in Firefox via about:config. This will help keep you safe from this phishing vector.
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> "The notion that harassment and negativity are important for countering echo chambers should be the first to go." > "First, tweets from blocked users should no longer appear in the replies to a tweet." Being able
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by Kaveren 8y ago
Companies should not be going around offering bonuses to employees for ideas of things to patent. This is a flaw in the system. If you don't have the know-how to implement something, can you really call yourself the inventor of that th
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by Kaveren 8y ago
The patent system needs to be changed in some way. When people talk about monopolies, they seem to rarely mention that the government enforces awful patents. And you don't even need to make the thing, just patent it! I'm not sure
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by Kaveren 8y ago
Gab is such a great example of this. You have a new player in social media (yet we apparently need to break up the big tech companies because you can't enter the market anymore). It operates in a successful niche. And it also is home
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by Kaveren 8y ago
With anonymous submissions on sites like these (see also: Glassdoor), I wonder if there's any sabotage going on where companies submit fraudulent information about competitors. Isn't it a potential downside to this open approach w
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by Kaveren 8y ago
If an accountant screws up, you're not likely to hire the same accountant again. You might come back to a restaurant if you enjoyed your experience. The incentive is to give you as good a meal as possible. If you're hungry, you wo
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by Kaveren 8y ago
I can't understand why people still bother with physical books anymore, other than not having a good enough device or the book isn't available digitally. We spend a lot of our time reading long-form content online already; there&#
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by Kaveren 8y ago
This is great and everything, I'll never criticize anyone giving to charity for PR gains. I'm wondering how something like Amazon Smile affects customer behavior. Amazon makes you really think about using Amazon Smile (doesn&#x2
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The idea is that you'd need to make the computational challenge more expensive to solve than any profit that success would have. This is what some DDoS protection services do (e.g. the "checking your browser" messages you mig
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by Kaveren 8y ago
I use Firefox with maximum tracking protections and a VPN, so I'm first in line to claim frustration about being forced to solve reCAPTCHAs. But on the other side, it needs to be understood just how important having a CAPTCHA is. The a
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by Kaveren 8y ago
Here's some sources on this I found after a light search: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/man-indicted-for... https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/09/07/red-light-
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Civil disobedience is sometimes necessary. Good on him. I hope he brings more attention to this story so that action may be taken to change the system.
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Caring about a person can make you do nice things for them and support them even if that results in a financial loss. If one is of good character, and able to help someone they have a good relationship with, they will do so.
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> "When my boyfriend suddenly left me (as men in New York are occasionally known to do), I had to pay $1,450 a month for rent on my own" The author doesn't disparage the ex-boyfriend, just makes a tongue-in-cheek comment a
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by Kaveren 8y ago
It always makes me happy to see public officials treat addicts as people, not villains. I'm hopeful that this attitude will spread to police departments across the country. There's some problems you just can't arrest your way
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This reminds me of the advice in "How I’ve Attracted the First 500 Paid Users for My SaaS" (I liked the article overall). I'm more confident in my disagreement now. Ignoring competition does not make it go away. Being a compe

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