Lionsion

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by Lionsion 9y ago
> most people don't care what's missing That's a misleading metric, as I'd assume "most people" in any country mostly care about sharing lowbrow content on social media. Also it's hard to consciously
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> I generally love this blog but complaining about how irresponsible your valets are is just the most tonedeaf privileged nonsense I've ever heard. I don't think it's tone-deaf in this case. This person isn't complai
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> Chinese versions popped up and they are not missing anything. They're missing the censored content that the CCP wants to suppress.
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> Apple had a "backdoor" to access data on its own phones via installing a build that disabled password attempt throttling. The FBI simply asked Apple to use its backdoor on the FBI's behalf, not to create a new backdoor t
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> If I were to wipe a Huawei latptop and install Ubuntu, is my device still vulnerable to malicious rootkts etc. what if I swapped out the harddrive. If the rootkit is in the firmware or BIOS, you'd still be vulnerable.
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by Lionsion 9y ago
You don't need to be owned by the state to follow commands from it.
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I thought they were there to prime a laughing response, because people are more likely to laugh with others than alone.
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> Let's be honest, the patent will be granted. Is there any kind of public comment period where the patent's claims to novelty could be disputed? I feel like a lot of the worst patents may be granted because no one else was wa
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> Also in the future technology should become more self contained. Factories for producing any other factories should become widespread enough for technological supply chains to be ubiquitous Isn't this a variation on the idea that
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by Lionsion 9y ago
The point of a laugh track is to make the show itself appear funnier; the laugh track is in the background, invisible. I think what he's describing is different, more like focusing on the laugh track itself and ignoring the show.
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> Fortunately, this obscure Stack overflow question helped [ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/442556/spec-for-junit-xm... ] — we ended up having to build this into our own testing library should-test. > cl
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by Lionsion 9y ago
Doesn't the president's salary define the statutory maximum, though?
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> But what/who do we blame? No one? We shouldn't be assigning "blame" because the public doesn't have the same specialized education that we have to understand the nuances of "APIs" vs "breaches.&
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> RhodesianHunter 24 minutes ago | parent | on: The IRS Really Needs Some New Computers Rhodesian as in this Rhodesia? Rhodesia’s Dead — but White Supremacists Have Given It New Life Online https://www.nytimes.com/2018&#
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> I think people seem to forget that newer does NOT mean better, and that an old, slow computer which is reliable is infinitely better than a new, fast computer which is either unreliable or idiosyncratic (or both). In this case, though,
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by Lionsion 9y ago
The IRS already nearly developed a system to automatically translate their mainframe assembler logic into Java and check its correctness, but the main developer was hired on some special kind of program (to bypass the government salary st
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by Lionsion 9y ago
Here's the scenario: assisted reproduction allows infertile people to reproduce. If the causes for the infertility are genetic, the genes for infertility traits will become more common. Eventually, after many, many years, they may be
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by Lionsion 9y ago
That will certainly be true initially, but I don't think we could be certain of that over any significant period of time. Assisted reproduction may end up as cheap as a blood test is today.
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by Lionsion 9y ago
It could, but it would be a much weaker form of control that could be bypassed (by fleeing the city to the hills to reproduce freely, etc.). If you need an IVF lab to reproduce, it'd be much harder, perhaps impossible to escape the co
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by Lionsion 9y ago
Infertility is terrible, but I worry that technologically-assisted reproduction is a mistake that could cause far worse problems. It will remove selective pressures that keep human reproduction viable without technology. That's true
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> but Costco workers are dang happy as far as I can see. Always jovial, joking, and teasing with each other. They seem to form good friend networks there working side by side and stuff. That margin is Amazon's opportunity. /s
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> But they bring the products to your door... That's being presented as some giant perk nowadays, but I don't really get the appeal. You're buying something sight-unseen and hoping what you'll get in a few days will
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> Amazon is about convenience and variety first, followed closely by price. If you want to drive to Costco and buy the bulk-version of the few choices they have then yes they will be much cheaper. I feel like that's pretty revisioni
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> My biggest peeve is that every time I go to reorder something the price has gone up another 10%. > I never hear other people complain about this though. I wonder if it’s not widespread? I've gotten increases like this on some i
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> They prefer calling it 'customer-centric' If they'd like to be actually customer-centric, they can start by implementing a search that doesn't rank counterfeit products with a single 5-star review over real ones wit
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> They're not. The mainland pitch is the PRC and ROC are a single country. Taiwan and the rest of the world politely (very politely) disagree. It's more complicated that that. Traditionally, the ROC also claimed that China w
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> Hopefully the Chinese won't ban their companies from selling to US companies because we'll be screwed... specially because US companies design things to break fast. They'd have to think of a different rational, as this a
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by Lionsion 9y ago
Why don't you go google "shadow profile" and clear this up? The term is not typically used to refer to what you seem to think it means.
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> Facebook provides OpenGraph APIs that app developers can access personal data that is granted by a user. Previously to OpenGraph v2 you could access all friend data and pull down the whole social graph for any friend level shared data
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by Lionsion 9y ago
Whataboutism isn't about "talk[ing] about issues in a wider context." It's about distracting from the issues at hand and derailing discussions.

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