Mirioron

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by Mirioron 6y ago
Twitter does or at least did aggressively ask users for their phone numbers. They also retain information such as email addresses too. Presumably some people give them even more information about themselves.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
If this is true, then this is even more concerning than the hack itself. Twitter asks us to trust them with our data, but can't even keep access to their own information secure. How do they expect us to trust them with anything ?
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The amazing thing is that these kinds of rules that allow for involuntary commitment are pretty standard in the West. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involuntary_commitment_interna...
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Is it unique? Didn't Gustl Mollath [0] also end up in a psychiatric facility and it started with him claiming that a bank was evading taxes? He was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility. After years in there it turned out t
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by Mirioron 6y ago
These stories are always very nice and the plants cost effective, but are they true? Pakistan had a 100MW solar powerplant built for them. It actually ended up producing 18MW and required extensive amounts of water to clean the dust off of
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by Mirioron 6y ago
What are the consequences of the inevitable natural gas or coal power plant that will replace it? There's always a lot of talk about renewables, yet it seems that we still end up with a fossil fuel based powerplant. It's not like
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by Mirioron 6y ago
The only way that I can see this being actually safe is if you make the hardware to encrypt and decrypt the data yourself.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Reminds me of Australia. https://www.wired.com/story/australia-encryption-law-global-...
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Just wait a few years. I'm sure we will get something to support this on the EU level. It'll be positioned as fighting for your freedom and every company that doesn't implement them is the worst.
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And "müssen" is "must".
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by Mirioron 6y ago
There are many ways happiness can be manipulated though. People tend to be happy when things are improving. The most obvious way to manipulate this metric is to deliberately hit rock bottom and then slowly improve from there. Another proble
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I think the answer is pretty straightforward to me. If the internet hadn't been what it was then I probably couldn't even communicate with you, because I would never have picked up enough English to do so. This is just one effect
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Sure, this pricing model might work, but it'll still turn away people compared to right now. News that happened a few months ago isn't interesting anymore. Most people aren't going to read that. This essentially means that th
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by Mirioron 6y ago
> Most services existed before, with a variety of models. E.g. Both subscription and ad revenue based free news papers existed long before the internet. Yes, but aren't most of those newspapers essentially partisan politics? Every
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But it's not just local US news sites. Plenty of other businesses won't do business with Europeans as a result. Even video games shut down over this (Ragnarok online, I believe). But the real question is the signal GDPR sends - ho
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by Mirioron 6y ago
I agree that it would massively help, but I don't think it would solve the entire problem. A lot of my interests online were cultivated as a kid where even a 10 cent charge would've made me click away. I'm sure it wouldn&#x27
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by Mirioron 6y ago
How do contextual ads deal with language and geographic location? If reddit were to use only contextual ads does that mean that someone from, say Latvia, will never see ads that are locally relevant to them? I imagine most Latvians on reddi
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by Mirioron 6y ago
> And I'm really irritated that I can't access local news sites in America because they aren't compliant -- so they blanket ban European access. That's deeply problematic. The usual answer I get when I complain about
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> For many services there is simply no (online, i.e. practically relevant) alternative, because none of the market players have an incentive to be privacy preserving (think major news outlets) or because the service is not interchangable
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And the aviation industry is not exactly a massive innovator at this point. The most commonly used commercial aircraft today were developed before the world wide web was even a thing. Why don't we just skip a few steps ahead - delete t
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by Mirioron 6y ago
What helped me get through the boredom of school was to learn to daydream. Any time there's something boring going on I can tune out from that and daydream. Walking around while doing it is great. The downside of it is that it's n
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Or in 2020: "China created the virus and must be held responsible!" Except that viruses jump from other animals to humans all the time. It can happen in any country.
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I think the "stupid backwards people" refers to the people that went along with it. There might be people guiding others, but if nobody believed that witches exist then this wouldn't work. It's more a case of blind bel
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by Mirioron 6y ago
I'd just like to clarify that blood oxygen levels is not what makes you feel like you can't breathe. It's the amount of CO2 in the blood that's the issue. The first tweet addresses this point though. I'm not entirel
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I don't think the public would've acted like adults though, but I don't think it would've changed anything either. Even with them saying that masks don't work, there was a mask shortage almost everywhere.
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It depends on what the app does though. One of the ways people cope with things like that is escapism. If your app can provide that then it can help some people. Eg a game or an app for stories, jokes etc. Another thing that can help with d
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I would say the media is one of the larger factors (after factors such add unemployment though). When you can't go out and mingle with other people a lot of the information some people get about what's going on is from the media.
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They are making money though. The government doesn't make money for the government. It's not like a corporation. The government makes money for the country. Saving existing institutions from collapse during a disaster tends to be
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I doubt this was even considered by him. 4 years is not enough time to make a meaningful impact on this issue. It matters to the party, but not the candidate.
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> Godot, Unity and Construct are all examples of tools that are both easier to learn and less costly in 2020 than Flash authoring tools were in 2006. I don't think this is true at all. Making something in Flash and publishing it ev

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