Paul-ish

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by Paul-ish 10y ago
It is absurd. They don't think "We don't hire and retain enough women to get a bulk discount on their gear.", they think "Their fault for being a woman."
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
They will have less ammunition. In a suit the defendant can paint the person bringing it as a money grabber (like the people did with the McDonalds hot coffee case.) Someone posting a blog has much less to gain personally, so you just look
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
In addition, the only people left at Uber will be people who think this behavior is acceptable. In that case, it will only be a matter of time before there is a lawsuit.
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
Interesting idea. If we move transit infrastructure underground, we could reclaim a lot of surface space for pedestrians and green spaces.
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
You would definitely have to stop bots.
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
> If you are a performer, sometimes you want to sell to the biggest fans. What's the market mechanism for that? This is what I don't get about some of the arguments here. In the freest markets, doesn't that mean I have th
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
All the arguments along these lines with respect to scalpers get caught in the "is-ought" problem [1]. You are describing the economic situation and saying "This is the way things are at the moment, therefore this is the way
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
>I have never yet seen a system that cannot be beat by scalpers, including paperless ticketing, and I find that most venues and artists want to maximize profits and, more importantly, minimize risk anyway. Say that a tickets market value
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
This wouldn't give us any more privacy. It would just become another signal in the tracker's model, they wouldn't solely rely on it. Cookies were the same idea limited to a single website. We were told to clear our cookies an
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
>Do we get to choose to live in a world where that isn't the case? No? Why not? Or, maybe a better question is, why do you think you could legalize child porn easier than we could outlaw or end programs like PRISM?
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
If it is all 1s and 0s, I am curious how you feel about the NSA having a good deal of your personal information stored on their drives?
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
TrueCrypt let you encrypt your drive in a "plausibly deniable" way. One password would let you see the encrypted contents as would expect, but there was also a sort of duress password. If you mounted the drive with the second pass
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
Could I try to get around this by offering two "different" (sharpie a red dot on the bottom of the lamp) items, one you can purchase with paypal and another you cannot. Can Paypal require you to accept paypal on everything your bu
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
This is interesting, as I interned at Mozilla, and they have a large number of remote employees. There was only one person (other than me) on my team in my location. Mozilla also records a lot of things, but the intent is more to publish th
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
I had assumed they used people with an Indian accent because that is what people expect to hear when they call tech support at this point. I wouldn't be surprised if it increases someones level of trust. Do we know these schemes are or
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
> I'm also not sure how this addresses the problem of including additional datasets to help correlate out identities. I agree with you on the first part of you post, but this part is a little off the mark. In the original paper[1],
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
Why not both though? I think the approach these days is to try to collect everything and put it into a model. It might be similar to what happened to passwords. Passwords are still important, but they are just one signal among multiple othe
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
Seems like regulating an "open internet" and asking for a smaller government are at odds. You need a powerful central government to meaningfully regulate that sort of thing.
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
I use Android and I'm not interested in messing around with custom ROMs. This really chains me to having a google account unfortunately. I really wish the Firefox phone had worked out. Maybe the Ubuntu phone will succeed there.
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
But that does seem like the first step to answering the question.
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
This is how laws get really complicated. Wouldn't a more complex solution end up costing more (to the companies you are trying to help) than a simple solution?
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
Go fast enough and you can live longer than everyone else in earth years. Watch those financial investments pay off.
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
The comment strikes me a concern trolling.
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
Do they need to be run in a specific order? Could you maintain a linked list of all objects, and at exit go through it at exit and run the finalizes? Might be faster than actually reclaiming the memory as well.
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
I think C++ and Rust have reference counting objects that can't collect cycles. Add that with an arena allocator and it sounds close to what you are describing. It's more explicit though, whereas Python does the reference counting
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
The criticism of this course in principle is ironic to me. A lot of people are saying "This course is pointless, the people who would take this course don't need it." Which seems to imply... that they wouldn't take the c
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
Something about this categorization seems ironic to me. Does this mean that Scott Adams sees himself as a "word-thinker", because he is certainly labeling people in coming up with this list.
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
One thing that that would bother me in that situation is I do not enjoy doing work on laptops. I prefer to work from a desktop where the monitor (1) reasonably sized, (2) at eye level. I also prefer a full sized mouse and keyboard, as I fee
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
Realistically, how do you even do a sting operation of that sort of thing?
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
Technical documentation may be dry, but it is generally well read and edited, grammatically correct, and easily obtained.

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