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by Seenso 7y ago
> Your own government spying on you is much more dangerous. That really depends on the government, and how heavily they rely on domestic surveillance as an instrument of political control. It also depends on the geopolitical and diploma
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> Gives you a sense of why the U.S. intelligence community is so nervous about having Huawei at the core of the domestic 5G network. Would not be fun for the U.S. to have done to them what they've done to others. Exactly. Huawei ev
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by Seenso 7y ago
> You do realize, that Russia and China are different nations? I'm sure he does. You've been introducing several confusions into this subthread, and the above is one of them. If there's been any national confusion on this
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by Seenso 7y ago
> I do it because Russia and China pay me a great deal of money to annoy silly warmongers on the internet. Cut out the trolling, please. It's neither clever nor valuable in the slightest, and just increases the noise level.
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> I am no expert, but I'm fairly certain that the Air Force and NASA were charged with the responsibility of protecting government assets in space. It would seem that this Space Force is being created to carry this duty out as one o
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> How were they identified exactly? I'm always fascinated with these DOJ indictments of foreign state actors but I'm always left wondering how they managed to narrow it down to a small group of people. My guess is they counter-
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by Seenso 7y ago
Several years ago, I had to attend a full day "culture training" session given by Senn Delaney (a division of Heidrick & Struggles) [1]. It was also a massive waste of time. Our company actually has a really great culture,
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by Seenso 7y ago
> There's no discernible difference between p-zombies and 'real' conscious beings. There's a good chance that we're all p-zombies and a distinction between zombie and real doesn't exist. I think you're
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> If I thought most Americans were unhappy these days, my reaction to seeing this poll would be to question how my intuition went so wrong, not to look for ways the might be biased. That's putting undue weight on quantified data, an
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> We shouldn't treat the results of polls as gospel truth, but we should trust them more than we trust our intuitive sense of what's gotta be true. Yes and no. Polls shouldn't be treated as gospel truth, but they shouldn
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> The transit system is unreliable, slow and has low coverage. The only way to fix that is more dedicated Point-to-Point (the orange line)/more rapid lines + higher light rail coverage. And the fix will have to be done in a very for
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by Seenso 7y ago
> the team that worked on the space shuttle's onboard computer systems and the rigorous processes they followed to ensure correctness and safety Those processes are expensive . It'd imagine that they're a huge political
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by Seenso 7y ago
> You are implying that capitalism is the problem? Certain kinds of capitalism, yes. There's not just one kind, and the kind we have now isn't the best kind. Perhaps we should try to discover a better one? > What does priv
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by Seenso 7y ago
> It looks like everything in tech got poisoned... > ...building a toxic monstrosity this industry is becoming just to make somebody with a limited lifespan feel powerful and rich. That's what you get when you combine shareholder
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>> Tesla & SpaceX have a reputation for being a terrible place to work, with Musk expecting everyone to be working as hard (or harder) than him, and firing people in weird and capricious ways. > specially SpaceX has been rated
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by Seenso 7y ago
> I'll let people decide which one is better. I personally prefer the first one. That's JavaScript, right? That's probably not the best language to use to judge the concept of exceptions. It's cleaner in languages li
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> There is nothing inherently irreconcilable about a record not existing. IMHO, that's being a bit too ideological. It's better to think about it in terms of how you'd want to respond to the condition, and pick your tool
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by Seenso 7y ago
> A record not being found is a normal thing! It's not a normal thing for code that needs that record that wasn't found. > They literally tell you nothing and there's no way to solve them without catching/rescuin
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by Seenso 7y ago
> If Musk appears to be doing something crazy you've not understood it. That's a pretty ridiculous attitude. You're literally talking about Musk like he's a god or something. He's a regular guy, not some kind o
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Don't SSD have some kind of cyclic redundancy check? Yes, but they're pushing the the technology so far to get higher densities that error correction is required for normal operation : https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by Seenso 7y ago
> MF is cheaper to acquire in film. By "MF", I take it you mean medium format. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_format That a very excellent point that emphasizes how technology is often about trade-of
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by Seenso 7y ago
> It's the scanners for carry-on luggage, not the ones you walk through. They don't let you carry anything through the walk-through scanners.
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> since it can't really carry a huge cannon like the a10. IIRC, the A-10 was specially and primarily designed to carry that massive gun.
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by Seenso 7y ago
I'm a little out of my element here, but I reckon the key word there is "objective." Human attempts to make objective meaning tend to proceed from a subjective declaration that something or other is objective, rendering it
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by Seenso 7y ago
> China has stated that they think it can be contagious before symptoms. The US has stated as of yesterday (Jan 27) that there is no evidence for that yet. IIRC, the US hasn't seen the evidence for that yet, but they're also
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by Seenso 7y ago
> It makes me realize that Google's no humans policy -- is it a policy? -- is actually a strength here. My domains purchased through Google are safe from social engineering because, well, there are no humans to contact to ask them t
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> It’s interesting because capitalism is all about choice and competition. But what if a player is so successful that it can pay to absorb any competitor that poses a serious threat? I don’t know how capitalism self heals from that. Capi
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IIRC, some of the people thought the dislike of x86 was from RISC-loving academics, but I don't think that's the case. IIRC, the CISC Motorola 68k ISA was much better regarded than x86.
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by Seenso 7y ago
> I don't understand how you can ban a machine from doing something that a human can do. Quantity has a quality all its own. Something that is acceptable at a small scale may have unacceptable consequences when done at much larger
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Regulating this system means addressing all three steps of the process. A ban on facial recognition won't make any difference if, in response, surveillance systems switch to identifying people by smartphone MAC addresses. The prob

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