Slansitartop

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by Slansitartop 9y ago
Even if it is, most of the media bang would be him admitting to it on video.
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> Well, it could be because they've had 6+ months to figure out what to do about one, and just a few weeks for the other. Because, as we all know, Facebook only really starts trying to figure out how to solve a problem once it becom
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Why Zuckerberg’s 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn’t Fixed Facebook(wired.com)
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
I recall reading long ago that SMS messages were a hack built on top of the unencrypted "paging" channel in the protocol. They're received and "ignored" by all phones near the intended recipient. IIRC, the paging c
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> One of the most negative longterm consequence of the G. W. Bush era is the erosion of high moral ground in human rights. One of the most negative longterm consequences is also the fact that HN seems unable to discuss Chinese human righ
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> So you stop the program immediately and allow no more transactions while you debug? Unlikely. You stop the transaction on a constraint violation, not usually the entire system. > Keep the data. Log that it's weird. I've wo
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> You can't add constraint which conflict with old data, yet you need to check that constraint for current data, If there was a way to distinguish "old" and "new" data, you could write your constraint to honor th
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> Everything you've pointed out are great examples of technical demerits... but none that really transfer over in any negative way to the business besides developer frustration. > Most businesses don't know what they need un
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
I figured it was so MySQL wouldn't barf so badly on DDL written for other databases. That's the only justification I can think of, and it's a pretty terrible one. I have a pretty low opinion of it because of this.
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
Does MySQL support CHECK constraints yet? Last time I used it it silently ignored them if they were in the DDL.
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> Regarding what Facebook does, according to Facebook connecting people, how does patient's medical data contributes to that? Facebook is about "connecting people" to ads and companies that want their data.
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> many posts on HN about facebook are not even from within the last few months. some of them are from several years ago HN is just for "breaking news." It has an established culture of re-posting "old" stories if the
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> We were talking about how disclosing salary and compensation information for everyone would help everyone in the long run and some people objected saying they want privacy. > For example, your employer knows how much they pay you. I
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> Like phone taps, electronic bugs and good old fashion in-person surveillance? How is that "dark" exactly? There was a time even before telephones and electronics. I'm much more comfortable with law enforcement having t
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
>> One of the biggest such forums was called Experts Exchange. > By what metric? I don’t know anybody who was actually subscribed there (although they must have existed). Instead, people were using various other forums that were fr
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
His reasons for doing that aren't related to security, but rather wanting Free Software purity. Also I don't think his PC is "offline," but rather he does weird things like reading web pages via a script that scrapes the
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
I never personally used it, but I've heard the BeFS was designed to have significant non-hierarchical use cases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_File_System : > [BeFS] includes support for extended file attribu
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> I hope you know that, because I don't know a single person, expert or not who with confidence can claim "going dark" isn't going to be "that bad". I can claim, with confidence, that "'going dark&
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> India and Pakistan aren't really powerful nations in the nuclear sense that the US and Russia are. 100 nukes is powerful enough.
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> Either you give the control over the data to a central authority, or you give the control to the user [receiver?], you can't have both. No, there are middle grounds, such as a decentralized/local authorities. E.g. you send a
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
One important functionality gap, between FB and email, is that email always creates copies that are easily controlled by the recipient by design. While it's technically true that a FB recipient could be auto-scraping everything, p
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> A quick research job has revealed that most of the interesting features of facebook, in particular "liking" posts ... are patented by facebook. I find find this hard to believe. Don't competing networks have similar fun
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
Isn't it obvious? To understand causes is to have a better change to predict and prevent these events, at both the individual level and that of sociological forces.
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/opinion/facebook-fix-repl... : > Every business has its founding DNA. Real corporate change is rare, especially when the same leaders remain in charge. In Facebook’s
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> I wish I could just pay a monthly fee to access Facebook but to be protected from advertising and from being the product. Honestly, they'd take your money and still treat you as a product and sell you. Their entire corporate cult
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> Beyond the censorship issues & lawsuits, Google regularly gets a pass when their crummy policies negatively impact people. While it is horrible that some were hurt in the process, I wonder if this will make Google start approaching
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> If the user says he lives in Berlin, then apply EU laws to his data. If Facebook tries to "discern" the domicile and incorrectly discerns the domicile then that's Facebook's problem. I hope they do this, and don&#x
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> Then you will have to live with being dependent on the whims of another entity. Which means you give up a lot of your freedoms. That's the state of the vast majority of the population , who lack the system administration and&#x2F
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
I think this is good news. I think the kinds of politicians that are typically over-friendly with the police are also the kind that want a strong military. The use of "law enforcement" technology like stingrays by hostile intell
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> In Google, I keep having to change it from All Results to Verbatim Just updated my Google bookmark to https://www.google.com/?tbs=li:1 , which seems to be the parameter to enable Verbatim.

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