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by Traster 8y ago
It’s not really much of a statement. Anyone with any sense knows that the browser is the attack vector of most threats and security is probably the single most important feature of a browser today. The conversation in the thread demonstrat
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by Traster 8y ago
The photographer didn't expect to benefit from the work of the band. He didn't expect to benefit from his own work of taking the picture, editing it and uploading it. He expected other people not to profit from his work, and when
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by Traster 8y ago
All those examples are far simpler in their structure than the internet though. Because so far I've not seen anyone actually banned from the internet. I've seen people banned from private websites, I've seen people banned fro
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by Traster 8y ago
Most of the time this doesn't hurt anyone, but let's say for the sake of argument that one of these influencers isn't a mildly attractive middle-class teenage girl with thoughts that don't extend beyond family friendly f
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by Traster 8y ago
Let's be clear - you cannot start collecting donations on someone's behalf without their consent and expect them to be happy when they find out. Especially when the person you are donating to is a business person with their own pu
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by Traster 8y ago
I think the fact that Swarm consulted with the FCC, had their plan to launch satellites rejected and then decided to launch anyway indicates the fines weren't suitable. A simple 3 year ban on further launches would've changed that
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by Traster 8y ago
I think you're right that there are some laws that are worth breaking, but let's not conflate choosing to break laws as a matter of principle with breaking laws as a matter of sloppiness. There was no real reason for Swarm to brea
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by Traster 8y ago
It's worth noting that whilst the cost of producing something in the private sector is cheaper than the public sector, the cost of the public sector acquiring something from the private sector is orders of magnitude larger than the cos
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by Traster 8y ago
>Over the past 18 months, as I’ve been painted into a villainous caricature, I’ve had lots of time for introspection. Anthony then proceeds to show literally no level of introspection. The designs he was working on at Google went on to m
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by Traster 8y ago
I'd love to hear anyone involved in this process answer the question: "Why wasn't any of the thousands of COTS solutions chosen instead?"
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by Traster 8y ago
Are you a company? I mean come on, let's be realistic. If you accidentally pay a company money and ask for it back it goes through a reasonable process to assess your request. You probably start by going to customer service, CS then re
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by Traster 8y ago
Every story I hear about Musk just makes me think: avoid him at all costs. Work for him? Be miserable, underpaid, likely get fired and never share in the success. Invest in him? Your money becomes his, whether it's questionable mergers
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by Traster 8y ago
Well then this is quite simple for us to clear up then - Medium has mis-trained their customer-service team to think that they're not speaking for the company when they're speaking for the company. That can be fixed.
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by Traster 8y ago
I think you're being unfair with your quotation there. The point they were making was that their system works over time, so whilst there can be temporary disjunctions on the long term the mechanism works, and therefore it's reas
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by Traster 8y ago
Well let's call it what it is. You want a revenue tax on corporations. The obvious point is: high turnover businesses that make profits through volume would pay a disproportionate tax - a tax which ostensibly is to do with liability in
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by Traster 8y ago
My background is in the FPGA industry which gives an absolutely fantastic example of this exact dynamic. FPGA companies produce a new generation of chips every 3-5 years or so. There are only two companies, with market share split 60:40. In
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by Traster 8y ago
>They don't need to win every city, just take a slice of the most profitable city from Uber. Suddenly your 10 million per year profit is costing Uber 10 times that as they can't undercut you and still be highly profitable. If U
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by Traster 8y ago
Well, the only person who appears to be stating that you can use video only is Tesla, and Elon Musk seems to be the only person stating that that's the right strategy. From what I've seen he basically says: If you focus on vision
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by Traster 8y ago
Well firstly, there are autonomous trains. The DLR in London is autonomous, there are plenty of train systems that are autonomous. But here's a key to why autonomous trains are not important and autonomous cars are: A traditional trai
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by Traster 8y ago
Capital. Assuming the article is right and there's no fundamental efficiency saving of any particular taxi company then to challenge Uber's monopoly in a market you need to sink money into subsidizing fares until you drive Uber ou
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by Traster 8y ago
I'll tell you one thing: I really don't appreciate an article that just continually asserts investors are idiots. High end retail! They're stupider than Saudis! I'm sympathetic to the idea that Uber has lots of headwind.
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by Traster 8y ago
I would put it this way: They must be paid for all idle time. If they're on the app they're considered to be working. It's like the person working at the McDonalds drive through - if no one pulls up to the drive through that
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by Traster 8y ago
To do the comparison you're attempting to do, surely you need to get data that excludes employees who are currently here on a visa. It would seem insane to criticize facebook for not reflecting US demographics when quite simply it&#x27
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by Traster 8y ago
>I thought the point of diversity was about giving equalty of opportunities to all folks indepndently of gender, race, ideas, etc, not about achieving some sort of colorful mastermind. There can be more than one reason to do something. Y
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by Traster 8y ago
Well let's be clear about the stakes of this. Firstly, the billionaire isn't going to lose anything - he owns a company with dozens of different strategies. The people who will lose out are the other engineers who designed and bui
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by Traster 8y ago
I've got to say, I've got a lot less sympathy for Xu than most people in this thread seem to have. Firstly, what he did was absolutely unacceptable, he didn't just copy stuff, he went out of his way to break security procedur