TrevorJ

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by TrevorJ 11y ago
A few things that have helped me: 1. Realize that tendency CAN be a powerful tool if you channel it correctly and get yourself into the right environment. I'm in media, because the tools change quickly, each project has different probl
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
I think they see opt-in encryption as an important filtering signal they can use to determine who to target. The assumption they work under seems to be that law-abiding people won't need to use encryption. Either way, this is pretty di
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Seems like the worst of both worlds in terms a vertical vs horizontal configuration. you've still got two unthrottled SRB's right next to you, and now you've increased the odds of them hitting the liquid tank if they detach.
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
The problem with driverless cars is it incentivises behaviour that puts more vehicles on the road: you can call your (empty) car to come pick you up, and public transport no longer has the same advantages compared to driverless cars. I just
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Amazon locker just swaps the last step in the delivery to a central location. I'm talking about micro-warehouses that could easily and quickly distributed.
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Thinking about it a lot, and I think the simpler way to solve the same problem would be shipping container sized package 'vending machines'. These could be distributed anywhere a couple parking spaces worth of land could be rented
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That ship sailed with plumbing and the electric grid.
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That's incredible!
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"you wouldn't recount NFL games on twitter"
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
No. Privacy is not a "feature". That implies that the only reason you don't want a company to have your data is that it's sensitive. I don't concede that point, it's my data and I should be in control of it sen
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
As an aside, it's sort of bothersome that it's termed as space tourism (not your term, I know) because it sort of belies the inherent risks associated. I'm pretty worried about what the public reaction will be when one of the
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It seems to have quite a bit of utility as well, it's meaning is widely understood and I can't think of another word that carries quite the same connotation or intent. It actually fills a niche.
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
This is really cool. I'd love to see some sort of visual front end where you can set up your timeline and change position, tweening, and the like. I wonder how practical an exporter for After Effects would be? If this is made more acce
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And even if devices are designed to be secure, what good does it do when agencies with nearly unlimited resources actively try to subvert it?
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That's correct, but with what we know now it can be pretty much assumed that any security there is will be actively subverted by agencies, companies or both.
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It's more accurate to say they experience different types (both in classification and severity) of harassment than men. Pretty interesting study: http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/10/22/online-harassment&
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by TrevorJ 11y ago
>I still don't believe what improvement it brings and if those outweigh possible privacy and security implications. It's tragic that this is true, because the benefits of this sort of tech to individuals could be huge, game cha
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To me, that feeling is a fundamental warning that something is deeply wrong with the way we handle privacy in modern society. It should be completely unacceptable that we have to worry about this.
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It's sad, but the first thing I think of now when I see or read about a new IoT technology is "what extra data about me does this expose to bulk collection programs and advertisers?" Disney has some really amazing tech where
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If the effect is to stifle the speech then functionally how is it different?
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Is this fundamentally different than how RFID works? I'm curious if anyone who knows could chime in.
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>Why don't they? If I was slightly more conspiratorial I would suggest that that is the 64 million dollar question. In reality though, I think we are talking about two different types of knowledge here. When I say knowledge is pow
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The simpler explanation: they understand knowledge is power and are happy to use any convenient excuse to acquire it.
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Good point. Talent may be what separates the top 1% or performers from the top 5% (where that tiny edge matters) but for the vast majority of the bell curve, hard work counts for so much more than raw aptitude. I think our view of this gets
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"ISIS and the terrorist networks can't beat us militarily, but they are really trying to use the Internet and all of the social media to try to intimidate and beat us psychologically," No they are winning psychologically by i
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It's pretty situation dependant. Mostly depends on the corporate structure, culture and your positions relative to each other. I've been blessed to work at small companies where most of the people I rub shoulders with aren't
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Agreed, good point.
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That's fair, I think I see where you are coming from now. I do think, however, that we have to be careful not to remove personal responsibility from the equation. Circumstances can certainly motivate behaviour but we are still responsi
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This sounds uncomfortably close to victim blaming.
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I wonder how true that is. For Christianity at least, most dominant theology takes the view that the things that exist in the world can be used for good or for ill and aren't inherently one or the other in and of themselves.

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