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by Zikes 11y ago
You do realize that the AI represents the villain in this story, right? Villains aren't exactly known for being reasonable, civil, or even rational.
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by Zikes 11y ago
I would say "Do you want to be the dominant platform because your users like you, or because they're stuck with you?" I totally get it that a social media platform can do things that the majority of their users outright hate.
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by Zikes 11y ago
I know there are theoretical alternatives to Twitter, but until the appropriate userbase is out there then they're not truly viable alternatives. I know that's a Catch-22, or a paradox, or whatever you want to call it, but that&#x
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by Zikes 11y ago
> Now if you’re thinking my novel is about the Pro Choice/ Pro Life debate, hold your horses. It’s not. I merely needed a reason, a one chapter reason, to justify the things my antagonist is about to do to the world without just mak
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by Zikes 11y ago
Without having an ordered array of keys there's just no safe way to paginate a map. The map's own documentation says that key order has no guarantees, making it effectively random. It really is a silo'd issue, I can't ev
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by Zikes 11y ago
There are only two appropriate ways to handle it: if the offense is not egregious, address the incident with the offender in private. If the offense is egregious, or if you do not feel comfortable enough to discuss it with the offender, the
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by Zikes 11y ago
However rare it might be, the devastating affects of false positives make this a terrible idea. Just ask Tim Hunt, Matt Taylor, or the men targeted by "donglegate".
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by Zikes 11y ago
PR closes can be for a variety of factors besides programmer competence or gender bias. For example, point #4 says that "women's changes are larger", whereas many large projects are particularly wary of large PRs with multip
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by Zikes 11y ago
robots.txt actually has little to nothing to do with copyright, and more to do with "unauthorized computer access" which is protected by the CPAA. It's a guard against accidental access or publishing of sensitive data - which
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by Zikes 11y ago
Many times I've seen that it's been out of a genuine desire to solve the asker's problem, but the asker has already started down the wrong path and is determined to see it through. A recent example: someone was using a map&#x
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by Zikes 11y ago
What are the stretch goals? If I donate the highest tier, will he land in my backyard?
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by Zikes 11y ago
Google scans, stores, and indexes billions of web pages, with obvious and fairly incontestable public benefits. How are books any different? The contents of an article, a blog post, and a NY Times Best Seller all get the exact same copyrigh
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by Zikes 11y ago
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_forfeiture#United_States 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Global_surveill... 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plea_bargai
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by Zikes 11y ago
The entire time I was growing up, I was told it was "college or bust". I was never told that it would be "college and bust", but that seems to be the reality. Kids were told over and over that a college degree would en
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by Zikes 11y ago
I'm not going to pretend to be happy because of the fallacy of relative privation.
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by Zikes 11y ago
I forgot about patent trolling, which I see other commenters have mentioned separately.
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by Zikes 11y ago
This list is rather incomplete. As an American, I'm angry because: 1. I'm 31 years old and not even halfway through paying off my student loans. 2. I can have anything taken away from me at any time with little to no legal recours
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by Zikes 11y ago
I agree with the message in principle and in spirit, but in order to have an open and free internet we've seen that government involvement is fairly necessary. Net neutrality laws and their enforcement are paramount in order to preven
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by Zikes 11y ago
It completely removes your negotiating powers in regards to raises and promotions, as well. What incentive does an employer have to pay their employees fairly when they know that said employee is legally prohibited from working anywhere el
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by Zikes 11y ago
A thinly-veiled attempt to outlaw posting links to TPB and the like.
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by Zikes 11y ago
One thing that I just can't wrap my head around is the "no participation" brigading rules. The site literally exists to share content for others to discover and discuss, but if you share anything remotely meta you get accuse
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by Zikes 11y ago
Is the US Government not also to blame for this? I had thought that one of the major rules about immigrant worker visas was that they can only be granted for workers whom are doing a job for which no available citizen worker can be found.
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by Zikes 11y ago
I strongly disagree that these sorts of communications are pointless. In every major service outage I've seen where the company maintained a degree of silence, it's caused major damage to their public relations and consumer trust.
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by Zikes 11y ago
I'm not familiar with Open Connect Appliances, but Github as a platform is still a Single Point of Failure at least on some level. Domain or SSL issues, for example. I think that as long as we have options to host packages on other pla
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by Zikes 11y ago
I'm starting to think that people should mirror their packages to BitBucket as a rule, and that package managers should round robin/flip a coin between the two, or use whichever is available in case of outages.
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by Zikes 11y ago
I agree that a postmortem would be great, but it's good PR for companies to quickly put out statements like this to admit fault and maintain customer trust.
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by Zikes 11y ago
Certainly, and I would be one of them. I'm not saying nobody does care or that nobody should, only that enough people don't care enough to make this "red X of shame" that shameful, really. Chrome and Firefox have both ha
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by Zikes 11y ago
I think it's pretty funny that on the HN front page right now is a NYTimes article from the company's Google beat reporter about how trying to interview Larry Page is "emasculating" and then this announcement is accompan
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by Zikes 11y ago
I think the idea has merit, but any good idea also has to stand up to criticism. Your 401k comment gave me an idea for one potential tweak that would make a big difference. If there were a plan to collect a small yet reasonable tax over the
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by Zikes 11y ago
At 2.25% that's $14,925.87, right? Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have had a ~$15k windfall right after high school, but I don't think that would be comparable to an ongoing basic income payment.

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