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by __jal 8y ago
Yeah, that's just Mozilla attempting to save a stupid sunk-cost. Pocket:RSS::allowance:salary. I feel like we're entering a period when a browser shakeup is in order. Chrome is spyware. Safari is usually an implementation laggard.
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by __jal 8y ago
Contracts involving illegal acts are not enforceable. And I'm with you - I've never been shy with my viewpoints and refuse to start now. There's no way I'd sign a non-disparagement. In fact, it would be interesting to co
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by __jal 8y ago
Yes, jargon is a very important aspect. "Lard it up with debt, fire down to a skeleton-crew and stop all maintenance" sounds bad, like you're killing the company or something. "Unlocking value", hey, doesn't th
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by __jal 8y ago
It speaks to economics. A business process that works "by itself" most of the time, but requires human intervention once in a while, is still a functional business process. The unit of "software + 5% of this person's tim
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by __jal 8y ago
Very different beast. The semantic web was an effort to improve the commons. AI/ML benefits are captured by their owners.
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by __jal 8y ago
No, the issue they should care about is that I'm losing trust in them, for a number of reasons, and (anecdatally) I'm not the only one. - Are they taking me for a ride on price? I don't optimize this enough and do overpay bec
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by __jal 8y ago
More or less. There are other formulations in which the insurance-function is bundled with other things (membership in an HOA-like structure, other protective services, etc.), but this is a fairly common scheme supported by a lot of anarcho
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by __jal 8y ago
The base issue is trust, not some technical issue. They repeatedly violated the trust placed in them. They'd have to fire the entire chain of command that allowed those to happen, retool their processes, and probably post a sizable bon
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by __jal 8y ago
Uh, we used to use them, and switched in June. Our certificates behaved normally. I have no idea what was going on with yours, but clearly "all certificates" were not. We also received I don't know how many notifications of t
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by __jal 8y ago
> but the complexity of AWS permissions I'm probably the last person who will defend many of Amazon's design choices, but this is really a matter of competence. Internet engineering is hardly unique in having difficult to under
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by __jal 8y ago
> automatic transmission doesn't fail Um, what kind of car do you drive? And all those transmission repair shops are doing... what, exactly?
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by __jal 8y ago
You're right, it (if we're talking about VC) isn't something special. And a highly specific, narrow way of bringing something into being that makes no sense a lot of the time. Living in San Francisco, you hear just how narrow
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by __jal 8y ago
Because different people have different priorities. Remember, you're part of the government.
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by __jal 8y ago
I used OFX for quite a while. Had a home-grown pile of scripts that did my budgeting/record keeping, and even reverse-engineered their payment submission system, and had nearly everything semi-automated to my personal satisfaction for
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by __jal 8y ago
> ... to individual users. ... Which is what this tool does. And while I take your point about aggregate value, I personally have a great deal of interest in data about me.
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by __jal 8y ago
Eggs are easily cooked on, e.g., cast iron. I do it all the time - been cooking for decades without teflon. I've used mostly cast iron and wood since I started cooking, with some steel pans for acidic things and special cases. As a bon
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by __jal 8y ago
It is slimy, and I had to learn that the hard way. There is a lot of sleaze in our industry. But as someone who has spent his entire career working startups, and just a human who has seen other scams before, I think the cliche about not bei
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by __jal 8y ago
Think of them more as a variation of literary criticism. I can't prove with p<.05 that my review of _Schoolhouse Rock_ is 'correct', either.
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by __jal 8y ago
As you note, there have been different norms in different institutions, and if you're a used to working for for-profit entities, I'm sure the norms you're used to seem, well, normal. But sure, there's no harm in thought
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by __jal 8y ago
There's a lot of that, actually. It was trendy for a while for unis to try to monetize their research, and a lot of people became unhappy in various ways - researchers pissed off about the giveaways and being told whom they could talk
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by __jal 8y ago
Google doesn't care about you or whatever you're building, unless you are building something that might threaten them. You would be well-advised to reciprocate. To the extent that third-party services are essential to your surviva
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by __jal 8y ago
They may not have any natural incentive, but whoever processes their credit card transactions could certainly provide one.
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by __jal 8y ago
That idea seems to hinge on the notion that the cultural acceptance of alcohol intoxication somehow "filled a niche" that would otherwise have been filled by some other intoxicant. The first problem to overcome if one wishes to su
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by __jal 8y ago
> Does "something" have to be tangible and does it have to have a clear monetary value in damages IANAL, to be clear. But yes, fraud is generally defined legally as deception for "gain", which is usually, but not alwa
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by __jal 8y ago
There aren't really that many things I can say to you, a private citizen, that are prima facie illegal. Most of them involve violence of some sort or deceiving you about something you're giving me money for[1]. That changes when t
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by __jal 8y ago
Why would one feel guilty about it? This is a utility-maximizing lie. You're saving both yourself and the other person time. Unless you subscribe to some belief-system that holds truth-telling to be some sort of moral good in and of it
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by __jal 8y ago
> Should we be categorically rejecting a class of application? What you mean, "we"? I categorically reject any third party getting their nose in my email, including Google. > How much value is privacy vs. value of those se
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by __jal 8y ago
Unless we're using some standard of 'nonpartisan' I'm not familiar with, I have no idea how you get that. His decisions so far are typical of the ideological firebrand-wing of the FedSoc types, and he hit the ground thro
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by __jal 8y ago
Better to think of ATT as a national telecom. They are extremely close to government. Remember Bernie Ebbers; I'm pretty sure if Google or whomever seriously considered it, there would be Words in Smokey Back Rooms.
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by __jal 8y ago
You may well not be in the target market (if your comment is anything to go by) but yes, their entire appeal rests on being very conservative with security decisions.

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