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by _iyig 7y ago
I've been leery of Google ever since they required me to enable web and search history to use weather and calendar alerts with Google Home.
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by _iyig 7y ago
I'll add another rule: don't ship behavior you can't test. This includes the behavior of a stateful system after an extended period of uptime. I once spent weekends and late nights fixing a bug which, if it had shipped, would
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by _iyig 7y ago
What symbolism do you see?
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>However the power as it currently stands is much more likely to be used for leveraged persecution and partial enforcement against specific people, and classes of people (IE not rich), rather than for all the people. I don't see how
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by _iyig 7y ago
I disagree with the premise that facial recognition technology is inherently evil, and that there should be a blanket ban on its use by law enforcement. For example: Imagine a system where facial recognition technology supplements, but does
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by _iyig 7y ago
I understand Apple’s reliance on Chinese manufacturers, but at the same time, aren’t they sitting on roughly a quarter- trillion dollars in cash [0]? If Apple can’t use such wealth to pivot production away from China, or at least feel conf
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by _iyig 7y ago
I’m friends with one Indian former co-worker on Facebook. He lives in the U.S. and is anti-Trump, but also shares lots of Hindu nationalist links and slogans. From the perspective of his own self-interest, I imagine this feels consistent. T
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by _iyig 7y ago
I don’t see how they conflict. Your co-workers sound like they’re advocating their own ethnic interests via the party in each country that best supports these.
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>Without a clear territory under exclusive control But isn’t there? Taiwan has borders and a military.
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by _iyig 7y ago
For a more close-up perspective, I recommend “Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China.” The author (himself a Western millennial) interviews and visits with six different Chinese young people over a period of years, discussing their goals,
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by _iyig 7y ago
I don't know why you've been downvoted. I've also watched this change unfold in big cities on the East and West Coast, most strongly among younger voters, since Bernie's candidacy in the 2016 election.
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by _iyig 7y ago
Related previous discussion: "Chevy Volt discontinued: Chevrolet's last Volt rolls off the assembly line" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19236245 Sounds like many HN users liked the Volt. Thread also ha
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by _iyig 7y ago
What happens if the attorneys quit, and Holmes can't afford more private lawyers? Would a public defender represent her? That'd be quite the case to pull, I'd imagine. On cases where full teams of lawyers and paralegals are n
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by _iyig 7y ago
Good point. See also, the Kuleshov effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuleshov_effect
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by _iyig 7y ago
Came here to post this. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. For one thing, the quality of the author’s research speaks for itself: “The book is based on more than 50,000 documents, primarily from the archives of the CIA, and hundred
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by _iyig 7y ago
>What are a couple of rednecks with assault rifles (which arguably they shouldn't be able to purchase anyway) going to do against semi-autonomy kill droids being flown from a bunker in the desert? The common refrain goes “about as w
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by _iyig 7y ago
Wood generally falls into two categories: hardwood and softwood. Hardwoods like oak are more dense, harder to light, and take longer to grow, so they are more expensive. Softwoods like pine are less dense, easier to light, and grow faster,
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by _iyig 7y ago
The SEC has already failed miserably once in this exact role. What reason do we have to believe that even a fully-funded, well-staffed SEC could get the necessary _accurate_ figures out of China, and Chinese companies, to adequately perform
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by _iyig 7y ago
>How much do you think the Marshall plan accelerated the repair and growth of Europe? I’m not sure what you expect me to say. I think the academic consensus is, “by a lot.” I think the immediate European reaction was also, “it’s great th
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by _iyig 7y ago
>As for civilian items, the average income of an Afghan/Iraqi civilian is not enough to afford American product OK, so that completely breaks the first part of traditional Marxist arguments. I will grudgingly admit, however, that th
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by _iyig 7y ago
I think you have cause and effect mixed up. The U.S. became a postwar economic superpower not because of the Marshall Plan, but because its chief competitors in Europe and the Pacific had utterly ruined one another’s economies after years o
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by _iyig 7y ago
>The U.S went to wars, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians to force open markets to its products This is a standard Marxist explanation for U.S. overseas military intervention [0]. It is also largely wrong. Let’s look at the data.
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by _iyig 7y ago
Assuming most FARC arms are sourced in the U.S. and then shipped south, I could speculate as to the AK’s present scarceness. New Chinese and Russian AKs are currently hard to find in the U.S. due to sanctions. China’s Norinco was sanctione
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by _iyig 7y ago
I assume that by “share the same culture” the author meant things like language, value systems, religion, inherited biases, and views on the scope and purpose of government. Within these categories, there’s a range of tolerance levels from
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by _iyig 7y ago
Seems like a good place to link Paul Graham’s essay on PR firms, and their relation with news media outlets: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by _iyig 7y ago
Ray Kurzweil of “A.I. Singularity” fame has collected his deceased father’s writings and possessions for a similar attempt at mechanical reanimation: https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/futurist-ray-kurzweil-brin...
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by _iyig 7y ago
True. That said, U.S. military service is generally a matter of public record, e.g.: https://www.altus.af.mil/News/Art/igphoto/2001074536/
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by _iyig 7y ago
As you suggest, NYC is intensively and effectively surveilled by the NYPD. The first bit of Steven Rambam’s talk at HOPE 2016 covers this in detail, starting around 3:30: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FHwl6AyL6js
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by _iyig 7y ago
I’d like to know how much recorded video sees human review. My impression is that cities don’t have the budget to manually review footage unless a crime is reported. I’d also be curious who has access to the recordings - if it were my decis
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by _iyig 7y ago
I wouldn’t trust Laowhy86’s commentary on China’s macroeconomic development. Nor would I trust Bill Bishop to tell me what it’s like to raise a young family in a third-tier city in China. Both voices have some utility.

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