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by _jal 4y ago
That's a super dangerous way of thinking. Being anonymous online today is hard . Even operatives with nation-state resources behind them like Guccifer 2.0 screw up. You have to think through what you're doing, and then execute pe
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by _jal 4y ago
So, first of all, as others have noted, events of this sort are happening significantly more frequently than that. Second, > practically, a 1:70 tail event is usually outside a regulator's tolerance Where are you getting this? I can
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> Journalists should not be afforded legal protections They have no special protection. > need a system where it's dangerous You want to destroy free speech, then. Any policy covering journalists would equally apply to everyone.
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That appears to be limited to WD and Amazon, or am I missing something?
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> The ACLU used to defend the right They still take these cases. (It is a bit complicated, individual ACLU chapters have a lot of autonomy, and they do not all agree with each other in all ways.) So I see a substantial difference. On one
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by _jal 4y ago
Don't forget dismissing the ads, and then the login nag, and then ad to subscribe, so the video is actually visible. ...all of which serve to remind me what a pit of suck the service is, and ensure I never subscribe. And the cycle of l
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Doesn't even have to be digital. My furnace, with a very old, very analog thermostat, has been randomly turning itself on.
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If you were top management, it stopped being one tonight.
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> Geoengineering is starting to seem like less of a "possibility" and more of a necessity It always was going to end up here. Humans suck at collective action, and especially so on long timescales.
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If you empty the coffee machine, hell yes you better refill it. Or do you have a valet where you work?
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by _jal 4y ago
I find it kinda hilarious how many engineers here at a startup-focused message board are so quick to shout "not it!". I've done tons of direct customer support over my career. I still do sometimes, and I lead my department. (
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I understand the hardware manufacturer's business. I just don't understand why humans buy them. Sure, they're neat, but there are a lot of neat things at that price point.
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I'm thinking specifically of a situation where things were much less clear-cut, and involved far more than $100. It is easy to make grand declarations. But when ethical considerations are not very clear-cut and you're talking real
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I can only talk about this for myself. But I think I tend to look at this differently than a lot of people. 'Hobby', to me, means something I do that (a) isn't my main source of income, and (b) is done for primarily because I
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by _jal 4y ago
Oh, if you own someone's clock, you can do all sorts of damage. Want to expire everyone's passwords? Blow up their credit card processing? Those are just the obvious attacks.
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by _jal 4y ago
Not the OP, but mixing employment with friendship can be difficult to navigate. I know from personal experience that is is possible for a friendship to survive adverse shocks involving money. But it is difficult, it does change things perma
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by _jal 4y ago
Thanks. Yep, still works for me.
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Yep, much like on the phone, Lockdown is really attractive to me to just run all the time. - I never want executable content sent to me via messages. - I already block web fonts everywhere I can. I do want to know what other "complex w
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by _jal 4y ago
After low-effort attempts to dismiss risks fail, mockery comes next. "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you..."
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That's why friends don't let friends run Microsoft software. In return for your money, you get to follow their orders, watch their ads, and generally compute in whatever way they want you to this quarter. Windows is a control mech
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And modernized slavery in Florida (2002 article): https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2002/07/03/slavery-alive-in...
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by _jal 4y ago
We're talking about aesthetics and art. How do you quantify a unit of "better"? And perhaps more importantly, how many musicians agree with you? If you want to fall back to economic evidence, centuries of musicians appear to
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by _jal 4y ago
In that case, we can further automate this process and just leave humans out of it - pipe the student's generated essay back in, emit grade, done. This reminds me of a moment that has stuck with me for a long time. Some time in the ear
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If you want a cheap flute you can easily find one for under $200, or cheaper used. With nice instruments, this is a lot like looking at high end furniture and saying, "I could make a table so much more cheaply." Yes, you could. Bu
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The accusation of sloppiness is based on two claims, and you're only responding to a bastardization of one of them.
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That only works for bad actors in an otherwise good system. Systemic incentives tend to make idealists into insiders. You can blame people for being human if you want, but you will keep getting the same results.
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I don't know about you, but people don't charge me money to talk to them. All I have to do to meet people outside of my work peer group is go somewhere different.
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by _jal 4y ago
I've lived here off and on since 1993. I work for startups but haven't hit the lottery. There's a lot of San Francisco (and Bay Area) out there that has nothing to do with the startup scene, and many, many people who have no
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So, two things. First, if you find a modern high-precision multiaxis CnC on Ebay for $5K, snap it up, you saved six $digits. Second, dual-use tech is not about cost or sophistication. Did you know that Casio F91W watches get special attenti
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> Imo the wearables are more of a status thing than anything All jewelry signals status. Wearables just add some functions to the ancillary time telling. One thing I think it interesting about the status marker of wearables is that it is

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