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by _jal 5y ago
> Posting something on the public internet is not consent for you to scrape it and post it on your own site forever. It effectively is. Your consent is not required, and people are doing far worse than just keeping it available (Clearvie
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by _jal 5y ago
Suggest that to them. I'm sure they'll get right on it.
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by _jal 5y ago
Whether it is 'silly', 'tragic', 'horrible' or something else usually depends on the stakes, not the activity. It is certainly drama, and at least by volume, I'd say all of the above are usually silly.
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by _jal 5y ago
I get a lot of that too. I haven't lived in the geographical region associated with my area code in over a decade, so I don't actually know anyone with the same prefix. So they may as well use "I am a spammer" as their C
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by _jal 5y ago
> how do we convince you that we don't share your data with your employer? Short of signing a contract with me I can sue over, I don't think you can. The incentives here look like they're all pointing in the wrong directio
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by _jal 5y ago
Yep. When I point this pattern out in other contexts (like talking about how instrumentation can become surveillance after collection), people get upset with me.
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by _jal 5y ago
My company started offering one of these, and wanted permission to disclose... something (never figured out if it was just name/email, or more) to them to onboard me. I asked about data use, including disclosure back to my employer, an
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by _jal 5y ago
They don't have advertising-monopoly waterfalls of money, which affords them an attention span for things other than the care and feeding of the advertising monopoly.
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by _jal 5y ago
I'd rather just firewall off AS15169, which also solves other Google-related problems for entire networks of machines.
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by _jal 5y ago
> sadly enough they aren't applying planned coordinated actions If you have an organization, it can be attacked, both legally and extralegally. Cf. the history of labor organizing in the US. And without it, distributed, uncoordinate
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by _jal 5y ago
The problem you have here is that your conception of this requires the potentially-'evil' to be intelligent - your assumption seems to be that these monkeys are smart enough to 'know right from wrong' or some such. But &
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by _jal 5y ago
I guess Tesla feels you can "actively monitor" from the back seat? Or did those people defeat some safety?
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by _jal 5y ago
Right, I'm sure a white-collar exec took kickbacks because poker is banned in some jurisdictions. I agree that we massively overcriminalize things. But apologizing for a crook this way is just silly. (Not to mention you're factual
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by _jal 5y ago
The unfunny, mean frame around hacking things in unexpected ways probably seemed like a decent literary device, but turned out not to be. But by then the series was a series, and like a bad Sunday-paper comic strip back when, just kept goin
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by _jal 5y ago
This is why individual people should never be left to make such decisions alone. They're likely to throw away things of enormous value for parochial reasons.
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by _jal 5y ago
> and it was decided I love how these stories always go all passive-voice at key moments.
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by _jal 5y ago
> she means progressive elites like her Funny, all the "reporting" mentioned here seems to come from NewsCorp properties. And is "reporting" like the above. I'm not defending her, I'd honestly like to know m
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by _jal 5y ago
A few years ago it was the only tool I could find that could answer questions like "show me every college within 100 km of this point". I haven't needed to do anything like that since. But it is yet another example of how I t
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by _jal 5y ago
Since you're apparently such a free-thinking rebel, why would you care?
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by _jal 5y ago
When you replace one with the other and notice a substantial change in time-required-for-task, I think you can make comparisons.
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by _jal 5y ago
You are clearly not involved in patching.
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by _jal 5y ago
> I'm wondering what it will take to stop this Single payer.
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by _jal 5y ago
Never invite a vampire into your home is timeless advice.
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by _jal 5y ago
> They never forgave him for exposing the Clinton emails The issue there was precisely how he was emphatically not acting as a journalist. Journalists do not coordinate news releases with their preferred candidates. Political operatives
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by _jal 5y ago
Poe's law in action, combined with youth's lack of empathy for their future self. Amusingly, this same account was recently discussing space elevators. Talk about wasting carbon emissions on toys for the rich!
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by _jal 5y ago
Not as an FOI officer. Who decides who is nutty? Some well documented stories: https://www.propublica.org/article/delayed-denied-dismissed-...
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by _jal 5y ago
There is a huge amount of documented history of FOIA games a google search away. I have zero patience for public employees treating the public with contempt. I know it is a hassle, but dealing with the nutters is part of the job. Public em
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by _jal 5y ago
So you might say the FBI is forcing the public to go dark on this. Things like this usually are the way the are because someone wants them that way.
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by _jal 5y ago
It is an intentional scarcity, however. In the physical world, you build strategies around natural scarcities. Here, you build scarcities to support your strategies. Still thinking about how I feel about that. Right now, people mainly seem
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by _jal 5y ago
I can see scaling it by change in life expectancy, to keep the bargain roughly the same.

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