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by _jal 5y ago
"I'm going to improve myself by aping methods used by insincere LEOs to manipulate marks" might not be the best approach to improving one's social life.
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by _jal 5y ago
So in your analysis, how many people should robocars be killing? The easy answer is "anything less than 30K", right? Somehow that case only looks "very strong" to people with a financial interest in the tech.
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by _jal 5y ago
Google to Anthony Levandowski: your ethics are too broken, even for us.
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by _jal 5y ago
> Having the CEO try to dunk on applicants during interviews Wasn't the CEO, but the CTO at a startup I was applying with years ago swooped into an interview at a place I was pretty sure I wasn't going to accept an offer from,
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by _jal 5y ago
I mostly agree. He wants to project a competent-technocrat, "no bull" image, but is so far out of his depth that he comes across as the opposite. He also seems weirdly inflexible, for someone who wants a job that involves unpleasa
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by _jal 5y ago
It is hardly 'U' when limited to those who produce children.
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by _jal 5y ago
> How can it be that hard to force authentication Without partitioning world telephone connectivity? Easily. > and permanently block malicious carriers? By any reasonable definition involving unwanted traffic, ATT is a malicious carri
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by _jal 5y ago
So the claim is that if I make up a URL scheme, it should be untouchable by other developers and only my software should respond to it? > Don't forget that these things need to work on all versions of the OS and in all locales. You
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by _jal 5y ago
> why do you think it's outdated? I don't know if 'outdated' is the right word. Maybe just not that useful, except as mind-candy? It is mostly a computationally-focused reformulation of the Rapture.
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by _jal 5y ago
What it clearly demonstrates is that the CEO was far less invested in the company than those who worked for him. What the attempts at building a norm along the lines of, "It isn't a crime, so people shouldn't talk about his f
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by _jal 5y ago
The "Ranting about Socialism" session is down the hall. This one is about extinction.
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by _jal 5y ago
It looks like a failed attempt at implementing DNSSEC.
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by _jal 5y ago
Every power structure does it. SCOTUS justices reach diametrically opposite conclusions through the same 'technique'.
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by _jal 5y ago
Cops routinely use possession of a target's ID as a detention method during traffic stops. I rather suspect we'll see begin to see stories of substituting phone possession if this becomes widespread. Related... do "I've
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by _jal 5y ago
If someone wants to convince me FB, et al are doing this, they can show me packet traces of audio being uploaded for analysis, or in the alternative (if the theory is on-phone analysis) resource consumption data from the phone doing it. T
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by _jal 5y ago
I just don't look at Reddit on mobile.
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by _jal 5y ago
> If it had anything concrete, it would have shared it years ago 1) This is the NSA. They only talk when attention serves their goals. 2) They may well have, just not with you. We have no idea what conversations have happened amongst NAT
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by _jal 5y ago
Oddly, you're trying to challenge a claim about covert technical intelligence mechanisms with descriptions of legal mechanisms governing surveillance. That's like responding to complaints about trespassing with the legal code gove
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by _jal 5y ago
There are multiple "the point"s. Yes, teach your kid to be careful with their data. But also, how many outfits are actually doing this, or is this currently a theoretic concern? If people are doing this, what are their goals? Are
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by _jal 5y ago
> ‘science of automatic control systems’ sense -- one could argue today it could be pronounced ‘kubernetes’. Only if one's view of the world is very constrained.
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by _jal 5y ago
You pay opportunity costs no matter what you do. Including bargaining too hard.
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by _jal 5y ago
This seems to get awfully close to making disagreement actionable. If I claimed "xondono's understanding of the law is incorrect", should that be a cause of action?
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by _jal 5y ago
Why not add an API to allow servers to request your contact information and creditworthiness? You can just opt out if you're not comfortable with it.
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by _jal 5y ago
On the one hand, this isn't surprising. An plain description of how the ad market works demonstrates why - one way of looking at it is a mechanism to run your code on random peoples' machines. On the other, policing, controlling a
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by _jal 5y ago
Sure. And we don't know everything. Iphones (about 50% of Apple's revenue) have a profit margin estimated around 40%. https://www.zdnet.com/article/iphone-xs-max-how-much-profit-... But hey, maybe the cable b
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by _jal 5y ago
The "Services" category is 21% of their revenue. The "Completely disposable, non-repairable, non-recyclable electronics" category is the rest. https://www.statista.com/statistics/382260/segments
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by _jal 5y ago
Take a look at FreeNAS. It is FreeBSD, which is self-recommending for things like NAS, built on ZFS (all the nice parts of a modern file system like snapshots, easy backup, etc.) and has a nice management GUI. https://www.freenas
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by _jal 5y ago
> It's only recently that the project has been paying off via community funding/patronage. Another way it is like a PhD - a ton of up-front work for an uncertain payoff, largely dependent on the whim of others.
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by _jal 5y ago
> I've learned to dread OSX updates because instead of adding new useful stuff, it seems like we just move things around To be fair, that also describes Windows. As best I can tell, every release since 7 has primarily focused on ren
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by _jal 5y ago
Many companies have earned varying degrees of trust. Behavior like this continues to demonstrate why FB is not one of them. They're craven and untrustworthy from the top down. They have been since they started, and continue to prove it

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