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by _moof 5y ago
A little different, yes, but what I'm saying is that it's not substantially different. Once data is collected, it won't be uncollected, and all it takes is one hack to permanently turn a private database into a public one. An
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by _moof 5y ago
It's not just Facebook. Your phone is tattling on you 24/7. ALPRs are recording where you drive. Browser fingerprinting is creating a profile on you even if you block ads and trackers. Short of never using a computer, there is no
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by _moof 5y ago
> everything I used to be able to get in a phone book Fair, although you could opt out of the phone book. (And I don't think they had location/address, though it's been so long now that I can't remember for sure.) &gt
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by _moof 5y ago
> I voluntarily deleted my Facebook and recommend you do too. Yup, already done.
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by _moof 5y ago
Here's an idea where I legitimately can't decide whether I'm serious or not: let's deplatform everyone. I think we could all use a timeout. (Obvious retort: "After you!")
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by _moof 5y ago
Nobody cares about the merits. That's not how arguments have worked for a long, long time. Now it's about red vs. blue, name-calling, post-hoc rationalization, and getting so wound up that every disagreement becomes an existential
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by _moof 5y ago
To put my position more simply: fixing (or ending) Facebook is necessary, but it won't be sufficient.
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by _moof 5y ago
Facebook might be a factor in the division we see today in America but don't kid yourself: we were pretty f*in' divided during the Bush years—the Supreme Court had to decide that election, and the 9/11 unity lasted about a da
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by _moof 5y ago
For blunt-body spacecraft, ionization starts at around Mach 10. The aerodynamics of a missile will be different of course. Regardless, there is headroom above the Mach 5 hypersonic threshold before blackout occurs.
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by _moof 5y ago
Ok... I looked at the data and when people stopped giving aspirin to children, prevalence of Reye syndrome dropped by 90%. I'm gonna go ahead and continue not giving aspirin to kids.
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by _moof 5y ago
Very, very difficult question. I tried to do a more drastic rewrite and got stumped. A lot of what makes him sound old is the subject matter. I don't think I've heard the word "steamboat" more than two or three times in
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by _moof 5y ago
You're referring to the Civil Rights Act, and as soon as Trump is denied access to a public accommodation because of his race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation or gender identity, that analogy might start to ma
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by _moof 5y ago
There's some apparent overlap here with the perceptual research I learned about when I did my cartography degree. When selecting colors for a map depicting a single continuous variable, red is universally perceived as "more."
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by _moof 5y ago
"Social media are public space and have to follow US free speech laws" is legal nonsense and there is a 0% chance that this lawsuit will succeed.
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by _moof 5y ago
Lots of languages have orthographic depth. I doubt you'll find a correlation if you look at more than one or two languages/cultures. Heck, the French only pronounce half their letters, and they killed their monarchs.
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by _moof 5y ago
The truly hilarious thing about PreCheck is that you don't even need it. Just give the airline a little extra money and you get access to the PreCheck line with no questions asked. I guess I'm glad they dispensed with the pretext,
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by _moof 5y ago
I've so far failed to understand why aircraft get singled out when it comes to climate change. They produce something like 3.5% of global emissions, but they definitely get more than 3.5% of global attention. Please do convince me thou
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by _moof 5y ago
Or earnestly believe that we will be some day. Temporarily embarrassed, etc.
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by _moof 5y ago
> the typical HN reader is near the top of the curve For seniority? Not a chance. The last time there was a poll (admittedly a long time ago), two thirds of HN's users were under 30.
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by _moof 5y ago
Walter, respectfully, I can see that you aren't interested in trying to actually understand what I'm saying, or acknowledging that things might have changed since you graduated, or respecting that someone who has worked for multip
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by _moof 5y ago
Thank you for that statistic from 50 years ago. I'm talking about today. Companies like Blue Origin, SpaceX, etc. are basically a rotating pool. I have personally wound up working alongside several coworkers from previous jobs, and non
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by _moof 5y ago
Ok. And if you don't want to write compilers? Not everyone wants to make a career change, especially not folks in the space business.
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by _moof 5y ago
Spaceflight is an extremely small world. You will absolutely work with the same people at multiple companies.
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by _moof 5y ago
Oh, interesting. Well, my car at least has sensors—either that or I paid way too much for valve stems. :)
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by _moof 5y ago
I'd describe myself as having above-average privacy anxiety but I have to ask, what's the threat model here? I'm way more concerned about ALPRs than I am about Bluetooth or a data connection.
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by _moof 5y ago
And I'm not sure what kinds of pressure sensors cars use, but I can tell you the ones I need have been impossible to source for months.
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by _moof 5y ago
I highly, highly recommend learning Forth, solely because it will melt your brain. (In a good way.) Keeping track of a stack in your head as you're writing is a delightful puzzle. Then go write a Forth. Easy to implement, and a rewardi
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by _moof 5y ago
There is no clear sense of what you're saying because you refuse to answer any clarifying questions. If you want to participate in a discussion rather than just lecturing us about how we're being "reprehensible," tell us
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by _moof 5y ago
> "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic." Not only is it misused, the doctrine Holmes established was walked back (by Holmes himself!)
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by _moof 5y ago
People are not little machines that accept information as input, apply impartial rules of logic, and then spit out a correct answer. People are social-emotional animals with a carefully guarded sense of self, a basic need to belong, and all

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