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by abc-xyz 8y ago
Wait.. taking the context of your post into consideration makes him a dishonest actor?
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
A) Ah yes, they should take great pride in developing software that will assist the world's most evil and dangerous country rewrite history, spread propaganda and help them imprison and murder citizens who dare to seek change. B) Don&#
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
Assuming link karma counts, then it seems like you could spend a couple of hours writing a Selenium script that would check the XX most upvoted HN websites for new content every minute, and then copy the title field and URL for HN submissio
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
Oh my.. if you think the Pixel leaks were bigger than the Dragonfly leaks, then it's definitely you living in a bubble. Google has been condemned by leaders around the world, including the freaking Vice President. Facebook and Google a
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
I have seen my paid Unity plugin pop up on torrent sites like kickasstorrents, x1337x.ws, etc. It didn't affect my feelings towards piracy at all. Throughout my life, myself and the people I've been surrounded with, have always be
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
How deeply you wish to read Hitler and Xi Jinping or China and Nazi Germany comparison is up to you. The two dictators and countries share a lot of similarities. The key point is that they're both hungry for power, evil and brutal, wis
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
I'm not sure what kind of software cracks you'd expect to see upvoted here? I've seen articles about torrent sites upvoted very frequently, the same torrent sites we use to download paid software. I also remember reading an i
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
Why not just scrape the info from Wikipedia? It will be a lot easier for you to maintain, you'll have access to more data than you do now, and the information will be a lot more accurate. You can also fetch the latest info once a day (
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that people believe "tech deserves to be paid but writers and musicians and filmmakers don't".. people release cracked software all the time, I'm sure a lot of HN readers
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
Tell that to Hong Kong, Tibet and Taiwan, as well as all the countries suffering from their South China Sea territorial claims. Not to mention the countless times China has been caught fishing in other countries territory in recent months.
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
At least the world is dealing with Trump. He'll soon be replaced and there's reason to believe that a lot of the damage he's causing can be repaired. As for Xi Jinping, Tibet is gone, Xinjiang is gone, Hong Kong is all but go
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
History is repeating itself. The world leaders were too slow to deal with Hitler, just like they'll be too slow to deal with Xi Jinping. Trauma of past wars, fear for the economy, and underestimation of their true intentions.
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
If they had any intention of treating the cause then they would've abandoned the Dragonfly project. It's violating all their own AI principles, and I've never seen Google receive so much backlash by their own employees, human
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
I'd say it's far more likely that they're concerned with Google's increased evilness becoming a hot topic among current employees as well as the general public. This will no doubt result in many of the brightest engineer
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
Considering the article he just wrote he should be worried.
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
I think it's safe to assume that the code used to recognize cars and traffic signs can also be used to recognize other things, such as muslims, people using apps the government can't spy on, people wearing/holding objects tha
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
https://outline.com/xxPp9N
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
Because the AI they're perfecting can and will be used for other purposes as well?
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
The AI you help train will be used to assist authoritarian governments (e.g. Dragonfly) imprison and murder millions of people so that Google can make a few extra bucks.
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
Bit harsh considering it's a 'Show HN', but agreed. If their review really cost $200+ then they're definitely also lying about '66 people having ordered UX review today', which I would think is illegal in prett
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
The article have 76 cookies (48 third-party), and send almost 300 third-party requests that violate the privacy of the readers. https://webbkoll.dataskydd.net/en/results?url=http%3A%2F%2Fw... I think people should be m
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
Even if you can't see it with your own eyes then you can be sure that thousands of companies (including the one I work for) are collecting a lot less data than they normally would (after all, it's often impossible to know exactly
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
I would surely hope that salaries are their greatest cost by a large margin, but not sure how it's relevant to my point of it being difficult to emphatize with these publishers who engage in evil practices. Heck, they could just build
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
God forbid I care about the privacy of those who're technically incapable of protecting themselves from these evil practices. Edit: as for local publishers, I personally believe they should be government funded and non-profit, but if I
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
Anyone who doesn't care about protecting people's privacy don't care because they don't understand how the data can and will be used. If they did understand and continued not to care (or god fodbid, continued to violate)
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
It would be great if they were a honorable company (ideally a non-profit org) that protected user privacy rather than taking great pride in violating it. And I don't think it's great that you have one site controlled by an evil co
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
Reddit having under 500 employees is beyond ridiculous.. it might be understandable if they were a honorable company that protected people's privacy, but they're the complete opposite, and they even go out of their way to make it
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
I hope so. I'd love for evil companies who violate people's privacy (such as Reddit) to abandon EU, as it would allow for good and privacy-focused sites to gain a larger marketshare.
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
See "AI Applications We Will Not Pursue" at https://ai.google/principles . The Dragonfly project alone seem to violate 3/4 or 4/4 (depending how you choose to interpret "Weapons or other technologies
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
Obviously there is a limit to what GitHub would be able to get away with before getting banned.. My point is that GitHub currently provide so much value to Chinese research and tech that banning it would be extremely costly for them. Would

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