abusoufiyan

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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Okay, I'm not a scholar on European history, so you're probably right. It was just an example. Still there have been automations in the past. We're all still here.
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
I don't see why it matters. In the end, there won't be massive job loss to automation. Automation right now can eliminate most farm laborers. So why are there still so many farm laborers in the world? Because a) human wages in mos
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
If that's what increasing productivity is, then AI will surely increase productivity. I think the shift will probably be towards internet-based jobs. Content creation / software development / content curation (think social me
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>The Dunedin Study, which began as a study of childhood development, has become one of humanity’s richest treasure troves of data on what makes us who we are. Maybe I'm quaint and silly but this kind of overhyped byline makes me dou
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
It's the parent comment to mine that mentioned bigoted racism, I was just showing that the false equivalence between that and "SJWs" is a bit ridiculous. Just in case you didn't read the parent comment to mine, here&#x27
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>also choosing careers based on what they feel is fun/satisfying for themselves. I don't think this is ever going to change in human society. If a job is fun to a large group of people, then it will pay poorly because many peop
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>The difference I see is that historically automation was used to increase productivity. Is this true? The stocking frame (and the reactionary group of Luddites that it incited) didn't really increase productivity. It just did work
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
The less legit it is for a website to mine crypto, the easier it is for adblockers and security to block all such scripts without inconveniencing the user (less tradeoff of usability for security). But when some sites use it and others does
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Why make that assumption and leave users without blockers out to dry? Why not just halt all payouts to the old software and only pay out to versions which are using the Authedmine.com version? Why not do KYC on people who have a very high l
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
So people who don't run adblockers should just suck it up and get gut-punched because CoinHive doesn't want to lose money? CoinHive has the ability to just not pay out any versions of the software which aren't authmine. Again
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Yes, I know that. But public perception doesn't really see it this way. It's more like torrent == bad && malware == bad
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>A coin being mined is controlled, handled entirely by first party, provides no incentive for tracking, etc. Yeah, also a haven for hackers and malicious actors... EDIT: I guess you weren't aware. CoinHive doesn't track the use
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
I'd be okay with it if choosing to do this on your website wasn't going to obviously incentivize hackers to inject this software maliciously on unsuspecting websites to steal money from unsuspecting users. The more legit websites
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
According to this, they don't seem to care at all: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbpbz4/creators-o... >The team don’t specifically track domains, so if a user’s email address is not, for
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
I don't think you understood. The name "CoinHive" is essentially synonymous with cryptojacking. A name change and a refusal to pay out to anyone using the version which does not ask the user are probably good steps for them t
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
It's not though because the effects on the rest of the web are negative. Cryptojacking will become more common the more legit websites use it as a source of revenue. And this specific company / team of developers have been doing v
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
But the software is clearly a hot avenue for hackers. And trying to legitimize this kind of thing also makes the foray into "cryptojacking" more enticing. If legit sites start doing this, users will get used to it and hackers will
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
In theory, it's a great idea being 100% opt-in and all. But in practice, we know that CoinHive is being used largely as malware, being injected in third-party sites to enrich hackers. And it's not a nice move to support that ecosy
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Because your site showing up in other news outlets under a title like "Salon Magazine running cryptojacking malware on users" is terrible publicity. I get that they are using the version which asks for consent, but why even take t
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
It is being blocked as some other commenters showed. I think the company needs to shut down shop and provide their explicit consent miner under a different name because as long as anyone looking up your company's name can only ever fin
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
In theory yes, but in practice this software is a well-known malware. Not a good idea for any respctable site to be using it.
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
I had never really read anything from this site before and just searched it in Google News. Wow, you weren't wrong. And I'm probably THE target audience for that site (unabashedly leftist). It's very trashy.
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
What...? You do realize openly Nazi parties are making electoral gains in Europe right now...
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Dude, no one violated his free speech. His memo is still available for anyone to read.
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>Reduce the (present and historic) systemic discrimination by race and gender. How will you do this and how will you measure the results of the attempts to do this without measuring the outcomes of your attempts to do this?
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
What the hell are values if they aren't moral? What the hell do you call your value system if you don't call it your morals? Such a dumb article...
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>I've noted the eerie similarity between them and the bigoted people who used to racially bash me and my sister when we were children. Is an eerie similarity between two online groups of people going to mean you abandon attempts to
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
I think you are wrong but I'm not a legal expert. Stealing evidence doesn't allow you to provide it in court. Because the very fact that you stole it will call into question the veracity of everything else you say and do.
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Yikes, you'd think a media company would be smarter than to use a software that returns hundreds of articles about malware as the top results of a google search for its name.
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
But why does it matter? What could it possibly be used for? I can't think of a use for this which wouldn't be crossing a line / inappropriate / dangerous.

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