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by admax88q 7y ago
That was the whole premise of the article.
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No, but you just lost the whole reason you pushed back in the first place as you have signed a form saying you read something you haven't read.
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by admax88q 7y ago
On the other hand it would be super interesting if we _could_ get in to people's data maybe several generations after they've passed. Imagine what historians could learn about what life was like hundreds of years ago if those peo
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by admax88q 7y ago
> isn't an attractive thing to do when you have _actual_ work to do. Leaning any new tool when you have work to do is never an attractive thing. Whether that's an editor, a language, an issue tracker, or any tool. There is al
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by admax88q 7y ago
I mean it is called the Free Software Foundation. Not the Libre Software Foundation.
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by admax88q 7y ago
At all the voting booths I've been to in Canada it would be super obvious if you tried to stuff the ballot. Even in the latest Russian election it was dead obvious with many incidents being captured on camera. Why are people allowed
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by admax88q 7y ago
Sure it's possible to augment paper ballots with technology, but that just increases complication. If you still have a paper trail audit, why not just use paper to begin with? Either you audit the paper trail to have faith in the res
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by admax88q 7y ago
It seems to be a common theme of western people in HN trying to protect against a malicious vote counter, often overlooking the very real intimidation problems. I maintain that paper ballots are the best voting mechanism. They are cheap, p
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by admax88q 7y ago
Unfortunately I don't have any good intuition to share for the Monty Hall problem, as I haven't been able to get an intuitive understanding of it yet. However I did just read about Bertrand's Box Paradox[1], and it's ver
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by admax88q 7y ago
You're formulating the problem wrong in your mind. Its true that if you have 182 people in the room all with unique birthdays and you add one more random person to the room there is a 50% chance of them sharing a birthday just like you
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by admax88q 7y ago
> Amazon sent 1,700 Alexa voice recordings to the wrong user following data request You know the best way to prevent sending 1,700 voice recordings? Not making 1,700 voice recordings in the first place. Amazon will eventually mess up an
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by admax88q 7y ago
> The reason the Linux Community don't want this sort of thing is that, frankly, they just hate stability. I'd argue that the reason the Linux Community doesn't want this is that it introduces maintenance burdens on the co
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> The fact that I can recompile all of the software I use, is a really important feature to me and not a distribution problem. I've always found this to be an interesting observation about free software. So many complicated things
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by admax88q 7y ago
Time for the weekly NYT article lamenting the progress of technology I see.
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by admax88q 7y ago
Yes its a serious question. Why do you consider burying it in a vast underground bunker not a sufficient solution? You talk as if that's obviously a bad idea but to me it seems peefe fly reasonable. Yes there is some concern about pe
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by admax88q 7y ago
Why do you think we don't know how to deal with it properly? What do you think we do with our current nuclear waste? What is "improper" about our current processes?
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by admax88q 7y ago
You should watch the talk on the CCC archives. It's super interesting.
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by admax88q 7y ago
It could also be that "left wing" more accurately reflects reality, hence its apparent "bias" in reporting.
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by admax88q 7y ago
I wonder what our attitude towards landfills would be if they were described the same way that nuclear waste storage facilities are. > no country can claim to have a comprehensive solution for dealing with its toxic waste. > more than
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by admax88q 7y ago
> Nobody is forcing you to open the newsletter email titled And nobody is forcing you to invade users privacy. > We used to do that to track emails. Gmail's fix was to cache the emails' images on their own server, The fact t
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by admax88q 7y ago
> Do you think that companies who send newsletter do it without any traces of analytics? I don't doubt it. > Everyone does it, that's the current state of the industry. That's not an excuse > To refuse work from anyo
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by admax88q 7y ago
And yet none of those updates that I can think of had such ridiculous regressions like you see in todays "ship daily" software.
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by admax88q 7y ago
Take some pride in your work. Software is literally the most in demand profession today, you don't have to work for corrupt employers. You can contribute something positive to society and still make decent money. In some other profess
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by admax88q 7y ago
> We used to that to track emails. Why are you contributing to the surveillance age of the internet?
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by admax88q 7y ago
Sure we were. I have video games that were pressed to CDs with no possibility of updates and they still run to this day. On a complete play through of many of them you wouldn't notice a single bug. Using users for QA has made us lazy
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by admax88q 7y ago
> For example gating new things which could become a stability issue. And yet we were somehow able to ship stable software to millions of people in the days before telemetry/studies. What telemetry/studies truly provides is of
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by admax88q 7y ago
> Now, if I asked for more rights that is probably a political statement. That's literally what the ad in question is accused of doing. The link leads to a petition to ask the government for _more_ rights in regards to protection o
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by admax88q 7y ago
> It's not like you need to 'smuggle' any form of data physically. Because most people don't have the technical know how, or desire to spend the effort to ensure that the data they _are_ bringing across the border is
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> Ceding all responsibility doesn't seem like the answer either. Whether I cede my responsibility or not does not excuse a company from acting morally or not. You can't act immorally and say its okay because your users have gi
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by admax88q 7y ago
Hiding behind ToS is ridiculous. Nobody reads them and a moral company should never assume that because its in the ToS they actually have informed consent.

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