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by advael 3y ago
We are well past the need for a massive upheaval in privacy rights, and if this won't come from muscular government intervention, I would not be shocked if hacktivists started just destroying vast swaths of data stores, since we alread
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by advael 3y ago
I strongly relate, and think a big part it for me is that most people range from apathetic to hostile to most projects that try to wrest any power from tech companies, despite complaining about the way they've been immiserated by them
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by advael 3y ago
No, the vast overwhelming majority of people in major cities (where the jobs are) rent houses with roommates or live in small apartments. Moreso than in previous generations. Renting a house with roommates is increasingly the best long-term
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by advael 3y ago
If you don't know that millions of people spending money can't be fools, you're probably one of them And frankly given the monopolistic nature of the business, there are a lot of enterprises that pay for microsoft's serv
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by advael 3y ago
Measuring productivity in a useful way is pretty close to impossible in a vast swath of jobs, though people make a killing (and make everyone involved considerably more miserable) pretending otherwise The reason most people have converged o
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by advael 3y ago
I mean, I think they were only arguing long- and short- selling are gambling, not any form of investment. I would also say most daytrading is at least gambling-adjacent. We get a little more fuzzy once we talk about investing significant am
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by advael 3y ago
Sure Location: USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Probably not Technologies: I find this a weird question. I've probably spent the most time with Linux, C++, and ML biz (Mostly Keras and Pytorch), but I've never had tr
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by advael 3y ago
1. Apple makes it clear that this indicates whether someone has an iPhone. This does not make clear to non-technical users that this indicates that you are sending a different type of less-secure message to these users. 2. Even if Apple mad
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by advael 3y ago
The discussion of the technical details of this has such a low signal-to-noise ratio, and I think the blame for that lies mostly with companies who try to set themselves up as infrastructure but maintain significant secrecy about how their
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by advael 3y ago
Honestly in the present day I am more surprised to hear about bright sides to social media
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by advael 3y ago
So you'd like to incentivise more obfuscation of revenue to boot? I think an effective remedy for this kind of situation can't just be fiscal, we need requirements to publish adequate technical specifications and strong IP carveou
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by advael 3y ago
A tax small enough to not harm indie publishers is almost tautologically unlikely to affect big publishers at all. The incentives created by fines and taxes are greatly overestimated. For something like this to work, it needs to be achievab
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by advael 3y ago
Actually this reply makes it seem a lot more like someone did than no reply would have
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by advael 3y ago
So is the issue that there's a cloud web service that interacts with some of the proprietary protocols? That definitely is another point of trust and it would seem weird that they do it that way, especially for protocols that aren&#x27
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by advael 3y ago
This is a great illustration of how you can only take Apple's security claims seriously if you don't understand them. One of the primary benefits of end to end encryption is that it can protect messages from an untrusted carrier.
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by advael 3y ago
I continue to have zero interest in any kind of "smart car" and consider all of this downstream to Tesla's leaning heavily into that business model. If they already have invested in building you a product that assumes the com
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by advael 3y ago
First of all, we don't have to propose an imaginary conspiracy to acknowledge the reality of how we came to think about drugs the way we do: it is documented that the intent of the controlled substances act was to justify criminalizing
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by advael 3y ago
I agree, which is why I thought it strange that I couldn't reply. That said, the explanation I already got makes sense
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by advael 3y ago
Up to and including homelessness? Objectively no. Homelessness significantly prevents both productive economic activity and maintaining other basic necessities, or even seeking help from others. Weighed against what appears to be a purely p
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by advael 3y ago
Sometimes we skip the congealing step and just establish a government-protected but privately-operated monopoly for a regional utility as a matter of course, and this is after decades of failure on the parts of most if not all of these mono
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by advael 3y ago
Just to be clear: You would like me to give you relatively precise geographic information about where I live in a thread full of people who are spouting angry dehumanizing language for the vague promise of giving a random person money based
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by advael 3y ago
Thanks, good to know
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by advael 3y ago
I think you're doing more to illustrate the degree to which your perspective is more a product of bias and emotion than mine through your focus and prose than I possibly could through argumentation
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by advael 3y ago
Is there a feature that lets you disable replies to your comment? I find it hilarious that the person arguing that their egregiously dehumanizing stereotypes of the homeless are simply objective reality rather than biased and that I must be
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I would say more than one on average daily, and these are just the ten percent of homeless people I see that will say hello and interact with me rather than simply go about their own business
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by advael 3y ago
Weird, I do. I live within a minute's walk of three separate encampments of homeless people, most of whom seem reasonably sane when I talk to them, and if they have drug problems they certainly aren't more apparent than those of m
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by advael 3y ago
I think a lot of productive hardworking people's money has been spent on propaganda whose sole intention is to ensure that people equate homeless people to "mentally ill drug addicts" rather than, say, "private equity re
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by advael 3y ago
I wonder how many enormous breaches of so-called sensitive information it will take for infrastructural security to improve. Like I think at this point it's reasonable to assume that most SSNs are public information, and dates of birth
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Maybe the entire class of services that can meaningfully be called "infrastructure" is a bad idea to make the exclusive purview of private, profit-motivated liability shields. Just spitballing
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by advael 3y ago
Comcast is a great example of a company I'd like to see antitrust law literally destroy rather than merely chastise

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