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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
Old software is fine when you’re not running untrusted new software inside of it.
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
When I order delivery from a restaurant, an employee (maybe the owner’s kid) comes and delivers the food directly to my house when it’s done. It‘s generally faster than the app model where you need to wait for the driver to go to the restau
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
I’d say the article’s coverage of Scott and rationalism is fairly neutral, while its attitude toward Silicon Valley is negative. Seems like the reactions of the two communities are what you’d expect based on that.
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
These are good questions to ask, but I wouldn’t expect a movie reviewer to do investigative journalism and hunt down the people from this film. It’s not really in the job description.
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NNN_lease
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
Here are some examples of the types of prosecutions I’m worried about. High schooler sold drugs to undercover cop who pretended to be his girlfriend: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/457/what-i-did-for-love/act...
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
No I wouldn’t, but legal precedents that get set in these cases will carry over to prosecutions of other crimes.
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
That scares me. If that entrapment-at-scale is legal, it could be deployed to throw huge numbers of people in jail for buying drugs or supporting terrorism.
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
In this thread though we are talking about someone’s experience using piracy to spend a month learning something. $40 seems like a reasonable alternative to that.
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
Is that really true? If two big cars hit each other there’s a lot more energy in the collision than two small cars.
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
How does having these apps on my phone hurt my privacy?
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
If you think about which of the industries in that chart are partially or fully shut down, it seems pretty consistent with the 14% unemployment we got.
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
Some companies (especially forward-thinking tech companies we care about on this forum) shifted to remote work quickly. Others fought tooth & nail. There are a lot of stories of companies abusing the rules about essential worker status
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
The phrase “abolish the police” is used in the grandparent, great-grandparent, 4-parent, 5-parent, and 6-parent of my post.
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
You could have a sign that said “fix the police”, “reform the police”, etc and it would more accurately describe your views than “abolish the police” (assuming you are indeed not a person who wants to abolish the police). And I’m sure you c
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
It seems that if the cursor won’t go right as far as you want, it helps to move your finger all the way left for a while, then try moving it right again (and vice versa). But that doesn’t always work so it doesn’t fully describe the mechani
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
Not sure why you think an ad wouldn’t work here. Sometimes customers are willing to switch to a competing product. If you can offer something better or cheaper they might want it. I’ve worked at a company where we at times bought Google ads
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
Nice, thanks! Now that you remind me I’m sure I’ve seen that move before, but forgot about it and have been frustrated when editing urls every day since. I think this is the worst thing about using an iPhone for me and probably a lot of oth
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
The rate Google charges for ads is inversely proportional to click-through rate, so you pay less per click if your click-through rate is higher. In the case of a company bidding to advertise on searches for that company’s own name, it means
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
Do you have evidence that this is happening? In the moonlighting, IP theft, noncompete etc. stories you posted higher in the thread, I didn’t see any mention of a stingray. I think it would have been mentioned because a company would have t
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
Suppose I buy an iPhone from Apple, and load up a work profile on it. I need to trust that Apple doesn’t give my personal data to the employer profile, and my employer doesn’t have a zero-day to circumvent those controls. I also need to tru
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
Lots of my coworkers use their corporate phone as their personal phone. There’s a process for porting your phone number over when you get the corp phone. People do it because it’s simpler to have one phone, or just to save money. I would ne
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
Most people are going to hear the story on the radio or in a podcast app / RSS feed. It’s useful to have the story indexed on a shareable web link where it can be played on different platforms without any setup. If I wanted to share a
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
I don’t think this characterization is really fair. The private equity model requires a market to sell into when a bet pays off (so they can make another bet). Investors who just buy the index are helping to fund that. By analogy, house fli
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
If implemented correctly, the server doesn’t get the key. Look up Diffie–Hellman key exchange for more information on how this is possible. This can be verified by auditing the client so you don’t need to trust Zoom.
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
I saw, on Twitter, a “before-after” compendium showing how some of the same users posted tweets in support of the anti-lockdown protests, sometimes saying the virus is a hoax or whatever, then later tweeted that the BLM protests were going
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
It’s a controversial statement to describe weed as addictive or habit-forming, but in any case, many people use it daily. The same isn’t true of LSD. Anecdotally, I saw a lot of friends get cranky when their weed supply was briefly interrup
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
For some of these pieces, I feel like the hard part is going to art school, obtaining notoriety, etc. The art is part of a larger endeavor in which I haven’t invested the necessary work, or experienced the luck to have it pay off. When I se
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
My guess is: Amazon writes that 99% is the recommended threshold because there is little chance of false positive. If an agency is deploying this system and complains that it isn’t working well, a solutions architect will say in a meeting (
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by ajzinsbwbs 6y ago
I don’t think an explicit blacklist exists, but I figure employers will google you, so they will know if you did anything that got you on the news or if you wrote an article attacking your employer’s politics. If this search isn’t done by s

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