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by alwa 2y ago
That’s what makes this sting: the buyers already did pay a price premium (and subscription) to motivate behavior consistent with their preferences. And even after accepting that premium, the company is just choosing not to deliver on its
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by alwa 2y ago
Is that more a coal thing or a tobacco thing?
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by alwa 2y ago
I believe he sent it to be converted into crypto, which he sent to a random cryptocurrency address.
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by alwa 2y ago
Or at least we have to weigh the credibility of images, audio, and video, much as we weigh the credibility of words and data.
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by alwa 2y ago
You may be interested in the Content Authenticity Initiative: https://contentauthenticity.org/ They’re the folks behind things like Content Credentials, and stuff like building digital signatures into the physical cameras t
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by alwa 2y ago
Very true, but am I, sitting up in space, in a position to have enough information to act on either of these concerns? I can imagine a situation where I have a gut instinct that “this thing is just squirrelly, I don’t trust it.” But if I do
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by alwa 2y ago
If someone is that consistently a bit late, I wonder if it’s something they experience with the same degree of moral and intentional charge as the author does. I wonder, for that matter, if the author and coworkers have taken up their conce
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by alwa 2y ago
I mean also they seem smart enough to have some intellectual and epistemological modesty. If I’m the guy or woman floating around in space, I have to imagine that the collective brainpower on the ground is better-informed to make that judgm
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by alwa 2y ago
Of course there are plenty of creative people who pay the bills by doing things other than the commoditized analogue to their art, no? The stereotypical actor waiting tables comes to mind, as does Einstein in the patent office. (Edit: this
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by alwa 2y ago
I was confused on my first read through: this guidance seems to refer to federal enterprise applications, not necessarily customer-facing services. It seems reasonable to me to require employees to use a physical authenticator. Heck, how ma
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by alwa 2y ago
Isn’t the second part—getting counterparties to trust you—an essential part of building something like they have? I’m reminded of the old joke about the tech who thumps a machine to fix it, then sends a $5000 bill. $5 for coming out and thu
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by alwa 2y ago
By which I understand you to mean the cryptocurrency efforts, right? Man. That whole turn-of-the-2020s, peak-COVID period seems like such a collective fever dream in retrospect.
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by alwa 2y ago
I share your suspicion of the thin details. And what details they do provide smell funny too. I’m especially skeptical of this supposed cloak and dagger business: > My wife just received an email from the online retailer. She has been a
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by alwa 2y ago
I read the parent comment to contrast the 3-month-old vintage of Penny Arcade with its first couple of decades: https://www.penny-arcade.com/archive/
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by alwa 2y ago
I hadn’t thought about it that way, but I see what you mean. The idea being the more important it is to know what really happened, the more important to record evidence as it happens, right? I think our plan’s much bigger problems are ethic
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by alwa 2y ago
I’m sure that will be very popular on top-secret military installations.
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by alwa 2y ago
I’m not sure I follow. Is the argument just that nuclear power plants are related to nuclear weapons because both use fission to do their jobs? Why would such power plants be a primary target for city-killer “strategic nuclear weapons” more
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by alwa 2y ago
Is the concern that the output weights infringe on copyright, or that the the training material itself was obtained and used in a manner inconsistent with copyright law?
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by alwa 2y ago
…and said shonky Verizon in-store-demo app came preinstalled on all Pixel phones until Pixel Series 9.
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by alwa 2y ago
And in fact, the girl’s single mother says near the end of the article that the girl does not have “her own bed” to sleep in :/
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by alwa 2y ago
Why not play such games? If it works, it works; if it fails, it only costs $20 to replace at your local Walmart!
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by alwa 2y ago
Is the compensation “just,” though? Seems like an awfully round number to be the result of a fair-minded analysis. The Affordable Care Act mechanism always struck me as one somewhat fair way to do it: the insurers set a price for a more-or-
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by alwa 2y ago
This struck me too—especially the way he seems to have kept one eye on the big picture even while he was facing a flood of individual patients depending urgently on his task-level attention.
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by alwa 2y ago
Absolutely, and I hope that I didn’t give the impression otherwise. In times of crisis I’m immensely grateful that most everyone will step up beyond their normal responsibilities. I’m even more grateful that leaders like the author have spe
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by alwa 2y ago
While that’s true, I worry about glorifying too much the desperation of the whole situation. If the same patients had arrived at a pace consistent with normal operations, wouldn’t you expect the outcomes to have been better? Normally cros
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by alwa 2y ago
I read this to suggest that it was a flow thing more than a quantity thing. By doing the readout on the spot, they could decide what was next for the patient before they even made it out of the machine, and the patient would roll directly o
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by alwa 2y ago
I think cops (or at least their bosses) care about their arrests resulting in successful prosecutions. A request ambiguous enough to net hundreds of suspects seems unlikely to net the investigator a successful prosecution. Not without corro
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by alwa 2y ago
Isn’t the whole geofence request paradigm an elegant compromise to address that, though? The requestors don’t get to track everyone’s every move. Instead, they have to specify exactly where and when based on a thing that actually happened
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by alwa 2y ago
I definitely agree that it depends on how you use the data, although that seems to bleed into a judicial rather than an investigatory role. In the case of this geofence kind of data request, though, it seems to self-enforce that a little bi
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by alwa 2y ago
I’m really impressed at the number of times they say their counterparts responded to their report in under an hour, immediately took the affected site offline, then resolved the issue quickly. That seems like an enviable operation.

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