amarkov

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by amarkov 8y ago
Respectfully, I'm not sure the author understands what he's talking about. He's arguing for the no-op process where engineers determine all their own tasks and priorities - and I mean, I'd like that too. But there's
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by amarkov 8y ago
Again, it'd definitely be possible to write a document more narrowly describing what they need a license to do. But that doesn't solve the problem. The updated version would be more readable for network engineers, less readable fo
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by amarkov 8y ago
It's precisely what the legalese means, and carries connotations which are absolutely nothing like what Imgur intends. They claim unlimited rights not because they don't want to be bothered to restrict them, but because the struct
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by amarkov 8y ago
The problem is that legal terminology doesn't always match conventional descriptions of what's happening. Copyright is actually a perfect example of this. In order to send my photo over the Internet to other people who want to vie
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by amarkov 8y ago
> Telegram has no authority to ban anything so it cannot be at fault. Trying to make your service work cannot be called "malicious activity". Telegram knew the Russian government was trying to censor them. So they disguised the
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by amarkov 8y ago
When you say Facebook is "selling data", I think most people would understand it to mean that advertisers can go to Facebook and buy a list of people who eat at McDonalds. That's very different from the opaque ad targeting Fa
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by amarkov 9y ago
Facebook sent forensic auditors to investigate CA. There was a general public perception that this was sketchy (what if they're really trying to destroy evidence implicating themselves?), and they were asked to stand down by British la
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by amarkov 9y ago
They did suffer from a similar network effect, which was only broken when AT&T accepted a consent decree to spin off all its regional providers.
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by amarkov 9y ago
CA told Facebook that they did delete the data set. FB (if you believe their timeline) only discovered they lied when the scandal started circulating in the news.
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by amarkov 9y ago
Is that really the world we want, though? If Google is liable for third-party defamation, aren't they likely to deindex any negative news about anyone who threatens to sue them?
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by amarkov 9y ago
Because someone has to. We can't have a world where I can just declare any search result violates my privacy, and Google isn't allowed to say I'm wrong.
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by amarkov 9y ago
Well, two responses to that: * Is this what you actually want? Would it be proper for Google to say "we've conclusively decided that climate change is real, so from now on we will delist all climate change denial content"? *
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by amarkov 9y ago
The Supreme Court had noted in their ruling that, if Google were to show that it is in fact illegal in their home jurisdiction to comply with the order, that would change the analysis. Courts are generally pretty willing to engage in comity
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by amarkov 9y ago
Why must they be? Imagine the mirror image scenario, where a man's done something wrong, and he has a $100k budget to stop me from telling people about it. Should he really be able to say "hey Google, I'm not going to prove t
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by amarkov 9y ago
When national legislatures call people to testify, that's not a neutral information-gathering exercise. The MPs are going into that panel with a very clear idea of what the witness is going to say, and how they can spin it towards thei
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by amarkov 9y ago
Sure, but isn't that the point for Rust? You can rule out huge classes of problems with a clear dataflow architecture - thus, the language should enforce one, rather than requiring programmers to hand-roll one correctly.
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by amarkov 9y ago
The problem is that lots of people find lots of different things morally repugnant. If it's normalized for people to leak things that they consider morally repugnant, that means there are serious costs to engaging in any controversial
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by amarkov 9y ago
Any large organization can have its reputation seriously damaged by strategic leaks. If tens of thousands of people get together for years and years, someone is going to do something that looks terrible when amplified in the national me
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by amarkov 9y ago
One of the important qualities of a great place to work is that decisions are made based on sober analysis rather than reflexive corrections. Maybe you're right, and Facebook is just too important to allow that, but I think it's f
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by amarkov 9y ago
Certainly, but not in the direction I think you're implying. Open source means that you know how to solve all the problems MySQL has solved, even if you don't actually know how to implement a good database engine.
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by amarkov 9y ago
It was my understanding that Netflix wanted to show their movies in French cinemas, but French regulations would prevent them from doing that while also streaming the movies for subscribers.
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by amarkov 9y ago
The issue isn't whether the company has the answers to the questions, but what it costs to assemble those answers in the requested form. You can't respond to detailed legal inquiries by just having customer support copy-paste from
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by amarkov 9y ago
The motivation is that both kinds of "on-premise" create roughly similar engineering challenges. (Your app has to be adaptable to heterogenous execution environments, all your code changes will be in a partially released state for
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by amarkov 9y ago
That doesn't seem like a sufficient story to explain most kinds of advertising. What perks do all the local grocery stores get from mailing me leaflets about what's on sale?
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by amarkov 9y ago
What I'm thinking of are things like "a paying customer can DoS you with a carefully constructed malicious input". That usually won't be practical issue if you're small enough to know all your customers - but it has
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by amarkov 9y ago
The advantage of making the string type immutable is that you can do what's known as "string interning": if the same string shows up multiple times in your program, only one copy has to be kept in memory. This is particularly
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by amarkov 9y ago
What do you do when the response to a bug bounty is "yeah, we already knew about that, and we're not planning to fix it soon because the consequences aren't high"? In my experience that's a pretty common scenario fo
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by amarkov 9y ago
Your basic premise, that society as a whole ought to approve of new technologies before anyone is allowed to use them, seems very strange.
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by amarkov 9y ago
Well, I mean, what counts as exploitation? If I learn a lot about what shoes people like in my job as a shoe salesman, and I use that experience when new people come in to make recommendations, I think everyone would call that just good cus
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by amarkov 9y ago
GDPR only requires erasure of personal data on request, where "personal data" is defined as information relating to some identified or identifiable person. Machine learning models trained on personal data aren't going to be p

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