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anchpop
10y ago
Not necessarily - If you have a body of water on the top and the bottom, and two different countries on each side, then there's no spot you can be in 3 countries at once. See: America
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anchpop
10y ago
The government could easily prevent that by punishing the company whenever there is a leak, instead of trying to punish the specific person. This may be what they do already
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anchpop
10y ago
As always, relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1296/
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anchpop
10y ago
They're not intrusive if you pay to have them
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anchpop
10y ago
If your free will can be taken away by a machine predicting what you'll be interested in, you never really had it in the first place
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anchpop
11y ago
They'd have to build 4, actually. Imagine 3 intersecting spheres, there would be 2 possible positions remaining (just as with 2d triangulation, having 2 circles would leave 2 points remaining and we'd need a 3rd to find out which
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anchpop
11y ago
I dunno, it's still pretty easy. I think if google really wanted to they could make it quite a bit harder. And fixing exploits that give apps root access would prevent malicious apps from abusing it, no?
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11y ago
The 3rd book in The Stormlight Archive series will not be the last. It is planned to be a 10-book series