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by annabellish 8y ago
>It is literally being used every second of every day to project power and maintain stability around the globe (not to mention daily active engagements over Syria/Iraq/Afganistan etc.). Yes, Syria, Iraq, and Afganistan are good
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by annabellish 8y ago
>This is anything but clear cut. Definitely agreed. For our current world conditions to hold stable it is important that at least one of our rich, basically politically aligned western countries has a worldwide military force. The US mil
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by annabellish 8y ago
This is the theory, yes, and to a point it's even true, but the US military is _not_ being used in this way. There is no challenger for "ultimate political power" within the US region. Their spending and investment is well be
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by annabellish 8y ago
Sure, you also get it in embedded safari views. You still can't block apps in ads, you can just block ads in content your apps show, usually incidentally - those ads in the feedly view are not _Feedly_'s ads.
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by annabellish 8y ago
The linked app is a Safari-only adblocker which doesn't cover apps, so I feel the title is pretty accurate. There have been full system ad-blocking solutions developed for iOS and apple refuses to host them, it's a statement of fa
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by annabellish 8y ago
I think part of this ridiculousness may just be that the common lexicon doesn't have enough words for AI. "AI-assisted Intellisense" at the moment seems to boil down to a marginally novel way of ordering autocomplete suggesti
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by annabellish 8y ago
There's already a tonne of laws every company has to comply with. The GDPR isn't any more onerous than any of those, it's just new. Even the "nightmare letter" doesn't have anything unreasonable in it and the o
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by annabellish 8y ago
The last three octets absolutely could be in conjunction with some other pieces of data, though.
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by annabellish 8y ago
It is not a competition to see who can suffer worst and longest, and all those who cannot win should be happy with their lot. Generally, it's a good idea to aim for improving quality of life for everyone, overall, not reducing things s
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by annabellish 8y ago
>Like, literally five seconds on Google Scholar could have answered that question. You're probably going to consider this flippant, but: Having the same arguments over and over again with people who haven't done any research is
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by annabellish 8y ago
I know because, staggeringly, there has been actual research done and I talk to human beings who this affects. Like, literally five seconds on Google Scholar could have answered that question. Do you have counter-studies to cite, or is just
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by annabellish 8y ago
Some X don't. I didn't. Some X do. Realise that you're talking about human beings, not machines. Human beings are raised from birth in human society and do not make decisions like "what kind of things do I want to be int
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by annabellish 8y ago
Absolutely not. Difficulty is customisable, but we still live in a world where massive AAA titles lock things which in previous generations were relatively easily attainable behind grinding measured in weeks, not days, with no regard for an
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by annabellish 8y ago
"I'd rather have more X" != "I want less Y". This is not a zero sum game.
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by annabellish 8y ago
>We do need more diversity in role models, however by saying you want less of the current role models you are initiating a direct attack. Literally nobody is saying this. If people are reading "we should have more role models who ar
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by annabellish 8y ago
The point is that when _anyone_ thinks about role models in computer science and programming, all of the options fit into a pretty small niche. It _is_ relevant to have those examples, because there's a world of difference between nobo
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by annabellish 8y ago
I'm not sure if your comment is intentionally obtuse. Nobody is asking you to apologise for being born the majority, and if that's what you took from the parent comment then that's very silly. Equating gender and profession,
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by annabellish 8y ago
>if you don't like the results Google's service provides, you'll choose a better service provider In the real world, this isn't always a clear option. If I run a restaurant I cannot cause everyone who might visit it t
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by annabellish 8y ago
>so this means that people can't create very "extreme" little sub-groups (on either side) that treat each other like enemies On the other hand, reddit's ability to have user-defined sub-groups has given rise to good c
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by annabellish 8y ago
>I don't know a way out of this trap, sorry. I don't think there is one, personally. All the goodwill is gone, and that's extremely difficult to get back. I think what's important at this stage is that we pay attentio
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by annabellish 8y ago
Marketing isn't _intrinsically_ evil. If you buy widget A from FooCorp, but wish it had some piece of functionality it didn't and make a post on their feature request tracker saying you wished it had that functionality and then, u
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by annabellish 8y ago
>Marketing is not evil. It's how the world works. You need to market something to be able to sell it. Tracking of all kinds aren't inherently evil. If companies didn't abuse the various ways they tell us are "how the
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by annabellish 8y ago
I don't know about iDevices, but this is very much supported on a lot of Android phones. Samsung's lineup even has it as a bullet point feature, and they sell docks which let you connect your phone to a screen, peripherals, and sw
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by annabellish 8y ago
That is what the rest of my post goes on to discuss, I believe. _All_ content loaded onto somebody's general purpose computer is loaded on their own terms.
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by annabellish 8y ago
>TOS are enforceable to some degree You cannot state "by reading this notice you have accepted our terms and conditions". Maybe - _maybe_ - you could force people to register and explicitly agree to your terms which specify tha
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by annabellish 8y ago
Given a sufficiently powerful type system, you should still err towards an Option type, because you don't want to have to make two types for everything you want to represent - the real type, and the real type but also null. Having an O
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by annabellish 8y ago
Way back when when the JVM/CLR were being originally designed, I'm not sure that Option types as a concept were quite as proven, and both languages were trying to be "safe" languages that didn't have any complicated
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That style of "null" has a _lot_ of advantages over the common null found today. The perfect is the enemy of the good - Option/Maybe types aren't perfect, but they're a lot better than null references.
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by annabellish 8y ago
How about something like "I'm an automated agent calling for a client" - correct, not misleading, but using terminology which isn't likely to be immediately disconnected _right now_. Of course, if they screw it up, they&
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by annabellish 8y ago
I'm honestly not sure how true this really is. I don't do anything intentionally to screw with advertisers, aside from standard ad blockers, and the targeted ads I get from things which aren't ad blocked are just... eh? I giv

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