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by apozem 10y ago
Microsoft's dishonest and manipulative tricks to force Windows 10 upgrades are terrible for regular users or people who just aren't ready to make the jump. I have a non-techie friend who works in a veterinary clinic who recently t
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Lord, the comments here are as bad as I feared. This article makes a perfectly valid point- AI is only as good as the data you use to train it. If you feed it bad, biased data, then the AI will behave in bad, biased ways. These biases can b
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I really enjoyed this article because it doesn't grab the most immediate reaction to a poor attempt to solve a complex social problem through technology. A knee-jerk response to that might be to condemn technologists and "solution
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The Perils of Using Technology to Solve Other People's Problems(theatlantic.com)
1 points by apozem 10y ago|1 comments
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> Eventually I plugged my phone into my laptop and ran adb logcat, and the Android debug logs told me that the app was trying to modify a network that it hadn't created. Apparently this isn't permitted as of Android 6, but the
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Because competing in internet services gives a tremendous advantage to the first mover who can amass the largest network. Metcalfe's Law states that the value of a network (and, implicitly, how hard it is to topple) is proportional to
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by apozem 10y ago
As fun as the story of Carl Diggler is, his work is statistically insignificant. The podcast Reply All (which you should be listening to) asked a professor who studies the science of predictions whether the Diggler guys are onto something [
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In Oracle V. Google, a Nerd Subculture Is on Trial(motherboard.vice.com)
3 points by apozem 10y ago|0 comments
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One of my professors worked with the homeless and said living on the streets is often the symptom of a greater problem, rather than the problem itself.
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> While ASICs represent the fixed cost of Bitcoin mining, the expense of electricity is the marginal cost; indeed, Bitcoin is, for all intents and purposes, the digital representation of electricity. https://stratechery.com&#x
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by apozem 11y ago
> Until that day arrives, one might ask why I have not tried another distribution. I doubt my experience will be much better. Many of the bugs are related to code shared across distributions. I know that a few bugs I listed in this artic
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People in city government absolutely depend on the poor and fine-based revenue. To use a recent example, the Department of Justice found the government of Ferguson colluded to give so many fines that they actually became a substantial and e
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These kinds of limitations are fascinating because they reveal the cultural biases (and I don't mean bias in the negative sense) of their creators. A Western, American system might not be designed to accept names with accents and vowel
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Yeah it's pretty relevant that the bot went from "tbh fam" to "gas the kikes, race war now" in four hours.
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I don't especially care what she endorses. I've never read one of her articles. However, if you disagree with someone, you owe it to them to do it without death threats and faking their dead father. Also, you are absolutely blamin
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I didn't elaborate on this enough in the previous post, but please do not assume I'm trying to make no one uncomfortable or enforce real names or remove anonymity. That's a pure strawman. Being uncomfortable is fine. Disagree
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This "toughen up" sentiment sounds nice in theory but it's absurd in practice. Listen to writer Mindy West's story on This American Life about confronting one of her worst trolls [1]. Her troll made a fake Twitter accoun
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Why? Twitter is a fantastic way to find leads and potential sources. You can't and shouldn't cite a tweet from a random person, but you can cite reporting done after finding a source on Twitter.
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I've been working with (not for) the local police for the last year. Anecdotally, it depends on the cop. The badge and gun carry power, and power attracts the corrupted and corruptible. No one doubts that there are asshole cops. Most o
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You're exactly right about the effects on the company as a whole. A CEO is like a cheerleader and ship's captain for a company. Nilay Patel over at The Verge said on one of their podcasts he once asked Satya Nadella what it was li
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That seems close-minded and overly judgmental. Snapchat might not have any use to you, but it's clearly the world to this girl (and many, many other teenagers).
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"The researchers, who have been studying and writing about encryption policy, sniffed around with a Tor browser and found 1,547 out of 5,205 total websites live on the dark web engaging in illegal activity." It is one of the most
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There was an interview with Jonathan Blow several years ago in Game Informer, close to when Braid came out. Blow said he'll never explain publicly what the game meant to him so people could have their own explanations not be overshadow
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by apozem 11y ago
The Hearthstone community seems to be particularly thick about this. They constantly conflate "I'm bad against that card" or "I don't like that card" with "That card is overpowered."
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Survey finds 90% of women in tech report demeaning comments from male colleagues(vox.com)
1 points by apozem 11y ago|2 comments
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More proof that "clickbait" does not mean "a story that does not deliver on the headline's promise" but rather "something I don't like."
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Absolutely true. I wasn't a jerk to people in retail before I worked a crappy job as an ice cream server, but I didn't really care about how they were treated. One summer dealing with customer bullshit changed that real quick.
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How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood(theatlantic.com)
1 points by apozem 11y ago|0 comments
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This is not feasible with the internet. Digital voting is a very, very bad idea. The long and short of arguments against online voting is that we've had several hundred years to figure out all the ways to cheat with paper votes and not
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One of my neighbors when I was growing up worked in the FBI's cybercrime division. His wife always complained about how he never let her do any of their banking or serious financial transactions online. When I hear stuff like this, I g

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