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by ardy42 6y ago
> I don't think it's that simple. From my experience, if you are in certain non-Microsoft applications and the mouse is moving it will still set you as Away and won't set your status to Available until you click into an ap
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Am I being cynical in thinking there are probably plenty of enterprise suppliers out there providing similar creepy "user insights" information to dodgy managers, but just aren't in the spotlight like Microsoft? I would
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by ardy42 6y ago
> But before the guillotines come out, the .01%ers will have lots of cash for buying art, personalized AAA video games, solid gold plumbing fixtures, and the like. That doesn't pass the smell test. For instance: it doesn't help
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Correlation does not imply causation - is there any proof that obamacare is the cause of the increases in costs, or would that have happened anyways? And even if it did, cost isn't the only measure of success. It's main goal
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by ardy42 6y ago
> By "argue" they almost mean "troll". Meaningful debate, from all the examples I've seen, does not appear to be a skill of this new lifeform. That's good enough to use for disinformation and other kinds of
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> without considering that the more we automate away jobs, the less society will be able to pay for the goods and services that aren't automated. That may not matter to those making these automation decisions. Ultimately, ownership
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I think those firms will likely lose their competitiveness overtime. Unless they are defacto monopoly. I suspect that's wishful thinking that assumes a greater alignment than actually exists between what we want for society and wh
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by ardy42 6y ago
> For the bulk of us, pen and paper are becoming obsolete. We are quickly embracing digital alternatives because they are more efficient and easy to use. Bullshit. After trying all kinds of "digital alternatives" for note-taki
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Current: it's hard / unknown how to make a flying object that's resistant to radiating heat There are techniques to reduce infrared signature, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_B
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> They found and exploited a stack-based buffer overflow in the EMV parsing of a particular device, which allowed them to deliver a payload from the smart-card itself. To demo this attack, they wrote a flappy bird clone which was played
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Do you actually believe Chinese numbers...? The Chinese government isn't Oceania, with a near-total ability to force a narrative that's widely in variance to the facts. For example, just look at how well they've managed
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by ardy42 6y ago
> True. Totally unrelated, the example you cite is now fifty years in the past, and occurred in a time when local news still existed. It's related because it's a nice clear example of "bad press [ eventually ] forcing chan
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> I honestly have no words to reply to this, I just couldn't go past the comment since not replying seemed like implicit acceptance that this is a normal thing to read. The correct response is to flag and move on. No reasonable peo
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Linked to US intelligence services. Makes you wonder how many VPN services are run by governments? I don't recall details, but IIRC, there are (or were) a few popular VPNs in China that were used to circumvent the firewall that fu
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by ardy42 6y ago
https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Cuyahoga_River_Fire tl;dr: The Cuyahoga river caught on fire many, many times over the years. However, a fire in June 1969 spurred legislative action that finally solved the problem, e
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by ardy42 6y ago
> This is the pharma industry. It's been this way for decades. Don't pretend like you're woke and moralistic in light of this "bombshell" now please, it comes across as trite. So, you're saying it's OK,
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by ardy42 6y ago
> You're not wrong, but on the other hand has "the market" shown any serious signal that it cares about privacy? From what I can see people seem more than glad to trade privacy and personal information for free services an
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> A common refrain in arguments that we don't need to reject closed source software to protect privacy is that being closed source doesn't hide the behaviour, and people will still notice backdoors and privacy leaks. Sometimes
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Far from the days of just informing and listing main arguments from both sides of the aisle. For that model work, you need two sides with a commitment to the common goals and a good respect for truth and a common set of facts, which we
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by ardy42 6y ago
> How are lies just 'other opinions'? When you want to whitewash them.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> No, capital runs the world. The people who have little don't want to risk losing it and the people who have a lot have no reason to risk losing it. The 401k was a really clever trick. I wonder if it was intentional.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> To play devils advocate, masks could be ineffective if people tend to behave in more dangerous ways while comforted by wearing a mask. For example, by spending more time around people, frequently touching public objects, standing much
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> If someone challenges a status quo that you like ("makes something political" in your parlance), then actually defend that status quo. Don't gripe about how those quarrelsome people ruined your nice "apolitical
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Nearly every substance has an LD50. I wouldn't say they should be used for that, but trying to attack something like the death penalty at that level seems absurd given that there are so many alternate means. It's not, because
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>>> By analogy, most things in the world are apolitical until quarrelsome people with pet issues show up and make them political. >> Stated another way, you're saying the people who want change are troublemakers who shou
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by ardy42 6y ago
> That you bring up a robbery example highlights that you don't understand what political is. Facilitating a robbery is illegal. Facilitating actions of a political group, as long as it is within the framework of a law, is called &q
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The disagreement is what makes things political. There isn't an inherent "political" quality sitting in things. That's true in a sense (e.g. plate tectonics is not political), but it's false you start dealing w
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by ardy42 6y ago
> You are making it intentionally over-complicated. There isn't much to unpack at all. A company becomes political by making a political decision, not by consequence of someone else using its products to make political decisions. It
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> And yet we do because it's a real and useful concept, just like "apolitical". Both unicorns and apolitical actions are unreal fantasies . The only things that seem apolitical are the things that are so widely agreed o
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by ardy42 6y ago
> As someone who lives outside America, the obvious answer to me is unless your product is directly related to politics, a company as an entity should have no public stance on politics. Statements like yours are very easy to make and sou

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