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by argomo 4y ago
Sounds like a way to quickly create an unreliable network of shitty, dimly lit EV chargers that help sour EV adoption.
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by argomo 5y ago
Before it gets that far, they build a hierarchy of underlings that oppress the labor force. (See CGP Grey's "the rules for rulers" on YouTube.) Either that or everyone else gets fed up and violently overthrows them. It could,
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by argomo 5y ago
Yeah, IIRC, the very first pattern is a proposal to divide the world into 10,000 nations of 1 million people each (?!).
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by argomo 5y ago
True, but in time it will escalate more, just as this escalation builds on the ones that came before it. Just because a trap closes slowly doesn't mean it isn't a trap.
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by argomo 5y ago
A cryptopunk would say just the opposite: that privacy is a technical problem that, properly solved, alleviates us of political concerns. Both views seem to miss the mark. The crypto folks see mathematical certitude while ignoring the dynam
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by argomo 5y ago
What's this mythical world where industry execs leave profit on the table because they aren't being squeezed by ad blockers? Have you tried watching cable TV? You know, the service that was originally billed as a way to watch tv w
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by argomo 5y ago
It boggles me how the big camera makers seem content to cede marketshare to smartphones. Obviously, they can't compete on pocketablity or ubiquity, but computational photography is their home turf. I shouldn't have to reach for my
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by argomo 5y ago
Question: how will the free/liberal society (plagued by polarization, etc) fare against the dystopian ones? In the past we've been able to out-innovate and maintain moral leadership thru a fictional aspiration to democratic norms.
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by argomo 5y ago
You can't comment out a large section of config easily. For me, this is a relatively common use case for config files, so I take the position that JSON should be used for serialization only.
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by argomo 5y ago
This was a minority view inflated by poor journalism. Climate science as a whole was veering toward the "Earth gets warmer" conclusion.( https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/0
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by argomo 5y ago
Industry funded propaganda and bought politicians. Then it (in the US) got polarized along partisan lines. Geopolitically, everyone wants to solve it, but nobody wants to take a big hit to their own prospects.
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by argomo 5y ago
Is jail appropriate for litterers? Seems extreme, but I might be able to get behind it. Let's start with the folks who throw fast food wrappers out on the interstate though, not the homeless we wish to criminalize. Throwing them in jai
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by argomo 5y ago
Give/take duality is significant in the study of proto-indo/european language. IIRC, some root words took opposite meanings in their descendent languages. Some have gone so far as to speculate that this suggests reciprocality was
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by argomo 5y ago
> there should be no trouble at all for a driver to understand, when seeing the full rear of the car, which direction is being indicated. This response from Mini presumes drivers have the luxury of using "system 2" logical&#x2F
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by argomo 5y ago
(1) Most people would rather pay the cost of fraud averaged across all accounts than suffer the risk of unlimited fraud against their own account. (2) Putting the risk on credit card companies highly incentives them to fight fraud. This is
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by argomo 5y ago
We already number them... with vectors. Delta is really B.1.617.2. The Greek names are a convenience for talking to a broader lay audience.
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by argomo 5y ago
Reamde is basically gun porn (in the same way Seveneves was orbital dynamics porn) with a protracted hostage situation for plot tension and some videogaming/spy craft stuff thrown in for flavor. Not really sci-fi IMO.
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by argomo 5y ago
Heh heh... so true it hurts. Why spend 3 years pushing it past risks reviews and oversight committees when you could just write a crappy version that does what you need? Legal alone will spend months looking at run-of-the-mill software cont
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by argomo 5y ago
Yep. This hurts all SmartTV owners because it lowers the resale value of their property. Buyers have to stick to official retailers or risk getting a product that will be remotely bricked.
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by argomo 5y ago
Fact checkers reconcile memes/news media against primary sources/other news media while adding context, references, and journalistic integrity. Yes, they're human and inevitably bring their own biases, but do you really thin
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by argomo 5y ago
You're able to manufacture justifications for your decisions (often even the ones you made maliciously or on a whim). AI can't, and that's a problem when you need to talk to auditors, prosecutors, customers, regulatory bodie
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by argomo 5y ago
Just to add to this: trying to compile an open source Android distro is a tricky proposition that requires trusting several binaries and a huge source tree. Moreover, having a personal route to digital autonomy is nearly worthless. To prote
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by argomo 5y ago
During the transaction, yes... it is morally incumbent on both parties to ensure they aren't cheating the other. After the transaction though, the moral calculus shifts, and I'm going to take into account the time/convenience
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by argomo 5y ago
Yeah, but the people are not exactly "fundamentally in control" if opposition candidates and critics keep mysteriously falling out of windows, drinking plutonium tea, and accidentally getting jailed.
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by argomo 5y ago
> I'd much rather store properly encrypted personal information or financial data in North Korea than storing it unencrypted in my home country. You might feel comfortable with that as an individual, but geopolitically speaking, In
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by argomo 5y ago
Perhaps, perhaps not. The market innovation of Tesla--selling electric vehicles based on sportiness and performance rather than eco-friendliness--pre-dates musk's involvement with the company.
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by argomo 5y ago
Think of the article as customer feedback. The customer may not appreciate everything the product does for them, nor may they be using it in the fashion where it would be most effective. So what? Your job (if this was your customer) would b
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by argomo 5y ago
Interesting new use for existing tech, somewhat clickbait headline. Also, the term is "Jerry-rigged". [Edit: I stand corrected.]
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by argomo 5y ago
Fear of government-enforced market shut-out vs fear of civil liability for facilitating medical fraud. The fundamentals of Google's decisionmaking are the same, but the legal, societal, and ethical contexts in which it occurs can lead
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by argomo 5y ago
I think the giveaway for this paragraph comes right at the end: "a kind of substitute religion". What's more compelling: myths written for another culture in another time/place or ones written for you by your contemporar

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