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by asciident 6y ago
There was also a ton of fraud (some estimates were 1/3 of the money went to scammers and foreign people). They didn't have a good way to check if a business was an actual business or not. This resulted in entire neighborhoods of p
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by asciident 6y ago
I think it'd be the opposite reaction if the US adopted the NZ strategy. People would be outraged that the money is going to companies, especially large corporations where most people work. Someone would come up with the statistic that
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by asciident 6y ago
Can you explain this a bit more? If there's a tariff on a component, wouldn't the buyer look for cheaper domestic replacements? So maybe a mix of both -- they pay more in the short term, but it gives domestic suppliers a better ch
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by asciident 6y ago
Strange, I found the Unifi Controller web UI to be really poorly architected. 1) You start a .app that sits for a few seconds then requires you to launch the browser by clicking a button. While using the browser, you can't close the ex
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by asciident 6y ago
This is true. It takes a while for some people to really accept this, as it breaks the lone coder myth. There are some people who consider communication and influence to be politics, and think they can do their job solely by programming.
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by asciident 6y ago
Interesting idea. But that sounds dystopian. If the scientist declines, then does the university get to publicize that they wanted to release the information but the scientist blocked it (thus casting suspicion on the scientist)? If not, th
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by asciident 6y ago
What would you have them do? You can't have privacy only for things you want privacy for, and transparency for things you don't want privacy for.
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by asciident 6y ago
From my experience, most of your ideas have been implemented in different ways in the academic procedures as best as they can. 1. Funding agencies and universities don't make decisions. Only individuals in those institutions do. And I
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by asciident 6y ago
It's not valuable because then later a manager will still assign the work to another developer, who will spend almost the same amount of time trying to reproduce the bug and finding it fixed. This leads to several back-and-forth slack
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by asciident 6y ago
If you're talking about the stimulus checks, well they weren't universal, nor basic (but rather a long unpredictable negotiation), nor recurring income.
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by asciident 6y ago
There's a handful of ethical AI tropes I hear over and over. The (made up) story about Target predicting a pregnancy before she knew, the concern of using it to predict parole, face detection not working with dark-skinned people, and t
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by asciident 6y ago
Agreed in a theoretical sense, but how would you handle the physically small icons where removing some of the content is needed (like some of the examples in the article)? Our eyes can only see so small, even if in perfect detail (think abo
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by asciident 6y ago
With the massive unemployment and SBA fraud these days [1,2,3], the "banks" are being robbed every minute just in a quieter way. [1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/05/u-s-secret-service-massi... [2] h
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by asciident 6y ago
What's the issue? If you're implying there is a trademark problem, it's not clear. Products/companies can use the same name.
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by asciident 6y ago
The one mentioned here does have Google TV, basically an old version of Android unfortunately. I agree with you that it'd be better if they were just dumb projectors, and you can easily get a $50 casting device if you want, rather than
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by asciident 6y ago
The closest thing is probably a very charming, attractive/successful person soliciting you in person, at a place where you're open to buying that product (let's say a mall, or specialty store) or are a captive audience. Maybe
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by asciident 6y ago
I didn't see the other post and I believe you. If you say you deleted it, and they didn't, I think we'd both agree that's a problem they should fix or change. I think the issues you're describing don't have any
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by asciident 6y ago
You're talking about 3 very different things here. 1) You're saying social media isn't opt in because they're tracking users off of their social media platform. This doesn't have anything to do with social media, bu
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by asciident 6y ago
Isn't that just your opinion, versus the fact that it's the most popular IDE out there, so the plurality of programmers find that it's good enough?
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by asciident 6y ago
So I like social media, and get a lot of benefit from it. I like that it's free and supported by targeted ads, rather than a paid service. Since we disagree, and I imagine there are many people with the same opinions as both you and me
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by asciident 6y ago
Electron is a nice option these days. Slack and VS Code are first-in-class applications, and while there's a slight performance hit compared to native, it's still a better experience than web (otherwise, people would have stuck wi
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by asciident 6y ago
I would certainly be fearful of providing an honest review of a paper championed by such a powerful figure at Google who could get me fired and unemployable with a tweet. Revealing the reviewers and throwing them under the bus would have be
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by asciident 6y ago
I've seen these review comments before and I don't know if we can say from our position whether it's corrections that can be made for camera ready or not. If a paper does not analyze the improvements from recent work, and jus
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by asciident 6y ago
That's undercounted too, as they would only report the fraud they already uncovered. People outside the US are taking advantage and that money is gone: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/05/u-s-secret-service-ma
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by asciident 6y ago
Politicians are constantly claiming credit for positive outcomes. In our state, the governor was celebrated for early success in keeping rates low due to their policies enacted (one of the best in the nation). They didn't change any of
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It's like if immigration officers don't let you in the country unless you give them a case of liquor. You give them the liquor, and are caught. The story should be that the immigration officers are corrupt and demanding bribes, ra
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by asciident 6y ago
I feel like the headline is misleading. The more straightforward headline would be that the sheriffs of Santa Clara county withheld concealed firearms licenses to multiple applicants unless they were offered bribes. It sounds like this has
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by asciident 6y ago
Maybe the quoted author was a bit flippant in their comment, but to put it another way, wouldn't you agree that if someone were to say "Salesforce is letting people spread fake news" or "Atlassian has a contract with ICE
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Very cynical take assuming retail is zero-sum. It could also be helping you find the products you need at an opportune time, increasing the value for all parties. Or based on purchase patterns, they're able to stock inventory more accu
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by asciident 6y ago
I heard this same narrative in 2000, and it didn't happen, in fact the opposite. If you want people to believe that more people coding leads to offshoring and thus universally low wages, you'll have to make a more convincing argum

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