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by asciident 6y ago
Because governments have a monopoly on violence, and can use your data against you to imprison you, bomb your village, defame you, etc. I can quit Facebook or Google much easier than I can quit the TSA database or DMV record system. And I d
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by asciident 6y ago
So all your twitter data and interactions like clicks and time spent will be sent to whoever gets you to install their algorithm? I can see why Cambridge Analytica seemed like a good idea to some people now...
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by asciident 6y ago
The voice itself says it's a real voice, and based on the pricing, it looks like it's just narration-as-a-service rather than any automated technique.
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by asciident 6y ago
It's hard to track down. They could just write down your credit card number, name, expiration, and security code. Then use it a month later, at which point you have already been to several restaurants and handed people your card many t
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by asciident 6y ago
Yes dining alone, especially on business travel. I just want to eat my entree and go to the hotel. Dining with a group is totally fine as an experience. Dining with a partner is still a bit of a wait if it's someone you're very fa
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by asciident 6y ago
Personally I don't enjoy the dine-in experience that much. It takes an additional hour of time for long meals, mostly just sitting browsing through my phone, or 15-20 minutes for short meals, again browsing through my phone. I don&#x27
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by asciident 6y ago
After reading your sentence, it occurred to me that it's no longer clear in today's age if you're referring to people using racial discrimination to hire underrepresented groups as racist, or the ones who oppose racial-based
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by asciident 6y ago
I don't see how they can avoid going down the same path as Quora, Medium, and others. At the end of the day, they are for-profit entities, and not only that, but they are startups which means they are after growth and need to eventuall
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An Avalanche of Fraud Buried a Small-Business Relief Program(bloomberg.com)
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by asciident 6y ago
I think this is what tech people don't get about non-techies using technology. Tech people talk about edge cases, about past stories where Facebook shut down a group or posts, theoretical guarantees about "real" privacy, and
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by asciident 6y ago
I'm talking even more directly, politicians' campaigns collect behavior data about my online activity, predict my political beliefs, my demographics, etc. They trade/sell them to their PACs, who then send clickbaitey emails a
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by asciident 6y ago
Even more explicitly, they're selling/trading my personal identifiable data. Exactly the thing they accuse Facebook and Google of doing, except Google and Facebook don't actually do that but the politicians are literally send
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by asciident 6y ago
Because working hard is not important if it has no impact. I've had people work really hard, I tell them to make sure to do blah, and to focus on blah2, and to let people know that they did blah3. They ignore that and just work on what
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by asciident 6y ago
It's not odd at all. It's a common way to set up your website, that's been happening for decades.
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by asciident 6y ago
Yes, and not just hours of work, but reputation damage. Think of all the products out there where people say "but it sucks because it crashes for no reason sometimes." These are not reproducible crashes generally (as most develope
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by asciident 6y ago
I think you're missing the logistics needed to do this: 1) to officially reject someone usually needs asking around to build consensus that regardless of any changes to org structure, to outstanding offers, to the current set of interv
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by asciident 6y ago
I was involved in an accidental situation where two teams at different companies worked on the exact same project from the same starting point, each led by different developers. This was not the company's core product, but a necessary
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by asciident 6y ago
You're right that these things are devastating when they happen, but pre- social media, they happened all the time. Every year, half the people born in [year-21] lose their university email accounts (including their google drive, etc.)
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by asciident 6y ago
While they do have power over users on their platform, they're voluntary applications that people choose to give control to for convenience and publicity. Unlike credit bureaus who actually ruin peoples' lives with their carelessn
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by asciident 6y ago
I would be careful about following this line of thinking too much. Like a few politicians are corrupt, they're all corrupt. It's no longer useful to vote. Or some Hacker News commenters made up stuff on the spot. So all Hacker New
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by asciident 6y ago
I'm not advocating for the mindset there, but can't you see a justification of why that might be? I think reasonable people can debate whether or not overpopulation is the main contributor to the environmental disaster upon us tha
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by asciident 6y ago
I think it makes more sense to think of the human population globally, rather than on a per-country basis. We have one planet, and environmental problems are not self-contained inside a country's borders. You're right we need a ne
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by asciident 6y ago
It's not so clear to be honest. The global population is growing and leading to environmental disasters, and it's not clear why we need 10 billion people on this planet, rather than a more manageable 100 million.
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by asciident 6y ago
In this scenario, is there a way to handle the promotions such that no one is upset? I can't think of one. Maybe put them on different tracks -- those who took "parental flexibility" can get promoted, but it occurs later, and
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by asciident 6y ago
Wouldn't that incentivize people to live further, in less connected areas, increasing urban sprawl, environmental degradation, and segregation?
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by asciident 6y ago
What's the point of sim cards anyways? I'm not sure why it's needed when things can be done over software. It feels like an antiquated piece of technology. Like just use the phone identifier or something, and map it to a digi
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by asciident 6y ago
I believe you've been misled about "large majority of their money from international students" and am curious where you got this information from. From the data I've looked at, the net revenue a vast majority of colleges
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This would not be information overload at all. It would be fantastic. I want to know if part of my payment is directed to middlemen, so I could seek ways to pay the author/developer/artist more directly. Airlines have to do this a
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by asciident 6y ago
Would you call Cisco and Dell principally Indian companies?
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by asciident 6y ago
Zoom is an american company by the way. Its headquarters is in silicon valley. Its founder, chairman, and CEO is an american citizen. It has employees in California and China, like nearly all tech companies.

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