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by babesh 5y ago
I think that there are several ideas that are both powerful and that people muddle when they talk about mathematics. Also the talk is often tinged with cultural pride. The ideas are conceptualization, generalization, and rigor. The Pythagor
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I didn’t say it wasn’t important. It is important. I was trying to say that there is a tendency in the tech industry to value new projects over maintenance. And this list was partly in jest.
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Yes
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+1 for each positive and -1 for each negative, maximum score of 4, minimum score of -4, 0 is sideways, salary must be compared against industry salaries… so if industry average rises and yours didn’t rise as much, that is a demotion This is
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Did I get promoted when I got that new title? - If I make more money, it is a promotion. If I didn't, it is a demotion. - If the number of reports increases, it is a promotion. If it decreases, it is a demotion. - If I have more areas
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I don’t use Windows Defender nor Google Photos nor other cloud service providers to scan my photos. I barely use gmail. I knew that Google was terrible so I have already minimized my use of Google services. Same with Facebook. But Apple!? I
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Chuck Schumer: “You take on the intelligence community? They have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you” There must be tremendous amounts of dirt on most powerful people but it rarely sees the light of day and how it is obtained is ne
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Apple is the best venue for the government to get you used to your local data spied upon. Boil the frog. I do wonder what China and other countries will do. Will this system be under the control of US authorities?
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Also in contrast to zepto, here are words from Edward Snowden: No matter how well-intentioned, @Apple is rolling out mass surveillance to the entire world with this. Make no mistake: if they can scan for kiddie porn today, they can scan f
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Zepto complained that it was out of context. Here are entire comments. “ As far as I can see: 1. This is a serious attempt to build a privacy preserving solution to child pornography. 2. The complaints are all slippery slope arguments that
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Resplendent. I won’t even add my own words. I will let you speak for yourself. ““ As far as I can see: 1. This is a serious attempt to build a privacy preserving solution to child pornography.” I don’t argue that.”” “ Apple’s solution is th
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Sure, I am quite willing to hang you with your own words. zepto “As far as I can see: 1. This is a serious attempt to build a privacy preserving solution to child pornography.” “ > The more sophisticated child molesters out there will f
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I am saying that you are promoting a slippery ground falsely as middle ground. Basically the argument I hear from you is “If you build a back door, then people will use it. So let’s build it anyway because it is a middle ground.” The proble
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In California, it initially was because Reagan closed mental institutions. We had the housing (the mental institutions). Also, housing back then was affordable. You can’t chalk it down to housing till close to the 2000s. Now you have this t
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The problem of child molesters is a fixed quantity. The loss of privacy is ever increasing. When you see this dynamic, you know that a con is afoot. The solution for child porn isn’t found in snooping on everyone. It is in infiltrating the
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I think that the synergy between Twitter and Spaces is more based on real time events where a group of people you follow can talk about the event.
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You were saying that this is a slippery slope argument which implies that it is a fallacious argument. I am saying that isn’t the case. We have been sliding on this slope for decades which deems that the argument is valid and not fallacious
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My point is that the FBI will just use that as a pretext for greater intrusion into privacy. Why stop at users who have iCloud photos turned on? Why not scan all photos? Why limit it to child predators? Why not use this too for terrorists a
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There is no end to the loss of privacy in the name of safety if your bogeyman is increasingly sophisticated actors. The more sophisticated child molesters out there will find out about what Apple is doing and quickly avoid it. Isn’t that wh
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I think that is intentional. When they really want people to do something they make it opt-out. When they don’t they make it opt-in.
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They banned me when I was doing nothing except for posting pictures of food and setting my profile text to “useless idiot”. No recourse. About a week later they told me it was all a big mistake. It was the final push that got me to cancel m
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That is premature. They haven’t done anything yet. It may just be performative.
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Science doesn’t apply to unstatusquo either? Like getting people to take vaccines that haven’t gone through long term trials? But if there are any side effects to the vaccine you’re liable unstatusquo. How about that? Prepared for that? Hav
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You can turn it off.
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And if you don’t believe me, ask yourself who holds the keys to iCloud data for both foreign and domestic customers. Ask Apple if it has ever provided data for a foreign customer to the US government. What do you think GDPR is for? Hint: it
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The die was cast with the 2020 elections when Apple decided get into the fray. Much of tech also got into the fray. Once they openly decided to use their power, they couldn’t get back out.
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Apple is part of the power structure of the US. That means that it has a hand in shaping the agenda for the US but with that power comes the responsibility to carry out the agenda. This also means that it is shielded from attack by the powe
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There was another in the CDC article. So 5 so far. And these were vaccines that had passed trials unlike the current COVID-19 vaccines that haven’t even passed trials yet. The COVID-19 vaccines in the US are ALL under emergency use authoriz
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I worry about falling drones. How far above ground did the drones fly? How fast were they flying? How heavy were they when you added payload? What material were the blades? Was there any protection or cushioning? Where do they intend to fly
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Nope, wrong again. Go look at the game theory of taking a vaccine for a trivial example. Suppose there are 100 people. Suppose a virus has a 10% chance of killing you and the vaccine has a 1% chance. Now give the vaccine to 99 people. Shoul

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