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by bertil 5y ago
> deliberate and precise execution of the legal requirements I really want to agree with you, all evidence says you are right — but then I see any 30 seconds of geohot, speaking a mile a minute and saying about 40 things that would give
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by bertil 5y ago
I’m generally not a fan of that kind of fig-leaf (say “we are not sharing weapons, just information” when encouraging people to print a gun-shaped bobby trap that is more likely to blow your hand than change anyone’s mind about gun control)
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by bertil 5y ago
I understand that the title makes an assumption that the first paragraph has to walk away from in its last sentence, but I appreciate Schneier’s nuance when framing the question. The spying isn’t new. The list is probably broader than many
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by bertil 5y ago
I feel like you could handle Manchester to Lowestoft by train, then fly over the water The Hague and finish on a train. Don’t get me started on the distances in Schipol: had too many race to catch tight connections at that airport…
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by bertil 5y ago
You could imagine a propulsion or even a lift mechanism closer to what is used for a hydrofoil. Modern sails or kites could improve the propulsion and handle the drag better. I feel like we can make fast trains really worth it, but it makes
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by bertil 5y ago
That certainly limits their universality, but you can imagine a network of fast trains when there’s ground and boats, or something faster on sea, when there’s none, to substitute to flying. Ekranoplanes use the ground effect, which requires
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by bertil 5y ago
It’s roughly comparable for extraction cost for comparable weight: large variation depending on circumstances, etc. but you need 63 kg of Lithium for a Telsa that should drive a million miles. You’d need 50 thousand gallons of gas (200,000
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by bertil 5y ago
Trains are great in many cases, but there’s some limit to tunnels and bridges: you can go from Stockholm to Berlin directly, but Stockholm to Helsinki is harder (that’s actually the destination that the plane is likely to cover); Manchester
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by bertil 5y ago
There are two equilibrium temperatures, i.e. temperatures that likely don’t depend much on the device that you are using: * under a tent, i.e. in the shadow and sheltered from direct wind: commonly used and correspond to the temperature of
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by bertil 5y ago
> the candidate demonstrates that they've had the empathy and self awareness to consider how their call setup affects others' ability to communicate with them This, a hundred times. It your software mutes mikes when someone els
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by bertil 5y ago
> because I never see them "together" That sounds like a very common problem which is that many companies somehow don’t share visual representation of their organisation effectively. I routinely ask that during interviews and i
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by bertil 5y ago
I used to work with Dutch people who like to tell that “God made the world, the Dutch made the Netherlands.” I corrected them, saying they made a lot more than that: I grew up on an island in France that was under the control of Dutch merch
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by bertil 5y ago
Do you expect a peaceful resolution? It’s great to tell a bully to calm down, but you want either them to calm down (which doesn’t seem likely here) or more reasonable people to take over.
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by bertil 5y ago
Both Ireland and Luxembourg have legitimate activities: Irish whiskey isn’t a big deal compared to tech, but there’s no real reason to ban it. Defining a line is hard, especially when the country’s traditional advantage _is_ finance, like i
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by bertil 5y ago
> However, the innovation that enabled this is high bypass turbofan engines. Turns out if you move more air slower, it's way quieter and more fuel efficient because physics. Boom can't take advantage of this - at least directly
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by bertil 5y ago
Depop is very much the opposite of flying under the radar. They are a key player in fashion and love nothing but flashy promotions, they’d love to be associated to any big brand. They are not as big as Farfetch (disclaimer: where I worked)
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by bertil 5y ago
I know this might seem like a niche argument, but I feel like asking my browser to store information is something that I can prevent. It’s annoying, and there’s less financial incentive to build detailed tools to help — but compared to taki
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by bertil 5y ago
Pearl vary in size a lot; they can easily double in diameter, ie. possibly x 8 in weight. Weighting could be valuable, in addition to counting and measuring how round and shiny they are — but it would be the 4th or 5th more important aspec
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by bertil 5y ago
Apple explicitly uses the EXIF data in their Photos app by displaying and organising the photos by location. I do not believe that it’s used for more than user-facing features (and training said features).
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by bertil 5y ago
What space exactly? Individual niches are not as interesting because you might think that the market for your calligraphy kit is a forum for Japanese speakers (10% conversion rate, 10k people largest forum) but Manga-watchers have a much be
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by bertil 5y ago
> sell that "premium" user data for more Facebook doesn’t sell user data. They also happen to be the only company with a process in place to fight against other company doing it.
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by bertil 5y ago
A lot of on-line businesses created in the last ten years would not be profitable without the ability to grow their customer base. Anyone selling products specialised enough to only be relevant for 10% of a demographic group or less.
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by bertil 5y ago
If you want to echo the last paragraph of the article, the system also doesn’t know when to stop. Which leads to a simple improvement: teach the model when to stop, what sections to remove. There’s already great ML-based summary engines, an
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by bertil 5y ago
> Since there is no legal penalty for a "false positive", I’m really confused by that part: YouTube lawyers must know that there’s a significant risk they’ll piss of a someone like a law professor and that they’ll use all their
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by bertil 5y ago
It’s easy to conflate the idea that trains need investment and that Musk is the wealthiest mad on Earth. He doesn’t have enough money or the political capital to create a meaningful rail option like, say, LA to SF at high speed. His only op
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by bertil 6y ago
Ok, let’s clarify then: what do those shadow profile contain? Let’s assume that you have a friend who has an active profile, uploaded a list of contacts through one of the importer (email or phone numbers). They have a FBID, posting activit
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by bertil 6y ago
As I mention many time: I know from direct knowledge that the assumptions that you are making are false or misleading. I’m happy to explain why but I see no value in being told that I’m wrong by someone who has less context than me. I respe
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by bertil 6y ago
If someone from Facebook PR reads your response, they’d very much prefer me to not engage with you. I’m assuming that’s obvious but happy to explain why. Because they have more authority over communications, the more you write like that, th
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by bertil 6y ago
> repeating the same tired line that APIs, data standards, and personal control of information are fundamentally at odds with privacy. It’s not in general but it is if you share information with your relatives and they don’t understand t
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by bertil 6y ago
> Facebook’s main issue is having a revenue model dependent on advertising Good news, that changed last year.

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