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by blitmap 9y ago
I wanted to offer another reply: I think it's dangerous to engineer for moderating against terrorism/extremism. Surely there are things Google and Facebook could do but if it were me I would not want to. There are automated way
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by blitmap 9y ago
At the scale of Google and Facebook, I'm not sure it's possible to individually "know" their customer.
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by blitmap 9y ago
For what definition of extremism? Anyone who encrypts?
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by blitmap 9y ago
So... this post is about Ubuntu, but if we're going down that road: https://medium.com/@philipn/want-to-see-something-crazy-open...
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by blitmap 9y ago
I think it is incredibly cool that we can essentially move a uterus from one woman to several others. Startup idea: Uterent™
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by blitmap 9y ago
I wonder if there would be any issue with creating a service for identifying Congress members (by IP or browser identity or something) to perpetually block them from accessing sites we would consider to be important. There's a danger
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by blitmap 9y ago
I'm not sure HN celebrates products for simply being successfully marketed. That said, I do think they made a way of handling a data model pleasurable. Different paradigm++
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by blitmap 9y ago
I'm of the opinion surveillance will not decrease or stop, so we should find screwy ways of having it work for a societal positive - and not be a fixture in the landscape on the war on terror.
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by blitmap 9y ago
I am hoping feature-testing continues to be a good practice - I don't expect to have webgl, the webusb, or webaudio APIs available...
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by blitmap 9y ago
I was using it like an inside thought? - that's a weird reference to make. I chose an arbitrary number of balanced parenthesis to signify an inside thought.
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by blitmap 9y ago
I will admit that terrorism does not affect me personally here - not in the direct way you have experienced. I am sorry if I seemed insensitive. I feel that largely we don't innovate for the good of society anymore - only to gain grea
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by blitmap 9y ago
I wish as technology becomes available which could be used for more Orwellian surveillance someone stood back and thought about ways it could be used for good rather than defending some absurd fear of terrorist attacks. Like... I remember a
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by blitmap 9y ago
I probably don't understand what I'm looking at. I would like sendFile/sendFileSync - which would abstract over TransferFile on Windows.
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by blitmap 9y ago
My impression was most of the cell towers were owned by either AT&T or Verizon - how can TMobile and others be competitive? I had assumed they were buying to use the networks of the existing 2? I know I'm uninformed, I'm ask
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by blitmap 9y ago
This leads me to think a good technical interview will identify people who strictly fail all or a large majority of the problems posed. Someone who you would want to consider is someone who can reason and navigate most of the technical prob
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by blitmap 9y ago
Are they not bound by ethical rules of conduct like lawyers? :o
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by blitmap 9y ago
Children of Men/Fish
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by blitmap 9y ago
Computerized/electronic voting is extremely dangerous to attempt. That said, I feel like I am not well represented with paper ballots behind an electoral college. I feel that we MUST attempt designing and securing this in the open to
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by blitmap 9y ago
Speaking as a naive outside observer, I am excited with the rumors that Microsoft and Apple will be making a move toward ARM in the nearish future. I don't think ARM is the answer (dear god give us riscv) but I see it as a step in the
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by blitmap 9y ago
You hooked me toward the end: I absolutely hate how older folks seem to covet things they're sentimental about. Lock it in a box or display case and never make it a part of your life. Fuck that - when I inherit the things that remind
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by blitmap 9y ago
I want to say you can 'hint' this by Object.freeze()'ing it.
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by blitmap 9y ago
For me I think movies mean less than they used to. We are spoiled with the amount of entertainment constantly being released to us nowadays. I will not go buy a movie or see a movie at the theater anymore - no matter what it is. It could
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by blitmap 9y ago
I would love something like census data on how much a healthcare provider paid, on top of what a procedure or medicine costs. Not just how much they paid for you or your walking cane, but how much every provider pays for a syringe.
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by blitmap 9y ago
I am a HUGE coffeescript fan. What I liked about flow was seemingly unobtrusive typing/type hinting. I am not a fan of type-strict languages because I spend more time thinking about types and contracts around them than milestones&#x2
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by blitmap 9y ago
SMB attacks can be used against medical facilities. I would reframe this as "both can kill".
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by blitmap 9y ago
I'm imagining a future where systems have become so complex it's impossible to isolate and deactivate a worm. Malware that may not be effective anymore, but persists on the Internet hopping from unmaintained system to unmaintaine
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by blitmap 9y ago
I'm just tired of bundling deals together. I saw an ad online today saying if you're a Twitch Premium user you will get a gold loot box in Overwatch. I just want to enjoy Overwatch, and it feels like those loot boxes almost neve
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by blitmap 9y ago
I don't understand the trend to move from Coffeescript to ES6. I like both, but I write Coffeescript for its concision. I have no issue compiling Coffeescript to ES6 as a separate build step, but I'm not going to write ES6 mysel
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by blitmap 9y ago
I don't want to write off everyone working for the NSA as liars, but NK seems like a good scapegoat. Why would we believe anything the NSA says/reports? They took our trust with our privacy.
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by blitmap 9y ago
I still want npm-search improved. I want to be able to search by tag, constrained by license and with packages that use dependencies I already have installed floated to the top. There are so many ways this could be nicer.

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