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by blunte 6y ago
Google uses non-human automation to make some decisions, including banning accounts. As others have mentioned, this is not unreasonable as long as there is a reasonable (in terms of time and effort) path to disputing a ban - i.e., speaking
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by blunte 6y ago
This will always be a cat and mouse game, although you would think Apple could have done better here. Perhaps a more effective solution would be for Apple to aggressively legally pursue bad actors like the group that churns out these apps.
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by blunte 6y ago
Unclear writing and mistakes may indeed be present, but it is quite bold to question their literacy. In any case, that article references now removed text from the bill. The current text of the bill can be found at its source: https:&#x2F
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by blunte 6y ago
The crypto world is rife with scams and thieves, but so too are the traditional financial systems. There are two key differences, however: 1. The scale of wrongdoing in the crypto world is insignificant compared to in traditional systems.
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by blunte 6y ago
I have experienced the same disabling and stonewalling in the past, and only because I tried to create a new account months after deleting my old one. It’s quite difficult to break community standards when your account is only 2 minutes old
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by blunte 6y ago
Consider also the zero-sum advantage that powerful or wealthy people have which directly works against poor or upstart individuals. In the case of the cab medallion, if Uber had been fully held to the law in terms of regulations, then the t
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by blunte 6y ago
Stupid title. Could just as easily say ‘Is Cash a Scam?’ The tech may be far from ideal, but broadly labeling it as a scam is just poor journalism. How people use it can be scammy. How governments regulate it may be scammy (corrupt). But
818.
by blunte 6y ago
I don't know about TV Detector vans, but I know about Cat Detector vans...
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by blunte 6y ago
Strange. My work laptop is a 2019 13" pro with only an i5 and 16GB RAM, and I very rarely have any problems. On the rare times I do, it's usually because some app went nuts and needs to be killed. Google Hangouts, however, is a
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by blunte 6y ago
In the developer use cases I described, video memory should not be a big concern. (Edit - also, my described scenario is on my 2019 13" MBP with 16GB RAM, i5 CPU, and puny Intel GPU.)
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by blunte 6y ago
TL;DR: 16GB is enough for most use cases on Intel Macs, so it should be as good or better on M1 Macs. In my experience with 16GB Intel Macs for years, I have never had memory problems. I'm sure there are some large data migration case
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by blunte 6y ago
Good managers are very much worth their salaries. I daresay that good managers are more rare than good software developers. Or rather, a mediocre software developer can accomplish more than a mediocre manager, since the managerial job is
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by blunte 6y ago
I too lament the comparatively low tech salaries in Europe. But I suspect the comparatively higher quality of living keeps us happy enough that we won't move (back, in my case) to the US for just more income. That said, this new +remo
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by blunte 6y ago
London is hugely expensive, so tech salaries should be higher there to attract workers. Also, finance generally pays better than other industries (although banking in Netherlands pays typically low-average); but trading and investment compa
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by blunte 6y ago
Had Trump not been President, he would have been ejected long ago for violating Twitter standards and terms. One could argue that it was unreasonable for Twitter to give him special extra leeway compared to other users, up until it finally
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by blunte 6y ago
I suspect it's also about being visibly popular compared to other people on the platform. What good are "ratings" if you are the only person on a given rating system.
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by blunte 6y ago
What does the "Health Secretary" have to do with tech regulation? [edit: I would think the UK Health Secretary should be pretty specifically focused on the growing health crisis at home rather than interviewing on topics outside h
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by blunte 6y ago
I have plenty of karma to spend here. While I tend to be a caring person, I recognize that some people are so broken that there is no hope for rehabilitation of them. Donald Trump clearly has been trying to seek approval and validation fro
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by blunte 6y ago
I would trust Apple over Facebook or Google any day for the simple reason that Apple makes its money by selling hardware (and being a monopolistic gatekeeper of many of the apps that run on that hardware). WRT the gatekeeper aspect, which
830.
by blunte 6y ago
I would say Signal, for now. Since last year when the European Commission urged its staff to switch from WhatsApp to Signal, I've noticed a lot more of my contacts becoming available on Signal. I've been using Signal for some tim
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by blunte 6y ago
If by "not overly" you mean "completely and invisibly", then sure. There's extra financial value in knowing who is attracted to whom. I cannot imagine just how terrible the privacy must be for people dating via Face
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by blunte 6y ago
I used Python and taught my 10yo son by working with him to design a text adventure game. While we were doing it together, he was engaged and enjoying it. His ability to understand and learn was never a challenge. The challenge was that a
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by blunte 6y ago
And their system is entirely designed to create echo chambers amongst users. Those groups are easier to manipulate with ads, and naturally there are corps and PACs with motives and money ready to pay to manipulate.
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by blunte 6y ago
The more we learn about Facebook, the worse the story gets. To consider what people get out of Facebook vs what it gets out of them... I actually cannot come up with a suitable analogy. Are Facebook engineers willfully ignorant, or do they
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by blunte 6y ago
It's a fairly common English expression that's used especially when giving a quote for development of some product or service to a client (or manager): "Good, cheap, and fast: pick two". Cheap is just the everyday word f
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by blunte 6y ago
Here on HN we see articles and posts on a regular basis of how the big tech companies have squashed or simply blackholed users. There are two common issues in these stories: 1. it's vague or entirely not stated why the event occurred,
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by blunte 6y ago
1. It is the net which has caught most humans, so it makes sense to focus energy on the biggest negative (assuming you agree that it is negative) target. 2. It, and in my opinion Zuckerberg, is a wolf in sheep's clothing. To be somewh
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by blunte 6y ago
Making someone else money is not the problem. Doing so without getting any satisfaction beyond just earning a paycheck - that's when it gets depressing. Or worse... doing so on a project which you know is doomed, and thus costs your
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by blunte 6y ago
This doesn't help TFA, but building a successful business is usually really difficult (based on what has been seen and written about other successful businesses). Also, many entrepreneurs fail multiple times before succeeding at a bus
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by blunte 6y ago
Well, getting attention is step 1. And it seems that sometimes unusually odd (ugly or just different from the norm) ads pique people's curiosities.

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