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by bosswipe 6y ago
There's no way they used machine learning here. My guess it was some simple rules like older doctors go first. I wouldn't even call it an algorithm. I think algorithm is a weasly way for the administrator to make it sound more com
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Yea that makes no sense. The mobile ecosystem is already out of sync in this regard since iOS allows users to disable the ad tracking ID while Android does not, you're only allowed to reset it.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
I find it annoying that 3rd party analytics gets lumped in with ad tracking. Analytics is incredibly useful for improving products, it lets you see where users are having a hard time and it lets you do experiments and measure the results. I
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by bosswipe 6y ago
It's so weird to me this type of comment pops up on every firefox discussion, but I use firefox on mac everyday and it's rock solid, never run into any problems.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
There was a perl vs python religious war back then that generated a lot of online vitriol. Which made some sense since they were competing for mindshare in the same space. Obviously Python won that war, but it's interesting to think ho
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by bosswipe 6y ago
That was retaliatory. We're already in a war.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Interestingly the commissioner that dissented is a Trump appointee.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
It's one of the bigger names in the network monitoring space. Most network and systems people that work for a big enough company will have at least heard of them.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
FWIW, I'm also sceptical of comments like yours. A nation state involved in a lot of hacking would be interested in spreading your kind of doubts on social media. I'm not trying to accuse you personally, I don't know you from
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by bosswipe 6y ago
When Gebru presented her demand letter and resignation threat James Dean probably thought she had no leverage and moved quickly against her. That was an extremely poor calculation.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
> and then disprove them. It is impossible to disprove conspiracy theories. No matter how many judges laugh Trump out of court millions of people will believe for the rest of their lives that their was massive voter fraud.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
The previous loser was pretty quiet about it. There was a special prosecutor appointed based on credible evidence that kept it in the news.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Pretty interesting to see how much glee many people take in anything negative about California. What is that about? No other state gets so much hate.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
It's always amazing when I talk to conservatives about california how they know so many little negative details about my state. A lot of times I'll ask them about the budget of their own state and they won't have any idea.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
> very left-wing sources like NY Times and Politico. Those are not very left-wing sources. Edit: to the downvoters, this is objectively true. In actual leftist media NYT is considered conservative. The reality is that they are mostly mai
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Also I think GCC's loss of prominence due to LLVM hurts the pull of the whole GPL ecosystem.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Huh, I don't think I've ever heard any bad midwestern stereotypes.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Travel is the obvious unaddressed issue in the US. This recent surge started with a big spike in the midwest then slowly spread to the rest of the country. Without interstate travel restrictions these lockdown end up being wasted painful sa
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Huh? I wasn't talking about legal stuff.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
If I said something bad about "red necks" or other such subcultures people would get angry and indignant. But somehow it's become OK to make disparaging comments like that about San Franciscans.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Closed systems didn't stop Apple.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
> DNS over HTTPS is a thing now I'm one of those "idiots" whose been whistling in the wind against encryption of everything and all kinds of security lockdowns and it's because of this sort of thing. The theoretical t
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by bosswipe 6y ago
The New York Times didn't come up with the idea of the Iraq War. The Iraq War was the official policy of the United States government.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
There's been more than a few terrorist incidents connected to forums like 8chan. In terms of the physical damage these attacks are not a threat to society but that's true of all terrorism. The argument normally is that the psychol
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Ethics is inherently "PR, ideology, and politics" since the ethicist has to select a set of foundational moral principles to work off of but that set won't be universally shared by everyone.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
No, the Republican platform is for a giant central state but all the resources to be used only for military and police. (Though the policing is only for common people, policing of corporations or rich people is to be defunded and labeled as
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by bosswipe 6y ago
The LeCun affair is pretty good evidence that she's a hot head who's more than willing to provoke public drama.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
A powerful Saudi Arabia has not been a force for good in the world so I don't know why I'm supposed to worry about it.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
I agree, a memory managed language will always beat the borrow checker in expressiveness, ergonomics, simplicity, maintainability. Unless you're writing system-level or low-latency apps I don't see the benefit to Rust. If you need
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Imagine we lived in a culture that did not believe "government is always bad at everything". Government could then pay Google-level salaries and provide Google-level resources to the top minds in the world and give them free rein

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