buran77

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by buran77 4y ago
You start with a definite "no" but are actually saying exactly what I said, just in other words. Except the last paragraph which seems like a very naive interpretation of what I said. There's no implication of "kindness
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by buran77 4y ago
> The amazing part, is that, it somehow works most of the time. Of course. The Western world doesn't operate so well because there's no or even less corruption. It's rather because there's a lot more money floating ar
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by buran77 4y ago
OK... so would you call any US farmer with some fertilizer and a tank of diesel a terrorist and rain bombs on them? Or is it arbitrarily reserved for countries on the other side of the world? For defense... You know, the irony is that as lo
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by buran77 4y ago
> has no bearing on top-level commenters career decisions Of course not! Nothing I say here is aimed at influencing career decisions. OP's life choices are their own. I clearly targeted 2 ostensibly objective statements. One was the
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by buran77 4y ago
Do you apply this principle consistently or only when and how it suits you? Yes, absolutely it is a trick question. Are you aware of any case where the US went to war under pretenses known to be false from the start, or interfered in the in
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by buran77 4y ago
> in both cases, the USA called soldiers to fight “to arms to defend their own country” Having a justification doesn't mean it must be a good justification. The WMD that didn't exist? Being the close ally of the country tha
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by buran77 4y ago
I am not against any military, I understand their role in the modern world. I can also simply recognize the moral and ethical objections to collaborating with any of them. This being said, in the "civilized" world (the "us&
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by buran77 4y ago
> Gray area. I'm sure you believe you set something straight but you did not. Two things can be true at the same time and still not be in any kind of gray area. Can you get out of a murder charge by saving someone else's life?
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by buran77 4y ago
> Soldiers will need to go fight either way for defensive purposes and they need to be trained "Defensive purposes" is one hell of a creative license. You know it when soldiers "need to go fight" on the other side of
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by buran77 4y ago
> A fish is unable to leave As surprising as it may sound, I think more fish manage to wiggle away from the hook than are caught. Ask any fisherman. They wiggle away with a mouth full of blood, which is what the users who have to migrate
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by buran77 4y ago
> they do that knowing very well that there is a certain kind of lock-in This is the core of the issue. A user will genuinely come to the platform for those features and then is locked in. The lock in will sometimes even cost the user mo
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by buran77 4y ago
> I don't give a shit what Google has to say [...] I do care is what the laws actually are Well this time it happens to be one and the same. > When it's legal to do it against one political classification of persons, but it&
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by buran77 4y ago
I see you are repeating something patently wrong and even adding some equally wrong "spice" to it, like that cash notes are non fungible by design , which is somehow "literally an inseparable part of their physical existence
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by buran77 4y ago
I'd have to agree with GP here. It wasn't at all obvious for almost anyone that Intel can get so quickly to the level of performance Arc offers. After decades of bottom of the barrel iGPUs in a span of 2-3 years they went to decen
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by buran77 4y ago
> then I would be more frustrated by the "regulatory mess" That's not how regulation works. No man made law can make something actually impossible . It's there to define what you're allowed to do or not, and ser
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by buran77 4y ago
> But it will be a very long time before any of this data is used in the name of evil. I'm surprised that people here are honestly giving Amazon the benefit of the doubt when it comes to data collection. Or asking "what could A
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by buran77 4y ago
The bar for China successfully leveraging some damaging information on a US citizen in the US is pretty high. Meaning they have to have something very damning against a person in a position of interest. Not impossible but narrow. The bar fo
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by buran77 4y ago
I guess it all depends on how interested someone is in the specific problem. The war on drugs makes a mule an accomplice. The war on piracy makes a hosting platform an accomplice. Particularly when they are aware of the issue and don't
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by buran77 4y ago
The problem with zero sum game performance reviews is that they're not about improving performance but about fitting everyone in the same boxes. And this usually results in ridiculous outcomes, some of which are particularly bad depend
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by buran77 4y ago
But that's the misconception, that car accidents/fatalities are somehow all unique and with a unique solution to be applied individually. In the end almost all of them boil down to the same few root causes: alcohol, speed, no seat
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by buran77 4y ago
> So of course the natural reaction is to shrug in the former case, because there's no obvious connection between them I don't think a common cause is what makes the difference, and you see it with lung cancer due to smoking. T
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by buran77 4y ago
An yet I wouldn't immediately jump to the conclusion that it's "security theater" because it only protects you from the vast majority of attacks and it may still be vulnerable to many 0-days. By this definition we have n
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by buran77 4y ago
But you're starting with the wrong assumption: that people focus on having the best option in each situation. The people buying Airpods probably know they're not the best headphones or microphone. They are the best jack of all tra
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by buran77 4y ago
As someone intimately familiar with the underbelly of the system I can add 3) most of the local corrupting pressure historically came from smaller (than big tech) companies outside of tech so less of a spotlight on them in forums like this
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by buran77 4y ago
> What matters here is the definition from those platform I do not agree and I really don't see you being able to support this. They are just different categories of malware. Malware is defined by its characteristics, not the "
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by buran77 4y ago
Exclusive breastfeeding means the mother's presence is essential, she has to be available most of the time as the primary care giver. Due to the way modern societies and nuclear families work, it's reasonable to assume that it&#x2
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by buran77 4y ago
> They share similarity, but they are still seen as two separate categories of software Malware isn't really a uniform category of software. They can be harmful in a lot of different ways. Something like a kernel level anti-cheat is
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by buran77 4y ago
In all honesty you should rarely (if ever) patch or reboot all Prod servers in a single wave. No matter how much testing you think you've done in your development or pre-production environments something will still surprise you in prod
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by buran77 4y ago
Joke aside, your car probably has a mobile connection by now and even the dealer/manufacturer has access to the data which means authorities don't need more than to purchase it. So you might want to leave the car at home too. And
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by buran77 4y ago
I wouldn't put automatic transmission in the same bucket as touchscreen buttons and whatnot. The former makes the life more convenient for the driver. The latter makes the life more convenient for the manufacturer and less convenient t

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