cblades

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by cblades 7y ago
Because you have to eat, and eating a Big Mac isn't unhealthy. Eating a Big Mac several times a week is. You don't have to intake nicotine, at all.
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by cblades 7y ago
Says who? What long-term studies have there been on the effects of vaping?
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by cblades 7y ago
Maybe "unreadable" and "readable" aren't the best ways to approach this conversation. It's certainly less readable than, say, my_str.strip()
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by cblades 7y ago
I could understand not being happy about it, but I don't understand the desire to make google or waze be at fault here. Those drivers are ultimately responsible for where they drive, and in any case, the way they are using the roads i
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by cblades 7y ago
well, there's a lot of value in ground cover. Now, a conversation about moving to native plants instead of grass everywhere would probably be worth having.
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by cblades 7y ago
Even then, unless they are coupled with a comprehensive psychological evaluation that could identify sociopathy, they could not be considered a useful tool (generously assuming that they have any truth-discerning usefulness to begin with).
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by cblades 7y ago
Which is why they are interested in the applicant lying about those contacts. The application will provide an opportunity to disclose foreign contacts.
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by cblades 7y ago
A large number of people already believe that devices and apps are constantly listening and sending recordings home, despite there being no evidence for that. It's a rampant belief supported by "I was talking to Jimmy about these
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by cblades 7y ago
It was prompted, it's just that the match for the activation phrase was incorrectly identified. That's not the same thing as the near-universally believed internet truism that these devices are always listening and sending recordi
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by cblades 7y ago
No one that gives it more than a passing thought could fail to realize that there has to be some human interaction. Someone has to do manual transcription to check against output for some portion of the data.
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by cblades 7y ago
HN is not an audience of CS and Stats academics, or those familiar with the literature in those fields.
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by cblades 7y ago
I agree, but I think this issue is incredibly mishandled by reporting. The title in the linked article being a great example. There is absolutely no proof of number 2 in your list, but that is by far the widest-held belief. It's inf
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by cblades 7y ago
Those aren't comparable things though. Our driver training just flat-out isn't robust enough to support a similar system, and there's only one person in control of the car. He's also leaving out checklist-driven procedu
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by cblades 7y ago
It's a metaphor. It's not meant to be taken literally.
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by cblades 7y ago
Not who you're responding to, but: >and the parser can deal with it. That's not ideal. You need a defined schema so that the majority of parsers can reliably parse the majority of objects. >in my projects we typically would
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by cblades 7y ago
So you're asking if they'll comply with legal court orders? They've already said they will.
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by cblades 7y ago
What does real-time surveillance mean in your question?
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by cblades 7y ago
In your world, is there no room for mistakes? Do you expect your service providers to not make mistakes? Do you think that acknowledging mistakes and agreeing to fix them is a desirable outcome?
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by cblades 7y ago
Where does proton mail advertise or promise to offer a service that fulfills those obligations?
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by cblades 7y ago
>Isn't it more likely that the state prosecutor spilled the beans? No, why would it be? As you point out, they've disclosed turning on logging in response to a legal request. Why then deny the event?
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by cblades 7y ago
What's the allegation here? The mail stored on proton's servers is encrypted. If you send that mail elsewhere, it's subject to the security of the receiving server and any intermediary servers. That's not secret, or hi
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by cblades 7y ago
What does real-time surveillance mean to you? You're asking a loaded question. Of course they have access to some real-time data re users.
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by cblades 7y ago
Your second bit is a non-sequitur. Climate change is not a simple factor of how many trees there are, and no one claims that to be the case.
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by cblades 7y ago
No it's not. The privacy debate is not black and white, especially concerning the obligation of service-providers to go to bat for every customer that a lawfully designated entity has the legal authority to investigate. In the blac
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by cblades 7y ago
twice as long?! That is nuts, what's the math on that. Am I wrong in understanding that to mean, e.g., in lots of places the life expectancy was 40 and now it's 80?
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by cblades 7y ago
I don't know if that would be in the flight manual. Presumably that's more a tactical/combat doctrine type thing.
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by cblades 7y ago
The person you're responding to didn't say that. I'll go out on a limb and say this though: right-focused news organizations have conditioned the US conservative base to believe highly editorialized articles that aren't
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by cblades 7y ago
> Should regulators really be preventing a team of people from buying up historical intellectual property? That's not the question, is it? Take any monopoly from history and examine individual purchases, and they can usually be r
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by cblades 7y ago
Ah, from your other comments I thought you were an American for some reason. That makes sense. I think the difference is the size of the US. I've traveled a fair bit for work, but never been asked to leave the country. Jobs that do
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by cblades 7y ago
This is a sincere question: what's your background that you have such a skewed perspective of US travel tendencies?

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