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by charlesism 7y ago
Equifax is in the business of selling data. I will grant you that's a good point. I suppose the issue now boils down to whether 20 years is a long time or not. I don't think it is, but I don't see a conclusive way to argue ei
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by charlesism 7y ago
"Equifax was founded by Cator and Guy Woolford in Atlanta, Georgia, as Retail Credit Company in 1899" And the thing is that most people would never knowingly make the privacy vs utility trade-off. The risk (that the entire world
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by charlesism 7y ago
And why is it that we all trust Google is unhackable? I won't be shocked if someday a torrent turns up with billions of private Gmail messages and user search history records.
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by charlesism 7y ago
I scanned this essay for the inevitable "there is more work to be done" line. This time it's "we know our work here is never done, and we want to do more to stay ahead of user expectations."
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by charlesism 7y ago
+1 for teaching me the neologism 'malgorithm'
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by charlesism 7y ago
I'm not convinced that "good ideas will naturally win over bad ideas" applies to twelve year old children. My assumption is that a sizable contingent of tweens explains the tone of many of the internet's worst places.
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by charlesism 7y ago
You can't think of a more likely reason why Saudi Arabia has influence? Wow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...
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by charlesism 7y ago
It's easy to see why the Koch brothers fund this foundation, though that thought does grate a little. I'd rather the person telling me "just be thankful for the system we have!" not be worth $50 billion more than me. Not
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by charlesism 7y ago
You could have picked one up after the video game crash. I think the XL machines wound up selling around $100 in the mid 1980s.
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by charlesism 8y ago
My biggest worry is that a new “Marzipan” music app won’t have any of these features. Well, that's the real problem: is Apple still willing to create, and capable of creating, great desktop software? Apple's plan to
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by charlesism 8y ago
Is Apple going to accept that they’re currently alienating and undermining decades of goodwill by shipping broken computers in mass quantities? I imagine the majority of people who work for Apple understand that. That do
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by charlesism 8y ago
Cheers. I hadn't thought about that. I just saw the photo, and it doesn't look like a pleasant way to work. Screwdriver breaking something off, ESD, etc.
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by charlesism 8y ago
That is true. I didn't realize it was six years old
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by charlesism 8y ago
It would be nice if there were a link to purchase the right jumper. I'd rather spend 50 cents, and permanently enable write access, than mess around with the screwdriver.
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by charlesism 8y ago
the music barely at all. I suspect the reason that excerpt sounds so bad is because the music has several instruments playing at once. One doesn't generally design a vocoder to deal with more than one voice. As that except pl
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by charlesism 8y ago
I'll just reuse my 3 hour old comment from that Youtube post: "There is more work to do" is the understatement of the year.
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by charlesism 8y ago
"There’s more work to be done" is the understatement of the year.
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Risky Business Podcast Discusses Christchurch Attack, Cloudflare(player.fm)
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by charlesism 8y ago
Why would it be a problem that he has a personality disorder? On reflection, it wasn't constructive for me to sound off about his mental health. It's none of my business. If my original comment were still editable,
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by charlesism 8y ago
Cheers. I just feel vicariously embarrassed for him (in regard to his writing here, at least). I can see how one might mistakenly read more into what I wrote than that, but that's all I intended to say.
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by charlesism 8y ago
why do you find it cringe worthy? It's cringe-worthy the way someone who barks "do you not know who I am?" at a McDonalds employee is cringe-worthy. It's the grandiosity and lack of self-awareness.
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by charlesism 8y ago
he's aware of it. He comes off like someone who suffered abuse and mockery as a child. Was he aware he sounded like that? I doubt it. That said, a behavior can be both cringe-worthy, and also productive. I can think of certai
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by charlesism 8y ago
If you know the symptoms of NPD, this stuff is cringe-worthy... I'm a bastard. I have absolutely no clue why people can ever think otherwise. Yet they do. People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm
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by charlesism 8y ago
The internet, as a whole, doesn't learn lessons easily. Edgelords grow up, younger edgelords come online and replace them. It's always September.
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by charlesism 8y ago
Dennis Ritchie's "anti-preface" to this handbook contains the hard-to-forget metaphor: your book is a pudding stuffed with apposite observations, many well-conceived. Like excrement, it contains enough undige
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by charlesism 8y ago
At any rate, as far as distribution by private companies goes, that's my view. Before someone jumps on me, I don't think government should outlaw documentation of atrocities, etc.
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That anyone feels the public has some "right" to watch other people die turns my stomach. I didn't grow up on 4chan, or watching far-right propaganda on Youtube, so I still see sadism as a character flaw, not a virtue.
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by charlesism 8y ago
to prevent people watching or reading or thinking or smelling things we do not like If a person ever finds himself supporting the distribution of a snuff film, that person might do some introspection and ask how he got to tha
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by charlesism 8y ago
Maybe that will be a rallying cry during the next civil war: "We're entitled to watch snuff films on Facebook!"
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by charlesism 8y ago
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg reportedly spoke with President Trump earlier Tuesday, urging him not to ground the jet. Great priorities there, Dennis! /s

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