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by copsarebastards 11y ago
I come across this response quite frequently and I remain mystified why anyone would think that it's important or even a good idea for the millions of people interested in privacy to try to solve privacy issues from the same angle. Ski
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
I would be extremely surprised if a site devoted to monetizing tech ideas didn't try to monetize their tech idea.
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
Uh, have you even been on Reddit? There are definitely people who want to ban words. But even without going that extreme, Person B in your example is way off-base. There's nothing wrong with Person A, they're just experiencing an
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> There's no need to denigrate people who may feel triggered or are offended, though. I think that's a misrepresentation of my opinion. I have nothing against people who feel triggered or offended. Frankly, a lot of the jokes o
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> No one is trying to police thoughts. Except all the people on Reddit who don't want people to use the word "rape" because it's "triggering". > Just because there is more than one cultural definition of
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> I don't buy the "Media vs Reddit" narrative. I don't think this has anything to do with journalism or even intolerance. Right, it's about selling ads. Reddit wants to keep its users (who want free speech) which
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
Nor do they have the obligation to protect the delicate sensibilities of any person on the internet who feels "triggered". The conflict here is that most of Reddit's users want Reddit to support free speech, while advertisers
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> Except they don't - because the people yelling most about "free speech" are the first to throw a hissy fit when someone uses "free speech" to suggest that they're being racist or sexist or whatever. What d
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> How was this different from when Apple anncouned new iPhones, iPads and Apple TV's last month? It's not. I'm not sure why you're asking this.
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
Enlighten me on what you think I don't understand.
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
It's worth noting that there's a huge difference between the eugenics of the past and the eugenics enabled by modern IVF and other genetic technologies. Eugenics of the past primarily reduced the capabilities and rights of peopl
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
I agree with the YAGNI-ish approach, but talking about micro services as if they provide modularity is entirely off-base. The decision to use micro services should be driven by scalability , not modularity . If you're saying that it&
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> I know that if I use Yandex, at least some of my data is going to reside in Russia. If Dailymotion, France. I consider it up to me as a consumer to decide whether that's what I really want. I don't consider it my local govern
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
This is good for everyone's privacy. By making it difficult for businesses to centralize the storage of US and European data, the European court has incentivized businesses to pressure the US government toward laws that respect our pri
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
I agree on "man up" versus "person up", but "bigger person" has exactly the same connotations as "bigger man". To be clear here, I'm not offended by your statement. I think communicating using co
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
You can't think of the word "person"?
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
You can't just talk as if "red tape" is this thing that is just hanging around getting in people's way. Red tape usually exists for one of 2 reasons: 1. Corporations have done something bad that wasn't illegal, so r
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
I don't think Russia can be ignored in light of growing relations between Russia and China. Russia and China have different economic strengths and weaknesses that make a Russian/Chinese bloc stronger than the sum of its parts. A l
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> But, if you have that much of a problem, why form a committee to help smaller companies- why not just make it easier for everyone? How long do we have to try this idiotic idea before we recognize that "making it easier for everyon
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
It has been a while since I flew SouthWest, but I seem to remember them not having in-flight ads. They also have the best in-flight beer selection of anyone I've flown with. Sadly they're domestic only and most of my flights these
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
I tend to believe that skepticism is irrelevant when you have a quality product. The Diaspora folks simply didn't have a quality product, and none has yet emerged in that space.
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> Matthew Crawford, in “The World Beyond Your Head,” contrasts the world of a “peon” airport lounge — saturated in advertising, filled with mesmerizing screens — with the quiet, ad-free world of a business lounge: “To engage in playful,
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
This article is basically just a different definition of the word "boredom" than is being used by most people. It's trying to communicate something insightful (that we should be okay with being alone and undistracted with our
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
Diaspora was written by a bunch of college students who were unqualified to be implementing the security protocols necessary. Given that one of the biggest reasons people want to move off Facebook is security, that's a no-go. The fact
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> Who wants to believe this? It seems pretty lop-sided to accuse the "nature"-skeptics (or "nurture"-proponents) of falling prey to confirmation bias, when our history is littered with much more evidence of the atroci
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
Well, in the nature vs. nurture debate I'm not really interested in taking a side; I want to figure out the truth. I'm relatively certain that it's a split. I just want to caution against a common human bias in favor of nurtu
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
> You're making a distinction that doesn't work. At what point does an email become "tailored"? Five words? Ten? If someone sends you an unsolicited sales pitch that is mostly identical to the one they're sending
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This brings up a number of problems with the current approaches to gathering signal from the noise of DNA, but it's making the deeper argument that DNA may not contain much useful information. I don't think it met the burden of pr
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
Tape a piece of tin foil over your webcam.
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by copsarebastards 11y ago
You're forgetting that we do things that nobody understands and nobody else can do. We can't raise taxes on the rich, sure, but we're uniquely armed to provide technical feedback for legal decisions.

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