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by creato 6y ago
What is your definition of comfortable? Because if 20 year old mostly single people earning the average income isn't it, then I'm not sure your expectation is realistic. Even if you redistribute all income equally, the average i
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by creato 6y ago
Why does this post need to appear any time C++ is a topic? Do you learn and use all of any language you use?
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by creato 6y ago
> A good example can be seen in Airbnb’s introduction to Project Lighthouse, which states that the company was “deeply troubled by stories of travelers who were turned away by Airbnb hosts during the booking process because of the color
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by creato 6y ago
In this situation, the privacy violation of becoming a suspect via location history is an utterly negligible problem. What you describe could just as easily happen in a traffic stop (and in fact probably far more likely).
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by creato 6y ago
> Credentialism is a tool governments/businesses use keep control of the labor situation. If this were the only factor, then businesses that simply stopped requiring a college degree would have a huge advantage over those that did
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by creato 6y ago
Twitter almost always tells me I'm "rate limited" (can't remember the exact wording), even though it's usually the first and only time I've clicked on a twitter link in weeks or months. edit: And FWIW, I'm
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by creato 6y ago
> many intelligent people with no morals (or just desperate, threatened etc.). This comment is somehow bothersome. Only intelligent people are capable of buying and flying a drone? Or only intelligent people should know better? This is a
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by creato 6y ago
It really seems like it would depend on the topology and capacity of the various routes. Just having more of them isn't necessarily the same as having more flexibility in routing.
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by creato 6y ago
I doubt Anonymous was "dismantled" by anyone. Groups like this just aren't stable. People get bored.
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by creato 6y ago
This reasoning also (especially?) applies to voting. Trying to make voting "efficient" is not worth it when we do it rarely and we have not had a problem just getting people to count ballots manually.
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by creato 6y ago
The words "macho" and "machismo" come from Portuguese. I've been told that Latino South and Central American machismo culture is very toxic compared "even" to US standards. But then again, I didn't re
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by creato 6y ago
Understand that the ad industry isn't a monolith. The advertisers shoveling shit ads onto local news websites aren't making some grand bargain for short term revenue at the expense of long term consequences (blocking, etc.). Those
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by creato 6y ago
> No. Physical goods are actually scarce. Making copies costs lots of money and finite resources. Making copies of data is as easy as copy paste. Not nearly as scarce as the price of an iPhone would suggest. Physical goods have counterfe
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by creato 6y ago
Exactly. If you dislike DRM, you should be cheering operations like this. I'd much rather see piracy fought by pursuing egregious offenders, and not crippling consumer hardware or suing randos using napster for $5k a pop.
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by creato 6y ago
I agree with you completely, except I think gun control is a lost cause, and attempting anything significant here is a disastrous waste of political capital. The degree of gun control required to change this dynamic (that police need to ant
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by creato 6y ago
That doesn't mean 66% of black adults want to defund the police. I'm sure they, along with many others, want changes in police behavior and improved accountability, but that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with fundin
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by creato 6y ago
Did you read the article? Or forget the title of this thread? Anecdotes aside, there doesn't seem to be a significant difference between races on their opinions of police (and whether they want more or less of them in their neighborhoo
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by creato 6y ago
There are only two end states here if you insist on this reasoning: either Chinese companies dominate the world, because they can exist under their laws and ours but companies from other countries cannot; or the western world adopts laws li
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by creato 6y ago
Haven't they? The whole point here is that where the HQ legally is located really has nothing to do with where the people actually are.
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by creato 6y ago
> CalFire, either deliberately or due to sheer stupidity, chose to take no action. All this is documented. If it's documented, link to such documentation.
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by creato 6y ago
Why not?
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by creato 6y ago
The people that were bribed were prosecuted. At least one (from a quick googling) appears to have gotten a stiffer sentence (albeit not by much) than these two. It was probably evidence they provided that led to the convictions of the peo
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by creato 6y ago
I'm not making an argument for or against Uber. Just explaining why they didn't just eat the cost of this because it would have been insignificant/cheaper than fighting it.
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by creato 6y ago
That's really missing the point. Recommendation engines are a lot more dumb than you are thinking. They don't understand the content at all. They only know that thousands of users that watched the same videos as you in the past al
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by creato 6y ago
> And yet their argument is they can't afford to spend $300M to cover driver benefits and pay into state unemployment insurance. You compared global market cap/revenue losses to just the impact of CA. What happens when other ma
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by creato 6y ago
How are they colluding? Both google and apple seem to be trying to commoditize each other's (very different) cash cows and both are mostly failing at that. At least, google is failing miserably to make a dent in smartphone hardware, ap
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by creato 6y ago
It just isn't something most people buying electronics care about, and there are real tradeoffs with size, weight, and aesthetic design choices. Combine those factors, and it's easy to see why the economics don't work. Making
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by creato 6y ago
My impression is that california uniquely empowers individuals to obstruct projects with myriad legal mechanisms that are easy to initiate but expensive to fight.
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by creato 6y ago
The issue is it would seem the file needs to be an MSI file to get signature validation, but need to be a .jar file to run the malicious part. Transparently going from "File passes signature verification" to "running the jar
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by creato 6y ago
Does (5) happen automatically when running the file as an MSI file? If not, this doesn't seem that severe. If so, it's pretty severe.

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