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by cryptoz 5y ago
The secret is out. That's the point. Not many people were talking about it before. The "secret". Now a lot of people are talking about it. The secret is now "out". There have been lots of highly-upvoted and heavily-
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by cryptoz 5y ago
> Right but when people post about a new tech, they don't say "Tech's dirty little secret is out". Sure they do, in droves: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Tech%27s+dirty+little+sec... > What&#
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by cryptoz 5y ago
Sure, tech isn't new either. People have been doing startups and tech forever, it's nothing new. Better not have any discussions about tech since it's old news. Humans have always been innovating.
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by cryptoz 5y ago
There's a lot of tech nostalgia for old software. Just for fun is plenty reason enough. I also bet there are people out there who prefer it. I wonder if it is snappier than Word? I just opened MS Word on a recent Mac and it took 5-7 se
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by cryptoz 5y ago
His Mars trilogy includes a plot device where the Martians invent the biotech necessary for 400+ year lifespans - initially they try to keep it a secret, but it doesn't last as a secret for long. When word spreads to Earth, the debates
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by cryptoz 5y ago
It sounds like we agree, then? 90 years ago, the US sentenced a man to 3 months in prison for being atheist. Yes, we don't do that today. I know that. I am not at any point trying to say that the US has worse religious or gender laws t
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by cryptoz 5y ago
I don't know what point you are trying to make. Yes, I know that the laws are worse in Pakistan than the US. But the US still also has the death penalty and in fact uses it to kill people who are mentally ill and unable to defend thems
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by cryptoz 5y ago
Yes, I know it is worse there than here. Reading up on the US history, it seems like 'being' gay was only legalized/protected by the supreme court in the early 2000s. And even, "Fourteen states either have not yet formal
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by cryptoz 5y ago
It's not that much different from the US, though, really, is it? Gay people couldn't marry here in most places until just a few years ago. And still, this country has raging huge debates about who is allowed to use which restroom,
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by cryptoz 5y ago
You cut out the part in About where they hint at it being important here even. "But we go a step further, merging incredible on-the-ground support with app-based services for a seamless experience for all our guests" It sounds lik
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by cryptoz 5y ago
A government that ignores climate change loses far more trust than one who pays attention and acts in response. Permitting the building of new pipelines is absolutely a sign of an untrustworthy government. A government needs to be able to c
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Relativity Space unveils fully reusable, 3D-printed Terran R rocket(space.com)
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by cryptoz 5y ago
I'm also confused. But it seems like the tweet in question is a false story that could be libel/defamation or something? He later issues a 'correction' (why not delete the original wrong tweet?) that says that the story
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by cryptoz 5y ago
I certainly didn't mean to be complaining. I'm more just confused and trying to improve. I thought little stories of using linux/unix tools to peek inside early internet spyware was a guaranteed point of interest on HN, espec
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by cryptoz 5y ago
I remember about 10 years ago a college roommate and I ran `strings` on bonzi.exe and found some horrors. I think there are strings in there that specifically tell kids to go get their parent's credit cards and type in the numbers.
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by cryptoz 5y ago
> If we have video of, say, an armed robbery, and we (only) use software to get a suspect list before we have human beings looking at mug shots, what is the alleged downside? Based on my reading of the article, the 'alleged' do
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by cryptoz 5y ago
> It's hard to believe that prosecutors can be like, "The computer says it's you, so you're guilty." Why is that hard to believe? The article very explicitly and clearly quotes a lawyer who says that is pretty m
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by cryptoz 5y ago
The article and discussion is not about privacy. The people against facial recognition are against it, at least in this case, because it is racist - or at least, it produces racist outcomes. Removing bias from facial recognition is the pr
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by cryptoz 5y ago
The linked source is a Sinclair News outlet. They are probably the worst media conglomerate in America honestly. Their news is constant fear and I view anything by them as poisonous information because it is just as likely meant to mislead
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by cryptoz 5y ago
Can you still catch a bus in Montreal at 26:30h? :) Used to be able to see bus schedules online for busses STM well-passed the 24h mark. Something about the technology not being ready for late-night busses on the 'next day' being
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by cryptoz 5y ago
I remember feeling fancy as a teenager when I implemented MDI for a Windows application. Likely an HTML editor. Probably in VB6, maybe VC++. I just did it because I could and now I wonder how many big corps also did that because they co
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by cryptoz 5y ago
My favorite monopoly games are those where the players have played together before, and agree on a set of custom rules to the game in advance, and are fast-paced. I remember having rules added like loans and interest, and effectively unlimi
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by cryptoz 5y ago
It's tcook@apple.com
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by cryptoz 5y ago
Related, I emailed Tim Cook about iPhone sensor future plans, and a high-level exec of like 25+ years wrote back to me within a week. Apple is remarkably good at getting back to cold emails to top execs.
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by cryptoz 5y ago
I don't agree with that. I think often hours in, the top comments often get more offensive here. Not less. The garbage floating to the bottom is not my experience here. > In general, the HN system (tech+mods+community) rewards thoug
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by cryptoz 5y ago
Your experience on HN does not resemble mine at all. I'm frequently downvoted for controversial opinions. And I see a lot of outrage and disinformation here. And on twitter I see little outrage and disinformation. Our experiences are s
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by cryptoz 5y ago
> No wonder it hasn't become a toxic wasteland. It is a toxic wasteland, though, at least sometimes. Also depends on who you are and how you experience the world - HN can be a very ugly place. HN is no cakewalk. There are lots of ve
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by cryptoz 5y ago
Both of those things happen on Earth today. Haven't seen the show or read the book or whatever, but those both seem totally believable to me. Earth mining is often done in horrendous and poor conditions. Megacorps and industry do kill
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by cryptoz 5y ago
> I've never had a fake product Are you really certain about that? The fakes are so good sometimes I don't notice for a year or two. There are so many ways of faking different products, and the fakers are getting really really
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by cryptoz 5y ago
Related, but not wormholes: Last night I watched this video on loop for a long time, of stars at the center of our galaxy orbiting the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. Really a mind-blowing video. https://www.eso.org/

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