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by deong 9y ago
Not really. I could spend time and energy building filters that matched current known patterns, but those filters probably won't be very good. Suppose instead of a stroke it had been a gun accident. I'm not confident I could succe
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by deong 9y ago
It's interesting that, to my eye at least, we've flipped that dynamic completely. Generalizing a bit from stereos, you're talking about government limiting the rights of individuals to maintain a common good. To the extent th
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by deong 9y ago
There's a hard limit to what I as a user can reliably express in terms of explicit rules. I have a cousin I was pretty close to growing up. She mostly uses Facebook to post anti-vaccine nonsense and occasional bits of thinly-veiled pro
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by deong 9y ago
> Your statement that IBM could sue company using a clean-room developed re-implementation of IMB's BIOS if IBM owned a copyright to their BIOS is incorrect as a matter of law. To the extent that it's relevant here, that appear
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by deong 9y ago
But Oracle vs. Google is the citation. Google previously won based on Fair Use . By definition, that court considered APIs to be copyrightable. If they weren't, the case would have been adjudicated on those grounds instead of the
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by deong 9y ago
If it's actually someone attempting to make money on a short or to benefit from a working relationship with a competitor, then a bug bounty program does nothing. No one can run a bounty program that pays out anywhere near as much as th
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by deong 9y ago
But that's the only practical thing it could be. Suppose you shoot yourself in the head. What's the doctor supposed to put down as the cause of death? All he knows is that a bullet destroyed part of your brain. He doesn't kno
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by deong 9y ago
I'm not sure you understand what differential privacy is. Apple still has your data. If there's a breach, an attacker gets your data. It's probably encrypted, just as it is with pretty much any modern system where user data i
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by deong 9y ago
It's also conflating a bunch of stuff that goes into Google's valuation that isn't directly tied to ownership of your data. Once upon a time, Google just made a search engine, and that search engine quickly took over the worl
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by deong 9y ago
Akureyri isn't really a "small town" by Icelandic standards though. Once you get into the actual small towns over on the eastern side of the country for example, English proficiency is much, much lower. But yeah, certainly th
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by deong 9y ago
The problem is that we generally rely on human intelligence to fill in gaps in specs that are really not stupid for a human. AI will exploit gaps that a human would basically say aren't there until they see evidence to the contrary. So
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by deong 9y ago
You'll find pretty quickly that the exact techniques that worked so well in learning to play Atari games very often fail spectacularly when you have to introduce goal-steering. Reinforcement learning turns out to be fantastically cleve
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by deong 9y ago
I didn't lump him in with racists. I explicitly said the opposite. I just used racist views as an example of an opinion you're not allowed to share, even if asked for your opinion on racial matters. Since you missed it, the point
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by deong 9y ago
I'm not sure why it seems so revelatory to people that there are some opinions you don't get to express out loud without consequence, even if you're asked about them. If my boss says, "Hey deong, what do you think about
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by deong 9y ago
Yes, like Marxism. Which is why no one is actually advocating for Marxism.
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by deong 9y ago
Exactly. I have nothing invested in the story some random guy on Reddit is telling. Why not take it at face value? If I'm going to go tell a bunch of friends about it or take some action myself based on it, then sure, I'm going to
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by deong 9y ago
Microsoft hasn't been too different in that regard. In terms of interfaces with any real userbase to speak of, the only real Microsoft UI systems I can come up with could be characterized as * MS-DOS/Windows 3.1-like * Windows 95-
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by deong 9y ago
If you're already landless, Amazon coming in isn't going to help you become landed, outside of a handful of the earliest people to get in before the speculators hit. They'll create high paying jobs, but they'll create eq
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by deong 9y ago
And I started using Google's phones because I could see the potential for things like B. Hell yes, I want my phone to be aware of things in my email inbox. I want it to be more aware.
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by deong 9y ago
It does seem like that is the problem a lot of people have. Google does explicitly ask you for permission to do this. And whenever someone in this thread points that out, someone replies with some variation of "yeah, but they probabl
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by deong 9y ago
Some markets do. There are many examples of markets that don't -- enough that there's a recognized term for it ("Natural Monopoly"). I would argue that the level of knowledge, talent, and engineering and scientific res
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by deong 9y ago
Well, he does talk about having too many PhD students to really mentor them well. For better or worse, TT professors at modern R1 universities aren't really there to contribute to undergraduate education. They're there to do resea
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by deong 9y ago
"no known breach or defect" Except for the many thousands that have been known, from every exploitable vulnerability that's allowed an iOS jailbreak to every security fix in every patch in the nearly two decades of OS X (and
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by deong 9y ago
If "upgradeable" matters at all, you're not buying Apple stuff anyway. You may as well assume everything they make is an iPhone and make your purchasing decisions from there.
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by deong 9y ago
That's just the way phone companies work. If I go to AT&T this morning and cancel my account, that number is gone. I get that Google owning two things that look like phone companies could confuse people, but under no circumstances
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by deong 9y ago
Their safety net is their lobbying power, which hasn't changed.
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by deong 9y ago
Most managers fail in the "knowledge of basic stats" and "access to decent tools" areas. And if they have the knowledge, most larger organizations don't have a ton of managers sitting around writing python code duri
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by deong 9y ago
Also, the idea that peer review is rife with people killing articles to save their "pet theory" is idiotic. Reviewers just want you to cite them.
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by deong 9y ago
Think of my comment as two separate statements. First, "overwhelmingly" is silly. Second, and more or less unrelated, it would have personally affected me. The second wasn't intended as support for the first.
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by deong 9y ago
I don't know that I'd say "overwhelmingly". I certainly wouldn't have been able to go to grad school under this system.

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