digbyloftus

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by digbyloftus 11y ago
This has always been my take on the privacy issue as well as the related advertising issue. People freely connect to and send data to companies servers and then get mad that the company has and uses the data? What? People send requests to s
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by digbyloftus 11y ago
>I do not have to remain silent, and you just contradicted yourself when you both said that someone had to debate if they disagreed but at the same time had the option to be silent. Did you ever take a class in logic? It would serve you
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by digbyloftus 11y ago
I appealed to the history of it! If Eric and friends arrived at the term "hacker" through means other than the word "hack" i'd honestly love to know how, but like I said, his writing doesn't touch on it at all
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by digbyloftus 11y ago
None of his article seems to try to defend his assertions at all so it seems odd to link to it unless this is an appeal to authority. In which case, what makes Eric Raymond an authority on the English language? "-er" is a suffix u
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by digbyloftus 11y ago
It's an opinion piece by a guy who spends his time pumping out listicles and great journalism such as "How the Hunger Games Can Help You Stop Procrastinating". I don't think it's one of their main articles/some
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by digbyloftus 11y ago
That does seem very flawed. If there's a strong correlation between gender and age in the field then why would that be not accounted for? I can definitely see people assuming the older person was the brains/leader of a project.
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by digbyloftus 11y ago
I mean, if all you do for a living is email spam then I wouldn't call that hacking, but seeing as this is a programming based startup and the marketing attempt required programming skill, I'm imagining this was put together by the
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by digbyloftus 11y ago
Plenty of what programmers are doing isn't hacking. A team of top cs men making some process in google 0.1% more efficient doesn't seem very hacky even if it results in oodles of profit. What's more is this type of marketing
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by digbyloftus 11y ago
>Oh, but we do. We install ad blockers. That's the best way to exert that pressure from our side :). That's exactly what I meant haha. I find the constant barrage of news about how terrible ads are baffling. There's a very
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by digbyloftus 11y ago
Hacker in this context means someone who quickly and cheaply creates new things, as in "it's hacked together". Like how we're on Hacker News, it's not a security website, it's a website for people interested in
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by digbyloftus 11y ago
Ultimately the buck actually stops with the end user. They're the ones who decided to ask a server outside of their control for any and all data it has stored at an address and then used it in a way harmed themselves. It very much is u
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by digbyloftus 11y ago
Even very early on though the plan revolved around there being no real natural barrier between couches and commercial property no? It's in the email exchange released by PG to show how people can miss the idea. If someones plan involve
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by digbyloftus 11y ago
"Internet they might not have even heard of with millions of websites?" If they haven't even heard of it then it doesn't sound like its a viable alternative does it?
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by digbyloftus 11y ago
Solution to what? The profit margins the article quoted seem fairly reasonable, for all we know the Government is already willing to deal with others and no one else can compete. Seeing as the Government is the customer I don't really
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by digbyloftus 11y ago
"Reviewers often are in competition with the authors of the papers they're reviewing, hence the term peer-review. They have an incentive to prevent publication of competing work." This seems backwards to me. There isn't
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by digbyloftus 11y ago
I don't see how that's relevant. They weren't valued at the time. Later they were. $ being a flawed measure of value doesn't make any sense. $ IS value.
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by digbyloftus 11y ago
Isn't that effectively a problem for any hourly based service? What's the incentive for a lawyer, accountant, developer, anyone to be as cost effective as possible? Surely the answer to that (happy customers, repeat business, refe
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by digbyloftus 11y ago
If what creators are making is so great and they have an audience that loves their work then they wouldn't be "scraping by". You can have all the free users in the world but if people aren't willing to pay you for your w
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by digbyloftus 11y ago
All taxation is already robbery. That doesn't get taken in to account when deciding what to tax and at what rate for any other source, I fail to see why inherited wealth should be the exception.
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by digbyloftus 11y ago
Hedonism is as true as any other. Plenty of people, even if they are not familiar with philosophical terms and wouldn't self describe as such, are living according to hedonistic values. Plenty of people are living according to all sort
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by digbyloftus 11y ago
Didn't the rest of the EU agree to that when they let Ireland have the tax code that it does and still be part of the EU? It doesn't seem outrageous to me at all. Stupid on their part maybe, but they're the ones that write th
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by digbyloftus 11y ago
It would seem like fixing that problem directly rather than using a roundabout system of taxing corporations, which comes with its own set of problems, would be the better way to go about things.
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by digbyloftus 11y ago
"Their share" is exactly what's up for debate. You make it sound like the US Government has a number and they're failing to collect because Apple is strong arming them. The US Government has the largest military in the w