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by drb91 8y ago
I’m not sure how you could conclude that given that FB is essentially a growth engine designed to drive MAU numbers as high as possible. Meanwhile, people continue to seek out communities that do represent the types of interactions people w
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by drb91 8y ago
JIRA also fits the bill.
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by drb91 8y ago
Sure, it can be compared, but it’s not a one-dimensional comparison to my eyes—you’d have to pick a dimension of security to compare to get a proper ordering. For instance in this case it seems like the iPhone has (considerably) more harden
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by drb91 8y ago
Wait, does that mean they do password resets over plain text?
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by drb91 8y ago
I agree--after all, security is generally unverifiable anyway, even with perfect visibility. However, in the context of ethical security conversations, the two are anything but orthogonal. The security expectations of someone buying an open
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by drb91 8y ago
> But if it's not as secure as an iPhone, it's unethical to claim otherwise. This seems silly, you can easily flip this on its head and say "Well the iPhone is closed, so there's no way to verify it has any security&q
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by drb91 8y ago
Well, this is subjective. Not all of us enjoy being confused as to whether it’s August or January. It is incredibly depressing to see no season change year round. This is a major reason I’ll never buy property around here.
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by drb91 8y ago
What’s the connection between investment money and location?
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by drb91 8y ago
Why would removing rent control increase the supply of affordable housing? Honest question. Presumably a lot of people depend on it in order to live in SF itself.
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by drb91 8y ago
To put it lightly, the syntax is odd. LaTeX doesn’t always pay off in the short term.
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by drb91 8y ago
Absolutely not true. Concussions are always a threat, and a helmet provides limited protection even in a high speed collision.
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by drb91 8y ago
Well, if that were not the case, your apple id would be the second factor to everything.
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by drb91 8y ago
I agree some spending makes sense. The F-35 program does not give me a lot of encouragement we’re investing in good places.
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by drb91 8y ago
I do agree. But my point is, concrete problems are much easier to tackle than hypothetical problems.
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by drb91 8y ago
It all depends on perspective. If you’re friends with a bunch of defense contractors, war could spell good times for you. Hanging out around DC gives me the impression there are quite a few defense contractors.
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by drb91 8y ago
This seems like a rather expensive way to experiment whether you’re well suited for something and like it.
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by drb91 8y ago
Depends if we plan on invading somewhere or not to my eye—it’s how our ridiculous level of defense spending will actually provide returns.
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by drb91 8y ago
If what you’re saying is true, it will be obvious. I haven’t seen any backlash as you describe yet. It also seems like a different problem than single use plastic regulation.
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by drb91 8y ago
I hope google is not trying to destabilize america, which it sounds like you are arguing is a good thing.
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by drb91 8y ago
Is there any evidence it’s working? Seems to mostly piss people off. Anyway, most astroturfing is done by american companies and is more harmful. Will google stop them too? Highly doubtful.
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by drb91 8y ago
Right, which is why as a society we’re fine with drug dealers—it’s the users who are obviously intentionally ruining their own lives. Out of choice.
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by drb91 8y ago
If you have to trust the CEO, you’re gonna get burned. They have different interests than you. The only thing you should trust him to do is make more money if possible.
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by drb91 8y ago
Of course that’s where the value is. Why are they charging me to use it twice, once on purchase of the phone and then on every app purchase? The value seems to be for app curation, which is atrocious. This is incredibly harmful to consumer
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by drb91 8y ago
> Apple and Google not only created the device and funded the R & D for the features, but also created the APIs, the tools, the infrastructure, and attracted the (hundreds of millions of) users. The 30% cut they ask of developers is
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by drb91 8y ago
Rating the food, or rating the service? Rating them together is nonsensical.
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by drb91 8y ago
> But killing off windows completely hurts everyone. Who the hell is competing with windows? Linux can’t meet its standards, and its main draws are being cheap and able to run popular software when macs can’t (I’m being reductive, but it
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by drb91 8y ago
> a monopoly built on Linux and Vulkan is a much better place than where we are now. No, it’s not. There’s nothing infallible or timeless about either. Linux is already showing its age; vulkan is designed around hardware you can find tod
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by drb91 8y ago
Sadly, this makes “pop” an inherently political thing to judge.
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by drb91 8y ago
How do you know if it’s a thirty minute interview? My company does a four hour set of interviews; that’s not rare.
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by drb91 8y ago
Well, if the effect is there, it should be visible after incorporating the rest of the pop corpus. Straightforward to test; easy to reproduce.

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