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by eiaoa 8y ago
How well does gait analysis work against gait-disguise techniques like putting a pebble in your show as described in this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JASUsVY5YJ8
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Yep. We need government, because without government nobody would save us from the abuses of copyright law, enforced by the government! That's an entirely different issue from what I was commenting on. > And let's not forge
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> what happens if your service is cut in error. Do you trust ATT to have a fair, easy appeals process? This is where many of the arguments against government regulation break down. If you take government out of the picture, you're
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> The reasoning for such extremely strict geographic restrictions, I am unsure of I think it's twofold: 1. There are some hyperlocal elections, such as for school districts. Only your local polling station will have the correct bal
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> making new laws to solve problems that don't actually exist yet > but over here we tend prefer for the government not to swing its weight around until there is clear evidence of a problem. There is clear evidence of a problem
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by eiaoa 8y ago
From what I've read, IBM doesn't sound like a very stable place to work anymore. Lots of layoffs.
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> We don't even have scooters yet and they're talking about passing regulation in case it becomes a thing. That's a good thing , not a bad thing. It means your regulators are paying attention to events elsewhere and are
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> If your community prices out certain essential services then those providing the service will leave, raising the price of that service, thereby ensuring that those that stay (or come back after the price changes) can make a living, can
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Even when there is some subsidising towards educating children that are unfortunate enough to have poor parents, you still end up with very unequal outcomes. I think the idea with funding education more equitably is to remove existing
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by eiaoa 8y ago
I think we're on the same page. I interpreted "infrastructure" primarily to be social and political infrastructure, not physical infrastructure. Fixing it would undoubtedly need to include greater resistance to exploitation
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Technology types generally don't do this. And the rationale isn't too different from this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONKkoiszVSs&t=409
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> How are those people on said websites (and almost any other medium) supposed to make money? 1. Have less annoying ads that respect the user. 2. Charge money. 3. Some novel funding model that's unexplored because obnoxious ads domi
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> When participating in the system of the US, wealth and job security are extremely useful. It may be rational to think “I will have more impact working to the bone and then donating/volunteering, than I would if I worked less and v
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> I think we're all increasingly aware that our society and infrastructure are crumbling, and no matter how "rich" the country as a whole is, if you haven't built up your own security through wealth, you're [goi
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by eiaoa 8y ago
>> To try and shame people not to cite or use scholarly work from people with controversy sourrounding them is sinister in its very nature. It is falling to mob rule instead of logic and reason. > Then think of how much scientific
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Society is going to get flipped on its head if we are able to detect total truth, and enforce all laws with 100% effectiveness. Even worse when these tools will be mostly in the hands of the government, and not the people. Even if thes
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Big companies add huge value to all our wellbeing. 1000 companies with a revenue of ten million dollars can afford to spend little to nothing on research, while one company with a revenue of ten billion dollars can spend a lot. There&#
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> You can drag images from Photos directly into the terminal and they will drop as a path to the image you dragged. If you drag a thumbnail, you get a path to the thumbnail; if you drag a full-resolution image, you get a path to that. Re
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> The articles says that Sun Yi wrote around 20 letters, does this mean there are ~19 other people who got a letter but said nothing? It makes me wonder who often this kind of thing is tried but gets no response from the recipient of the
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Almost Too Sober: On the Appeal of Stoicism(lareviewofbooks.org)
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> How would you call the spies if not "Chinese"? They are the People’s Republic of China’s Ministry of State Security's spies. CCP spies? Chinese Communist spies? Personally, I've been trying to correct my use of Ch
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> It's definitely a case of hanlon's razor for Facebook but it does show how easy someone with the right resources can exploit social networking sites to manufacture consent for example. It doesn't even look like you need
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by eiaoa 8y ago
What are it's DAU/MAU numbers for the US and Western Europe?
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by eiaoa 8y ago
Robots have terrible dexterity. Also, it's pretty depressing to hear the response to deskilling be more deskilling.
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> mIRC by default would not auto-accept .INI files, there was a blacklist on certain file types that would be rejected, with INIs as one of them. Was that a reaction to the problem described in the GP? Especially in the 80s/90s, de
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by eiaoa 8y ago
It's not really disinformation, just a slight inaccuracy. For years they were collecting text messages and call logs: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/faceb... Not quite "list
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Anecdotal obviously, but I'm surprised at how pervasive the "Facebook listens to your conversations through the app" rumors are, even among the more technically literate. They were slurping up text massages and collectin
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> It's completely legal to be a monopoly by buying every competitor out fair and square. Pretty sure it's not in the US, or at least can be halted by the disapproval of antitrust regulators. For example: https://www.
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by eiaoa 8y ago
One extra step you can do (somewhere between 2 and 3) is change your profile pic and your cover photo to messages advertising your intent to disengage from Facebook. That serves two functions: 1) it lets people who want to reach you know t
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> I don't think Elon Musk is dragging us down. I think he's bringing us the future. Happy to be forgiving of his quirks since he's literally sacrificing his life to bring the world awesome stuff. So, Elon Musk is the tech-

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