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by ewzimm 11y ago
Maybe it's difficult to judge because people don't usually talk about it. I'd say I can visualize things just as vividly as I would experience when I look at them. That is, I won't notice every detail, but I don't n
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Depending on what climate change models you believe, we may already have passed the point at which we can prevent mass death due to a sufficiently large population overusing resources. The only realistic ways to deal with this problem is to
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Google Shopping isn't usually accessed directly but rather through the main Google search. Good to hear that there are other ones rising too.
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L.A. is famous for being a place where people only live temporarily, so it's likely that both the people who fall into homelessness and the people on public assistance don't stay long and get replaced with a new group of people wh
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Yes, that's what I mean about not knowing if aggregators got more or less popular over the last decade. I'm still not sure, but from a few searches, here's what I got: Google Shopping is the #1 shopping aggregator according t
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by ewzimm 11y ago
The only thing that seems suspicious there is the claim that traffic to aggregators has increased by 227% in the last decade. Overall Google traffic has increased by something like 500% in the last decade, so that would indicate a decrease
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I think the dangerous part is taking something biological and trying to make a direct association with something as vaguely defined as emotional intelligence. This kind of thing is extremely dependent on culture. If you take an American wit
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I'm not sure what walled garden you're talking about. You can install apps and app stores from whatever source you want, just like stock Android. You can't install Google Play, but that's because Google has restricted it
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It's basically the strategy John Oliver used to raise awareness about government surveillance. Most people don't care about privacy until it gets sexual. https://cantheyseemydick.com/
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It says "Search Windows and the web" right on the search box and displays web results. You don't have to pay for an alternative. When Windows 8 came out 3 years ago, lots of alternative start menus became available. If you ha
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Isn't it ironic that people listen to a hit song about irony to feel superior about their own understanding of irony, which only increases its popularity and entrenches its expression of situational irony?
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by ewzimm 11y ago
GNOME searches whatever you want it to, but they heavily advertise integration with online sources as a feature. OS X Spotlight does online by default. Finder and Windows Explorer search local files. I said very nearly since, although they&
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by ewzimm 11y ago
It's really not that hard to opt out. The search is just a default program, and you can replace it with whatever you want, like Classic Shell. You could argue as others have that there should be a default search which is local only, bu
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by ewzimm 11y ago
You can call it a key logger, and I understand why you would object, but sending search terms typed into a search box to a search engine is pretty much what people expect. Ubuntu does it. GNOME does it. Android does it. iOS does it. OS X do
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Here's a nice analysis by a well-known security researcher in response to that article. He could not confirm the results. https://systemoverlord.com/blog/2015/08/16/so-is-windows-10-...
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by ewzimm 11y ago
You're talking about a subjective experience as if it's something that can be objectively measured. I find it the other way around. I've used Macs since the 80's, but lately I hardly touch them, in part because I think t
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Where I live, the average farm loses money every year. The only reason farming exists in its current form in this area is because of government subsidies. There are big lobbying groups to make sure that specific methods are paid for by taxe
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Unfortunately, there's so much bigotry in the world that it's difficult to separate different types of criticism of large areas of the world, but it's entirely possible to be positive about Middle Eastern cultures and strongl
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Even the frequency of words used might be valuable for typing predicion, but I would guess they would probably group a few words together. I really would love to know how it works.
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Looking forward to the development of "Game of Chairs" into a spinoff series. http://youtu.be/dhWUFXvaZjo
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I'd like to know too. Maybe they compare typed data to a dictionary and throw away everything that doesn't match so that every slice contains only dictionary words that couldn't be identified as passwords. That's just sp
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I can only speculate, but I would guess it goes something like this: You type "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." You continue typing other stuff. 30 minutes later, there's a queue of random slices like: { "la
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I'm just trying to objectively interpret a really small amount of data here, not make a justification for or against any particular policy. You're right that it's important to have informed consent about this kind of thing. T
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by ewzimm 11y ago
It's not everything you type, just bits and pieces stripped of sequence, and most of what's saved is on your device only. They specify that what they send is only "some," and logically, everything typed into the billion
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Debian and others realize that this is a problem, and you absolutely shouldn't trust anyone at their word. There's an ongoing effort at Debian to make all builds reproducible so that you can verify that they were built from the so
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Here are some references to explain how data is anonymized: http://www.caida.org/data/anonymization/index.xml
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I thought the options to turn off defaults were pretty clear during the installation process. Requests to make options more explicit and visual are reasonable, but it bothers me that Mozilla and others are acting like "choose my defaul
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This would be too big an oversight for a company trying to get more business adoption. According to Microsoft, the data is anonymized and run through a virtual shredder before being sent. Here's their statement on it: “Some of this dat
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They used to have exactly that. You could list everything available as basic text and sort by whatever criteria you wanted, click the link for a description, and use the back button to return to the text list. Their star system isn't a
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Just to play Devil's Advocate, real total surveillance might not be bad. If you were hooked into a system that actually monitored all minds in real time and connected you directly to whatever other mind you wanted to reach out to with

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