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   by ewzimm 12y ago

   This is the expectation I think people need to get over. If you are sending your data to a third party unencrypted, even if that third party is Facebook, you have just published your data, no matter what expectation they might have set. Eve
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   by ewzimm 12y ago

   I agree that privacy is important, but whenever I hear people talk about how hard it is to abandon Facebook or similar services, it seems to me that there's a missing middle ground. Posting to Facebook, even messaging, is publishing. P
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   by ewzimm 12y ago

   I'm surprised there's no mention of Lenovo. They have large worldwide market share and, unlike Xiaomi, sell well internationally with Motorola.
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   by ewzimm 12y ago

   From what I have seen, this is a DNS block. Anyone not using their ISP's DNS or the DNS of an ISP that has not yet implemented the block will not see them blocked.
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   by ewzimm 12y ago

   Basic income was included to show that removing jobs is not necessarily bad, but it can have immediate negative effects. This is just an instance of consolidating wealth. It is moving a system which distributes wealth to many taxi drivers i
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   by ewzimm 12y ago

   I love it. I think Anselm's ontological argument is more a proof of confirmation bias than anything else. So as a corollary to his argument, the more beneficial something may be to us, the more biased we are to confirm its existence. T
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   by ewzimm 12y ago

   I'm not saying the North Koreans didn't directly influence the development of their country, but they were absolutely influenced and trained by the Soviet Union. The UN passed the American resolution for elections in 1947 but with
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   by ewzimm 12y ago

   Do you realize that North Korea didn't develop by itself but was created by agreements between the US and the Soviet Union? The US even blocked democratic elections that would have avoided the split. North Korea is just as much a produ
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   by ewzimm 12y ago

   I can still add Google as a regular Jabber service in the programs I use. Is that also scheduled for deprecation soon? I am disappointed about Facebook. Not a big fan of the service, but I maintain an account on XMPP so Facebook people can
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    by ewzimm 12y ago

    The size of the bar doesn't represent usage. If you hover over, for example, Chrome 39, you will see it has 0.13% of global usage.
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    by ewzimm 12y ago

    Seems like there's an issue where some people's expectations will always increase at a rate greater than the rewards they are given.
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    by ewzimm 12y ago

    I do think it should be illegal, but "isn't it illegal?" was a genuine question. I don't know the specifics, but I'm surprised there isn't some legal requirement. You can't even send e-mail without allowin
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    by ewzimm 12y ago

    Thanks for the suggestions, but I really don't want an expensive postpaid contract. I don't even need service every month. WiFi calling is better than cell calling most of the time, and unfortunately, no carrier other than Verizon
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    by ewzimm 12y ago

    I can understand discriminating on quality or something like that, but we're talking about not being able to opt out of having your personal information sold. It seems like there should be some kind of a law where that has to be made a
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    by ewzimm 12y ago

    I get the header injected on 3g.
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    by ewzimm 12y ago

    I have a prepaid account, and I'm not allowed to change privacy settings either online or over the phone. The web tells me I am an account member and not owner, and the phone just says prepaid is not eligible to opt out. I can fix it b
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    by ewzimm 12y ago

    I got into Firebase because of Angular, and I am so far really happy with AngularFire. I am looking forward to even better symbiosis between the two! Especially considering all the serious vulnerabilities disclosed recently, I think a lot o
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    by ewzimm 12y ago

    No, I think regret is just the other side of paranoia. It's a lack of ability (not necessarily capacity, most likely due to emotional distress) to think through the full consequences of a situation and the opportunities it presents. Wh
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    by ewzimm 12y ago

    This doesn't make any sense to me. Isn't giving out your personal info and password to tons of small sites less secure than using a single logon service with a huge security team behind it and using tokens? That's the philoso
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    by ewzimm 12y ago

    While I won't say Angular has no issues or that these are all invalid arguments, I think this should start rather than end with the explanation that the author develops a rival framework.
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    by ewzimm 12y ago

    I think people like to simplify regulation as either good or bad and fail to consider how biased it can be. Unbiased software rules that can be openly analyzed and force everyone to play fair are good. Selective regulation written by those
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    by ewzimm 12y ago

    That's not even correct. Yahoo Software Development Center is either laying off or transferring 89% of its workforce to consolidate its engineering. There are other Yahoo operations intact, and Yahoo is still in the process of investin
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    by ewzimm 12y ago

    I wasn't really talking about electronics junkyard. Screws are generally made out of metal. But the reason electronics junkyards don't exist in most places in America or Europe is because almost everything gets sent to China. Ther
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    by ewzimm 12y ago

    You're right, but you're not going far enough. He says Chinese makers have been doing it so long it no longer resembles what Americans would recognize as such. American Makers generally don't strip junkyards for raw materials
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    by ewzimm 12y ago

    Sorry if I was unclear, and thanks Dan for clearing it up.
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    by ewzimm 12y ago

    I didn't say that he did anything in particular, just that it sounded like he picked them up his habits in prison. I'm not clear on what he was like before, but it seems like he went to prison, came out, and started acting a lot w
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    by ewzimm 12y ago

    Right, which is related to but different from the article, which says that introducing a cheaper option drives people to spend less and choose lower quality for less money rather than paying a little more for better quality. But I am not di
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    by ewzimm 12y ago

    You can see in the graphic in the article that they advertise the price as "from $4.99." I think the ability to advertise a lower price, even if nobody actually takes it, is probably more of a factor. I think people are used to si
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    by ewzimm 12y ago

    Thanks, that is a good point, but I still stand by what I said. Even if he was racist before, it seems like it got a lot worse in prison.
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    by ewzimm 12y ago

    I don't see how this should embarrass anyone who thought sending him to prison for so long was a bad move. If anything, it supports their argument. It sounds like he picked up his racist habits in prison, which is kind of notorious for