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by fipple 9y ago
All affiliate sites eventually become this way. As a data point from someone who owns a NextDesk Terra and a Jarvis Fully, though, I agree with the basic point of the article. The Jarvis is functionally equivalent to the NextDesk even thoug
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by fipple 9y ago
As an easier problem, what I’d find useful is a way to keep a pirated audiobook and pirated e-book in sync, the way that Amazon does with WhisperSync. A single app where I upload the .epub and the mp3s and it keeps me in sync when I read in
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by fipple 9y ago
GDPR only increases engineering and compliance costs. It doesn’t have any consumer-side impact since to a first approximation, zero consumers take advantage of data privacy laws.
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by fipple 9y ago
How is this possible from a single location? The speed of light in a vacuum is ~200 miles per millisecond.
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by fipple 9y ago
> The antivaccine movement is a very small proportion of the population Not really. Less than 50% of Pixar employees' children at their day care are vaccinated. And these are people with much more money, and thus more political clou
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by fipple 9y ago
That's not necessarily the end of your income. You can make money in various ways.
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by fipple 9y ago
So "Nobody forced you to give Facebook all that data" will no longer be true. If you don't have your data on Facebook, and it doesn't match your government records, you'll be marked as Suspicious by the secret polic
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by fipple 9y ago
Google can amplify the result though. Just like a population that votes 51% Republican and 49% Democrat can have a 100% Republican legislature if divided into equally representative districts, Google can amplify society’s latent racism by m
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by fipple 9y ago
I bet fall guy for Uber is a well-paid gig.
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by fipple 9y ago
Selectivity of rule-enforcers is a major tool of warfare. If sneezing in public is made illegal, but only Bangladeshis are arrested for it, that's not OK.
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by fipple 9y ago
The world is an unfair place with a striking history of bias against black girls, and Google is built with trillions of data points from this world. Society thinks that black women's hair is ugly and white women's hair is beautifu
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by fipple 9y ago
I don't think there's a clear answer as to what Google SHOULD show for "unprofessional hairstyles." The article shows a screenshot of it showing a lot of normal-looking black women with natural hair, which of course shou
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by fipple 9y ago
The headline should be "Google Search has a striking history of bias against black girls," to clarify between Google the search engine and Google the company that makes the search engine.
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by fipple 9y ago
As an anecdote, I did quite thorough background checks on candidates before I hired them, more thorough than what they expected or suspected. I get occasional texts from two former employees thanking me for the great role I gave them and th