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by fixermark 8y ago
Correct. Though if that's the point one is trying to make, one should probably make it via stories of those scenarios and not "This technology makes it easier for the justice system to find people trying to dodge the justice syste
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by fixermark 8y ago
It feels like that'd really boil down to whether identifying a fugitive's location based on signal from the location-broadcaster they're carrying voluntarily on their person, connected to a distributed service network shared
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by fixermark 8y ago
Can my torrenting app stream my video, or do I have to wait for a full assembly of the pieces from torrent hosts and enough downloaded to watch it? If the latter, torrenting is plenty cumbersome enough that if the studios are pushing movie-
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by fixermark 8y ago
Yep. We optimized having Netflix over having another browser out there with a new feature-set. For basically all the users, this works great; demand for a new browser is low, for streaming media pretty high.
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by fixermark 8y ago
Essentially. The money gated behind a closed DRM solution is so large that the w3c ran the risk of becoming an irrelevant standards body for this space if they didn't comply with what their members wanted to do. It's sub-optimal,
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by fixermark 8y ago
That's down an axis of "strictly worse than the alternatives." With an open-source ecosystem, I have to set it up and maintain it myself, when it breaks I have to service it by myself (often without a useful community to assi
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by fixermark 8y ago
I believe the parent poster meant that the classifiers that train into the baked-in categories are trained like a spam filter and use cross-account global knowledge. In other words, it's a model that works if there's a small num
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by fixermark 8y ago
Google has killed some of its offerings, but the core products of search, ads, drive, and mail are still there. (... Inbox being only a UI on top of the mailbox and not the mailbox itself, not unlike Microsoft Schedule+ went away but the un
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by fixermark 8y ago
From my point of view, if it's a choice between an ecosystem of tools that Google could kill at their whim and an ecosystem of tools floated and maintained by startup companies that could dry up and die at any time, it's a bit of
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by fixermark 8y ago
I was going to make a comment about how Google's approach to service deprecation contrasts with Microsoft's, but then I spot-checked my assumptions and realized that MS has discontinued over 50% of the Office ecosystem of apps ove
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by fixermark 8y ago
Google also drops child pornography and copyright-infringing search results. It's a quality you can dislike, but you'll be hard-pressed to find a search engine with anywhere near the same order of magnitude of quality that doesn&#
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by fixermark 8y ago
I imagine the same thing that happens when a person steps behind a forklift, and the forklift operator backs up without looking. Static doesn't necessarily mean safer. But the article also notes these aren't intended to share spac
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by fixermark 8y ago
It depends on the target tradeoffs. 4 wheels can be inherently statically stable but requires more space and requires more energy when running (counter-intuitive, but if your balance algorithm is efficient, you use less energy wheeling arou
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by fixermark 8y ago
This is a microcosm of why the information age has been one crazy miracle after another.
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by fixermark 8y ago
ALL else being equal? I'd flip a coin. Because if all else is equal, the credit score (that indicates past interactions) isn't predictive of future outcomes. If we're assuming conscientiousness and intelligence aren't eq
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by fixermark 8y ago
Agreed. I think what this may mean going forward is that the CAAs are going to have to consider demanding that the training specifications be designed around a scenario where some (as-yet-to-be-defined) subset of the smart systems are disab
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by fixermark 8y ago
It's odd to call the airframe "faulty" when (a) it flies and (b) the FAA requirements for positive static stability in the airframe itself don't forbid the 737 MAX from being flown. Does the author mean the FAA airframe
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by fixermark 8y ago
Wow, so Australian law allows them to basically impress any citizen into espionage? That's buck-wild.
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by fixermark 8y ago
I've had to debug around a short-lived bug in the Firefox rendering engine that only showed up in the FF rendering engine before. The site itself? Standards-compliant; there was flexibility in the standard (ironically, for flexboxes ;)
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by fixermark 8y ago
It does seem so obviously simple to sidestep that it makes me wonder if they pushed it because they had an active attack they believed it would mitigate. Were they concerned that the attack was already baked into some automated script in th
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by fixermark 8y ago
The islands might be worth it.
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by fixermark 8y ago
Nobody's stopping these "large numbers of people" from swapping URLs. They may get stopped from having their message show up in the "recommended videos" column on YouTube, and that's fine. Nobody has a right to
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by fixermark 8y ago
"No" and "No," then. "Strangers don't find out about my podcast" is nothing like "nobody can hear me." "PayPal won't middle-man my transaction" is nothing like "I can't g
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by fixermark 8y ago
Who's selling?
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by fixermark 8y ago
If white nationalists want support, they're going to have to find an example that doesn't have either (a) the fundamental human rights atrocity that is the Palestinian enclaves dogging its "success" story (I'd call
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by fixermark 8y ago
You can definitely political vlog by renting space on a CDN to host your own webm's. Or BitTorrenting them and sharing magnet links. Google can't stop you.
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by fixermark 8y ago
Correct, but the world is divided into nations already that use up 100% of the claimable useful territory. I can't imagine a non-violent process by which the United States carves up a chunk of Montana and goes "here you are separa
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by fixermark 8y ago
Any white nationalism that advocates "a nation of their own" implicitly advocates such killing, because we're out of land. ... unless that philosophy explicitly states "... and we'll build that nation on the shores
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by fixermark 8y ago
For starters: you live in a company town, and your continued employment at the company is geographically and practically tied deeply to that relationship. Competing digital empires are always a click away.
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by fixermark 8y ago
No doubt, but that doesn't imply the lessons gleaned from how law applied to company towns are immediately portable to social media.

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