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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Ad hominem is not appropriate. Do you have a substantive disagreement with the claims in the article, that 3rd parties are less trustworthy than 1st party Google? Google itself has reported major privacy /security bugs in third part
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
There's a difference between IMAP software on your machine, and a third party company that does who knows what with your email.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Sarcasm?
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
You could give back the money you indirectly took from those laborers.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Adam Smith explained the downsides of capitalist in the original book on the topic. "Conservative" teachers just prefer to see them under the rug.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Oil countries have lots of slave labor.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Literally, the answer is "not yet". The ones shipping now are about $50K. Certainly people are willing to buy $35K version, but they might turn out unsatisfied.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Teenagers rebel because they are biologically motivated to experiment, and they get more conservative as they age, no parenting required.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Not spanking also has no benefits and many negative effects.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
How do you know the psychedelics are what fixed you?
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
They get promoted for processing faster. That's equivalent to get paid per patent. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/07/31...
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Measurements aren't a concern, but what's "behind" them is unknown.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
F-35 isn't for blowing things up, it's for deterring war. Fat good your particle accelerators do if thet constant get blown up in war. Deterring war is the greatest way to unlock human prosperity. And killing with precision means
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Why would you use floating point math for finance?
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Hardy's statement was philosophical, not a scientific prediction. Encryption was already an important science by 1940
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Is Snap considered a doomed failure now? It got to IPO and tanked, did early investor/owners effectively bilk the sharebuying public?
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
This is well known in humans as the "infant mortality rate" vs "adult life expectancy".
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
This could also be a subtle variation of the classic fallacy of confusing exponential functions with sigmoids
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Don't forget that two people born around 1900 and living past 118 could also be measurement error or fraud.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Yes, but it's not so discrete a difference. We change every second of our lives physically and mentally. We have ever increasing complexity of drug, surgical, and bionic therapies.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
There are a finite number of protein molecules on a human, and a finite number of humans. Given a available days, ut is impossible to assign an accurate arbitrarily small nonzero probability of incremental survival. "Not being mathem
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
What was this drive?
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
You are describing the patent system
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
That is an absurdly wrong interpretation of both the GPL and how the courts exercise common sense.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
It's "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
That's a myth. Good Samaritan laws exempt that
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Surely walking around the building/block is an effective and healthy context switch?
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Governments choosing not to levy taxes on Apple is not "extortion" by Apple.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
If that happened to me there would have been a scene that led to my arrest. That's a textbook case of an unconscionable contract, creating a situation of duress (accept new terms or be stranded) Still, after the 30 extra, was it stil
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
A decent linter checks those Boolean comments for accuracy. Writing documentation that that merely copies existing code is terrible: it's either going to be wrong (because it's not automatically checked and will go sour in a refac

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