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by foerbert 5y ago
There's a substantial difference - both in theory and in practice - between Apple being capable of making your device do things you don't want it to do, and them actually doing it. Saying that just because they could have, we ou
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by foerbert 5y ago
That seems like a very... passive way to describe them. It's one thing to be unhappy with the way things are. Many people are unhappy about many things. Many of these things are fundamentally not changeable. Disliking these immutable t
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by foerbert 5y ago
It's not. It wasn't a targeted attack, or any kind of retaliation. The scammer never even saw any of his videos.
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by foerbert 5y ago
How, exactly, is this defeatist? It's defining the size of the problem. If we don't know what's actually needed to solve the problem, how are we supposed to ever solve it? I'm also rather unsure what innovation you'
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by foerbert 5y ago
Yes that seems to be the case, but I'm not sure that actually matters here. The timescales involved mean that there is plenty of time for carbon to move between air and water. The only factor of much importance here would be the overal
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by foerbert 5y ago
I don't think that was clear. You mentioned the Bosch system had a patent issue and immediately mentioned it didn't even use a break. While it's possible to read that as the Bosch system being superior because it lacks a brea
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by foerbert 5y ago
There's a difference between what one might criticize and what criteria the judge is using to make their ruling. The response was specifically to the claim that that portion of the proposition should not be criticized for the inclusion
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by foerbert 5y ago
I still don't see it. These laws aren't going to sneak up on them. It's not like they're going to have 12 hours notice to categorize and terminate all accounts in some category. Again it's not something that has muc
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by foerbert 5y ago
I'm not sure how this is a fake reason. "It's worse than most but not as bad as it could be" is not a bar that precludes criticism in my mind.
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by foerbert 5y ago
I'm not sure that reasoning would apply to something like payment processing. It absolutely makes sense when you are manufacturing a physical good. No point in designing a thing that you might not be able to sell for very long, particu
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by foerbert 5y ago
After playing with this a bit, I can't conclude that anybody is seriously attempting to generate nsfw content with this. The prompts may be nsfw in some way or another (at least in the most literal sense) but nobody is actually expec
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by foerbert 5y ago
I think that's a too simplistic view. It's kinda true, but ignores how humans really work. Apple will be pushed around to a degree, but there will be limits. The harder the ask now the less China can ask later. And the more Apple
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by foerbert 5y ago
Right. I mentioned that. It's still your own device doing it. It's like announcing to your family member you're going to tell your neighbor you committed a crime and your family member turns you in first. Yeah, you could expe
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by foerbert 5y ago
I don't think we can just appeal to the status quo here and assume it's acceptable. There's a couple reasons. First, how many people really understood this previously? Did society at large actually knowingly accept the curren
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by foerbert 5y ago
The difference is the ease with which they can demur. Before, it would be a whole heck of a lot of new, additional work. They also have the problem of actually introducing it without being noticed, or having to come up with some cover for t
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by foerbert 5y ago
Are those not the same statement? Unless you're relying on it being computationally infeasible, but I'm not sure we know enough to consider that true at this point. Usually when we make statements on those grounds we do so with su
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by foerbert 5y ago
That bit you quoted seems to be actually correct. It does not mention visual derivatives at all. That said I think your statement is a bit too strong, but generally true. A hash collision is not going to inherently be visually confusing. Ho
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by foerbert 5y ago
Not an expert on blockchain or anything really, so I'm just spitballing here. It's an interesting idea in the sense that you'd have this enforced community-giving where the individual decisions about the giving are removed fr
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by foerbert 5y ago
Yep. I had that exact feeling with Endless Sky myself some time ago. I couldn't quite pin down what the problem was. There were obviously various things that could be improved, but none that I could really say for sure would help get t
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by foerbert 5y ago
This article doesn't seem particularly coherent. At one point it claims these taxes are not a meaningful way to generate revenue, and then goes on to say the tax in Vancouver generated C$84M over two years instead of an estimated C$4M.
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by foerbert 5y ago
By that logic we may as well never question anything any of these companies - or even governments really - do because they might just find a way to do it secretly and maybe nobody would ever figure it out.
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by foerbert 5y ago
Apple doesn't need the keys to enable backups. And the mere fact it's a default makes it a significant problem when discussing it as a popular and widespread E2E messenger. It would be more borderline if it was a required configur
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by foerbert 5y ago
The wind, I think. My current impression is that when it is starting, the whole thing is basically just acting as a big sail. You could lock the propeller and prevent it from spinning and it would still move forward. After that is where I s
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by foerbert 5y ago
For a little more context, see https://www.howtogeek.com/710509/apples-imessage-is-secure..... For those unfamiliar, as I was, it appears iCloud backup is enabled by default. I think the above statement about iMessage
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by foerbert 5y ago
Much of the discussion is about how trivial it would be for Apple to start scanning any photos on the phone at a later date. Right now they are able to bill this as doing what they currently do server side, but client side. Later, they can
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by foerbert 5y ago
I think one of the major factors that changes how people perceive this is that it's happen on their own device. If you upload a thing to a server and the server does something... I mean sure. You gave a thing to somebody else, and they
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by foerbert 5y ago
Wow. I believe you, but I really don't want to. I always figured that whole branch of design came out of dealing with mobile limitations, with some amount of side benefit from more screen space to do useless but flashy things to make t
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by foerbert 5y ago
After reading this, I think I've actually changed my mind a bit - not that I ever had a super strong opinion. But now I'm thinking that yes - we absolutely want the military occasionally doing things like going out and designing t
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by foerbert 5y ago
On the one hand I tend to agree that many environmental consequences are really not appreciated and that lithium tends to get an unusually high amount of attention in comparison, but I also think maybe that's actually reasonable and a
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by foerbert 5y ago
Obviously at some point the example gets far too specific to actually be useful, but... In general there are lots of alternatives. Pay, objective, even lower level subordinates that are personally motivating, etc. There are many ways to mot

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