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by funkymike 10y ago
This could be as simple as connecting the dots between you logging into your ISP account to pay your bill via the VPN. This is one specific way in which a VPN is a poor solution to protecting privacy. It means the user has to constantly be
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Both of those are consistent in one respect, that they both expand executive power. A group with power consistently seeks to increase that power. The FCC wants power, the NSA wants power.
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One can at least hope that humanity's level of technology does not regress. So then there is at least the fact that the radioactivity can be detected even after the signs have long gone.
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The client may not have to build the links but it still has to be aware of their specifics. It has to know that /articles takes arguments X and Y, and that /v2/articles takes arguments Y and Z. You're trading building li
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I agree and I wasn't clear enough about that. Moving funds from areas that provide clear tangible results to research that might produce results seems wrong.
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> but a potentially bigger issue with the act is that it transfers $3.5 billion of public health spending to medical research. I would like to see much more public funding going towards medical research, with the stipulation that the res
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Wouldn't it be better to plan further ahead and make a requirement that the venues need to be in use for X years prior to the games? This would ensure that the facilities are usable outside of the Olympics.
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There is a big difference between computer science as taught and software development in practice. These hiring practices are there to weed out people just can't design applications or write code with any proficiency.
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Interviews are a two way street. For most companies you should be able to talk to the hiring manager and other developers that you would be working with. Ask yourself whether as a junior developer if you will be able to learn from them. Thi
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On the subject of making code reviews a positive experience I think it has been helpful where I work to explicitly discuss code reviews. What makes a good code review vs. a bad one. For example the idea that code review comments should be b
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One important service that the existing textbook companies provide is editing. That's the gap that seems to be unaddressed by having professors self publish.
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There's a big difference between McDonald's and a high end restaurant, even if you just order a hamburger. McDonald's has already been working on automation. Have you noticed that humans no longer dispense drinks there? They
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I was responding to the idea that there are no more frontiers on earth left to explore. "frontier exploration is a massive part of many of our cultures, but the painful truth is that there aren't any left on Earth."
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The sea is still a frontier. There is a lot about the oceans that we still do not understand.
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I actually find the Netflix UX frustrating. First they removed the straightforward ability to simply say that I never want to watch a show, and then hide it from me. Beyond that I can rate a show 2 stars and yet it continues to come up in r
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There is no need for the weather app to identify you as the user. It only needs to fetch the weather data for a given location.
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I think that the issue comes in when people have the option of both plain sight and searching. For example if an electrician is paid by the local PD to report drug paraphernalia they now have an incentive on future calls to poke around wher
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It goes even farther than Joe Schmo at Best Buy not being trusted. They are being paid to find "evidence." That direct conflict of interest should invalidate anything they find.
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I too find that really creepy. Yet at the same time it seems inevitable. After all, is it really so different than going to amazon.com and seeing a front page tailored to your purchasing habits? Or even different from an employee recognizin
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It is important that the caller provide some information for authentication purposes. Just because someone uses your phone (or spoofs the number) doesn't mean that they should be able to make changes to your account. Lots of companies
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Beliefs like this are what get people killed. People think they can drive safely far above the speed limit. People think they can drive safely in adverse conditions at unsafe speeds. They are wrong and get themselves and others maimed and k
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I am reading this as preferring that if you are in an accident it is at least your fault rather than the fault of a self driving system. However, there are far more drivers on the road than you. Turn this around to be other other party. So
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This is what humanity really needs. The best part is that once it is out in the wild it should spread naturally, if slowly. Thus it will eventually penetrate to every human society and wipe out the current strains of the bacteria.
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"One errant car" already kills scores of people today. It really isn't that much different with autonomous vehicles. A stop light isn't going to prevent a distracted driver from entering an intersection. Mechanical or so
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I have successfully used the export feature to hand off project documentation I was keeping in vimwiki. This way they got a set of HTML files that anyone could view. Some of them did not use vim at all so while this meant the documentation
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I was thinking about this just yesterday. It would be great if email providers made tools to painlessly create encryption keys and get them synced up to all your devices securely. From there each email you send can include an automatic sign
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Getting these things corrected can actually be quite difficult. I regularly get emails from an optician in another state. I have replied multiple times that they are sending information to the wrong person, but they continue to do so. Fortu
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Google knowing where you go could make their models of you more valuable. Now they can specifically target ads based on where you go and when. Sitting in the cab waiting to get where you are going what are you going to do? Pull out your sma
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I wonder if having all the gear will have a positive effect. Once drivers learn it means that those are self-driving cars it can begin to acclimate drivers to having such cars on the road. And as they see how (hopefully) predictably those c
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Recognizing the words is just the first step. Getting meaning out of those words is what really counts. When on a telephone call I may miss a percentage of what was said, due to poor audio quality, the speaker's accent, etc., but based

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