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by gdulli 7y ago
> I have incredibly cynical views on corporations due to their strong incentives to put the bottom line before everything else. Yes, and I get the reasons for that, but you have to retain the ability to step outside your biases and see e
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by gdulli 7y ago
Why is it clear that PR is the primary reason for doing it? A majority of Americans believe in climate change. What makes it hard to believe that an educated collection of people who make decisions at a large technology company sincerely ca
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by gdulli 7y ago
Read just a little further. > the exercise of these rights carries "special duties and responsibilities" and may "therefore be subject to certain restrictions" when necessary "[f]or respect of the rights or reput
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by gdulli 7y ago
I can't imagine a situation where MailChimp is legally prevented from enforcing its own terms of use just because a third party pointed out the breach. Think of how exploitable that loophole would be.
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by gdulli 7y ago
Ending is better than mending!
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by gdulli 7y ago
A few weeks ago my company got us the Pros as a Christmas gift. It's my first experience with Bluetooth. These hurt my right ear slightly. The audio sometimes stutters. Sometimes the battery drains in one very quickly but not the other
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by gdulli 7y ago
Firefox has definitely become synonymous to me with loss of functionality and control.
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by gdulli 7y ago
He or she missed the entire point of the article. > he proposes raising the estate tax, and closing certain loopholes “many wealthy people take advantage of.”
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by gdulli 7y ago
At least read the beginning of the article. > ”It was nearly two decades ago that my dad and I started calling for an increase in the federal estate tax and for an estate tax in our home state of Washington”
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by gdulli 7y ago
That's expected, right? Their freelancer database likely has a long tail of occasional or inactive contributors. It's not like it makes sense to assume they have the equivalent of "hundreds" of current freelancer FTEs. W
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by gdulli 7y ago
There's no practical option for sleeping on a non-used mattress while traveling. It's not weird that people settle for it rather than refuse to travel altogether. If I'm going to sleep on something for the next 5-10 years it
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by gdulli 7y ago
Every company that has your data will either sell it or else they're in enough verticals that it makes more sense for them to monetize it internally. It amounts to the same thing.
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by gdulli 7y ago
> Are the horror stories about working at Amazon true? ️ Back around 2007 I was considering moving to Seattle and read up on working there. At the time their first round of bad press hadn't yet hit and I started with no impression a
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by gdulli 7y ago
We don't think it's necessary to preserve everything that's ever spoken verbally. We don't lament that everyday conversation is ephemeral. People are conflating internet discussion content with written content because it
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by gdulli 7y ago
Would the TV still be harmlessly anonymous, though? If you never logged into anything? Would there be any vectors to tying usage to you?
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by gdulli 7y ago
I go to LinkedIn without being logged in and nearly always get a login gate instead of the profile. They were ordered to unblock hiQ specifically, they were not ordered to open up content to scrapers generally. They can still throttle high
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by gdulli 7y ago
They asked about LinkedIn, where the content is gated behind a login. If it was a rate limiting problem, that would be trivial. Needing to be logged in as the same user defeats the purpose of proxying to hide your physical origin. Registeri
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by gdulli 7y ago
You're right, my take on this is that a company scraped a bunch of publicly available information, that people left open (consciously or not.) That's why only a subset have phone numbers. The profile URLs, emails, most people don&
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by gdulli 7y ago
The point isn't that we care about this product. The point is that the company's reputation is important because it's into so many things, and this news is a relevant signal about it. Hearing about this can inform your decisi
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by gdulli 7y ago
I only know it from the show. But the term captured something about our society so well that it instantly felt familiar.
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by gdulli 7y ago
It reeks of "no real person involved." Just an inconvenient abstraction to them.
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by gdulli 7y ago
I have a strategy based on the inverse of this. Sometimes there's a task that I know I'll spend too long deliberating about, or stretching out by getting on and off task due to procrastination. So I leave it until that last minute
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by gdulli 7y ago
> My personal feeling is that I'd rather pay with my time by watching ads anonymously than pay with my personal data. And with cable type commercials being trivially skippable with fast forward, that's another reason it's
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by gdulli 7y ago
I think they spent many years investing in creating that image for themselves, and did so successfully enough that people have taken it as fact and no longer question it. But it's been gradually becoming less true for years. They'
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by gdulli 7y ago
Exactly my point. I'm not apologizing for the software. I have severe doubt that software is anywhere close to making safe and appropriate decisions in the context of real world driving with open ended conditions about the makeup of th
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by gdulli 7y ago
We as humans possess some skills that are so profoundly important but also so subtle that we don't even recognize them as skills. And excessive optimism about AI is a lack of recognition of how fundamental those skills are to our navig
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by gdulli 7y ago
> The system should have started applying brake at this point. If a 3500lb vehicle can't decide what it is about to impact, it needs to slow down (to a stop if necessary). I suspect there's a big problem in the other direction,
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by gdulli 7y ago
Sure, it's hard to draw a strict line that will make everyone happy. I'm not going to try. But that doesn't mean that removing ED pill spam should be conflated with the government banning books under threat of imprisonment. W
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by gdulli 7y ago
I agree. If you broaden the term "censorship" so much as to make it equivalent to any entity trying to enforce quality or relevance control standards in its own venue, you make the term useless. While also subverting conversation
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by gdulli 7y ago
I don't think that's as useful an analogy when there's a million branches and it's easy to find another. Sure, in other industries people don't have the same luxury of speaking up.

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