gibba999

15 ms·

91.
by gibba999 6y ago
I'm on cc: lists with documents I don't have access to all the time. It depends on how organizations interact. And I suspect it wouldn't be very hard for me to iframe Google Docs and appropriately obscure things so someone do
92.
by gibba999 6y ago
Here's the other thing though. Law suits are expensive. Law suits burn bridges (you'll never get a recommendation from an employer you've sued). Law suits prevent future jobs (would you hire someone who sued a previous employ
93.
by gibba999 6y ago
Chest freezer. A lot of items had these swings though: face masks were the most obvious, but virtually all emergency supplies went through major up-and-down spikes. Dry shelf-stable food, some medicines, toilet paper, etc. All of a sudden,
94.
by gibba999 6y ago
It is a scam. It's a sophisticated scam. I thought I was buying an item. I was giving the seller a free options contract, valued at a few hundred dollars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valuation_of_options Price j
95.
by gibba999 6y ago
I shopped on Amazon for many years. I never had problems until around the time of COVID19. It seems to be a cesspool of scammers and conartists now. Amazon doesn't do much of anything about it either. I'm out a couple hundred buck
96.
by gibba999 6y ago
This is really neat! I am looking at the footage from the A77 on Youtube. The resolution doesn't seem to be 4K. Apeman seems to do a lot of software upscaling. Their highest-end model, the A100, claims 20MP resolution, 4K video, and an
97.
by gibba999 6y ago
If this lasts long enough for good tools for telepresence to be in place, travel may never recover. Or if countries close borders and don't reopen as much. Or... There are a lot more risks here than just draw-out pandemic.
98.
by gibba999 7y ago
It can. And that gold sits around until the Germanic tribes invade Rome and take it all. Major upheavals affect all systems.
99.
by gibba999 7y ago
... only it doesn't work. Those models work very well on a short-term timescale. We have major upheavals every few hundred years. At that point, the fiat money in the bank account disappears. Once eradicated, the worm doesn't come
100.
by gibba999 7y ago
Well, I agree with everything except that Google's not arrogant. Google is arrogant, and that's precisely why they can never be a successful platform company. When I've used Google platforms, things changed under me, for my a
101.
by gibba999 7y ago
Seems like a waste to do CSV->TSV without going all the way: http://www.tsvx.org/ The problem with TSVs and CSVs is that you might get an odd datatype 1TB into a file. For example, what you expect to be an integer value
102.
by gibba999 7y ago
Let's say I go into my wife's room and find her purse on the floor. Do I know she left it there? Yes, barring bizarre circumstances. Is it just an unfounded supposition? No. Do I have irrefutable proof the next day? No I don'
103.
by gibba999 7y ago
Who says I didn't have the time? 1) The contest has a very specific standard for evidence. Just because I went there and saw no such city existed doesn't mean that gets me a million bucks. That's my testimony. 2) Even going b
104.
by gibba999 7y ago
Here's the basic problem: They gave a month deadline. That's not enough time to get permission for time off from work, book a ticket, take photos to show there is no city there, and submit, at least with the required degree of int
105.
by gibba999 7y ago
Based on best preliminary evidence, the Georgia Tech one is dramatically better. A lot of shitty stuff (like this) has been coming out of UT. Georgia Tech seems to have made a serious investment in doing online right.
106.
by gibba999 7y ago
No. If the instructors wanted to put this up for free, they could build the course on Open edX, and put it up for free with any of the hundreds of free Open edX providers. They could license under an open license. There's nothing stopp
107.
by gibba999 7y ago
Thank you. The link in the top-level post isn't educating the world freely. It's a scammy edX course. Yours seem like the real deal. There's a few more out there too.
108.
by gibba999 7y ago
I've often decided on technical decisions with incomplete information. Here's an example of how it works (translated to this analogy): 1) You come up with a working (if expensive or otherwise imperfect) technical path 2) You defin
109.
by gibba999 7y ago
I stopped subscribing to universal human rights, at least as defined by the UN, when the lobbyists got a hold of them and began adding things like IP protections as "human rights." We now need DRM and can't have fair use beca
110.
by gibba999 7y ago
You mean the one which (still) runs Gitmo? Or perhaps we should get our law enforcement to help out. But then who would we have to do the very important work of putting kids in cages on the border? I think you're making the mistake of
111.
by gibba999 7y ago
I'm guessing you're a Googler (or similar) who missed the point. Privacy has value even without the threat of being thrown into a camp, and mass surveillance is a human rights violation even without that. But just to get facts str
112.
by gibba999 7y ago
It's sometimes helpful, actually. Virtually any comment critical of Google gets downvote aggressively. I suspect that's a lot of Googlers reading Hacker News (who drank the coolaid) rather than an intentional astroturf campaign, b
113.
by gibba999 7y ago
I don't quite see much difference between Chinese government surveillance and US corporate surveillance at this stage. The power structures are different, but the result is the same. Google knows everywhere I am and reads all my email.
114.
by gibba999 7y ago
Company I worked at did have bulk loads/unloads every so often. This didn't need to be fixed for outgoing emails, or at least wasn't a priority. If you unsubscribed, you'd get taken on/off the generic newsletter-sty
115.
by gibba999 7y ago
If you constrain yourself to non-NDA hardware, rather than lowest-cost vendor, you've just notched up price quite a bit. Take out mass manufacturing economics, and the price seems quite economical, actually.
116.
by gibba999 7y ago
Plus, 9 times out of 10, it's the MIT types who lift ideas from others and promote them with MIT's increasingly well-polished hype machine. Within MIT, Media Lab is central to this problem.
117.
by gibba999 7y ago
A privacy policy is definitely the right place for privacy issues. My point is exactly as vharuc made above: Putting something there neither makes it ethical nor unethical. A contract or license is not an excuse for bad behavior. * If my pr
118.
by gibba999 7y ago
You're confusing an analogy with a counterexample. Analogies need to be analogous. Counterexamples can be extreme (and it is often helpful if they are; then they're obvious counterexamples). Please take a minute to reread the disc
119.
by gibba999 7y ago
It is pretty nefarious. In traditional research and product development protocols, you would have people opt into something like this, and optionally pay them for it. If Google gave out a hundred thousand Google Home units for free to test
120.
by gibba999 7y ago
I've managed remote teams. Distributed teams work really well. One-person-out teams are a surefire recipe to crash-and-burn. With distributed teams, you get into a flow where Hangouts are as natural as going for a walk, where everyone

More ›