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by hkai 6y ago
Personally I am not at all concerned when my data is used for marketing. Instead, I like learning about products tailor-made for me. By privacy I understand not sharing data with the public or with the oppressive regimes when it may lead to
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by hkai 6y ago
Is there any chance that this is about reducing Google's competitive advantage and not really about users' privacy?
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by hkai 6y ago
Just to check, between Facebook and WeChat, which company engages more in predatory, racist and violent practices and is complicit in unthinkable brutality and violations of human rights?
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by hkai 6y ago
"For each donated dollar, I will create and send you 100 random bytes that you can use in your cryptographic applications." $7 = 700 random bytes $15 = 1500 random bytes + 500 bytes free! $99 = lifetime* subscription for 25k rando
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by hkai 6y ago
Ay mate I couldn't catch ya?
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by hkai 6y ago
Here's an extensive discussion on HN about this - why it seems like a gold mine when you can hire engineers for $600/month, but it rarely works out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23402788
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by hkai 6y ago
What do you think is the reason? Some of the arguments that I heard include the suggestion that some of the radical environmental plans may cause serious losses of jobs and tax revenue, and increase poverty, while other heavy polluters woul
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by hkai 6y ago
Not only that, but it's a general lesson in what scale of human suffering can happen due to government overreach and attempting to effect social change from the top.
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by hkai 6y ago
I am going to go against Hanlon's razor here, but doesn't the slow push away from URLs benefit Google? A few years later, instead of type news.ycombinator.com, you would need to search for "hacker news", scroll through t
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by hkai 6y ago
While I believe you, you may also see how your argument is similar to the argument "non-proven pseudoscience medical treatments cured my disease, therefore they work". I would be very interested in a study that looks at how much o
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by hkai 6y ago
What you're saying is fair, but also imagine that's how conservatives felt for years. The left-leaning media outlets appear to be wildly exaggerating things they want to exaggerate, just as Fox News does on their side. Not sure if
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by hkai 6y ago
Not sure - it seems that every well-known police murder case ended with a multi-million-dollar settlement, even though officers were often acquitted. Wikipedia has details on these.
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by hkai 6y ago
May I ask why? I assume this is because many people think it is better that a left-leaning newspaper doesn't publish right-wing opinion pieces, but I would think that this creates a "bubble" and prevents readers from challeng
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by hkai 6y ago
As for your second point, I've seen an article on CNN the other day that says US kills twice as many people (per 1M arrests) than Australia. It seems like a lot, but then consider that only 5% of people killed by police in the US were
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by hkai 6y ago
I believe it's classical case where there is enough evidence for a wrongful death civil lawsuit (which will typically end with a 5-10 million dollars settlement), but there is not enough evidence to convict the officers (or the boyfrie
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by hkai 6y ago
Still, would you agree that the wording of the article tries to create an impression that the police fired first, and tries to downplay the fact that the boyfriend fired first? I do not disagree that the police was wrong to storm the place,
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by hkai 6y ago
Sorry, I was thinking of some of the other similar cases. I removed that part of my comment now. Indeed, the victims in this case did nothing wrong, given the information that I have. I would probably shoot at the intruders too in that situ
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by hkai 6y ago
I also hate that there seems to be a point of view that the US police and justice system is the worst in the world. I can attest that in most of the other countries of the world, you can't point a gun at the police and get away with it
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by hkai 6y ago
There seems to be a pattern of similar reporting, and I wonder what are the reasons for that: - "Police started killing black transgenders now" means "police shot a person who has just killed someone, was suicidal and was poi
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by hkai 6y ago
Apparently it's a bad thing, since California virtually legalized car break-ins (it's not a felony, so it's not really investigated). Would you rather lose your car window or would you rather sacrifice someone's life?
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by hkai 6y ago
In my entire experience as a programmer, I can't recall writing a prototype that was not eventually used as production code. If I wrote prototypes in JavaScript, I'd have to start all over again to rewrite them in TypeScript. Mean
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by hkai 6y ago
Both things can be true at the same time. IBM is looking for a nice excuse and also with facial recognition people won't get away with minor crime when cops are not looking. If every person who breaks into a car or sells something in t
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by hkai 6y ago
That's interesting because quite a lot of people on reddit seem to believe that drugs is the only fun thing to do in life, and the rest is horrifying - work, money, relationship problems, housing and so on. Perhaps that's why gove
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by hkai 6y ago
One interesting approach would be to actually charge less risky people less, and "safe" people more, as a way to equalize various groups in the society. Once this has enough traction, doing it the other way round could be even sti
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Singapore to give out virus-tracing devices(bangkokpost.com)
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by hkai 6y ago
Not to disagree with the premise of the article, but in the previous pandemic at some point we just stopped counting the cases. We settled on the estimate that 10 to 15% of people in the world got it. Now that we know the death rate of this
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by hkai 6y ago
Come on, don't twist the facts. We can do better than that. Today I received an email from Coursera advocating for a black transgender man who was "executed". Or, as it turned out, he killed a person and then pointed a gun at
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by hkai 6y ago
At one point in 2003, my CRT monitor died and I didn't have money to buy a new one for two months. I was still using my computer to play music, by blindly typing commands in the console - I remembered the folder names.
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by hkai 6y ago
So then should we also retract the continuous media message that we've heard for days, claiming that chloroquine kills people? It was on the front page of every media outlet.
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by hkai 6y ago
Would you say reducing budget by 90% may have any impact on crime levels? Or do you prefer a citizen self-defense patrol to an organized police force?

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