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by iliketosleep 8y ago
I assert that there are a great numbers of CEOs who would absolutely love their employees to be working 996 without overtime pay, only most of them won't admit it directly. We cannot expect CEOs to be paragons of virtue - part of the r
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> Or if the police want to effortlessly and invisibly track you, of course. All we need now is integration of biometrics to start the vehicle, so they know exactly who the driver is. For our safety, of course.
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There is a rule where a stock isn't allowed to rise or fall by more than 10%. It doesn't really work because there are ways to circumvent it using financial instruments which are a proxy of the stock price but not subject to the s
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by iliketosleep 8y ago
When it comes to flight computers it makes sense to be conservative when it comes to computing power - the goal should be simple, proven, and functional. But when it comes to diagnostics why not use more computing power? As the article stat
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People didn't mind the authoritarianism so much when the government took a pragmatic approach to governance and people's lives were improving. But now they've gone back to putting ideology at the forefront, like Mao did. Peop
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Yes, that's the one.
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Some Chinese have already found a way to circumvent this app, by downloading a program from Github that will automatically watch the videos and complete the quizzes for them. It no secret, and ironically comes up as the first search result
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by iliketosleep 8y ago
You're right that there's no excuse per se, but one must acknowledge that desperate people will resort to desperate measures - especially those who have a family to support. It's easy to take the moral high ground until you f
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by iliketosleep 8y ago
Near the end of the article: After a preliminary forensic investigation, the thumb drive was found to contain "malicious malware," according to the affidavit. Isn't malware, by definition, malicious??
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This is what I've said for a long time - people complain that Starbucks is expensive, and I totally agree if it's takeaway. But if you go there, sit down and enjoy the coffee in a pleasant environment, it's actually great val
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by iliketosleep 8y ago
It's related to the incentive structures of big corporations. Profit for investors is the primary goal, and the only real constraint is the legal system (where loopholes are often found or bought). People are viewed through the lense o
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by iliketosleep 8y ago
I just looked into that Logitech issue, it's interesting to note that contact was made with Logitech engineers in September. The engineers provided assurance that the issue was understood and would be fixed. Months pass... updates were
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If their base salary is decent, then it might not be surprising at all. Determining whether an individual stays in a particular job involves multiple weighted variables. To give an example, once an individual has a base level of financial s
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by iliketosleep 8y ago
In fairness, access to features such as call logs and clipboard are too easily abused. I think that most users downloading apps from the Play Store have the expectation that Google is taking care of their privacy. As the author mentioned, a
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In practice, it's going to be an arbitrary mess. They draw a series of vaguely defined lines across highly nuanced issues, make their fancy press release, and then send it off to implemented by underpaid and undertrained workers (in 3r
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by iliketosleep 8y ago
While China, even as a tourist, you are still subject to Chinese laws and regulations. Just because a rule isn't always strictly enforced doesn't mean it's nonapplicable. Any unsubstantiated claims to the contrary are "d
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> Chinese censorship does not apply to travelers with a foreign cell phone and foreign SIM Really? Travelers with a foreign cell phone and foreign SIM are excepted from Chinese censorship laws? I find this very difficult to believe. It&#
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Thank you for presenting such a vivid example. Something that appeals to a minority, will, by definition, stop appealing to them when it morphs into a form that appeals to the majority. I have seen this happen even with TV series. Is there
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by iliketosleep 8y ago
I'd say that you have a faulty battery. The iPhone 6s doesn't have the best battery life, but you should get at least one year of heavy usage before any noticeable degradation and 2 years of normal usage.
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> As a parent, it is also difficult to explain to my son, why my daughter would qualify for such a generous grant, but he would not... What explanation is there ? There are explanations, but whether they are valid or not is a matter of d
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A decade or two ago it was the left which was vying for free and uncensored. Political fortunes have changed and now it's the right. Censorship is not free of political bias, and those on the wrong side of the current trend will flood
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by iliketosleep 8y ago
The author refers to a decentralized web, which cannot be controlled by any individual, state, or corporation. I think this implies less censorship and regulation.
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by iliketosleep 8y ago
Yes, you're right. I can't say that I misread it, nor did I consciously make that assumption. Oh well, faulty heuristics.
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To cut a long story short, they put massive engines on an airframe not designed for it, causing "unusual flight characteristics" (the huge engines could generate their own lift, pitching the nose up) which they compensated for wit
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Students have slowly been reframed as customers - it's no surprise that admissions may turn into form of customer screening.
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If a critical mass of individuals migrate to a network which replicates the key functionality of the web but is designed with privacy and decentralization at the core, I believe it would be safe to say that it's not in the hands of gov
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We don't need new regulations. We need the web to be taken out of the hands of gov. and big corps. It's interesting how the web started off feeling so very utopian. A naive and benevolent world that was built upon trust - and ther
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> It's quite possible to get lost in the weeds planning stuff with no forwards motion. It's also possible to make really, really expensive mistakes by plowing forwards. An excellent point which is often omitted in such articles
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Yes this is obviously the case. Feels like the NY times is trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. The work she describes is nothing surprising and is quite benign compared to various facebook scandals we've seen. More than anythin
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I found that Candy Crush and other junk kept coming back after updates, wasting a lot of time and data. This combined with the crazy amount of telemetry sent to MS makes it less impressive from a security standpoint. It's a pity becaus

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