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by illumin8 8y ago
I think you misread my comment. I'm actually a huge fan of the secure enclave and the way that Apple protects customer privacy. What I was commenting on was the distrust a lot of people have, combined with a lack of knowledge about h
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by illumin8 8y ago
Tim Berners-Lee created the first hypertext database called Enquire that was similar to a wiki in 1980. How many years did it take before e-commerce on the web was successful?
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by illumin8 8y ago
This comment is similar to looking at the Netscape browser in 1994 and asking who has successfully used a browser in industry. Or, like insisting in 2001-2002 that all dot-coms were like WebVan or pets.com and the Internet was just a fad a
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by illumin8 8y ago
The assumption I'm making based on the press (that certain FCC commissioners disagreed with the original fine) is that the current GOP-controlled FCC commissioners like Ajit Pai intentionally reduced the fine because they want to be a
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by illumin8 8y ago
Be honest, even if the manufacturer tells you #1 is true you're not going to believe them. You're setting up an impossible set of demands that no manufacturer is going to meet and no consumer really cares about (other than perhaps
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by illumin8 8y ago
I consistently hear this from the same people that own iOS or Android phones. You do realize that the mic on any phone produced in the last few years is also "always listening," right?
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by illumin8 8y ago
Actually, there is: traffic data.
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by illumin8 8y ago
It's really sad, honestly. I think we need to vote for politicians that will fund our police forces appropriately, but also hold them accountable for actually doing their jobs. This means that when auto theft goes unchecked in SF, th
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by illumin8 8y ago
Looks like Florida (Miami) from his follow-up replies. Honestly I would stay far away...
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by illumin8 8y ago
If you're sending the biometric over the network you're doing it wrong. Apple uses a secure enclave and the biometric (fingerprint or facial scan) never gets extracted from the chip, ever.
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by illumin8 8y ago
Federal law. https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0181-unordered-merchan...
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by illumin8 8y ago
The quickest way to resolve all of these billing shenanigans: file a consumer complaint with the FCC. Magically, you'll almost immediately get a phone call from someone fairly high up in the company (typically executive relations or s
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by illumin8 8y ago
Radius Bank offers 2.05% interest on a savings account as long as you have $25,000 balance, or 1.5% for balances over $2,500. It seems to be the best option I've found. (see note for fine print). They also offer a checking account tha
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by illumin8 8y ago
He posted unsubstantiated claims about tax breaks (I'd like to learn where there are tax breaks for autonomous vehicles) and a claim about trains having more throughput than an interstate with cars fully loaded moving 100kph bumper to
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by illumin8 8y ago
He said an interstate fully loaded. A fully loaded interstate has 10 lanes (5 on each side), and with 10x cars, each 3 meters long with 5 passengers, that's 16.6 people per meter. Moving 100kph continuously bumper to bumper, not havin
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by illumin8 8y ago
> There's been a lot of tax breaks/money that goes into these programs too, and that's the tragic thing, since that funding should be going to known solutions: public transportation (trains, trams and express buses). Cita
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by illumin8 8y ago
Lambda has had VPC support for over 2.5 years now: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-access-resources-in-a-v...
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by illumin8 8y ago
Yes, but in this case it's a single for-profit company. I hope Fiji sues the shit out of FB.
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by illumin8 8y ago
Absolutely this is the case. They trained the feed algorithm with years of A/B testing data and told it to optimize for engagement above all else. Well, guess what, this is exactly the same way YouTube trained their "Up next&quo
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by illumin8 8y ago
This is not a travesty. This is cementing NYC as the place to go on the east coast if you want to work in tech, and helping to diversify the NYC economy away from being so heavily dependent on finance. Wouldn't it be nice if your opti
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by illumin8 8y ago
This 1000x. It's fashionable to blame the shortage of SF housing on tech, when the truth is that NIMBYs have created the shortage over decades by not allowing high density housing construction.
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by illumin8 8y ago
I imagine having James Gosling on staff will help quite a bit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gosling
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by illumin8 8y ago
Redshift is not a direct competitor with BigQuery. It's a relational data warehouse. BigQuery more directly competes with Athena, which is a managed version of Apache Presto, and my personal opinion is that Athena is way better than
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by illumin8 8y ago
I think you're going to have to back up a claim like this with some facts. GKE being the exception, since it was launched a couple years before EKS. AWS clearly has way more services, and the features are way deeper than GCP. Just com
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by illumin8 8y ago
Google has a global SDN (software-defined network) that gives them some unique and beneficial capabilities, like being able to onboard traffic in the closest CDN POP and letting it ride over the Google backbone to the region your systems ar
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by illumin8 8y ago
Sorry, I saw Disney's CIO speak at a tech conference, but I don't believe it was recorded.
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by illumin8 8y ago
The term I like to use is "censorship resistant." Bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies have this property. The idea is that no central authority can censor your right to spend money.
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by illumin8 8y ago
The main difference being that Disney has multiple backup systems, including switching to a completely manual process in case their network or servers are offline. I watched a presentation on this, and it's actually very interesting ho
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by illumin8 8y ago
90GB out of 120GB when I've just barely installed the apps and files I need mean I'll run out of space in less than 3 months. It's a shame that 256GB isn't the minimum in these new, expensive Mac minis.
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by illumin8 8y ago
You shouldn't express points of view through moderation. Replying to the comment is the appropriate way to express differing points of view.

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