jammygit

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by jammygit 7y ago
Your definition of 'waste' is awfully narrow. I'm not sure anything but destruction of the cash is waste in that view - except that its not even then a total waste because you are helping the money burning industry and furnac
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by jammygit 7y ago
Especially if its hidden 5 layers deep in some settings and you don't know it exists, and is opt-out
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by jammygit 7y ago
One Canadian student engineering team recently won an engineering competition by creating a cell phone tracking system for an airport. The ethics are pretend, the engineering association only cares about punishing people for mistakes (at le
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by jammygit 7y ago
> When this story broke, I dipped into Apple’s terms of service myself and, though there are mentions of quality control for Siri and data being shared, I found that it did fall short of explicitly and plainly making it clear that live r
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by jammygit 7y ago
ugh, techcrunch seems to automatically swap pages on you if you scroll down. What an awful ui decision
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by jammygit 7y ago
Your argument implies that 'it's the gay person's fault for getting caught,' so that tracking organisations have less responsibility for their actions. Instead of Saudi Arabia, how about the United States 100 years ago?
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by jammygit 7y ago
Canada made it illegal to take part in a public protest while concealing your face under the Harper government...
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Facebook is apparently researching brain-machine interfaces
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by jammygit 7y ago
Reminds me of Russian literature where there is almost always some technically-still-aristocrat who is broke and going into debt to maintain his status, while scheming to regain his fortune through marriage or else inheritance
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by jammygit 7y ago
I had never seen his blog before, but the writing quality is incredible. I hope to explore his blog more Edit: reminds me a tiny bit of Catcher in the Rye, stylistically
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by jammygit 7y ago
I heard the term “smoke test” came from the hardware expression “if there’s no smoke, it will probably work”
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by jammygit 7y ago
Is low level programming as lucrative? I love it, but I don’t hear many people talking about the jobs
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by jammygit 7y ago
The legal innovation is this: by being here, you consent to <15 page contract>. Imagine that in the real world. I honestly expect it to become commonplace - by entering our store, you agree to the terms posted in the binder you may as
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by jammygit 7y ago
Panopticlick won’t work at all on brave on mobile. Maybe a good sign?
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by jammygit 7y ago
Not sure why the downvotes. If a news provider can’t promise to try to tell the truth in a legally binding way, but just claims to be editorializing, it’s no wonder there is so much public distrust of the news.
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by jammygit 7y ago
> As Amazon continues their vertical integration, it's not clear whether this problem will be addressed or not. Amazon might make things a lot worse. The “recommended by amazon” windows 10 keys are mostly fake ripoffs at this point
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by jammygit 7y ago
> Capital One Financial Corp. lost data from as many as tens of millions of credit card applications after a Seattle woman hacked into a cloud-computing company server > The cloud-computing company, on whose servers Capital One rented
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by jammygit 7y ago
Purism is a social good corporation. It changes things a bit, but I’m unclear how
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by jammygit 7y ago
For me, I need authy, anki, and a couple of other apps or else I need a second phone. Luckily, anki is open source too and hopefully somebody ports the linux version for the smaller screen.
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by jammygit 7y ago
What do you actually do to find out what the regulations for 50 states are and how to comply? Just hire experts?
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by jammygit 7y ago
On Vancouver island, there is a generally worry about losing jobs related to natural resources. The conservationists want to replace those jobs with tourism, and it’s actually working, but then you have to say no to all the money ‘just sitt
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by jammygit 7y ago
The Mongolia season also made the local plants and animals look interesting
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by jammygit 7y ago
Somehow worse than my old super Nintendo version in that case. I wonder if they will embed ads on some of the walls next
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by jammygit 7y ago
When I was an intern I spent most of the year fixing bugs, between other assignments. It was the most beneficial educational experience I could have had. I got really good at it by the end too. There isn’t a better way to learn a codebase a
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by jammygit 7y ago
I received written death threats (letters cut and pasted from various papers) once and the police ignored it. I got attacked a week later
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by jammygit 7y ago
Imagine Stalin with modern internet surveillance capabilities
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That can’t be legally binding
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by jammygit 7y ago
By comparison, here's somebody who sued them in small claims court and won $8000: https://blog.legalist.com/i-won-8-000-from-equifax-in-small-... an update about winning the appeal afterwards (edit: apparently they got
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by jammygit 7y ago
$25/hr is peanuts
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by jammygit 7y ago
Sounds like a great payout for the lawyers, but a terrible one for individuals. I bet you have to sign off on 'never holding equifax liable again for this breach' as part of your free monitoring

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