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by jonfw 8y ago
But this guy isn't even being ordered to do anything unethical. He just wrote an article. The same people that ordered him to write this article have also ordered other people to do unethical things. But that's a different scenari
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> Journalists are inquisitive, intellectually curious types. You have to call into question the ethics of someone prepared to write about something they have a good idea that their own company engages in. So what is the ethical thing to
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by jonfw 8y ago
Whether or not you are a hypocrite has no bearing on whether or not what you are saying is correct.
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I'm talking about actual information about what Google does with their data. The cost-benefit analysis and risk tolerance doesn't tell us about how much Google secures their privacy, it tells us about how much the company cares ab
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privacy isn't the morality question, being misleading about your privacy is the morality question. Google is collecting surveillance data on it's consumers, that the majority of it's consumers don't even know is being co
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Many of us are the people making those risk assessments. What information would these IT security staff have that we don't? It's no secret that a lot of companies don't have great information security. I think that the fact t
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by jonfw 8y ago
The point of the survey is to test whether or not people are aware of what google is doing with their data, not whether or not they're okay with it. Transparency is at the center of the argument of the morality of surveillance. There i
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by jonfw 8y ago
You're right, it's certainly more nuanced than 'money = bad' and 'advertising = bad'. I still think that in the context of this discussion, open source does solve both the privacy problem and the accessibility
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by jonfw 8y ago
I think most of us can agree that sometimes Google services are extremely practical. I just don't think that the practicality is an argument towards the morality of their business. I wouldn't make this a morality based argument if
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by jonfw 8y ago
I'm sure as hell not a cow, so I don't really see your point. The market would be a lot more concerned about the happiness of cows if cows had the independence and the personal rights to switch farms. Consumers are not property an
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The user's attention isn't the sole product though. Personal information about the user is also a huge part of the product. Saying it's just your attention doesn't accurately convey concerns about their data collection.
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by jonfw 8y ago
Open source solves both of these problems. The way I see it, software that costs money is a problem, and software that compromises your freedom is a problem. Sure Google can solve one of those problems, but we also shouldn't pat oursel
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by jonfw 8y ago
Is it only 1% or 2% anymore? I feel like these past couple of election cycles have really alerted people to some of the issues we are talking about. But maybe It's just in my circles.
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by jonfw 8y ago
Both senses of the word free work beautifully together. Free as in beer and free as in speech. We shouldn't put up with violations of our personal liberty for no-cost software. Tech is such a young industry- we still have time to shape
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by jonfw 8y ago
I think asking "are you aware" is a different question. Most non-tech people have barely done any research on this and probably have never even looked into it. You're sharing information and asking questions about it at the s
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by jonfw 8y ago
How long until this starts to seriously hurt big tech companies? It can't be too much longer now. The dream is that the market will see this and can solve this problem without need of government intervention. Do you all think that this
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by jonfw 8y ago
If you're just looking for a font for your microsft word or other office document software, you're most likely not going to bother downloading new fonts when Word has plenty of fonts available easily. I would imagine tech geeks an
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by jonfw 8y ago
I think a whole lot more people care about the impoverished, than those who live on this block.
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I would just like to point out that this commenter's resume has nothing to do with whether or not Google is evil.
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by jonfw 8y ago
Is there evidence that Cisco is intentionally creating backdoors? A backdoor by mistake is incompetent, not evil. Building censored search products and collecting the amount of consumer data that google does without clearly informing consum
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by jonfw 8y ago
If Google is on your resume, you have plenty of employment options.
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by jonfw 8y ago
I agree, there is a lot that's harmful in nature. But we as humans have been developing knowledge about how these natural foods affect our health for thousands of years, across a sample on the scale of billions. Tribes completely isola
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by jonfw 8y ago
All you've done here is inaccurately paraphrase him, you've failed to make a point.
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by jonfw 8y ago
Given the nature of evolution, I think that the appeal to nature in nutrition is a much more substantive argument than can be immediately dismissed. Grossly speaking, natural foods have also existed for longer and been better studied, meani
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by jonfw 8y ago
The government tells power and phone companies that they can't cut off service to people discriminately. I'm pretty libertarian in respects to market regulation, but when it comes to mopolistic industries you need regulation.
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by jonfw 8y ago
Still going to pay transport costs on getting raw materials to space, although I imagine raw mats will be densers and the volume savings will reduce costs.
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by jonfw 8y ago
Throttling CPU in a non-transparent and non-configurable manner is not an acceptable means to increase longevity.Maybe it works for your grandmother who just wants to continue to send text messages, but most people want to use their smartph
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by jonfw 8y ago
I agree that updating tech stack can be expensive and sometimes not worth it. Being on the bleeding edge isn't a great idea for a business use case. You have to draw the line somewhere. I do think that the line is drawn very well ahead
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So don't use floating points? You can use arbitrary precision math libraries. If you devote enough memory, you can be much more precise with continuous values than an analog computer could ever hope to be. Frankly it wouldn't take
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If there is no market collusion or abuse of monopoly, than there is absolutely no way it makes economic sense to withhold properties from the market to inflate the market. If you have a minority market share you won't be able to make u

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