kanox

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by kanox 6y ago
Good, companies shouldn't employ people who deliberately smear and sabotage them.
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by kanox 6y ago
As far as I can tell most new apps require a phone merely for registration. It's not even close to optional. Twitter pretends it doesn't but it locks you out in ~5 minutes if you don't verify your phone number.
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by kanox 6y ago
But would Apple and Google actually resist a TikTok ban? It wouldn't be surprising to see them ban TikTok voluntarily and receive positive press coverage.
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by kanox 6y ago
Google and Apple could arbitrarily agree to remove the app from their stores. Even if it was still usable via some kind of side-loading it would completely destroy the userbase.
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by kanox 6y ago
Isn't camera access something that needs to be explicitly granted through the mobile OS? By default TikTok requires no permissions and doesn't even ask for a phone number to register.
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by kanox 6y ago
There is considerably less politics on TikTok than other platforms. I'd say that the short video format is unsuitable for politics but twitter exists so quality of argumentation is obviously irrelevant.
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by kanox 6y ago
TL;DR: nothing I would be shocked to see solid proof that tiktok is substantially more intrusive than snapchat or instagram. Data collection should be limited at the OS level anyway. The only crime of tiktok is being chinese.
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by kanox 6y ago
Rule of law is not conditional on reciprocity.
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by kanox 6y ago
Forcing a foreign business to "sell or close" is an insult to the rule of law.
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by kanox 6y ago
What's the point of a dedicated e-reader instead of a phone or tablet with the brightness turned down? As a device category it will go the way of mp3 players and button phones. I owned several kindles but my current one has been gather
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by kanox 6y ago
Not yet, not until re-entry. It's arguably the most dangerous part of the missions since launching on Falcon 9 has happened many times before. Both Soyuz and the Space Shuttle had fatal accidents on re-entry.
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by kanox 6y ago
> There's a fundamental difference between something extremely partisan (think Breitbart or HuffPo) and something state-sponsored. Not really, free speech should apply even to hostile foreign propaganda.
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by kanox 6y ago
I really don't see the problem with this, finding vulnerabilities is hard work and many times the results are used for nefarious purposes. You seem to be concerned that Project Zero would be used as marketing material against competito
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by kanox 6y ago
The "web" generally refers to http/html which were extremely new in 1995, much newer than generic tcp/ip networking. The first netscape navigator was released in 1994!
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by kanox 6y ago
Treating foreign media as a "national security issue" is extremely scary. This is not something that free societies do.
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by kanox 6y ago
The worst political development over the last decade is the very wide embracing of corporate censorship. It is now widely accepted that media platforms have an explicit duty to control public opinion. In this context any large foreign media
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by kanox 6y ago
Rule of law is not conditional on reciprocity, societies strive to give due process even to literal murderers. The US should respect it's own laws and deal with chinese companies fairly. The actions of the chinese government should hav
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by kanox 6y ago
Bribes are about money, this appears to be about media control. Much worse.
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by kanox 6y ago
I can't believe business deals with such explicit political motivations are being considered.
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by kanox 6y ago
> Imagine China subtly promoting videos to create outrage and civil unrest in the US, or to feed anti-US propaganda to germinate terrorist groups in the US. Restricting foreign media based on "propaganda" fears is not a behavio
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by kanox 6y ago
> A compromise was to give managers a minimum of seven direct reports This might be dumb but what is the industry standard here? I mostly see teams of up to 5 people under "tech lead" who spends >50% coding and maybe ~20 peo
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by kanox 6y ago
This makes no sense? You can compare SpaceX and Boeing performance on the commercial crew contracts which have very similar deliverables and nothing to do with other businesses. Boeing received considerably more money for commercial crew an
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by kanox 6y ago
> It's no surprise that the best-funded company produces the best results, but it would be interesting to find out if a more honest company could produce better results with equal funding. This is not true, SpaceX was consistenly ch
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by kanox 6y ago
> If twitter ‘verified’ means anything, it means a chain of identity has been established between Twitter and the purported owner of that account. Not really, a blue checkmark is just a status symbol.
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by kanox 6y ago
If the product is 100% carbon neutral then selling multiple copies of that products would have no impact either. This means that planned obsolescence and being impossible to repair for the user would have no effect on the environment.
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by kanox 6y ago
> 50-100 millions Relative to other COVID-related economic damage this is peanuts. It's acceptable to throw a few tens of millions at a wall and hope that something sticks.
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by kanox 6y ago
Sorry to be dismissive it's almost always essential to allow international contributors and english is by far the most common international language.
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by kanox 6y ago
SOAP is XML not HTML, unless I'm missing something. I'm happy that the world moved on to the point that json/yaml-like formats are strongly preferred.
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by kanox 6y ago
> It’s not a family. It’s a workplace. It's better when companies and managers are honest about the nature of the employment relationship.
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by kanox 6y ago
This is nonsense: making people harder to fire won't protect them from other forms of vigilante harassment.

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