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by keiru 7y ago
I'm not saying it's the reason for the current situation, but I can see Libra in the near future giving some credibility to the concept of crypto in general. What could get something out of the fringe faster than Facebook's e
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by keiru 7y ago
So snooping on your neighbour gets more morally sound the higher your ladder is?
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by keiru 7y ago
"identify" is a tricky word, because you might not think of yourself as an X, but you might see how someone might call you an X. Also, some terrorists likely do, some maybe not.
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by keiru 7y ago
So to summarize, the Facebook plan might look like this: (IANAL, so please correct me) - Create a global currency that can only be used by FB users and through FB apps. - Invest a billion in pegging the currency to make it stable and positi
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by keiru 7y ago
Yes, Twitter "threads" are annoying. It's just blog posts chopped into Twitter format.
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by keiru 7y ago
The danger is not in false positives, but false negatives. The very existence of this kind of things erode trust and sow paranoia. A simple morph cut in a John Pilger interview of Assange made a sizeable portion of nutjobs believe Assange h
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by keiru 7y ago
I don't know what I was expecting to happen https://imgur.com/a/7Rc3WsQ
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by keiru 7y ago
I don't like it, and maybe HN is not best suited, but it is relevant. Sharing such news is the only way of taking the pulse of how authorities perceive technology. Police using AI and visual recognition, investigations of social medi
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by keiru 7y ago
I'm sure the same could be done with anything entropic enough to identify me, like my writing style (lexicon, commas, typos). For a long time now I've assumed that everything I post online will eventually be cross-referenced back
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by keiru 7y ago
Despite agreeing with your latter points, there's a reason why shrapnel damage is comparably serious. Although most people who did some porn are most likely not proffesionals, most porn (by volume) is done by people who might even cons
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by keiru 7y ago
As this kind of behaviour becomes commonplace, immigration officers will start simply rejecting those very few who don't even have accounts. Nowadays having a healthy LinkedIn account is a near requirement for some jobs, people check t
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by keiru 7y ago
I'm gladly surprised that "lookalike revenge porn" isn't already a thing (that I know of)
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by keiru 7y ago
Yes, AI is designed in very particular situations to fit ver specific tasks. I never meant there to be a single mind controlling the whole world. Today you could program an assisting AI that told you when "you missed a spot" when
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by keiru 7y ago
This is odly novel, in a silly way
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by keiru 7y ago
Eventually, artificial intelligence. Maybe not in the near future, but as technology progresses and every manufacturer strives to optimize their designs with the latest features, it will become an unsourmountable task to oversee every aspec
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by keiru 7y ago
Yeah, but the resolution is shit
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by keiru 7y ago
So changing dietary habits is not just about challenging your reward system, but also starving out the invasor? Imagine a world where you can buy your food tastes through a yogurt.
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by keiru 7y ago
In what way loading a site on a portal would be different to loading it on the main window? Portals sound like just a technical UX solution, but would still count as site traffic.
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by keiru 8y ago
>just because of novelty That went without saying
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by keiru 8y ago
>nothing more than a publicity stunt It's the complete opposite to that, and you said it yourself. Their aim is to quietly retain/recapture users while keeping antitrust at bay, and they did well precisely in not publicizing it
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by keiru 8y ago
Could you name them? Anyone else please do too the X-wing sites you think are worthwhile. It's intersting to see different points of view.