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by kinsomo 8y ago
> People are trusting science way too much in my opinion. Scientism is also rampant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Basically, you can't stop a big company from getting hacked no matter how much you spend on security. I never said anything to the contrary, but the observation is irrelevant. You can't stop all pollution, but that doesn&#x2
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> In practice fining companies for getting hacked just boils down to a tax, as no company wants to be hacked No, it boils down to an incentive . No company wants to get hacked, but a lot those same companies aren't willing to in
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by kinsomo 8y ago
I consider most advertising-delivered information to be suspect. I find about things I'm interested in organically, through interest-based websites and the like. In any case, except for a few specific circumstances, I've rigorous
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> There are 6.5 billion non-Europeans, there's plenty of market outside of Europe. The world doesn't have uniform GDP per capita. Potential European customers have more money to spend than most of those other potential custome
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> i.e. "It's easier for horses to compete with cars if you set the speed limit everywhere to 5 miles per hour." I think that elides pretty important aspects from the equation. In reality, it's more like: "It&#x2
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Because the risk and costs of compliance are borne by all, not just the non-compliant. I would hope that "but laws only affect the bad guys" or "if you're doing nothing wrong you have nothing to worry about" wo
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Only if I make significant money from that market. If most of my revenue/profit comes from the US and it's problematic to "do business" in the EU or China, why wouldn't I want to just cut access off rather than
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> This reads to me like a warmonger justifying innocent casualties. Surely you don't believe this only takes out the bad do you? How would it take out GDPR compliant websites? It they're not complaint, they're not exactly
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> What you get instead is untargeted ads, like ads for cars, potato chips, and shampoo, just like on TV. Personally I find those to be a lot more annoying. I'm genuinely curious: what's so much more annoying to you about un ta
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Targeted advertising has always seemed pretty dumb, to me most advertising is done by Coke and their target is every where. Doc Searls made a good point: targeted advertising isn't advertising, it's really direct marketing
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> The only new brand of smartphone in the last four years I can think of is OnePlus that has had success. OnePlus did this by buying their popularity. By offering a ton of value initially and then raising the price each generation. Aren&
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> 0, 1, a few, many. Just enough to tell you how much to crank up the HVAC. I don't think the number of people in a room will give you meaningful information to tell you "how much to crank up the HVAC." Also, the HVAC sys
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> You would be collecting data from many sources in order to predict intent. This is why you need a centralized server. Please explain, exactly, what other sources you would collect data from and how the central server would process it t
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> I wish more offices would install motion sensors facing keyboards from above, tune-focused for finger motion detection. A new dystopian developer-productivity metric.
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> However, it doesn't allow for as much modification as the original poster's idea. My main point was the original poster's idea was probably focusing on the wrong kind of sensor for what he wanted to do. He could still n
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> One reason you might want a server is to have more expressive power than "if someone literally enters the room, turn on the lights". You might want to turn on the lights and run the AC a little before you predict people will
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by kinsomo 8y ago
>> Even if you build it, knowing guest may never feel completely comfortable visiting your house. > They should feel more comfortable than an equivalent system built by a company that is looking to profit off of your data - and add
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> I have this idea of a system I would like to have in my house. It contains cameras in every room that are constantly watching where people are and relaying the coordinates to a central server. That server makes decisions on if lights s
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> I don't disagree, but the light ring is also important to know that it actually heard your command. Having it on all the time would make the UX much worse. Unless it was a separate light. I see that, I think it would be best as a
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> It's a little more than just that. Every light in my house is controlled with Alexa which is a very nice and hard to explain until you have tried it. Also my home theater system is all controllable via Alexa as well. This kind of
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> yes. if you want that, you can only buy from a company that does it. if enough people agree, they'll all do it or fail. i don't abide by the 'its such a good idea, everyone must be forced to do it' mentality We don&
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Due to watchword detection, the microphone amp would always be on. I don't think that would be a bad thing; especially if there's a switch to disable the mic. When you turn it off, you'll get reliable feedback to know i
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> where someone has to physically press a button, there are no moving parts, thus it must be software controlled. If the microphone uses an amplifier, you could wire an LED to light when power is supplied to the amp. The indicator light
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> This devices should by law always have a big LED on when recording And the LED should be forbidden by law from being software-controlled. They should also have a physical inline toggle switch to disconnect the microphone(s) entirely, w
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> The 2nd theme that's mentioned in passing is the Six4Three bikini API dispute as a forensic discovery into how the Cambridge Analytica abuse was deliberately engineered into the platform in 2011 and was approved by Facebook senior
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by kinsomo 8y ago
I wont ever consider getting a smart speaker unless, at a minimum, it did all of its voice processing locally and emitted an audit-able series of search queries. At least half the use-cases for these things don't even need an interne
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> In addition to a Social Security number, users wishing to buy ads will need to provide a picture of a government-issued ID and a US mailing address. Once Facebook verifies the information submitted, the company will mail a code to the
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by kinsomo 8y ago
Maybe there's some practical use for this: it looks like 3B computers are still used in some AT&T POTS telephone switches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5ESS_Switching_System#Administ... https://en.
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by kinsomo 8y ago
After the MH370 crash, are there any initiatives to make some kind of water-deployed radio beacon standard equipment on large passenger aircraft? Seems like a lot of search expense could have been spared if MH370 has been with one of the

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