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by kofejnik 7y ago
"Society is rejecting these ideas," No it obviously isn't. If it were, there would be no need for bans whatsoever, they would simply have no audience.
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by kofejnik 8y ago
I don't think it works like that in a traffic stop without a warrant
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by kofejnik 8y ago
Xiaomi already has exactly this in their phones - a second set of fingerprint+passcode which unlock a separate environment. But, they also ship their phones with system-level adware and spyware
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by kofejnik 8y ago
yes, but you can't be forced to provide an answer to this
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Cops can force your finger onto an iPhone to see if it unlocks, says judge(theregister.co.uk)
138 points by kofejnik 8y ago|115 comments
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ShadowHammer: Malicious Updates for Asus Laptops(kaspersky.com)
2 points by kofejnik 8y ago|0 comments
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by kofejnik 8y ago
What do you mean, distorts prices ? Is there a god-given “just” price which we should stick to?
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by kofejnik 8y ago
I used to get these, every 5 minutes, right on the clock. Turns out, OS X location services rescan wifi every 5 minutes, God knows why. Turn it off, lag gone.
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by kofejnik 8y ago
zoom app on MacOS requires root permissions. No, thank you.
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by kofejnik 8y ago
I second this, after 4 years with Android, I found system-level adware and analytics components in my Xiaomi and switched to iPhone XR the same day. Couldn't be happier. Everything is just nicer
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by kofejnik 8y ago
> I know plenty of older folks that are great software engineers and can't find work because nobody will give them a chance to interview. maybe tell them about triplebyte
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by kofejnik 8y ago
> 20% should be a baseline, for bad service, 25 for "decent" and 30% for good service... where does this insanity stop? 50%? 100%? No matter how much you tip, people will grow to expect it as baseline, and then some more
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by kofejnik 8y ago
hmm... what if tipping itself is a problem?
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by kofejnik 8y ago
maybe the right thing is just stopping tipping altogether? Then Instacart will be forced to pay a somewhat reasonable wage
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by kofejnik 8y ago
and it also reinforces the point that the whole tipping culture is ridiculous
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by kofejnik 8y ago
Homosexuality was considered a disorder until fairly recently
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by kofejnik 8y ago
A couple of months ago, I started getting notifications for random alibaba crap on my Xiaomi phone. Turns out, there's a system app which sends you ads as push notifs. Switched to iphone the next day, privacy is the killer feature.
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by kofejnik 8y ago
exactly this, and it is pretty awful; effectively, Facebook is taking sides in an ongoing conflict
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by kofejnik 8y ago
What really bothers me, is that of all possible partners, they gave access to Yandex, and Yandex == FSB
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by kofejnik 8y ago
selling your labor is not the same as selling physical body parts
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by kofejnik 8y ago
it enables you to run git diff after updating your npm dependencies, so you at least have a chance to detect something shady
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by kofejnik 8y ago
check them into your git
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by kofejnik 8y ago
> have raised over $416,442,265 what a specific number! I'm wondering, was it something like $416,442,265.19, or maybe closer to $416,442,265.75?
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by kofejnik 8y ago
Communists said that, too.
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by kofejnik 8y ago
Communists in Soviet Russia thought this, too. How do you know your reasoning is sound?
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by kofejnik 8y ago
> Which of these groups do you think it is more important I dunno, let the market decide? From your question, it seems like you claim to have a self-evident answer, why?
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by kofejnik 8y ago
is more important to whom? do you mean that tourists are non-people?
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by kofejnik 8y ago
>Because tourists tend to impose negative externalities upon the city Seriously? Cities love tourists, they contribute a lot of $$$ to the economy
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by kofejnik 8y ago
why should property owners do that?
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by kofejnik 8y ago
> We should move towards the elimination of all drugs. I agree. While we're at it, also elimination of all crime and immorality. Let's start by executing offenders on the spot. Guaranteed to deter drug usage in adolescents. And

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