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by ksk 8y ago
To unpack your #1 statement. Lets say that Apple makes their hardware and then ships it out of China. China makes money, gets some jobs out of it, some tech knowhow etc. China has no reason to stop that. Now, apple's desire to sell dev
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by ksk 8y ago
>It is also hypocritical for privacy advocates to purchase products from China. If you take Apple out of the argument for a second, thats quite a complex case. I think you can have two positions "we don't compromise on privacy&
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by ksk 8y ago
>Any good act by a corporation can be explained away as a business strategy. Just as any good act by an individual can be explained away as a means to garner status, or because the individual derives personal satisfaction from either the
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by ksk 8y ago
These articles seem to popup with some frequency on HN. Can someone post their results? How has your output/productivity changed before/after using these techniques?
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by ksk 8y ago
That is a poor argument. "Selling" a product is not a principle or a virtue that one is required to comply with. Protecting the privacy of users is. Being non-discriminatory is. What if they had to do business in a country that fo
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by ksk 8y ago
That sounds to me like you're saying Apples core beliefs are simply whatever they fancy depending on the time of the day.
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by ksk 8y ago
Oh, I didn't mean it to be a perfect analogy, because nothing is. Text piping is fragile in other ways because it can be broken trivially by changing the order, formating, padding etc, in ways that voice isn't.
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by ksk 8y ago
I'm unable to extract anything specific from your comments. Are you still talking about the registry or about something else? Its cathartic to vent, but the registry is not the source of your frustration.
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by ksk 8y ago
Maybe.. but voice is a common data format, like piping text streams in UNIX. Don't need gatekeepers like OpenTable...
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by ksk 8y ago
I don't know if its completely unethical, but I do think its a little dehumanizing to deny someone human interaction, when using means that only humans can employ. i.e. If it sent a clearly marked automated email its one thing, but ima
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by ksk 8y ago
At some point both sides of the conversation will be done by AIs...
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by ksk 8y ago
Hmm, or maybe its because you can run the synthesis on a much powerful computer? Certainly very impressive..
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by ksk 8y ago
Because thats what people did on serial terminals, which preceeded CP/M which preceeded Windows. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7812142/how-to-toggle-cr...
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by ksk 8y ago
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms7... Could you point out which of these doesn't work as intended?
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by ksk 8y ago
The job of the registry is to be a reliable structured storage with access control and other features. It is not responsible for the things that go into itself. Here is the API. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library&
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by ksk 8y ago
It was unlikely that they would include an adblocker in their browser, but they did. Personally, I don't like Google as a company, but they do do weird stuff like that. They're going to still be making tons of money from paid ads
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by ksk 8y ago
>Whatever qualms you might have about the vagaries of the search algorithm, you can't dispute that it's difficult to game. Nothing personal against you, but as a user I find that google's algorithms are trivially gamed by
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by ksk 8y ago
Very Cool! I like the simple no-nonsense UI. What is your goal with the project?
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by ksk 8y ago
>But to the degree we can think through those potential outcomes and devise ways to test for them, we should. What are some of those ways to test it that you suggest? This study isn't focused on your particular concern of inflation.
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by ksk 8y ago
>Your claim is also largely true for drug trials. There is also huge variability due to genetics, cultural placebo response, variations in diet among cultures, cultural or individual symptom expression, and so on. I work in pharma (biolo
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by ksk 8y ago
But your objection would apply to all economic policies. Why is this any different?
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by ksk 8y ago
>Moreover, the brain health of families is not generally a consideration in school systems Has anyone succeeded in making it a consideration and shown results? >If kids are under toxic stress and not sleeping enough to recover, their
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by ksk 8y ago
Sorry, I don't agree with your comment. No point in going round and round. Goodluck!
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by ksk 8y ago
If you didn't then I don't even know what you're saying, or why you're disagreeing. Me: It is correct to teach kids that they should tell the truth in every scenario, even if as adults we don't. You: Not correct. [.
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by ksk 8y ago
I think its still correct. Sorry, I don't find your examples to be a reason to teach children that truth is optional.
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by ksk 8y ago
But your objection is rather silly!! Those rules are meant for beginners. If you're not a beginner you already know when/if/how you can break the rules. It is correct to teach kids that they should tell the truth in every sce
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by ksk 8y ago
I think you're talking about code that doesn't work, while the person you replied to is taking about code that works. Yes, one should always strive to write conformant code, but in practice For e.g. no large x86 C project can &#x2
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by ksk 8y ago
Depends on how you look at it. I can bike all day without getting tired, but there's no way I can jog all day. If your definition of efficiency includes duration of effort, or distance covered, then cycling is very efficient.
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by ksk 8y ago
>Human driving has basically capped out at its potential to improve. It may even be starting to get worse... But we can significantly improve on that. Augmenting human capability is far easier than converting a pile of transistors to per
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by ksk 9y ago
Giving up 1% of performance every day will give you an app that is twice as slow. I think its a trade-off between productivity and performance. This skillset used to be non-hardcore just a few years back, just like programming using ASM use

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