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by la_barba 7y ago
>It would be interesting. So interesting you might find reading the article worthwhile. I did not find a comparative analysis of the various oil rigs w.r.t engineering and safety. Link? >Your comments here purporting legitimate uncert
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by la_barba 7y ago
Fault is a loaded word, and is inapplicable in this context. The burden of the cost is borne by the party that society that chooses using whatever framework exists. Maybe it was "mob justice" a thousand years ago. Today, maybe its
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by la_barba 7y ago
>The bar for "sufficiently prepared" might be prohibitively high, but that should just be the cost of business. I don't agree, and neither does centuries of established moral legal arguments adopted by developed nations.
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by la_barba 7y ago
I don't agree with such a policy for any industry. Do you want to send developers to jail because of a bug in some medical, or otherwise critical software? There is your consequence.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Well, we can only deal with whats reasonable. There is no such thing as a "hurricane proof" oil platform, or an "earthquake proof" home, or a "tsunami proof" boat, or a "hacker proof" operating system
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by la_barba 7y ago
Link to actual report page: https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/an-integrated-a... PDF: https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/publication-attachments/...
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by la_barba 7y ago
>You’re thinking about best case scenarios, but markets move based on median case. I gave you data and evidence. Its your call if you want to continue dealing with hypotheticals.
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by la_barba 7y ago
>In a perfect world, with nice roadmaps and planning and easy negotiations, yes Microsoft will develop hooks for you. I don't why you think this is some pie in the sky fantasy. What I said is _already_ happening. This is normal stuf
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by la_barba 7y ago
It would be nice if we actually had data instead of just arguing over peoples opinions.
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by la_barba 7y ago
I don't think your argument works. The license is not relevant.. you need an API layer that allow customization via OS hooks, drivers and apps. Also, even if you had a closed source license, there is no reason you cannot share it with
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by la_barba 7y ago
Yeah.. I mean Subaru found a way to email me about scheduling an appointment for the airbag recall. (Yes, I know its probably because of regulations)
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by la_barba 7y ago
Well you can't claim anything as "secure" either because someone somewhere has a 0-day. It just depends on where you draw the line, and for what application you're using it.
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by la_barba 7y ago
"Customer safety is always Apple's top priority, and we have voluntarily decided to replace affected batteries, free of charge." I know its just a marketing blurb by Apple, but if safety is actually their top priority, they s
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by la_barba 7y ago
>Facebook's tokens given users the right to exchange their tokens back for the backing assets. Well, yeah, of course you can convert the tokens back, similar to how you can exchange between currencies, but it would also depend on th
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by la_barba 7y ago
The other thing is tech writers have become victims of click-bait too. Unfortunately, due to tech being integrated across such a wide variety of industries, they can't realistically be expected to understand how the underlying technolo
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by la_barba 7y ago
It was created as a system level vault to store private keys, passwords and the like without requiring a library. But that was 20 odd years ago, so who knows what problem its solving now. Full-disk encryption was probably considered computa
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by la_barba 7y ago
Well, if I sold a chat application that was loosing hundreds of millions of dollars, for $19 billion dollars to FB.. I'd be wondering how they're ever going to recover the money. Its easy to paint one side as the villain in this.
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by la_barba 7y ago
You're right, the fact that they're in China might be irrelevant. I should have mentioned that a very large percentage of mining happens on a handful of pools.
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by la_barba 7y ago
I think this is an interesting move from FB. Google has been trying to get payments data by extracting it out of your emails and any other data that resides on their servers. I don't know if they've been correlating it with search
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by la_barba 7y ago
BTW, I read your link and it was the founder of WhatsApp that 'promised' it. While I wouldn't be surprised if FB made the promise and then broke it, that doesn't seem to be what happened here.
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by la_barba 7y ago
>That sounds amazingly dystopian. I mean, that’s literally a money built on an oligarchy. By design. You can already kind of do that with other crypto currencies. For e.g. > 70% of bitcoin mining happens inside China, and the currency
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by la_barba 7y ago
You convert your fiat currency into crypto currency. Once the exchange is done, you have no rights to the fiat currency. This is in no way similar to a bank. The bank can use your deposited money, whereas here the currency is always in your
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by la_barba 7y ago
>Conceptually this is a bank, but with no interest returned to users, no financial oversight from governments, controlled by Silicon Valley's top companies. How so? I don't think they have access to your digital wallet, unlike
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by la_barba 7y ago
>Youtube is optimizing for the underlying psychological mechanisms that put people in that mood because it makes them suggestive and because none of this stuff has substance or meaning they can graze on it like how junk food producers wa
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by la_barba 7y ago
I think YouTube has just exposed the kind of content people were already interested in, and possibly consuming outside of the public eye. We find it frightening that people readily click on abhorrent content. When they probably were doing i
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by la_barba 7y ago
I want to place a kid in front of a screen, press a button and walk away. How am I supposed to do that now?
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by la_barba 7y ago
I remember being shocked after reading in the MS lawsuit that IE cost 100 million dollars to develop in like the 90s. What!? I wonder how much Google has spent on Chrome..
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by la_barba 7y ago
I agree with the author that the GPL engenders a sharing atmosphere, and given its wild success, much more than any other license. It would be amazing if all software could be like this, but you also need to take into account how you'r
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by la_barba 7y ago
IME, most of the time companies co-operate with good faith. Why wouldn't you? You can't treat everything as a warzone, and most people are human and don't take everything to an extreme. Recently someone filed an FOIA on us fo
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by la_barba 7y ago
I don't think you quite understand how ISO works, so its not really productive to have this conversation. Have a nice day.

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