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by la_barba 7y ago
To your (b) - Its nerds like us that enable those companies. To blame the "companies" also means to blame the individuals who work at those companies. Its easy to blame Google, but we celebrate their engineers at tech conferences
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by la_barba 7y ago
I think it would be challenging to keep track of who the original trademark owner is for every single item and creating a system for them to prove it. There are hundreds of thousands of businesses with thousands of products. And sometimes c
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by la_barba 7y ago
Well, I'm saying that you're already trapped in the thing you're trying to avoid. I am too, everyone is. I'm not saying things will always stay the same or that we shouldn't do anything - I mentioned that we need mo
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by la_barba 7y ago
>In contrast, an arranged marriage is an existential nightmare because there is no choice by the individuals involved. Unless of course, they themselves make the choice to love that person no matter what. I wonder if the 'island eff
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by la_barba 7y ago
Why would they now admit to doing something illegal? They just settled the case!
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by la_barba 7y ago
I appreciate your point, I really do, but I think that ship has sailed a long time ago. Your password to that website? If the website is popular and has some financial value, its on the shortlist too. They're not only going after micro
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by la_barba 7y ago
Maybe the solution is that we need to get away from general purpose languages for most software. There could be very powerful visual languages that one could develop given a specific domain. I work in pharma and I see a ton of scope for thi
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by la_barba 7y ago
Well, MS makes the platform/tools so that others can do cool stuff with it. So even if you don't touch a MS product, because of the massive scale of the platform, you're probably right in the middle of stuff created using MS
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by la_barba 7y ago
OKay.. fair enough!
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by la_barba 7y ago
Well, I'm not opposed to it, as much as I have yet to "see the light". I think that the the original non-trivial problem of deciding which thread or which subroutine gets to change what piece of memory at what time is still t
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by la_barba 7y ago
Right, but such tools are available across multiple programming languages, and the onus is on Test/QA to ensure that. Lets say that Rust eliminates memory crashing bugs by restricting certain freedoms afforded by C or C++. The problem
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by la_barba 7y ago
>The alternative here isn't keeping running, it's "does not compile in the first place". That's even sooner than your crash, and guaranteed, as opposed to "happens to hit the right code path." Different
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by la_barba 7y ago
Depends on the exact nature of your question. If you want to argue on simple moral terms, both are wrong because stealing is stealing. But the "wrongness" of each action can be debated so obviously under most legal systems the pun
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by la_barba 7y ago
Hmm, I was mugged once in Philly, it was nighttime and I was returning back from uni. It wasn't particularly traumatic since it happened so quickly. I went to report it and as I was waiting, there were other people in line with gunshot
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by la_barba 7y ago
Well, I personally wouldn't put any web-browser in the performance applications category. They are important applications, no doubt, and increasing their memory safety is always a plus. But there is something "soft realtime"&
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by la_barba 7y ago
Its hard, but you're trading memory safety for performance. Rust cheerleaders will tell you that its possible to avoid that trade-off, but the proof is in the pudding. Its become almost impossible to see a new OS project succeed in the
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by la_barba 7y ago
A friend of my wife is a studio photographer (in the US) and she was banned from several high end stores because she used to buy tons of clothes for a model shoot, and then return them when done. Occasionally she would keep one or two items
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by la_barba 7y ago
I think you're giving people too much credit, I doubt the people were thinking about Amazons HR policies, or any moral or otherwise nuanced socio-economic arguments. That's not to say they're horrible people, well.. maybe jus
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by la_barba 7y ago
Do you make a distinction between stealing from a rich person versus a poor person?
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by la_barba 7y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/googl... "We have long been concerned about the possibility of this kind of snooping, which is why we have continued to extend encryption across more and
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by la_barba 7y ago
He has stated what he believes his company can achieve given the information he has. He is not professing to be a subject matter expert on anything. You seem to be off on a ridiculous tangent here and this conversation is not really produc
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by la_barba 7y ago
Nope. Most people wouldn't do that actually. The quotes were a tiny part of a conference call with wall street suits regarding Teslas 2017 fourth-quarter earnings. The topic was finance, not a lecture on lean manufacturing. Your demand
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by la_barba 7y ago
I was disagreeing with how a commentor summarized an article, especially so because other quotes from the same article completely discount their assessment. At the very least, can we simply agree to disagree?
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by la_barba 7y ago
I find it hard to believe that Google had no idea about this. In any case, I recognize that co-operation with the NSA is.. as they say.. non-optional.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Yes, live pcaps of every router does sound like nonsense doesn't it? I'm sure you too can imagine a far more saner scenario.
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by la_barba 7y ago
I don't have the signed contract handy, but its probably a one sided relationship. :) "Facebook, Google, Apple, and six other leading online services have all gone on record as having given their customers’ data to the NSA, as leg
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by la_barba 7y ago
I don't know what you mean by "this kind" of surveillance. What was reported was they were going to give the Chinese government the ability to remove links from their index. Any business in China has to operate in accordance
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by la_barba 7y ago
I read the original Forbes article and his opinions sounded very sane to me, like someone who understands the ground reality, is ambitious but also self-aware. Specifically:- "The car industry thinks they're really good at manufac
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by la_barba 7y ago
Palantir's clients might be public info, but AFAIK, there is no evidence that Google has completely terminated their relationship with the NSA and the CIA. Also to be super fair, it may well be that Google has no choice in this matter.
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by la_barba 7y ago
What purpose does selectively quoting an article serve? I don't see the point (if any) you're making here.

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