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811.
by lopmotr 7y ago
That's why online services will never really be a complete alternative to using your own hardware. They might not get their computers stolen or catch fire, but they destroy your data intentionally when they decide they don't like
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by lopmotr 7y ago
What makes you think the market won't provide those 3 bedroom apartments? Why should those details be dictated? Isn't the the whole problem causing housing shortages in the first place - local government deciding how much luxury e
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by lopmotr 7y ago
There are useful secrets like business secrets or planning a surprise party. But you have to carefully protect them anyway. What other behaviors are you thinking of that should be protected against easy searching but which are still publicl
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Acceptable behavior won't need to be hidden and attention-seekers will love everything they do being known. If the behavior really is wrong, then don't do it. If it's not wrong but your society's standards for judging pe
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by lopmotr 7y ago
> it has destroyed the planet. Using a hyperbole to justify another claim doesn't support that claim, it just sounds poetic to people who already believe it. What evidence do you have that hubris will ultimately kill all of us? Do y
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by lopmotr 7y ago
> We need to make a stand somewhere and the time is now. Why do you think it's now rather than some time in the past or future?
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Of course there will be some leakage, but if it's slower than the plastic is naturally removed from the environment, it won't get worse with time. Nature is filled with toxic things like oil, asbestos, lead, mercury, uranium, etc.
818.
by lopmotr 7y ago
They wouldn't be in the sea if they were in a landfill. They get into the sea from street rubbish washing into stormwater drains/rivers mostly in poor countries and from fishermen dropping their equipment overboard. Microplastics
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by lopmotr 7y ago
The problem is not producing it but pretending to recycle it. If we just buried it in well maintained local landfills, it would effectively never get into the environment and would never be a problem. You're making a common mistake of
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by lopmotr 7y ago
The picking rate is meaningless because you can always increase it by buying more robots. In this case, they plan to have 4 slow grippers to achieve that 25k/day. The performance needs to be given as a ratio with some other important v
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Is it really much better than it would be if it only knew age, race and sex though? Those seem fairly easy to determine from speech, especially when you consider language - and it made a mistake in a case where the race didn't match th
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Sure, that's normal human pleasure from having their beliefs reinforced. It's probably and even bigger problem for vague unfalsifiable ideas like "police are racist", "capitalism is evil" or "immigration i
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by lopmotr 7y ago
When you say weaponized, do you mean done for a foreign government's interests rather than a person's financial gain? You seem to believe that people can't be trusted to think for themselves and must be shielded from lies to
824.
by lopmotr 7y ago
I never understood that foreign influence complaint. The whole world is sharing opinions and misinformation about the EU elections, just as the whole world was sharing opinions and misinformation about the US elections. How is it worse if i
825.
by lopmotr 7y ago
You would never be able to control for other factors that differ between countries. They already have different left-right leanings to begin with and that's changing with time.
826.
by lopmotr 7y ago
That's interesting to analyze and everything, but it's surely inconsequential compared to what real people say and all their misinformation, rhetoric and general bias. What's the difference between a popular influencer with a
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Perhaps because the US imports a lot of its intelligence and is the number one preferred destination for people wanting to be the most successful?
828.
by lopmotr 7y ago
While in this case, I've heard it before and it seems to come from actual scientists, so it's probably not just a journalist's imagination. But in general, I agree that it's frustrating to read articles about trends whic
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Wouldn't it be hilarious if universities found that higher adversity score predicted worse outcomes and used it to penalize applicants afflicted with adversity! Once it's well accepted that it's OK to discriminate based on th
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Converts and outliers are of course are excluded, but for people with a long Jewish ancestry, there are clusterings of genetic markers that uniquely identify them as distinct from non-Jews. There are different groups of Jews too. Judaism is
831.
by lopmotr 7y ago
> if you look at the number of "close calls" that we had and if you look into the causes behind various incidents, a different picture emerges Surely you're not comparing the rate of near misses in nuclear to the rate of
832.
by lopmotr 7y ago
I understand how it works but you said we can't trust anyone with magic software. I assume you count secret keys as part of that magic software. Apple has such software and keys, so we can't trust Apple. Perhaps you really meant
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by lopmotr 7y ago
So the problem is more about transparency and reliability of the software than about government access? I don't think so though because otherwise anyone proposing government backdoors would neutralize opposition by saying let's ma
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by lopmotr 7y ago
But did you build things or work hard to develop some skills or otherwise feel like you're improving something? Or did you scroll through Facebook and drink alcohol all day? Many people don't have an interest in anything fulfillin
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by lopmotr 7y ago
He might not believe it, but it may well be true if the alternative is watching TV all day.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
By "we", I mean most people, as evidenced by all democratic governments censoring various things, presumably because their voters want to prevent the rest of their country from seeing them. Same goes for restrictions on drugs, alc
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Is there really a Windows native look anymore? Every application seems to have a completely different UI style now. The old days of dialog boxes all having the same Winforms controls are gone and now they're a random mixture, even with
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I use WinForms, DirectX9, and .Net 2.0. It's been rock solid for about a decade or more and no sign of that being about to change. I just ignore all the new app store, WPF, UWP, Metro style, etc. stuff.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
It's the nature of censorship that people want to censor what other people see, not what they see themselves. We believe we're able to make our own decisions and we're in control of our minds, but those other people who aren&
840.
by lopmotr 7y ago
It could be ordinary people using what they're familiar with. If an emergency suddenly happens, who's going to spend half an hour dicking around researching what site to use and going through their signup procedure and installing

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