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by lotu 9y ago
I don't get why you are being downvoted so many huge things are literally funded by ads. Google Maps is funded by ads, so is all of Google X. The money that started the development of self driving cars and made people believe it wa
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by lotu 9y ago
The problem is the example being made is that if you are a big American corporation than European regulators will go after you otherwise ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by lotu 9y ago
That is the question people should be asking if you don't like the question "how much extra would you pay not to see ads in you car?" we can do the equivalent "how much of a discount would trade to see ads in your car?&q
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by lotu 9y ago
You are correct but, you should still respond the the underlying point. Should we (to make things more consumer friendly) regulate what ports are provided on computers and laptops? I argue no. Apple has always been a head of the curve on
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by lotu 9y ago
Presumably hosting malware isn't one of the things the poster "needs it to do".
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by lotu 9y ago
It bothers me a little the way people are assuming active malice where passive indifference and normal progressions of technology and features is sufficient to cause what we are seeing. Apple could be inserting code to slow down phones in a
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by lotu 9y ago
This is trying to create a way for publisher to say, "I don't want to track users" and have it be understood by software. Right now no such system exists. You could see organizations doing testing to see if tracking happens
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by lotu 9y ago
To this point I talked with my Republican parents about this they were not very informed about what Net Neutrality was but they liked the idea of less regulations. I explained how it would allow the "Washington Post" to strike a
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by lotu 9y ago
> If the argument is "we could use tax money (via a stipend to citizens, and then extracted as rent) to implement a law that required a trailer park to provide a functioning sewage system", then the easiest and most efficient w
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by lotu 9y ago
I always figured it was kinda the opposite, a GPS tracker allows a parent to feel more secure about letting the child out of their sight thus decreasing the "helicoptering". I'd be much more comfortable letting a child walk
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by lotu 9y ago
> Ads are laser targeted? You clearly don't work in ads, we don't manage to have ads that render 100% of the time. Everyone thinks we have super awesome targeting that tracks your every move but most of that is marketing bul
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by lotu 9y ago
Well it sounds like the the only reasonable, responsible course of action is to replicate the original test but use modern high speed recording equipment to determine what would happen to that steel plate.
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by lotu 9y ago
I believe Larry Page is saying that you get compensation like being a C-level exec, but instead of having your own company you work at Google.
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by lotu 10y ago
This is instead of you collecting and sending all of your personal and financial history to a third party.
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by lotu 10y ago
Comparing the inconvince of having to switch schools, not being able to volunteer and depending on healtcare/insurance to slavery is a massive insult to people that where and are actual slaves. Actual slaves did not legally own thems
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by lotu 10y ago
The thing is in the US we lack a mandatory national or even state id. We use a driver's license which is effectively mandatory in rural parts of the country because otherwise you can't get anywhere. However if you are poor and l
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by lotu 10y ago
This is silly it suggests the President is constrained by political forces (in part created by Facebook) but dosen't believe the Zuckerberg is constrained by these forces as well.
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by lotu 10y ago
I would say it isn't just that you can "afford" to let them off the leash more it's that you don't have the time/energy to keep track of them. If you are dealing with an infant a toddler and a 5 year old, you
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by lotu 10y ago
Personally, I've always wondered if the people who don't want to make cakes for a gay wedding/provide flowers would be willing to subcontract that out to someone else. When you buy a cake you don't generally expect that
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by lotu 10y ago
Apple's iMessage does this, each device has a public/private key that is shared. When you send a message it is encrypted with all of the recipient's devices public private keys. If the device is not on at the time Apple hol
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by lotu 10y ago
beachbum8029 is being silly because the Godel incompleteness theorem stats that is you cannot prove all true statements.
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by lotu 10y ago
I doubt he knew this was illegal. Charging someone with faking a library card is about the same level as shutting down a lemonade stand for failure to have a business license.
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by lotu 10y ago
I think explaining score voting is pretty easy you just have only 3 categories labeled ️(1) (2) (3) for each candidate and they put a mark on what they think for each one. As an aside I susspect that having more than 3 or 4 catagoreis i
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by lotu 10y ago
To replace C++ it you would either have to make a near human quality automated converter (which is likely impossible right now) or make it compatiable with C++, in the way Groovy is compatiable with java.
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by lotu 10y ago
It's really easy to have an effective track record when n=1.
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by lotu 10y ago
The one feature that really annoys me is the std::optional. This is awesome and very needed feature however it is too clunky for something that should be used very frequently. Swift does such a nice job with its '?' operator, I
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by lotu 10y ago
This search for a better way to rank comments still, in my opinion, makes a large incorrect assumption; namely that it is desirable (and possible) to display comments in order from "best" to "worst". If you think of com
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by lotu 10y ago
The VA Healthcare debacle. The government was unable to timely provide healthcare and instead of trying to fix the problem they hid and covered it up by falsefying records. The new system they made is complexly incompetent where doctors an
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by lotu 10y ago
I asked my doctor to email me my records and was told it is illegal due to HIPAA it makes no fucking sense but that's what it is.
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by lotu 10y ago
Heck I refuse to use cruise control at all because it makes me get board. My personal solution to avoid boardemn while driving is to drive faster. Clearlly I am not a safe driver but, I'm going to need full automation to help me out.

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