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by lsc 8y ago
I think there is less intelligence in the system than that. I get a lot of robocalls in Spanish, a language I do not know. (and other than living in California, there's not a lot about me that would suggest I know Spanish?) I mean, i
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by lsc 8y ago
I have an apple watch... it doesn't solve the problem that if I answer a call that is not from a contact, it is 9/10ths spam, so I simply don't answer calls not on my contact list, and thus sometimes miss important calls from
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by lsc 8y ago
The problem with both those suggestions is that it's trivial to fake the "from" phone number, as evidenced by the number of spam calls that share my area code and exchange numbers. (Last time I setup asterisk with a T1, this
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by lsc 8y ago
>This is only partly true. Technologically the solution is difficult, but it's easy from the social side as carriers can blacklist the smaller carriers that allow this fraud to take place. So, the MAPS RBL (and most of the following
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by lsc 8y ago
>if you look at how states are generally organized in the old world, its generally by ethnicity, language or some other very strong form of strong shared identity. While true, it is important to remember that this is a 19th/20th cen
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by lsc 8y ago
>Having a voice assistant means not having to learn to change application contexts inside an operating system follwed by a few seconds typing. You are ignoring the hundreds/thousands of hours you've spent learning which softwar
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by lsc 8y ago
On this, we disagree about the evidence. It appears that there is a federal investigator on the case, so I suggest we watch what comes of that.
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by lsc 8y ago
I think it's important to acknowledge our vulnerability to irrational and emotional manipulation in things like product design where product design shouldn't matter and in advertising; our own irrationality. It's hard to ad
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by lsc 8y ago
>"Cheap junk" is what we said about Japanese cars in the 1970's. Chinese companies can develop the important EV technology then increase reliability, safety, etc when it comes time to export. Going from your first sentence
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by lsc 8y ago
What I find super interesting is that some people in the USA seem to think that evidence that the US has attacked the elections of the USSR and Russia in the past means that we somehow shouldn't fight when the reverse happens. I mean
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by lsc 8y ago
Huh. (to be clear, I'm no more qualified than you, probably less, I'm just a computer technician speculating about how the brain works;) I always felt like trying to fit my feelings into a logical model that had to do with other f
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by lsc 8y ago
So, I don't really mind getting downvoted for asking questions that make me look ignorant, as I was in this case. But when someone else answers the question, (read the rest of the thread) there's no need to answer it again.
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by lsc 8y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/us/politics/butina-guilty... https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/11/wikilea... I suspect we will see more of thi
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by lsc 8y ago
Hey, thanks for the link, I wasn't aware of the US involvement with the election of Yeltsin. That's especially interesting, as Yeltsin essentially dissolved the USSR. There is a long history of foreign interventions in elections
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by lsc 8y ago
Actually, I think that's a really good example; I hang out with a lot of foodies, and that's another thing where I'm not very educated. I can understand 'Yeah, you'd probably like it' or "this is like
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by lsc 8y ago
>If you can't summarize it for a 5 year old, then you are either lazy or don't understand it yourself. I... kinda feel the opposite? if you feel like you can summarize something complex in 5 sentences to a person without any b
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by lsc 8y ago
>it is much easier to co-opt the corrupt Russian government than it is to co-opt the less corrupt American government. Can you give a cold war example of America effecting who ran russia that is as dramatic as the Trump story in the othe
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by lsc 8y ago
I, for one, welcome... But, seriously, I think just aesthetically, these whegged robots are a lot less creepy than robots with articulated legs; a lot less robot like.
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by lsc 8y ago
periodic reminder: if your employer (especially your private sector, non-union employer) offers you a buyout? Jump on it. After the first round of layoffs, there's a lot more stress, and the severance, almost without exception is a l
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by lsc 8y ago
Most people use different batches but the same manufacturer, mostly because they remember advice from back when you could get a hardware raid card that would synchronize your scsi drives. Also, though, because most serious RAIDs contain mor
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by lsc 8y ago
I think if you dangle government sources, even "anonymous" ones, in front of a reporter like Jordan Robertson, you are gonna get a story, regardless of the editorial slant of the paper. Of course, my crazy conspiracy story doesn&#
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by lsc 8y ago
this is the thing about most of what we're doing with machine learning. It gets exponentially harder the closer you get to 100%; most of the things we use machine learning for where it works pretty well, 99% is really pretty great.
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by lsc 8y ago
I'd be super interested in the follow up, and not just for monetary reasons[1] I mean, my impression is that there has been a lot of news trying to stir up US vs China animosity; I mean, I'm sure that a lot of industrial/st
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by lsc 8y ago
I'm pretty aggressive about telling people not to use the flash when we're out in public; a flash in a bar or other public low light area is super rude, imo. But just taking a picture with no flash? I know it's a personal t
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by lsc 8y ago
I don't think it is? most drivers I've asked have used both uber and lyft and would switch for special incentives; I know a lot of passengers who only use lyft because of the bad reputation uber has, but of the uber riders, most
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by lsc 8y ago
So, like the hardest thing uber has done, I think? is that they've convinced local governments to not enforce taxi regulations. I think this was really hard, and I think it might be durable; I mean, I am generally kinda leftish and s
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by lsc 8y ago
I would much rather face an unarmed crazy person on foot than a crazy person in a car. I think the statistics back me up here; in a car or as a pedestrian, you face a lot more danger from the cars around you than from the pedestrians arou
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by lsc 8y ago
In the USA, most checking accounts are "free" as in "Free if you jump through hoops" - I mean, often they are hoops that are trivial for those of us who have a good job, like "free if you have direct deposit&quot
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by lsc 8y ago
What's interesting here is that I won't drive in SF. I will drive in LA (I'll try to avoid it, but I can be talked into it.) so you are partly right... I mean, the traffic is equivalently bad. (well, LA traffic is much
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by lsc 8y ago
I know people like that, who would drive for a long time to avoid paying a dollar and it always seemed like such weird behavior to me. I remember going to get pastrami in LA with a friend; I mean, twenty dollar sandwiches, and he didn&#x

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