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by mLuby 5y ago
In ethics, as in politics, having "no" position just means deferring to whomever does have a position.
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by mLuby 5y ago
Royalties work better when the product is fixed upon creation: an episode of TV basically never changes once produced. Software changes all the time (for better and worse). If git blame said I wrote 100% of the code 5 years ago, but only 10
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by mLuby 5y ago
> bury most companies in legal fees I can't stand that this is part of the "justice" system. The outcome of a case should depend on its merits, not the litigants' war chest. Anything less invites corruption.
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by mLuby 5y ago
My acoustically-minded friend had the following to say: > Off the top of my head, I'm guessing the problem has mostly to do with background noise, and it only working in moderately quiet environments. > As for locating the source
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by mLuby 5y ago
I want a mosquito-killing turret [1] that you could put in your bedroom and sleep in peace. Turns out one exists [2] (in theory—no commercial product a decade later), but the one I was thinking of would use microphones rather than cameras [
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by mLuby 5y ago
Have faith in the free market! Companies which are owed mortgage/rent and credit card/cell phone/insurance bills etc. will do their utmost to make sure the person isn't actually disappeared or deceased.
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by mLuby 5y ago
> We also will stop publishing stories driven mainly by a particularly embarrassing mugshot, nor will we publish such mugshots solely because of the appearance of the accused. Bravo!
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by mLuby 5y ago
I'd rather entrepreneurs build on top of LinkedIn. There's so much untapped potential to build upon aggregated markets (of professionals, of jobs, of housing, of singles, of restaurants, etc) rather than building yet another a
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by mLuby 5y ago
I wonder if instead Stripe could have routed calls through itself, filling in the secret info. Perhaps it was discussed? For example, imagine Joe Biden buys a widget from WidgetsR.us and wants it shipped to his home address of 1600 Penn Ave
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by mLuby 5y ago
> DON'T TRUST THIRD PARTY This is a good policy when ALL first parties meet a certain (regulatory) bar. For banks, I assume that bar is "don't become insolvent" and more recently "don't lend money to terrori
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by mLuby 5y ago
Exactly. Biometrics are awful because 1. they can be compelled by force, 2. they can be physically collected, unbeknownst to the owner, 3. they share all the risks of digital passwords, including being leaked, 4. they can't ever be cha
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by mLuby 5y ago
Honestly I thought you were way off base and that the number of criminals would be orders of magnitude higher than infosec workers, but apparently I'm wrong. "in 2020, there were 1.8 million people in prison" [1] "[in 20
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by mLuby 5y ago
That could be—I've heard businesses talk about their "flexible work policies" too.
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by mLuby 5y ago
> flexible work policy To me at least, the vagueness of this phrase has made it untrustworthy. It can mean way too many different things. > with only your manager's approval I'd hope we're beyond tying your (and your fa
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by mLuby 5y ago
If the "lack of purpose" is making you uncomfortable, you could try sitting with that feeling and listening to it, trying to understand what's going on underneath; it's unlikely to be exactly what it appears. There might
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by mLuby 5y ago
I trust them to respond to incentives, chief of which is to do things they think will keep them in office. The problems come when doing right by their constituents is no longer the biggest thing that keeps them in office (e.g. instead of ou
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by mLuby 5y ago
Sorry to be Butlerian about it, but "conversing" with machine simulacra disrespects me, the customer. Someone should deploy a voice-producing AI to interface with companies' voice-processing AIs so I can order from the comman
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by mLuby 5y ago
> Why is murder evil? Why is stealing evil? Why is anything evil or good for that matter? At least religious people have answers to these questions. Hard to answer without first defining evil (ideally avoiding Godwin's law).
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by mLuby 5y ago
I've never see that before so I'd have to look it up just like BP.
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by mLuby 5y ago
Some self-replicating "creature" in Conway's Game of Life could rowhammer the machine it runs in such that the creature (or a copy of it) now exists outside the Game and is able to replicate across the machine and maybe even
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by mLuby 5y ago
Yes it does, but not from "last year" because art has to age. The best art from 11700 is leagues better than the best art from 10700, or 5000 (we're in 12021 BTW). Obvious caveat that dark and golden ages interrupt this trend
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by mLuby 5y ago
So it saves 2 characters compared to ###y ago but requires an explanation. 2500 BP 2500y ago
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by mLuby 5y ago
Not "if you follow all these rules religiously, you will even guarantee yourself a lifetime of employment, since no one but you has a hope in hell of maintaining the code." https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~susan/475&
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by mLuby 5y ago
Earthers use BASIC. Cortázar is so obsessed with The Work that he moves protos whenever he can.
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by mLuby 5y ago
I'm predicting we'll see a new version of the get rich quickish scheme: how to hold 3, 4, even 5 remote jobs at once. Just buy my course to see how I made millions in my pajamas! Also if you get three friends to sign up, you get i
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by mLuby 5y ago
The inners have their bright emacs and fancy tabs. But beltalowda born in the black, so mi pensa dark mode, vim, and spaces belong to us now, sasa ke?
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by mLuby 5y ago
> But all those shells that don't hit the target land someplace. Just don't miss! It's only a few hundred meters out. Oh CWIS are only ship-mounted? I thought it was a general term. I like PDC better anyway. #TheExpanse Ni
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by mLuby 5y ago
Like this RC airplane (drone) modeled after a WW2 dive bomber. https://youtu.be/ogxKvQeVqqc?t=583
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by mLuby 5y ago
If we're talking a commercial quadcopter drone, is it feasible to auto-target it via microphones and then shoot some CIWS at it? Something like this https://youtu.be/LThD0FMvTFU?t=42 but drones and bullets instead of m
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by mLuby 5y ago
> just in case you're a drooling moron who doesn't know how to read a letter, the attached letter highlighting the supposed problems will reliably include at the bottom of the pages, "Over!" "Next page please!&qu

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