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by madair 17y ago
I'm not so sure if you're correct. I was polite, and I wanted to know. When you're on the Internet it's hard to know where people are coming from. I can see now how I misread him, I wish I didn't, but I did. How else do I find out politely
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by madair 17y ago
Thanks for responding. It helps, I was so tempted to argue with your points as I had misread them. I feel strongly about the primacy of privacy because the problems of prejudice are so severe. But the transparent world approach has a lot of
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by madair 17y ago
Open letters are about communicating a message, they are also by definition political, and it's really helpful to our social systems when they are based on logic. Analysis of motives is of course valuable. But it's not an argument against t
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by madair 17y ago
I'm going to try to paraphrase your concerns that the privacy fears are overblown and we're just losing something valuable, I hope you don't mind, please tell me if I got it wrong: >> It's not ideal, but basing hiring decisions on
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by madair 17y ago
Netflix has a lot of subscribers, but it doesn't have that many , and in particular, in your neighborhood, does it have that many who are 38 year old males who like action movies and Michael Moore? It's a question partly of scale. It's big
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by madair 17y ago
Ah yes, Appeal to Motive, that'll do it, now I'm not going to accept anything they said because of my interpretation of their motives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_motive
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by madair 17y ago
Nobody except the contractors wants this to be simple. The contractors would love it though, there would be less income lost to "preferred vendors" who provide the contractors with a stiff take on the paychecks, and they'd get to negotiate
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by madair 17y ago
Damn, dude! Fact-free trolling is so karma friendly! I've gotta try that, I've been going about this all wrong! See, now, I thought that jmackinn's been so very understated and reasonable, thanks for clearing that up for me.
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by madair 17y ago
Wow.
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by madair 17y ago
They may do it, but: (1) I don't use Google Toolbar, which is required for that to work ( 2) I'm trying to wean myself away from Google for everything by dividing my usage out to other search engines A single vendor solution for something s
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by madair 17y ago
I see way more links about Mahalo on Hacker News than to Mahalo on Google Search. When I search for a topic for which a Wikipedia ranks highly, I see articles that link to wikipedia.org. Like many people here, I search, perhaps, hundreds of
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by madair 17y ago
This top-down thing is getting tiresome. Typically this sort of statement is given by conservatives and libertarians. I'm not exactly sure how they manage to convince themselves that their dual love affair with military dominance & patr
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by madair 17y ago
Famous last words: "Since the comparative efficiency of x vs. y seemed easy enough to quantify, I endeavored to do so..."
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by madair 17y ago
If society centers on a typical 5-day work week and then centers on a typical 4-day school week, then society is very very stupid. But don't worry, all those young tween and teen boys who are out of school and unsupervised will be sure to l
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by madair 17y ago
Some of us don't like corporate monoculture. Give me insanity any day over the rat race.
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by madair 17y ago
Well said, that's exactly the problem. They aren't asking us to unblock their ads, they are asking us to unblock our third party cookies in the browser and in Flash . That's just not going to fly. It's the third party cookies that are pre
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by madair 17y ago
That was my reasoning before too. It's a deep rabbit hole of mental reasoning and social signaling, not to mention self-consciousness. I've often felt that it ties into the programmer's constant pressure to achieve syntactic accuracy and ef
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by madair 17y ago
Great article! I love this: "I'm continually amazed by how much better people react if I remember to arbitrarily throw "I think" before I state an opinion. I mean, it's coming out of my mouth, and it's not like there's some external arbite
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by madair 17y ago
I get it. I just wanted to point out that's what we're talking about, because it's also still a P=NP problem to even know if something is a P=NP problem, so all we can do, it would seem, is put up guards against the likely suspects. And tha
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by madair 17y ago
Yes. Unnamed sources are a necessary evil of journalism. But they are abused too much right now, although some companies (i.e. the NYT) are claiming to be pulling that back with newly improved policies, after all the fiasco of the last deca
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by madair 17y ago
Two-dozen unnamed sources for a one page article that doesn't nearly convince us of anything. Wow. This article would make a great centerpiece on journalist ethics.
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by madair 17y ago
"Oh, and by the way, RethinkDB is hiring right now to create the next generation of products that will fix all these problems with SQL." It's an interesting article. But isn't he just saying, P=NP is a problem, so let's ban P=NP ? Is this
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by madair 17y ago
Why isn't there effective enforcement? Is it: -- Incompetence? Leadership, technical, other? -- Low visibility to law enforcement? (In which case, why?) -- Priorities? Well-placed? Misplaced? -- Strategic? For ethical purposes? The problem
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by madair 17y ago
The article seems to focus on the claim of caring, versus actually caring . The success -implications of caring is a lot more complicated. Obviously something inconsiderate can be very financially successful, but then the customers inve
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by madair 17y ago
Yes, it must have overlapped. (I can't edit my previous comment anymore to recognize that, or I would :)
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by madair 17y ago
Are you going to bother responding to the specific points, or just the personal attack?
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by madair 17y ago
Worth repeating for the nth time: symmetric encryption algorithms for account passwords provide a misplaced sense of security and can be as risky as no encryption at all, due to changes in behavior and policy that result from misplaced expe
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by madair 17y ago
He didn't say it's not worthwhile, on the contrary, Marco laments the loss to programmers and tech writing. What he said is that for him it's not worth the risk of putting himself out there: Some people claim that they don’t care and that
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by madair 17y ago
Fortunately we're talking about music , not games , one is considerably harder than the other.
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by madair 17y ago
Yes, I read the article a few times since it was released. A knowledgeable reader like you or I realizes the travesty of an organization of rich people sitting around dreaming up ideas so they can assign a team to document for patent. But y

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