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by mbel 9y ago
> is it evil just because they are better at it than others? It really depends on scale and proportions. In this case the exact boundary when something becomes recognized as evil doesn't really exist. The more efficient you will bec
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by mbel 9y ago
Using AI to weed out people most susceptible to manipulation via ads doesn't really seem to be something that falls under "good & moral" category.
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by mbel 9y ago
> Finally, I force myself to log out of Facebook on my laptop every time I visit. There are browser plugins which automatically delete cookies when a tab is closed. They work wonderfully as automatic log out by default.
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by mbel 9y ago
It probably wouldn't happen over night, there would be some time to get data out of google. Taking into account that gmail is still accessible by IMAP I guess there would be a plenty of other providers who would offer transfer of your
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by mbel 9y ago
For convenience of other readers, here is a version cached by Google: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wEWECJ...
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by mbel 9y ago
You appreciate the question so much that you avoid the answer? What is your business incentive to reduce crime rate? How reduction of the crime rate is making your business more profitable?
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by mbel 9y ago
> Why would GitHub as an American company follow EU law? Because they might be interested in doing business in EU?
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by mbel 9y ago
GDPR doesn't force modals. They are just the easiest and most lazy way to implement GDPR compliance. So perhaps modals becoming unreliable will inspire web developers to explore other options... like not tracking absolutely everything
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by mbel 9y ago
Most likely. I used "right now" as "In consequence of that", probably a carry over from my native language.
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by mbel 9y ago
> But only one of those camps is actually correct. Yes, currently. I spoke about long term effects of using discrimination to fight discrimination.
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by mbel 9y ago
Putting aside the fact that I believe that any race-based discrimination is inherently wrong. I don't believe those actions can balance scales. They only increase the scale of conflict between "diverse" and "non-diverse
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by mbel 9y ago
And also this one, which was flagged to death: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16500834
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by mbel 9y ago
Do you really think that steering (a pretty neutral action) is a right analogy to an action that is inherently hurting people? The problem here is that you try to compensate injustice done to some people by doing injustice to others.
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by mbel 9y ago
So bias and discrimination aren't inherently wrong? If the newly introduced discrimination is alright what actually made the old one wrong in the first place?
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by mbel 9y ago
By introducing new bias and discrimination? Well, what can go wrong?
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by mbel 9y ago
> Warsaw, Breslau or Tokyo (and Rotterdam, for that matter) do not compare even though the destruction there was widespread. It really must have required special kind of ignorance to write this sentence.
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by mbel 9y ago
It makes sense in this context because Switch is a game console with touch screen and game pad (joy cons) as default input modes. Both of those types of input are not really typing-friendly, so one may expect that the language will accommod
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by mbel 9y ago
For anybody wondering what SMT stands here for, it's: satisfiability modulo theory.
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by mbel 9y ago
Well, since we are speaking about clang there is always cross compilation option: "clang -target x86_64-linux" (note, that it supports all targets that your current build of clang has enabled). But probably the real option (c) tha
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by mbel 9y ago
It feels like cargo-cult computer usage. The description states: "Running Clang in a container has the advantage that it is light on resources and won’t mess with your underlying OS.". Containers aren't really light on resour
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by mbel 9y ago
Fat arrow is used to define a lambda function. The left-hand side of the arrow is argument list (_ is used to indicate lack of used arguments) and the right-hand side is the function body. It is equivalent to: var currentUrl = function
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by mbel 9y ago
If you consider web to be "high quality UI paradigm", then you might be seriously interested in learning other UI tools. You know like literary any other UI library on Earth where vertical centering of one element in another is ju
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by mbel 9y ago
Are you referring to any concrete facts/leaks/rumors when you say they are working on it? I can hardly see any movements from Apple in that direction.
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by mbel 9y ago
> The problem is "null" being a value in all (non primitive) types, not only the bottom type. Null is not a value of bottom type. Bottom type has no values.
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by mbel 9y ago
> Reporting that those condemnations occurred (they did) isn't an implicit validation of those condemnations. Of course it isn't a validation per se, but repeating those ideas gives them some gravity and makes them believable i
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by mbel 9y ago
You read the previous statement backwards. OP meant: dynamic linking allows you to use LGPL libraries with proprietary applications; to use GPL libraries in your application you have to make your application free even if you are linking dyn
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by mbel 9y ago
> I am a heavy mouse (and trackpad) user and have been for decades. Editing and refactoring code for me is all about the mouse. It's a very interesting and surprising statement to me. For me the mouse is absolutely nowhere near conv
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by mbel 9y ago
> It makes me wonder what a UI language/system would look like if it were designed from the ground up to be declarative. QML [0] was an attempt to do that. I would say it was a very successful attempt in terms of quality of the fina
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by mbel 9y ago
Yes, obviously. They both make head unit more appealing to the user. The cost for car vendors here is that they are suddenly dependent on a third party if they want to push any features on top of that experience.
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by mbel 9y ago
> Unfortunately my 2016 vehicle only has mirrorlink v1.1+. Which unlike mirrorlink 1.0 doesn't actually mirror your phone, instead it is a proprietary app ecosystem with ten low quality paid for apps, even assuming any smartphone st

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