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by mikejb 8y ago
I agree. One is used to bring supplies to the research station, the other was used to build the research station.
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by mikejb 8y ago
It's not a fair comparison: You're comparing how much it costs to move 1kg with a Mini Cooper vs moving 1kg with an 18 Wheeler. I'm not disagreeing with the Falcon 9 being incredibly cheap, and the SpaceShuttle being outrageo
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by mikejb 8y ago
In that case the US would already have abducted her, transported to a black site, tortur....interrogated her with enhanced techniques, and locked up indefinitely without due process for good. And we never would have heard a thing.
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by mikejb 8y ago
Good pattern recognition doesn't work that well when it's trained with biased datasets.
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by mikejb 8y ago
It's not like the US or other Western countries arrested someone and then found a reason to make it stick. Nations are very much alike here. I think the core problem that was tried to address is the mentality of "China did it, so
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by mikejb 8y ago
> This is huge, doesn't this make google guilty as well? I'm not sure I follow. An app can request permissions, and the user can allow or deny them. I don't understand how this puts guilt on Google. Can you elaborate?
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by mikejb 8y ago
There's plenty of similar cases in IT. Some people find Master/Slave offensive - though I personally believe this is a 'looking for problems'-kind of thing.
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by mikejb 8y ago
The argument Giuliani tried to make regarding that it must have been malicious is that Helsinki.Either (which appears in the tweet as well) wasn't converted to a link. I'm not sure whether Giuliani is that much of an idiot, or whe
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by mikejb 8y ago
> They fail to directly compare the cost per flight for shuttle v soyuz. That would be a difficult but interesting comparison: You'd have to compare a single SpaceShuttle launch with the cost for launches of 1) Soyuz crew launches a
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by mikejb 8y ago
They can attest to practices, they cannot determine whether it's a violation.
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by mikejb 8y ago
You include the "breaks a regulation" in the premise, whilst in this GDPR case it is what has to be established. The accuser doesn't get to determine guilt.
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by mikejb 8y ago
Yes, and I understand why - I love living there; but there's also (luckily not many) people who think the streets are filled with beating, raping illegal immigrants who were invited by politicians to live off welfare paid by the hard w
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by mikejb 8y ago
Others ask themselves the same about the US, or Germany, or Russia. It's easy to paint a picture that makes one wonder why anyone would ever stay there. And the answer to why is revealed when you peek behind the canvas that portrays th
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by mikejb 8y ago
> Why would anyone hate it apart from the fact it is yet another chat application. It's not that I hate Allo, I just prefer Hangouts. That might seem orthogonal, but a part of me worries that at some point in the future Hangouts wil
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by mikejb 8y ago
Slightly (un)related, at Google X they seem to have an interesting way to select what projects they pursue and which not: Whenever they get an idea about a project, they try to kill the idea as fast as possible. Astro Teller talked about th
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by mikejb 8y ago
Probably, but this leads down the rabbit hole on "what counts as discontinued". There's probably plenty that got killed internally before seeing a public user. Some on the Wikipedia list were more like features within a produ
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by mikejb 8y ago
I agree with you, and in my opinion Reader was the most used and most useful product on that list. Most other discontinued products were indeed underutilized (for various reasons) or outpaced by their competitors. But TBH, there are some pr
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by mikejb 8y ago
The "reasonable" claim is made here without considering all factors. If I have the guarantee that the driver license & facial recognition data are not uploaded or kept beyond the required time frame (which should be less than
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by mikejb 8y ago
The friend has to be significantly less competent than required for this to work, but they only need to be less competent than other candidates to have a negative impact on hiring.
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by mikejb 8y ago
That is the ideal. But it can be abused as well,which is why I think the regulation exists. So the best person is hired, and not the guy who happened to be a good friend of your boss. The tricks applied still allow that, but they produce a
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by mikejb 8y ago
Discussion of an article about the same topic, but on a page with less infuriating privacy settings: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18493328
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by mikejb 8y ago
Technically inaccurate, as others pointed out, but I would have been surprised if they kept BFR as a name. Yes, it includes the joke of "Big F..alcon Rocket", but it sounds very technical and it doesn't carry the appeal like
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by mikejb 8y ago
I met an IT professional when I was in Singapore last year. He wanted to convince me it's a brilliant place to live, citing the advantage of very cheap labor. He told me they (he was married with 2 kids) have an Indian woman working in
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by mikejb 8y ago
Depending on coverage, this might not be enough. People with masks can be tracked as well. E.g.: At some point, persons A, B and C enter an area without surveillance; Person B and C come out, A remains unseen but new person X comes out, wea
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by mikejb 8y ago
I very much understand your hesitation; And I agree that the tech is still unproven - also because there's no single "Tech", but different approaches from different companies with highly varying aims and safety standards. But
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by mikejb 8y ago
> They are killing machines driven by idiots with low IQs. You don't have to go that far. Smart people drive cars and they fuck up just as much. We (humans) just suck generally at that task, and with more and more assistive features
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by mikejb 8y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if this is true. Attacking infrastructure through software is a way more efficient approach than a physical attack. It can achieve a similar goal, whilst it reduces the risk of personal loss, and allows to remai
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by mikejb 8y ago
I don't think it will keep them at the top, but I think they're exploring different avenues to diversify their revenue. They're nowhere near it, but they also don't want to get anywhere close to Alphabets' revenue d
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by mikejb 8y ago
That's orthogonal, but yeah, whistleblowers aren't very well protected. They're often still charged with laws aimed against spies, which is ridiculous. The state's aim in these cases is to set an example, and avoid peopl
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by mikejb 8y ago
They sort-of appear in both, but in the original [1] they're explicitly mentioned and used to build tension, whereas in the remake [2] they're not mentioned explicitly, but the engine is started with one. [1] https://yo

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