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by moxious 10y ago
Question here is whether you'd buy them because they're a good company, or because you'd want to play the other chumps that believe they're a good company. Twitter had a nice pop after IPO and while they're a fracti
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So...how are we taking a stand? What's recommended, internet postings? I think we've got those covered.
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This is such a hacker news response to a breathing and relaxation technique. Thanks for the laugh.
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Well, no one can prove what they'd do if they were in this situation. But I can't pay this cost for twitter, because the government hasn't asked this of me. I don't believe they'd go to jail though. I do believe t
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You're only observing how we're caught in this trap, you're not providing any constructive way out. Sure, it's unreasonable to expect this of people. It's also unreasonable for the government to expect they'll
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Yes, that could happen. But there's the Spider-Man Rule: "with great power comes great responsibility". They're running a major international media outlet over there, and they do have some pretty heavyweight responsibi
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"It never gets easier, you just go faster" -- Greg LeMond
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None of this is wrong, but it is a pretty exclusively negative picture on both sides.
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Python made the unfortunate but understandable decision to split the community. It's really hard to make a non-backwards compatible change in an open source community because you can't make anybody move. My $0.02 is that Python 3
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Perhaps. Perhaps not. Either way, you make it messy for them and you do probably defeat their primary objective, which is secrecy. How do you think they'd respond? With SEAL Team 6 while keeping everything quiet? When the government
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I may be in the minority, but I still think these companies are being cowardly. They disclose as soon as they're permitted to, but the trouble with that is that the permission is coming from the people who are the problem in the first
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FOSS often plays catch-up, because true innovation is really hard and takes a lot of time and resources. It's frequently too much to ask of an all-volunteer workforce. It's not that they can't do it (ultimately the people w
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How do we suppose that authority got so sophisticated as to know how to do this fancy indoctrination if they themselves are a product of it?
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Well, at their scale, the answer would be pretty obvious -- from all of those places probably. Although interestingly, US production isn't far from the factory and has an undisclosed volume, not strictly the 8th largest
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Yes, I believe they do. But it's not as bad as people think; while they will have your emails or at least likely will, people underestimate their signal / noise problem. I think as often as they're doing horrible super spy
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Don't think about privacy as a vague emotional ideal, or as an all-or-nothing proposition. Instead, think of it pragmatically, and make some trade-offs. What do you need to keep private? Who do you need to keep it private from? The
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> Even worse, however, is the continued conduct of open hostilities in Iraq and Syria against the Islamic State despite the refusal of Congress to approve the military campaign. No one questions that the Constitution applies here; but be
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> In the world of GraphQL, HTTP is an unfortunate transport mechanism rather than something to be embraced. Rather than using the standard semantics, we ignore them completely by treating HTTP like a dumb pipe. Yep, this seems to be the
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It's not impossible, it's a cultural mismatch. Perl is obscenely permissive, which makes it a really interesting and weird language. But when you work in a big team and make something complex, you want something that's cons
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They're all just attempts to simplify. Actual balanced diet and nutrition is really conplicated and has no formal fast rules. Picking an ingredient (sugar) or macronutrient (carbs, protein) and demonizing it makes the story simple, a
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It's not "countless" it's "uncountable" because we couldn't agree on what a software caused death was. In my CS program we had an ethics class that included stories of bad X-ray machine software that overd
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> Any time your code takes in untrusted input, it should not be written in an unsafe language. So basically just about all programs, all of the time? https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Don't_trust_user_input
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I'd like to make a basic prediction about UBI. Maybe the Internet wayback machine can check me in 10 years. Debate about the UBI will be driven not by facts, but by culture and how we perceive ourselves. I predict that in the US, whe
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> while human populations are fairly good at adjusting, individual humans often are not (...) > None of the solutions for this are easy, and history is full of examples of it. This is demonstrably true in the past, but it doesn't
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> I don't think curiosity diminishes with age, even if the ability to explore that curiosity may I think it definitely does, depending on the person. Many, many attributes of the person change over time. That's what growth an
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It would be nice, but I think we'd be hard-pressed to ever agree on what intellectual curiosity even is. It's one of those "I know it when I see it" things. I could evaluate whether a person has it (to my standard) but
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> Unfortunately, demonstrating intellectual curiosity often takes up personal time, so someone with heavy personal time obligations and a non-challenging day job is at a significant disadvantage. This is true, and one of the things that
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These answers are the speculative tech-positive viewpoint that is the conventional wisdom on HN. But since this hasn't happened yet, I think it's important for you to acknowledge that these are projections based on no actual data
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Sales reps mostly talk to people and convince them to buy things. Relationships and human interaction are paramount. I'm unwilling to speculate a couple of decades out when I don't think anybody has any clue what's going to
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You're assuming no countering disincentive that would offset those savings. How much will the operators pay for software liability license, so if their truck does crash, someone gets paid out? How much will the annual software updat

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