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by mseebach 9y ago
I wonder if this approach can be combined with "deep photo style transfer" to make a watermark that is clearly visible to human eyes, but is specifically permuted and adapted to the target image, in a way that it both appears to &
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by mseebach 9y ago
The watermark has to overlay the important parts of the image (otherwise, overlaying your own watermark, or simply cropping it out, becomes trivial). It has to be transparent, because the purpose of having the image available in the first p
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by mseebach 9y ago
I think it is indeed a distinction: Facebook is no doubt a bad habit for some portion of its users, just like many other things are. But casting doubt on the legitimacy of their business model by using the "you are the product" tr
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by mseebach 9y ago
Yes, Google Takeout: https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout I remember reading that they have committed to letting you download all you data from all their properties, and the list on that page is certainly long,
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by mseebach 9y ago
Yeah, but it's mostly wrong, and it's a sophomoric commercephobic understanding of business (also, it's an arrogant and misanthropic view of Facebooks two billion actual users as ignorant victims of something that sounds almo
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by mseebach 9y ago
There's something wrong with your link, it's all jumbled up sentence-fragments. This link tells a different story, and in complete sentences: http://uk.businessinsider.com/wall-street-bank-diversity-201... (Also,
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by mseebach 9y ago
There's an episode of The West Wing where IIRC Donna was contemplating getting out of jury duty by employing something like this tactic. She was told in no uncertain terms by Josh and/or Sam that she would be thrown in jail for co
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by mseebach 9y ago
> The backwards-incompatible SQL_MODE changes between MySQL 5.6 and 5.7 made me reconsider, as legacy apps needed updating. Uhm, err, that change is to stop the database from silently trowing away your data . It's not about "f
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by mseebach 9y ago
Exactly. So why do we assume that it's culture that's at fault in tech?
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by mseebach 9y ago
Yes, to an extent it is. But it's very difficult to quantify how big the effect on culture is on womens choices to not even pursue education in tech. It seems, for an example, extremely unlikely that a young woman basically anywhere in
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by mseebach 9y ago
I think focusing on "current tech culture" is likely to misdiagnose the problem. There are way more women in investment banking than tech, and I really struggle to believe that Wall Street has a better culture than Silicon Valley,
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by mseebach 9y ago
After they've been asked for them? Obstruction of justice and contempt of court charges.
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by mseebach 9y ago
So, I totally agree with you on the tone of the GP, and that workarounds are worthwhile to share, but I feel like they have a point. I feel the problem is more pronounced in the Javascript/webdev community (caveat: I'm recently da
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by mseebach 9y ago
Back in the day when my status as Person Who Knows Computers meant being frequently called on to (re)install computers and get rid of malware and what not, my little stance for free software was refusing to install pirated software. And onc
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by mseebach 9y ago
Things are getting a bit recursive now. This thread was discussing the ethics and legality of the phenomenon of paying influencers to plug products in the first place. The article is about exploiting that phenomenon. That said, the accounts
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by mseebach 9y ago
I think the case for western imperial guilt is more than a little overstated -- but the main difference is that we (assuming you're a fellow westerner) live in a direct continuation of empire, and enjoy the spoils from it, in a way nei
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by mseebach 9y ago
No, Amazon is not a monopoly, they are a very large and influential player. You can still buy eclipse glasses (and practically all other products) from other vendors, both physical and online. It may not be as smooth, cheap, fast or conveni
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by mseebach 9y ago
> Brutalist architecture is functional first (but often beautiful, too). Brutalism was at its core an ideological movement, its purpose to create buildings for the masses in the new socialist utopias. As such, it often explicitly rejecte
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by mseebach 9y ago
At the risk of stating the obvious, if it's only added $2-3 to your bill, then it's only given the energy company $2-3 to build renewable capacity. That's not nearly enough to make any kind of meaningful impact in your carbon
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by mseebach 9y ago
The elephant in the next room however is the couple of billion people who are pining for a sliver of the middle class (read: high energy) lifestyle we've taken for granted for close to a century. It would be grossly immoral to deny thi
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by mseebach 9y ago
This seems to be mostly concerned with the rules for when someone should be recused? There seems to be no discussion of the right to record anyone anywhere, presumably that was covered in the previous, appealed/upheld judgement? Do you
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by mseebach 9y ago
> It literally goes back to Plato and arguments about how you can be free if you're not free to make other people slaves. He may have been the first (recorded) philosopher to make that point. But he's not exactly the last to th
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by mseebach 9y ago
That's exactly the idea. Your bonuses 2015-2020 are invested in the company every year, and you can only cash them out after five years, in 2020-2025. If the company tanks in 2020 your bonuses for 2015-2020 are retroactively zero.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Why does it matter what education a person has, besides as an ad-hominem attack, if the facts they use are correct? And for the gender of the person advancing an argument to matter seems only to strongly confirm the memos points about discr
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by mseebach 9y ago
This is not about being wrong or not resisting -- everybody can be wrong. The contemporary equivalent would be the Neo-Con intellectual who still today defends the invasion, who goes to Baghdad and sends back rosy reports of how healthy Cap
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by mseebach 9y ago
We're not talking about hindsight. The people who got excited in the 30s, then backed away, are easy to forgive. We're talking about people supporting soviet communism literally for decades after the evidence for the brutality req
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by mseebach 9y ago
This is not a feedback loop, nor is it representative of any kind of systemic failure. The geocoding API is an external dependency, and in implementing their integration of this dependency, the Chromium developers failed to respect the cont
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by mseebach 9y ago
I don't know anything about Kolmogorov, so I can't evaluate the assumption that he obviously saw through the lies and was horrified by the brutality - but I will note that a great number of prominent intellectuals, who were in abs
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by mseebach 9y ago
You seem to be assuming bad faith in place of a more likely explanation. Various models of funding are predicated on taking equity, either directly in exchange for cash or as collateral for a loan. The problem is that as soon as you issue e
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by mseebach 9y ago
A lot of these plans seem to fundamentally misdiagnose the issue. Investment banking has way better gender diversity numbers than Google, but (having worked neither at Google nor in an investment bank) it seems highly unlikely that it&#x2

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