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by mtgx 8y ago
And also Qualcomm seems to have been forced into giving away all of their server chip designs to the Chinese, too: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/10/qualcomm_layoffs/ That's what you get from
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by mtgx 8y ago
That's how you know brainwashing from childhood is indeed effective.
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by mtgx 8y ago
They do this because they promised people with Autopilot 2 that they'd get full self-driving. They didn't because AP2 hardware wasn't capable of that. Why should we believe Tesla that HW3 is actually capable of FSD this time?
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by mtgx 8y ago
If this system is not criticized more, countries will soon begin to look at it with envy, regardless of whether or not they think it will be a positive addition to their societies, but primarily because it will be a great way to control t
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by mtgx 8y ago
Ironically, I think Photos was a product of Vic Gundotra, which Google higher-ups gave the boot because he failed in social (as if anyone else would have succeeded in beating Facebook - he gave it a good shot anyway). Google wasn't eve
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by mtgx 8y ago
It's not problematic. It's on purpose and it's criminally misleading. If "AI companies" had to show their false positive rates, 99% of them would go bankrupt because then nobody would want to buy their bullshit.
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by mtgx 8y ago
Cloudflare should really make an address like dns.cloudflare.com, too. 1dot1dot1dot1.cloudflare-dns.com is cute as an "inside joke" of sorts, but to most people who don't know about IPs and such it would be easier to use the
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by mtgx 8y ago
For starters, stop ingesting all things that have fructose in them. The U.S. government is really kind of complicit in allowing the spread of diabetes and NASH to happen in the first place by allowing harmful substances such as high-fructos
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by mtgx 8y ago
Isn't it pretty uncontroversial that AI and automation will only worse inequality? We can only hope that the inevitable revolutions to come will not be crushed by the all-seeing AI surveillance and AI-powered robot armies of our wealth
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by mtgx 8y ago
Classic innovator's dilemma at play here. Bolt was a decent, but not that great, EV that was being sold at a significant loss in order to stop the Tesla Model 3 hype. However, GM obviously didn't intend to sell hundreds of thousan
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by mtgx 8y ago
They are talking about the Steam-competing store Epic launched recently: https://www.epicgames.com/store/ It's pretty empty now but I'll be shocked if it doesn't have thousands of games within the next 3
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by mtgx 8y ago
Stingrays already work with 4g. And 5g has many of the same flaws, likely on purpose. We can only hope common criminals will start massively exploiting them if we want real change to happen.
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by mtgx 8y ago
Also even media leaves out the poor who can't afford expensive procedures. It's why Obamacare is ultimately doomed to fail too.
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by mtgx 8y ago
Except republicans and bush passed a law a decade ago saying the government can't negotiate drug prices for Medicare. It's beyond stupid and the main reason you see so many niche drugs go up 50x in price overnight lately. The comp
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by mtgx 8y ago
Or maybe the real losers are all the American companies that agreed to create "joint ventures" with Chinese companies getting 51% control of the venture and 100% of the American company's IP. All of these companies are a few
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by mtgx 8y ago
Have you seen Aquaman yet? Studios are already starting to replace popular actors in the movies with younger/better looking CGI versions of themselves. As the tech gets cheaper, you should expect a lot more of this in future blockbuste
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by mtgx 8y ago
Good luck getting the law enforced fairly, though.
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by mtgx 8y ago
Rejoice, Verizon's content acquisitions have turned into complete and utter disasters and Verizon announced that it will exit the content business (A Reuters article I can't seem to find now said so): https://www.nbcnew
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by mtgx 8y ago
> said the cost of its technology may halve within four years, potentially boosting its uptake over lithium-ion units. Chances are that Li-Ion prices will be reduced by at least as much, if not much more within 4 years, as the whole carm
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by mtgx 8y ago
This likely has much more to do with the U.S. government wanting to break encryption than say...find cancer treatments. Quantum computer efforts were probably already funded in a much smaller way through the NSA's black budget, but the
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by mtgx 8y ago
Is this type of question really that relevant? It's almost like the kind of survey Facebook would want to do itself, because it knows the outcome could be quite misleading. If I remember correctly, there was another question like this
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by mtgx 8y ago
There's probably more than just a financial upside, but I imagine someone like this would pretty much be considered a hero at home (even if not publicly admitted as such). It seems like this issue is pretty systemic/coordinated by
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by mtgx 8y ago
> We never offered, and never claimed to offer, a safe haven for people who have broken the law in both Australia So are you saying that just by offering end-to-end encryption yourselves would be "helping people who have broken the
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by mtgx 8y ago
So the article's tl;dr is basically: "We're advocating for privacy, but we aren't going to try to offer you any. We never did, and we certainly won't now that this law passed. You're on your own." Is this
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by mtgx 8y ago
Universal Quantum computers were barely started to be announced at that time by IBM and Google.
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by mtgx 8y ago
They also barter data when they partner with data brokers, device manufacturers, service providers. But that's like Totally Different™ than selling data.
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by mtgx 8y ago
I mean, Slack recently announced that they would give employees complete access to employee's private conversions. When a company starts thinking this way, you know there's no turning back, and more such (censorship/surveilla
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by mtgx 8y ago
I'm curious, have you followed those discussions, and have you noticed say Google or Facebook do anything to "nudge" the protocol towards being "more convenient to use" (read: less secure) and less privacy friendly
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by mtgx 8y ago
Is the 100% failure rate for this facial recognition system not "objective fact" enough?
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by mtgx 8y ago
That would be direct democracy . No "democracy" on Earth is actually a direct democracy, but a representative democracy, which seems more in line to what this study proposes, no? A small group of elected officials to "debate

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