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by mtgx 7y ago
They will be the scapegoats thrown under the bus when the scandals will erupt. Remember Volkswagen's "rogue engineer" who apparently single-highhandedly caused millions of VW vehicles to cheat on emission tests? Yeah, don&#x2
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by mtgx 7y ago
Move fast and kill things. At least that seems to be the motto of self-driving carmakers, too.
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by mtgx 7y ago
And such a law and the agency enforcing it need to be a lot more pro-active. By the time governments decide they need to "break-up a company", the lion's share of the damage has long been done against both small players (or p
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by mtgx 7y ago
It's not sustainable to tax regular Joe for each and every cryptocurrency transaction due to the nature of cryptocurrencies, especially in the US where people have to do all of their taxes on their own. I believe Canada has something l
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by mtgx 7y ago
Of course it is. You could note it from all the US-friendly legislation they've been pushing within the EU. It's one of the reasons I was glad Brexit happened. The UK was usually the most important nation members pushing for surve
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by mtgx 7y ago
More ads, yes. https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-is-delivering-les...
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by mtgx 7y ago
Some people still cling to the 10-year old image of "good guy Google." I used to be one of those people.
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by mtgx 7y ago
Sounds better than silicon valley's "move fast and break things", which would be more like "...and kill people" here.
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by mtgx 7y ago
They probably won't be in a hurry to support the security extensions.
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by mtgx 7y ago
"Hey everyone who's learned about our 737 max plane scandal, we've just killed it, okay? It's dead and buried. We promise you'll never see a 737 max-branded plane in flight ever again. Good? Fantastic!" Boeing
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by mtgx 7y ago
I guess Instagram follows the opposite of Bill Gates advice on platforms -- strive to capture 100% of all the value created on the "platform".
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by mtgx 7y ago
They still adjust the algorithm all the time and that tends to piss off a lot of people, too.
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by mtgx 7y ago
From what I've seen it's the millennials, the ones who are supposed to be disinterested about everything, who employ a high-level of activism. Millennials seem set to ruin one more thing: government corruption. The progressive rev
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by mtgx 7y ago
Better how? By focusing more on China's point of view?
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That's when you get when your country is run by a dictator with supreme powers -- everyone is at the behest of his/her mood (and of those who follow their direct orders), including other countries with which they may enter more co
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by mtgx 7y ago
China already does require backdoors of both local Chinese firms and foreign firms with HQs in China, although the requirement may not be "technically official" (it can certainly be interpreted that way from their 2017 law, though
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by mtgx 7y ago
Definitely not. Google does (did?) it, too. It may have stopped when GDPR went into effect.
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by mtgx 7y ago
Where did you drive it? On country roads? Roads in bad shape? > with fewer accidents per mile than humans This sort of stat is highly misleading. The data is for testing on very safe very good condition roads and/or highways. I high
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by mtgx 7y ago
It seems like a pretty big repeat of the 2011 settlement. That's also when big statements such as "Facebook's privacy practices will be monitored for the next 20 years by the FTC" proved to be absolutely meaningless . W
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by mtgx 7y ago
Homomorphic encryption would be better: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/07/google_releas... https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/microsoft-s...
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by mtgx 7y ago
Using U2F security keys is one way to stop phishing if the app you're supposed to log into requires it. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/07/google-security-keys-neu...
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by mtgx 7y ago
I'd rather see unikernels written in Rust or any other memory-safe language. If we're going to start from scratch with this, let's do it right this time. 70%-90% of bugs seem to be memory-related. Let's end that with a l
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by mtgx 7y ago
The hubris from these companies is insane. "Just trust us, we're the Cloud™ -- what could possibly go wrong?!" It's unfortunate the vast majority of people don't know any better and easily fall for tech companies&#x
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by mtgx 7y ago
This sounds like that story about Google paying people $5 to scan their face. It's a trap. Don't fall for it.
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by mtgx 7y ago
I imagine this comes with a ton of strings attached, written or unwritten. This probably gives Microsoft control of the project's roadmap.
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by mtgx 7y ago
Error rate remains more or less proportional with qubit growth as long as companies optimize for qubit growth alone. But once you have thousands of qubits you can use that to build something like a few dozen error-free logical qubits. Most
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by mtgx 7y ago
Expecting D-wave to get shor working on its quantum computer is like expecting Nvidia to run Windows on its gpus. D-wave isn't even attempting to solve problems like the shor algorithm.
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by mtgx 7y ago
It does work because price cuts give Intel an allergy. Intel has only recently hinted at reducing prices of some high-end CPUs "up to 15%” 2 years after zen came out and after it had already raised prices on the same CPUs by at least
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by mtgx 7y ago
Instead of rewriting BoringSSL bit by bit wouldn't it be better to just write a modern and much simpler Noise library?
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Microsoft is also considering it for some Windows components as 70% of Windows bugs are memory-related: https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/16/a-proactive-appro... I wonder if Google is adding support, be

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