mulmen

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by mulmen 1y ago
> There are, you know, journalistic standards Are there? What are they?
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by mulmen 1y ago
To the uninitiated: SOF is Supervisor of Flying.
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by mulmen 1y ago
> I only said “good chunk” because there are already more than a few reports pointing to a shift in behavioral patterns around calls Yes, such reports exist and they are easy to find when you look for them. My point is that you are not
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by mulmen 1y ago
The PSTN is working. That’s the point of the corollary. You mistakenly think it is broken in some fundamental way because you misunderstand the benefit.
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by mulmen 1y ago
> who is doing consumer tech better? Nobody. It's possible to be the best without being good. I'm surprised a consumer-focused RedHat hasn't come along to build an offering of just-works-but-still-open devices. There are
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by mulmen 1y ago
You have more tools because the market created them because it’s a federated protocol. The PSTN is a different case where market forces don’t align incentives with spam reduction. This is why regulators like the FCC exist.
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by mulmen 1y ago
Why are you so eager to give up interoperability when it’s not the problem? Spam exists within walled gardens too. Interoperability and spam are orthogonal.
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by mulmen 1y ago
Categorizing “whistleblower needs to talk to journalists” as a cliche really undermines your argument here. This isn’t an insurmountable problem. We have regulatory frameworks. FCC has proven they have teeth. It’s a political problem we
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by mulmen 1y ago
I don’t find “good chunk” compelling. I think you need to do a more rigorous analysis of the costs and benefits. FCC is fully capable of creating the incentive structure to maintain a spam-free PSTN. This is a political problem. IP addre
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by mulmen 1y ago
Apple makes it extremely easy to fall prey to email scams. They absolutely refuse to show an email address in less than 3 taps. There’s no setting in Mail to always show the address and they trust all senders to give an honest name. So
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by mulmen 1y ago
This is a corollary to Chesterton’s fence. unsignedint’s public good. If you can’t explain the benefit then you can’t tear it down. The PSTN guarantees that all telco operators interoperate. Without it you get what happened with instant mes
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by mulmen 1y ago
Death to good, long live perfection!
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by mulmen 1y ago
I have received a scam text message every day for the last few months. I haven’t received one yet today. Next time someone says something snide about the government remind them of this enforcement.
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by mulmen 1y ago
This is an excellent point. Wikipedia is explicitly not a primary source so any access to it should include the sources as well.
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by mulmen 1y ago
> Revoke it for bad behavior, sure Why is this an acceptable form of punishment?
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by mulmen 1y ago
By all means work on better privacy technology but censorship isn't a technology problem. It is a human problem. We cannot work around ignorance forever. We have to engage the system to affect real change.
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by mulmen 1y ago
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by mulmen 1y ago
> There are good reasons to question renewable energy: the cost picture doesn't make sense right now What? Did renewables get more expensive for some reason? Solar and wind have been cheaper than coal for years. Attacking renewabl
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by mulmen 1y ago
My local beach volleyball club called parks and rec and asked for a net on the beach and parks said “sure no problem, then promptly provided it” then also provided a rake and bucket to clean the courts and a key to a nearby storage locker.
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by mulmen 1y ago
Interesting. I hadn’t considered it but that makes a lot of sense. I wonder if that happens per car or per ride. Do aggression settings adjust to apparent passenger comfort?
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by mulmen 1y ago
I have only taken a couple Waymos but I had the opposite experience. They were much faster and more decisive than I expected. They do apparently learn from surrounding drivers and this was LA so maybe that explains the difference.
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by mulmen 1y ago
“Actual reality” is women actually being able to open their own independent accounts. The laws you cited are technicalities. The history of civil liberties in this country is full of examples of institutions simply refusing to do the ri
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by mulmen 1y ago
To be clear women gained the right to have bank accounts in 1974 . American Indian parents didn't gain the right to decide on their children's schooling until 1978 . The recency of these atrocities never ceases to surprise me.
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by mulmen 1y ago
Kind of a bummer comment. At least we're trying. Not quite the same but light rail in Seattle has been enormously successful.
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by mulmen 1y ago
> I don't think it demonstrates deference to authority to say that it makes sense that your average judge is likely to be more invested in your average trial than your average jury First off averages aren’t good enough here. Second
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by mulmen 1y ago
How can the investor be the customer? Where does the revenue come from? I understand “if you aren’t paying for a product you are the product” but I’m not convinced it applies here.
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by mulmen 1y ago
It’s a Twitter link so I can’t be bothered to actually read it. My immediate reaction is to ask if this is some form of bias. Survivorship bias: People who had access to stable lives and institutions are more likely to have their photos pa
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by mulmen 1y ago
Wow, that’s fucked up.
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by mulmen 1y ago
Debtors prison is illegal in the US. You can’t be imprisoned for your debts. Are you suggesting sentences are being extended based on unpaid fees?
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by mulmen 1y ago
Gabe Newell is still right. Piracy is a service problem.

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