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by nebabyte 9y ago
Thank you. I often find myself in subconscious denial ("oh, surely it's just a fluke and they'll get back on course soon") over news of the direction our British friends are headed, because of the self-affirming echo cha
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> I just hope internet companies stand up the UK and refuse to do business here Honestly, as a techie my impulse is to go "fine, have your shitty internet" to legislators who repay the advances the tech revolution has given t
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by nebabyte 9y ago
It ultimately can't be, though. All it takes is for those governments to push for international enforcement of their laws for their own citizens (which already has precedent) allowing foreign subpoenas for IPs, or limit VPN use to requ
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Which is why learning algorithms that produce decision trees are far smarter in the long run. Neural nets might eke out other benefits but there's a lot to be said about justifiable/accountable decisions.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> When Congress agrees on something, it passes law proposes* law ftfy
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Yeah, the legislators should be as immune from legislation as the judiciary is from the judicial system and the executive is from executive action. Oh wait...
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Thanks for the book recommendation engine recommendation! Noting it for when I get home; been looking for good ones.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> It bugs me that "reputable" news outlets like Fortune Magazine were running stories which essentially amounted to a Fraunhofer You skipped a chapter on the history of the web. Formerly "reputable" outlets have trans
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Most ;)
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> MP3 is really, really smart. Like seriously. How so/any links or search terms for the aspects you're impressed by?
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Have to leave to pick up folks at the airport but as a brief note off just the title - my go-to examples/running list for the US possibly quashing innovation has historically been airless tires, but there was another example I'll
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> If you've got my Jesus shaped collectable potato chips in storage you can't sell them to keep your business afloat. With examples that small-fry, you're getting into 'small claims' territory, which basically am
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by nebabyte 9y ago
The best time for that was roughly a decade ago, but yes; the second best time is always 'now'.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Micro "It's not like we can just flip a switch" soft (Though I guess it requires a broader umbrella of 'MS dickery with networks' as the Xbone debacle was you being forced to be online at MS' behest, and this i
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Nope https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14311758 edit maybe, given the child comment's claim.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Streisand and Beyonce could've used them.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
"The DB system designed to handle crazy (sometimes even tangly!) growth. No matter how hairy your data is, Pubes can handle it!"
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> I think it's time to LET IT GO. It will never be let go, because each new person is a new interaction with the system that prompts the same point again. It's like those '*porn' subreddits. You can explain and explai
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Here we see a cornerstone of HA: redundancy
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by nebabyte 9y ago
"... Damn it!"
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Non-hypocrisy? Awareness? Differences in setup or where they draw the line? Take your pick, I'm sure the list goes on. That's the beauty of a strawman argument, there's no shortage of fields to ship it off to.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Good on you. I've gone back and forth between having a smart device and not, and while I've been on the move for a while and thus benefitted from having one, will likely go back to pre-smartphone hardware once settled. Other than
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by nebabyte 9y ago
I can see almost no situation in which the benefits of having a plugged in camera or mic I do not know isn't always on outweigh the costs, even if the cost is "just" mental complacence with surveillance. If I need peace of mi
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by nebabyte 9y ago
I continue to be amazed that apple is not considered as having a monopoly on "stores for apple devices". These are exactly the kind of archaic requirements that would be a nonstarter or otherwise kill market support for a store
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by nebabyte 9y ago
"improved" lol. Ads are an incredibly shitty solution to the as-yet-unsolved problem of discovery.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
...The conflict of interest is apparent even in the URL you linked, but in case that doesn't do it for you: > The social networking giant recently launched a new feature in which users could flag content as “spam” or “fake news” –
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by nebabyte 9y ago
If you live in a world of "should be"s, it would be safest for you to assume that nothing was ever sacred, no. There were just opportunities being passed up or that weren't feasible until now.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Ic, thanks for the insight.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> Cities make laws that are up to them > Company seemingly undergoes systemic effort to break such laws in cities across state lines > Fed gets involved to investigate possibility of racketeering Not seeing the problem here...?
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Wrong. There is no "should be vs. would be" dance here. It's spelled out in black and white in your employee agreement.

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