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by nfoz 8y ago
> I'm stil amazed how hard Maps makes it to view a street name. This is one of the reasons I prefer Apple Maps to Google's -- because IMO they do a slightly better job of that. Still wish it would be better, it's a daily
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by nfoz 8y ago
> it's unclear to me whether the chinese people want this sort of system for whatever reason or whether it's being forced onto them. These become indistinguishable by "manufacturing consent".
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by nfoz 8y ago
I wouldn't know how to migrate that between any systems. Maybe what's missing -- more than open source code -- is open formats for that sort of data? Like we just need a button to export that from github more than I think I&#x27
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by nfoz 8y ago
What does that mean? I'm not versed in economics, and generally find it overwhelming to look into, because of deeply-set political opinions and implications buried in all of it. Is "economic school" a political choice (diffe
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by nfoz 8y ago
Reminds me of this: http://bulwer-lytton.com/ "The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a whimsical literary competition that challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels."
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by nfoz 8y ago
How would you know if this were true? Is it just branding/reputation? I use a peplink, which doesn’t target the “consumer” market. Is that better? Seems impossible to know.
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by nfoz 8y ago
> Maybe, but that seems like a lot of work for little gain. That's how I feel about Alexa.
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by nfoz 8y ago
Classic Lemmings had both co-op and competitive multiplayer. Co-op is clear, as you described. Competitive: you each have your own lemmings: blue-green vs. green-blue. You have your own start point and end point on the same map. You can o
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by nfoz 8y ago
Does anyone else consider this to be dishonest? Sounds like Apple should take even more control.
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by nfoz 8y ago
Lemmings is one of the only games I know where (on my Amiga1000) I can plug in two mice and play two-players each with a mouse-cursor. The two-player competitive-gods dynamic is actually super thrilling and creative and I’d love to see it d
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by nfoz 8y ago
Browser user-agents are already lies, they already "inject" misleading data as a normal part of your web communications. Frankly, I think the fact that going to example.com means my browser could start sending my personal data to
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by nfoz 8y ago
Google doesn't know everything about me. I don't use gmail, I don't use google search, and I have an iPhone. GA gives them basically all of my browsing habits. It's crazy.
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by nfoz 8y ago
If there isn't a solution in place for revocation, then it's not really an authentication solution, IMO. I would have thought this would be part of the proposed API. Do you think it belongs there?
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by nfoz 8y ago
Probably by leaving a real human confused or even upset.
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by nfoz 8y ago
The spammers are the ones who will have this technology, not the call receivers. Your honeypot is a drop in the bucket.
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by nfoz 8y ago
There's no way I should be bound by terms of service that are secret unless I know the "code-phrase" with which to ask for it. Google's whole point was to deceive the user into thinking it isn't a bot -- so you wou
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by nfoz 8y ago
> People are prejudiced against talking to bots because of how bad they are currently I'm prejudiced against talking to bots because they're bots. They don't have empathy, whereas from voice interaction I expect a human I
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by nfoz 8y ago
I think there will always be a difference. When I'm talking to someone, there's an emotional connection and responsiveness there. I'm trying to help a human out -- I'm putting effort into being polite, into considering
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by nfoz 8y ago
Ah, so I suppose there are two dimensions: 1) The caller has a business-reason for initiating the call; if the receiver doesn't want that sort of call, it's a problem (spam calls). 2) The caller is a robot, and the receiver might
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by nfoz 8y ago
Also, they recorded this call and are using it for their internal dataset and also sharing it publicly with hundreds of thousands of people. Should the recipient be informed of this data collection, much less have a say in it?
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by nfoz 8y ago
I'm really trying not to be another "dystopian" commentor, but I can't help but feel sad for the restaurant. The call was awkward. Restaurants are busy. The AI would pause too long and leave her guessing, and respond
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by nfoz 8y ago
> No trusted third party (If you're moving sizable sums of gold, you're doing it with a trusted third party[TTP)) If you're using a computer, its hardware and software stack consist of one or more trusted third parties. Al
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by nfoz 8y ago
But see, I don't think that's "the other hand". It seems unrelated, at best, to the moral question of whether you should profit from helping other people to cheat. Maybe the schools should put more effort into catching
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by nfoz 8y ago
I think that lying is wrong (immoral), even if your assessment of the externalities of it aren't that bad. Here you're not the one lying, you're selling the mechanism of another's dishonesty. It's interesting to t
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by nfoz 8y ago
hmmm.. if we're going to draw a line between "hobby" and "profession", then that's perhaps the most obvious way to do it.
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by nfoz 8y ago
1) 99% of websites are secretly sharing their users' identification and browsing habits with a single multinational advertising company. Yeah, let's shut that down as emphatically as possible. 2) You can write a book without trac
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by nfoz 8y ago
Then those websites should stop using Google Analytics, which DOES violate their users' privacy unless there is informed consent about what it's doing.
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by nfoz 8y ago
> It's virtually infeasible for any small company to adhere to, based on the decades worth of software that we've built the world's economy around. Ah, that's exactly it. Decades worth of software irrevocably centred
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by nfoz 8y ago
My email address and IP address ARE personally identifying. I am delighted that websites should protect this information.
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by nfoz 8y ago
As a law-abiding citizen, I do want you to obey the laws, even when you think they are folly. Fix the law, instead of breaking it to your advantage where you don't like it. I want you to adhere to this principle only up to an admitted

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