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by nr2x 4y ago
There is a giant leaderboard called “citation count”. You get a real time “score” that can define your career prospects. So, like any system with a “score”, people become warped, they focus on the score above all else. So this person thinks
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by nr2x 4y ago
This isn’t some low level SWE with an unusual hobby, it’s the person whom this company is putting out as the reason parents should trust the product. It’s absolutely idiotic on a number of levels.
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by nr2x 4y ago
It shows incredibly poor judgment on the part of the company that they’d put anybody who shares porn online in charge of children. Lots of people consume porn, very few see fit to share it on social media.
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by nr2x 4y ago
So sorry this happened to you, very troubling as a parent.
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by nr2x 4y ago
As long as iCloud backup is a) on by default, and b) isn’t clearly marked as being readable to Apple, it is a back door in practice, especially since the FBI is the reason that they did this. Let’s not even talk about Chinese users, as appa
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by nr2x 4y ago
It’s possible to be factual and dishonest at the same time.
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That's my point, a system designed hundreds of years ago by slave owners - which is an outlier in global governance - needs an overhaul. It's not fit for purpose, and even when the US help countries "build" democracy we
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by nr2x 4y ago
Lots of "territories" that are just colonial afterthoughts from after we "conquered" the CONUS but before we figured out economic imperialism is more efficient that waving a flag.
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by nr2x 4y ago
Yes, and I can't believe the supreme world court of the UN just removed all countries ability to set gun laws and the world has gone full Alabama overnight. rad.
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For logical consistency either states have control over both guns and abortion, or neither. The picking and choosing exposes this as a religious crusade.
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People speak, land doesn't - there is no such thing as a "rural voice".
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by nr2x 4y ago
Given a disproportionate number of HN users are in California, no we don't actually "choose" congress in any reasonable sense. We get to pick 2 people to represent ~40M people in the Senate, whereas the ~500k people of Wyomi
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by nr2x 4y ago
Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft better cough up as well. They all use the data for voice assistance, etc.
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That’s awesome, perfect use case.
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Good point, I forgot that use case.
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And green flags for a gambler. ;-)
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by nr2x 4y ago
How many people are using torrents for non-piracy reasons?
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Many countries are! Talent bonanza.
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You can also build things with it.
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by nr2x 4y ago
My rule as a professor (who had actually worked as a dev in the past) was simple: I don’t care if you use code samples, but I will ask very specific questions on how it works and I really care if you don’t know.
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Yeah, Russia has the brains and education to have made their own Samsung…but too bad, an aging psychopath wants to silence anybody with half a brain and dig in the mud for “wealth”.
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Such a shame that Putin took a country with such amazing technological potential down a dead end path of hydrocarbons, political repression, violence, and war. But hey, more world class engineers for the rest of us.
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Actually the research is fairly mixed as we’re dealing with N-variable systems of technology, communication, economics, and a non trivial amount of fraud.
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by nr2x 4y ago
First off, I don’t think the average twitter user is in the market for a rocket so I don’t see the point. Second, the target demographic of Tesla is not people who are all in on voting Republican, they are a lot more likely to be affluent e
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by nr2x 4y ago
Pulling out one’s dick uninvited is fairly easy to classify as “jerk behavior”, or you know, “sexual harassment”, or you know, “criminal”.
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by nr2x 4y ago
Yes, Elon should have his twitter taken away for distracting from the mission. 100% agree.
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Exactly, if they didn’t care they’d leave, instead they risked a lot in an effort to save the company from its teenager CEO.
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Not your key? Not your coin.
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by nr2x 4y ago
Not all climate change is global warming. Our actions change the environment in numerous, and often unpredictable, ways.
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