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961.
by nr2x 6y ago
It’s odd that if you knew why the building was valuable you wouldn’t also know it’s designed for this. Which makes me lean more towards coincidence.
962.
by nr2x 6y ago
A guy working in this building told me they had showers to clean off radioactive fallout as the building itself could stand up to a bomb. Guy said “you’d be fucked either way” and laughed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
963.
by nr2x 6y ago
FAIRVIEW source for VOIP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairview_(surveillance_program...
964.
by nr2x 6y ago
It is legal.
965.
by nr2x 6y ago
Just the long established norms of health privacy dating from the 5th Century BC. Admittedly those social codes are really legacy cruft that SV should refactor so we can better monetizing suffering.
966.
by nr2x 6y ago
I’m curious if any future antitrust settlements will require API interoperability. That’s the Apple Watch main advantage, deeper hooks into the ecosystem.
967.
by nr2x 6y ago
Google makes money selling pharma ads. A lot of money. This can help them make more.
968.
by nr2x 6y ago
Interesting opsec: “according to internal correspondence read to Reuters”. Seems like people are afraid of a fwd paper trail.
969.
by nr2x 6y ago
The unfortunate catch is only two thunderbolt ports, otherwise agree. I absolutely loathe the Touch Bar, and would pay extra for a pro without one.
970.
by nr2x 6y ago
Thanks, that's a helpful example, may be most of my programming questions don't involve C++. ;-)
971.
by nr2x 6y ago
I'm curious what types of programming questions you can't get via DDG? I use it exclusively and very rarely have to look to Google (as in <1x month). Really the only time I revert to Google is if the issue is very fresh (eg s
972.
by nr2x 6y ago
Agree the word subsidy may not be the best, but that The BBC Micro contract changing the trajectory of Acorn as a company is undoubtable.
973.
by nr2x 6y ago
Apple Pays very competent people to keep everything online. My major issue is syncing across several devices. Also, backups on premise aren’t really backups, so you still have to trust somebody even if it’s just keeping the link up in a VM
974.
by nr2x 6y ago
BBC Micro and its evolution to mobile dominance is one of my go-to examples for how a lot of private sector innovations were originally high risk investments subsidized by the public.
975.
by nr2x 6y ago
To respond to a few points, my calculation was thus: 1) could I fail to detect a failure of an auto-update or novel exploit because I’m more busy now? 2) if so, could something very bad happen? I got two “yes”s. It still annoys me to have e
976.
by nr2x 6y ago
I had a few instances of OwnCloud and various NAS setups over the years. Then I had a kid and dumped everything into iCloud when I realized I’d no longer have time to keep it all secure/patched. Time cost of these setups is real.
977.
by nr2x 6y ago
Considering Google pays Apple a massive tithe to be the default search engine its not 100% adversarial.
978.
by nr2x 6y ago
My hypothesis is they're most worried about people figuring out the CTR on their ads doesn't go down by much when the personal data spigot gets cut off. We'll see what happens.
979.
by nr2x 6y ago
I mean literally people who are trained journalists, and sometimes even experienced ones, going to work for a company or agency and writing press releases.
980.
by nr2x 6y ago
A shockingly high number of people who would have been journalists 20 years ago now work in Public Relations. Many journalism school graduates try to find work in the trade and end up as corporate mouthpieces.
981.
by nr2x 6y ago
Even worse is the amount of time a publisher maintained their status as the "exclusive" source for a story used to be a least a couple days - meaning a subscription to an outlet that regularly has an edge is valuable (particularly
982.
by nr2x 6y ago
Lots of people want to see sports scores, news, and commentary. I'm not a "sports guy", but those types of benign tribal affinities can help community cohesion and also generate revenue for more expensive forms of journalism
983.
by nr2x 6y ago
From a business perspective, perhaps. From a social benefit perspective, getting rid of corrupt politicians, exposing pollution, and giving citizens the ability to understand what the powerful are doing has massive benefit. Think of all t
984.
by nr2x 6y ago
My point was more about software engineers having trouble grasping effort/production costs involved in media outside of their immediate domain, despite having the power to dramatically affect revenue calculations in other domains.
985.
by nr2x 6y ago
Per my final point, I'm suggesting adtech has given us more of the former to the detriment of the latter.
986.
by nr2x 6y ago
I think what the "legacy" news media failed at more than adapting was effectively communicating the time and effort that goes into serious news gathering and reporting. I regularly get the impression a certain slice of HN comment
987.
by nr2x 6y ago
Read the actual complaint, the level of knowledge you’d need to fabricate that would be unimaginable.
988.
by nr2x 6y ago
CERN invented the web on public money, Google at al came a lot later.
989.
by nr2x 6y ago
Yup, the cost of delayed care is quite often lives.
990.
by nr2x 6y ago
Boris Johnson, PM of the UK, got his COVID care from the National Health Service, and while I imagine he got some VIP treatment, the delta between rich and poor in the US is the same as life and death. It's not an issue of an extr

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