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by okmokmz 7y ago
>I still don't understand how society would benefit from AirBnb not existing and us being where we started with the hotel cabal. Many of the people on this site don't see or experience the downsides, as we are privileged enough
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by okmokmz 7y ago
>Personally, I find the "social contract" to be too biased in favor of homeowners. They control municipal governments and hence zoning laws. If these homeowners decide that they don't want to see visitors in their neighbor
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by okmokmz 7y ago
You used positive examples and positive language when describing youtubers and negative examples and language when describing astronauts. You are the one that prescribed value to your statement based on the way you described both profession
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by okmokmz 7y ago
If you are genuinely trying to imply that being an astronaut at NASA has a similar level of financial and professional stability as a social media influencer you are unequivocally incorrect
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by okmokmz 7y ago
>where you are your own boss You may not technically have a "boss" per se, but you are 100% beholden to Youtube as a company, their platform, and their advertisers. You absolutely cannot do anything you want, and you have littl
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by okmokmz 7y ago
No
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by okmokmz 7y ago
I find it funny that I often get defensive questions from Google and Facebook engineers about their technologies/organizations when I post initial pro-privacy comments on HN, but after being called out and explaining in more detail I n
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by okmokmz 7y ago
>It was prompted, it's just that the match for the activation phrase was incorrectly identified. Yes, so it recorded and sent audio when the user did not want it to. That's not any better. It'd be like if your gun went off
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by okmokmz 7y ago
>There is no evidence of any of these devices recording/sending voice data outside of when a query is going on. This isn't an example of a google device doing so, but there have been multiple cases of these "smart" ho
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by okmokmz 7y ago
The irony of an account named smallgovt making this comment.... Personally, I'd rather risk get nuked by a crazy guy in his garage, as you say, than live in more of a police/surveillance state than we already do now
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by okmokmz 7y ago
I definitely understand the desire to not have one's IP tied to their search history/browsing in some cases, but as this service makes no mention of being an anonymous or private search engine I don't think your critique is a
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by okmokmz 7y ago
I'm a strong advocate for digital privacy and opposed to the majority of data collection that occurs, but this comment is FUD. None of the info that you listed would be private if you used Bing normally, so if you're worried about
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by okmokmz 7y ago
Breaches was probably the wrong term to use in my example, as it brings attention to the wrong issue. The point I am trying to make is not that we shouldn't trust large companies to be secure as you say (although based on my experience
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by okmokmz 7y ago
Yes, the Equifax breach is one of the reasons I included "severe" as a qualifier. It has been demonstrated that even fairly serious breaches will be ignored by the general public. It needs to be something that makes people genuine
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by okmokmz 7y ago
>The original statement implied that profits always trump safety. While that may be how you interpreted it, that isn't what he stated. Death rates of various causes have been decreasing primarily due to technological and medical adv
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by okmokmz 7y ago
>It sounds like you're hoping for this as evidence that you were right to be concerned Not at all, if the constant security breaches and lack of response from consumers, regulators, companies, etc. isn't enough evidence for you
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by okmokmz 7y ago
Those stats don't really mean anything to the statement that was made. Yes, due to technological, scientific, and social advancements many rates of death are decreasing. However, that does not at all invalidate that profits still trump
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by okmokmz 7y ago
>To me, category 3 is the most dangerous. Tech workers have a responsibility not just understand the technologies that they work with, but also educate themselves on the societal implications of those technologies. And as others have poi
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by okmokmz 7y ago
That's not what I said, what I implied, or anywhere close to the point I was making. Nice attempt at a witty comment I guess...
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Most people, as many of the devices are exposed by default
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by okmokmz 7y ago
>It is a prove a negative vs prove a positive No, it isn't >"This device has no security holes" is often not provable even if they try to secure it. That's not how security compliance is determined Just as is done
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by okmokmz 7y ago
I was amazed how many doctors, therapists, family members, friends, etc. immediately jumped to recommending anti-depressants, anti- anxiety medication, anti-psychotics, or some other medication that will likely have long term or even perman
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by okmokmz 7y ago
You'd trust a company thats primary business model is based on the mass collection, analysis, and monetization of user data to protect your private data? Not saying I trust proton mail, but as far as I'm concerned Google is a mali
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by okmokmz 7y ago
>as a worker in a corporation, the chances that you would want an email so badly that you start breaking more corporate rules trying to get a copy of an email is very unlikely This seems like it should be true, but having worked with end
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by okmokmz 7y ago
>The craziest thing is that this disease holocaust was entirely accidental. Why is that crazy? I've never thought myself, or heard anyone imply, that the "disease holocaust" was intentional. As neither nation had the knowl
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by okmokmz 7y ago
>Facebook's reputation outside HN is not bad It depends who you talk to. The only people I know who still use, or don't hold a negative view of, Facebook are my parents, grandparents, and other old people who certainly won&#x27
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by okmokmz 7y ago
That does not at all seem like an appropriate solution to the problem
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by okmokmz 7y ago
Wow, that website has a lot of red flags. The second line alone, "this is a multi-gigabit sized site," is enough to make me doubt the info on that page. This NYT article from 1995 says he is a "city planner turned self-educat
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by okmokmz 7y ago
Yes, I know many people who believed that it was some semblance of "a defence of free speech and our democratic rights, a way of mocking the draconian regimes of the Middle East"
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by okmokmz 7y ago
He provided evidence demonstrating his point. If you can be convicted for stating that Muhammad was a child molester/rapist, then you do not have freedom of speech.

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