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by osweiller 10y ago
"Looking at my facebook newsfeed nowadays, for example, there's an awful lot of sharing going on, but it's not original content" Maybe I'm just teasing easy confirmations of my theory -- very probably the case --
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by osweiller 10y ago
"Instagram didn't invent trying to impress people with photos of your travels." This is absolutely true. Before Instagram and similar sites, you'd invite friends over and then force a slideshow on them. This was widely
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by osweiller 10y ago
The article was fairly nuanced and even-handed. The anecdote about a photo yielding some enlightened experience seems like an absurd stretch, and does little to counter the overwhelming evidence that people are more concerned about telling
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by osweiller 10y ago
While this seems planted and trite (much like the "because it's 2015" answer), I have to confess that I don't get quantum computing. A qubit can hold multiple values, it seems. Okay, that's a data density improvemen
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by osweiller 11y ago
It would be an entirely spiteful act, however -- the only consequence would be a reduction in tourist dollars to Europe. Which is why it seems incredibly unlikely this would pass a EU general vote. Canada and the United States have a refuge
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by osweiller 11y ago
No, what they are really looking is for an ops person that has to sit in a dev team and do the part no one likes to do. s/He will be lucky if s/he can actually spend 10% of his time producing application code. So? What's th
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by osweiller 11y ago
If there was widespread snooping, it would imply either WhatsApp collaboration or compromise, in which case the app could show whatever they wanted it to show (or they could just upload all of the private keys, which they may very well do i
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by osweiller 11y ago
The app automatically distributes public keys, to my knowledge, and the QR code is merely a validation mechanism to ensure that no MITM is substituting keys. The EFF seems to think the QR code thing is the bee's knees. In practice, I w
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by osweiller 11y ago
It's a weak strawman, though. He isn't literally saying that, but is trying to discount those who complain about closed source by comparing them to people who are apparently anti-iPhone. Then again, maybe that's exactly what
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by osweiller 11y ago
You've made this claim multiple times now. Do you really honestly believe that disassembled binary code sees the same scrutiny or gained confidence that open source code does? Have you ever analyzed disassembled code? It is non-trivial
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by osweiller 11y ago
To post a follow-up comment, what happens when you lose your phone, or simply move to a new phone? Presumably you've lost all of your private keys (I mean...obviously they must not upload them or this would all be farce), message histo
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by osweiller 11y ago
Aside from the obvious outcome that it would be manipulated (which anyone could predict, and if well thought out it would have had "learning guards"), it didn't require some deep artificial learning -- you could tell the thin
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by osweiller 11y ago
This same "multi billion dollar" company had an AI bot tweeting Nazi propaganda a week ago. They spectacularly failed in their xbox one release, having to completely retool and regroup. Their Windows Phone efforts remain a complet
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by osweiller 11y ago
Does he regret not buying a lottery ticket when he sees that someone else won? He may very well (especially if the winner was someone who intersected in their lives, making it seem more proximal), but that's essentially the argument gi
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by osweiller 11y ago
In the US this deal is effectively irrelevant because the host network of the TNF game already has digital streaming rights. e.g. if the game is on CBS, CBS is also streaming it online, as they did last year. Twitter can also serve US custo
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by osweiller 11y ago
We -- humanity in general -- judge and react to our own lot and situation by what we think everyone else endures: What we think is "normal", and then we take offense by what we think is abnormal (which we assume must be poor tre
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by osweiller 11y ago
Conspiracy theory? "Normal people do not spend $35-40k on a car." That is dionidium's phrasing, and you're throwing slurs at me? Really? "you seem incapable of understanding you are talking about new cars while di
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by osweiller 11y ago
>50% of the F-150s sold are their top tier, premium models (Lariat, King Ranch and Platinum). There are zero fleets that buy these models. This excludes the millions of lower models bought to pull boats and carry egos. Which is how the a
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by osweiller 11y ago
Now, you want to argue that among people who buy a new car, This conversation is specifically and only about new cars, in this case the Tesla Model 3. It is outrageous that you're implying that I'm the one diverting the conversa
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by osweiller 11y ago
The average new car buyer keeps it for six years. 17 million new cars are sold in the US per year. So 102 million Americans (which of course grossly underestimates as most are bought by couples/families) are buying new cars in that lif
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by osweiller 11y ago
Fact 1 is utter nonsense. "Fact" doesn't mean "claim something because it sounds good for your argument". Do you see more Ferraris than Honda Civics in your neck of the woods? More Porsches than Kia Fortes? Regardin
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by osweiller 11y ago
From your original post. The statement that everyone apparently isn't understanding right- One minor counter to this is that you shouldn't get too caught up in the hype about this being a mass-produced car. HN and tech journalism
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by osweiller 11y ago
The goal posts seem to keep moving, but this whole discussion began because of a disagreement about whether this would qualify as a "mass produced" car because "Normal people do not spend $35-40k on a car". Yet the #1, m
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by osweiller 11y ago
Do you have any evidence or data to demonstrate that the "median family" spends less than the average? The average family also isn't buying the Kia Rondo, but I'm not claiming that these beginner cars are skewing the val
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by osweiller 11y ago
My cable modem pulls 120Mbps down, pushes 10Mbps. 24/7. DOCSIS 3.1 promises up to 10Gbps down, 1Gbps up (again, because it biases the bandwidth to down). It's a signal on a medium. And when we talk about fiber optics, 9 times out
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by osweiller 11y ago
Most users pull far more data than they push, so it's a simple reaction to the market -- with technologies like DOCSIS you have a set number of channels and you assign them to either downstream or upstream bandwidth. More users benefit
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by osweiller 11y ago
They state at the very outset that they worked on the data for over a year, doing OCR, analyzing, digesting, cross-referencing, etc. No one is presenting a false front -- they aren't claiming that this is a bunch of files that they got
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by osweiller 11y ago
To be fair, the title is serious exaggeration. Tom Adams has a large task list of implementation ideas, and they're 42% complete. He then says that these represent the "narratively interesting" parts of existence . If I made
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by osweiller 11y ago
Not a huge deal, but you'd be "super excited" about it? I develop on Windows, mostly. I deploy to Ubuntu, Redhat, Amazon's AMI, among others. I literally will repeat that you sound like you know nothing about Linux, clou
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by osweiller 11y ago
Your argument is that Microsoft would introduce their own distro (a "proper" Microsoft Linux), and then declare their Linux-related ventures only "supported" on that Linux. I feel like I've accidentally stumbled upo

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