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by pacala 8y ago
Airplane mode + WiFi + Signal? Covers 95% of my daily routine. Home-Work-Home-Work-Home-Work-Home-Work-Home-Work-Weekend-Weekend.
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by pacala 8y ago
Poll every X seconds if the last message was is no older than Y minutes. Poll every Z minutes otherwise.
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by pacala 8y ago
Selling facial recognition data is the next big revenue stream. There is a reason the Googles of the world are gushing over installing internet connected surveillance cameras on every block [0]. [0] https://nest.com/cameras&
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by pacala 8y ago
Spoiler. The utility of the live call is overstated. Most of the people I interact via a phone vastly prefer async SMS over sync voice calls. We can do SMS via polling, the network doesn't need to push anything to us.
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by pacala 8y ago
Whataboutism. Yes, there is a bigger problem. No, that should not prevent us from solving the smaller problem first. With regard to the bigger problem, we build checks and balances in the legal system.
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by pacala 8y ago
LRU
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by pacala 8y ago
We fix that by building conversational AI ;)
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by pacala 8y ago
What would be some usecases for which synchronous is insufficient and one has to reach for the hard to reason about asynchronous?
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by pacala 8y ago
Whoever takes any letter, postal card, or package out of any post office or any authorized depository for mail matter, or from any letter or mail carrier, or which has been in any post office or authorized depository, or in the custody of a
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18 U.S. Code § 1702 – Obstruction of correspondence(law.cornell.edu)
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by pacala 8y ago
This is the core dark pattern of BigTech: "Share with your friends" means "Share with your friends, and we'll snoop/aggregate everything that's ever shared by anyone using our platform in perpetuity and use it
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by pacala 8y ago
User selects to share location with 1 person in the world, and maybe even forgets about it because the feature is such low value [for the user] anyways. Google [and Verizon, and whomever else is in the middle] gets to snoop on user location
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by pacala 9y ago
[In depth answer] I dug up the RCS5.1 spec [0]. RCS location is not a benign feature where a user is sharing its location every once in a while by pressing a button. RCS location appears to be continuously broadcasted on unsecured channels,
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by pacala 9y ago
A. The ability to manually press a button to send your location to your contact B. The ability to manually press a button to send your location to your contact without man-in-the-middle snooping. All I'm saying is that B is better than
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by pacala 9y ago
* Google doesn't run software on my phone, thank you very much. * At the time I was using Android, they were using a plethora of dark patterns to force me to continuously share my location with the "Google Maps" application,
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by pacala 9y ago
+1. This is structured programming, applied to concurrent setting. The argument for structured programming was made and won in the '60s [0]. It is amazing that we keep making the same mistakes over and over again. > The unbridled us
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by pacala 9y ago
When $746 billion of market capitalization critically depend on Google carefully recording your location information every second in the day and using it to increase advertisement revenue, it is somewhat naive to expect the Google will comp
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by pacala 9y ago
Where "contacts" that are truly interested in this "basic feature" consist of Google, Verizon and 3 letter agencies. Sign me out, thank you very much.
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by pacala 9y ago
> If scala team were to disavow sbt, that'd be the single best thing they could possibly do for the ecosystem. Seconded. Between http://www.lihaoyi.com/mill/ and https://bazel.build/ , there are
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by pacala 9y ago
> no current RDBMS can do https://cloud.google.com/spanner/ ?
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by pacala 9y ago
Email predates Google. https://www.openstreetmap.org/ does fine without ads. The ad-based business model makes it harder to develop competing essential information tools that are also economically viable.
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by pacala 9y ago
Ads are a [D]DOS on your brain computing power. Targeted or not.
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by pacala 9y ago
Twitter mobile. Scroll down for a screen, full page "Log in/Sign up" popup. Every single page.
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by pacala 9y ago
Probability theory expositions, especially for [software] engineers, would be better served if they were well typed. What is the type of a random variable, E[Y|X], E[E[Y|X]]? Hint, a random variable is not a scalar, but rather a function, t
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by pacala 9y ago
Crickets
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by pacala 9y ago
Doesn’t 2fa mean password + phone? How is getting the phone sufficient?
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by pacala 9y ago
> Either because it failed to colonize before being wiped out by disease, because it nuked itself, or because it implemented AI in a way that got itself killed. If the probability of a kind of disaster is sufficient to blow up Earth, it
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by pacala 9y ago
"wiki" usually means "wikipedia". A 20s DuckDuckGo search leads to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science > Science (from Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge")[2][3]:58 is a systematic e
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by pacala 9y ago
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, 2009 > Yesterday, the web was buzzing with commentary about Google CEO Eric Schmidt's dangerous, dismissive response to concerns about search engine users' privacy. When asked during an interview fo
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by pacala 9y ago
Why would you want any of those on your laptop?

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