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by paledot 2y ago
The only way is to use another OS. There are way too many other privacy leaks, many of which can't be turned off at all.
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by paledot 2y ago
And gives them access to pensions when they retire. Governments are so selfish, aren't they?
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by paledot 2y ago
Fine, I expect an MRI to take pictures of what's actually going on in my body rather than inventing MRI-like images that can fool the radiologist into thinking I'm healthy when I'm not. Not sure why this is controversial.
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by paledot 2y ago
But the threat actor in this case is a state, which does have that ability. (And data brokers of varying degrees of shadiness can and do provide this info to anyone for a price.)
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by paledot 2y ago
I came looking for this and was not disappointed. (Though I also appreciate that the top comment is more thoughtful, a credit to HN's priorities.)
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by paledot 2y ago
That's the current model, except "the benefits to you" are you get a telephone. Don't like it, go to the one other phone company that has an identical "agreement". Opt-in doesn't fix anything. Only by maki
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by paledot 2y ago
Sort algorithms and linked lists? Solved, but we keep interviewing on them anyway.
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by paledot 2y ago
I love how the person's name is D.R. T Stephens. Not D.R.T. Stephens and definitely not Dr. T. Stephens, no matter what you may be expected to read.
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by paledot 2y ago
He isn't apolitical. He thinks he is apolitical, which is more troubling than being openly political. (Well, unless you're Elon Musk political, I suppose.) Someone who believes in objective truth believes their own viewpoint to
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by paledot 2y ago
Windows XP required a minimum of 64 MB of memory. The installer must not only fit in that space, it must be able to run at the same time. Not an impossibility, but a much taller order than running the same/a previous version of the OS
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by paledot 2y ago
The ruling class of the United States, by and large, isn't a part of government (elected or civil service) and seeks a government that is smaller, weaker, and more dysfunctional rather than the reverse.
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by paledot 2y ago
Casual user search works well on Google these days? That's news to me.
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by paledot 3y ago
I guarantee it will be harder in 2050 than it was in 1980.
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by paledot 3y ago
(But don't under any circumstances break the four other trackers already running on the site.)
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by paledot 3y ago
I love the attention to detail here, like any customer ever has navigated to this page trying to find out how to give consent to having their data collected.
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by paledot 3y ago
That's right there in the lede, "not as insecure as you think".
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by paledot 3y ago
The boosters parachuted to the ocean and were reused. Only the external fuel tank was not reusable. However, you're correct that the Shuttle failed utterly to realize the point of reusability, that being low cost and quick turnaround
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by paledot 3y ago
The fallacy is contending that something is safe by comparing it favourably to an extremely unsafe activity . The takeaway of "you are more likely to die on the drive to the airport" should be "cars are dangerous" not &
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by paledot 3y ago
Comparing the safety of x to driving should be an official fallacy on par with Godwin's Law at this point (which in turn is no longer as firm as it once was). Driving is by far the most dangerous activity that most of us undertake on
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by paledot 3y ago
I'm not sure "mature" is a word that can be applied to anything Musk touches. When Tesla abruptly stopped shipping right-hand-drive cars in the UK, they included complimentary grabbing sticks with the left-hand-drive cars tha
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by paledot 3y ago
I'm not sure I'd use a robot that can "move x to y", but I'd love a robot that can run after my daughter's bedtime to tidy up her toys. This is an end in itself.
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by paledot 3y ago
Which is definitely a fair deal signed between equals, right?
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by paledot 3y ago
"Our doomsday scheme cost us just a small fraction of what we'd been spending on defense in a single year. But the deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a doom
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by paledot 3y ago
Is this a serious suggestion, or a warning for why there's no place for move-fast-and-kill-things startups in the defense space? No one should be working on this, especially not involving AI in any way.
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by paledot 3y ago
GP did say "majority". It's an interesting thought, though. Effectively, assuming that the index were restricted to employees of member companies, setting up such a system would be tantamount to a corporate merger. In the eve
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by paledot 3y ago
As a software developer, I'm not exactly representative, nor are you. The point was about ambition/popular perception, not the reality. If your "maybe someday" dream prominently features being issued a patent, it's
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by paledot 3y ago
Good on you for standing up to this bullshit in your first career job. I'm not sure I would've known better, and I sure wouldn't have had the guts to speak out about it
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by paledot 3y ago
Cheaper underwriting, more expensive lawsuits. Pick your poison.
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by paledot 3y ago
Somehow the winning ticket in popular discourse is to be a patent troll: at best, "sell my idea" to some big company (troll); at worst convince a court to give you a pile of money because someone "stole" your idea (in
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by paledot 3y ago
I'm no great fan of his (anymore), but Tesla's market share or at least market size did do very well during that period, not to mention the stock price going nuts. And this was all before he took a sharp turn at the corner of al

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