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by patmcc 4y ago
If it brings in revenue it's running correctly, as far as the business is concerned.
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by patmcc 4y ago
You seem to be connecting UBI to the "Do not want a job now" category, but I don't think there's any reason to think covid stimulus/unemployment led to much growth in those particular numbers. See https:/&#x2F
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by patmcc 4y ago
I think it's largely a disagreement on definitions - tweet 7 in the thread even hints at this: >>>7. What many people call “shadow banning,” Twitter executives and employees call “Visibility Filtering” or “VF.” Multiple high-l
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by patmcc 4y ago
I think a lot about how terrorists don't act and I guess I don't understand their motives. Electric grids, fiber optic lines, train tracks, bridges, water mains, sewage treatment, all of these can be pretty easily disrupted with
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by patmcc 4y ago
>>Edit: so HN wants Twitter moderation and censorship but a country censoring videos and text books is a big no no. This was your original comment. Yes, people want moderation of their platforms, otherwise they become unusable. Most p
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by patmcc 4y ago
Do you understand the distinction between moderation and censorship ? Moderation is blocking content when the sender wants to communicate something the receiver doesn't want. Censorship is blocking content that both the sender and t
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by patmcc 4y ago
There's a really big (and important!) difference between doing something that's wrong and doing something that's criminal.
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by patmcc 4y ago
You are misreading that very severely. Even if it was a first amendment violation to ask twitter to review certain tweets. "The intent required for a conspiracy to defraud the government is that the defendant possessed the intent (
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by patmcc 4y ago
That's...not a crime? The Justice Department can't just declare things as illegal and throw people in jails for 30 years.
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by patmcc 4y ago
>>The people involved should be facing 30 year prison sentences. For what crime, specifically?
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by patmcc 4y ago
The government can ask private companies not to publish things, it does that for "national security" all the time. The company can tell them to pound sound - that's been well established. https://www.washingtonpo
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by patmcc 4y ago
You don't have a 1st amendment right to post on twitter. If twitter bans me for spamming, do you think I can sue them?
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by patmcc 4y ago
If the key is located only in the HSM, and there are no known flaws in the HSM, yep, that's a hard nut to crack, I'm not going to claim I could do it. But given enough resources, with time and planning and insiders? Take a look at
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by patmcc 4y ago
Getting to it might be very, very hard. But once it's in your hand you've got it. Diamonds can found as you're leaving the building, or you can be stopped at the airport, or the big pile in your house can be found, etc. A sig
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by patmcc 4y ago
I've always been a big fan of the "Feynman method of Problem solving": Write down the problem. Think very hard. Write down the solution.
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by patmcc 4y ago
...were we not all assuming this was the case?
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by patmcc 4y ago
Yah, I don't think anyone minds those kind of rebases. It's when they're done on shared branches like master that they're incredibly messy and dangerous.
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by patmcc 4y ago
The obvious fix to bots and scalpers is just to not allow ticket transfers - you give your name when you buy the ticket and show your ID at the door. Why this isn't the current process is left as an exercise to the reader.
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by patmcc 4y ago
Say what you want about microsoft - they've got some of the best lawyers in the world on this kind of stuff. If they're not doing it they either don't trust the tech or don't trust the law.
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by patmcc 4y ago
For something I'm passionate about? No. For what I'm actually doing? Yes.
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by patmcc 4y ago
Unsubscribe links are for cases where I've signed up willingly and later decided to cancel. If anyone automatically emails me they get reported as spam and blocked, no shot I'm trusting them to unsubscribe me.
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by patmcc 4y ago
Sure, a couple points. 1. More than the US exists. Stripe has a headquarters in Ireland (which does have severance laws) and employees in many countries. And my point was general, not just pertaining to Stripe. 2. If (and I don't know
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by patmcc 4y ago
There's a big difference between giving low scores to people who aren't performing up to some standard (whether than makes up 2% or 10% or 40% of your workforce), and always giving low scores to 15% of staff even if they're a
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by patmcc 4y ago
It's legally required in many jurisdictions. I think it's perfectly reasonable to "feel entitled" to things I'm legally entitled to.
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by patmcc 4y ago
>>In the event of an acquisition a consumer should have complete legal authority to decide whether there information transfers to the new company, and it is opt-in only by default. How would you sensibly have this work with a publicly
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by patmcc 4y ago
If I put on a big trench coat, hat, sunglasses, and mask, such that no one can recognize me, I'm certainly "incognito". If I then go into a store and say "hey I'm Pat, account number 314b" that's on me. I&
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by patmcc 4y ago
I mean, I certainly wouldn't expect/want Microsoft to have a copy of everything I've ever typed into a Word document or Excel spreadsheet.
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by patmcc 4y ago
This assumes they have a device that can read fingerprints/face. I'm going to homeless folks are also more likely to be on library computers, old phones, etc. and not have access to biometric sensors.
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by patmcc 4y ago
It's not hard to make cheating tools, it's hard to run them on the same hardware as the game and not get caught. Chess cheating tools don't need to be on the same hardware, so they're not detectable in the same ways.
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by patmcc 4y ago
Let's say someone robs a bank. They break into the vault, steal a bunch of gold, get out. Never caught. Lives a long life. Were they a bank robber? A cheater is a cheater even if no one knows it.

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