portofcall

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by portofcall 9y ago
The same Google covering its ass with $300 million to fight disinformation on its own platforms?
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by portofcall 9y ago
It’s not a free service, it’s a surveillance platform that provides a paid service to advertisers.
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by portofcall 9y ago
Tuba! I’ve always been impressed by the dual demands of breath control and lugging around a tuba. You can probably snuff a candle at a quarter mile.
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by portofcall 9y ago
What constitutes that reputation if not the views of “individual users” determining the fate of the platform? I think you’re selling poeple short, and in the face of evidence contrary to your claims.
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by portofcall 9y ago
That's the root of the issue, though. People really don't care as much as posters on HN think they do. If we could acknowledge that, I think we could come up with better solutions. FB didn’t drop billions in value because nobody
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Protein Aggregates Caught Stalling(nature.com)
1 points by portofcall 9y ago|0 comments
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by portofcall 9y ago
It’s not easy, it takes time and effort, but it can be overcome. Mindfulness, setting periodic alarm reminders (at first frequently and then less so) to sit up straight and breathe deeply, meditation, all help a lot. The problem is that it
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by portofcall 9y ago
People are willing to buy broken, exploitative games filled with monetization strategies, built by a committee of the damned. As long as it’s profitable to behave this way, and unregulated, companies making games will keep on being bad acto
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by portofcall 9y ago
Trumpet player here, and I’ve had similar experiences. A longtime friend of mine is an operatic soprano, and she can practically break a spirometer!
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by portofcall 9y ago
Twitter, Snap, Instagram, Uber, Palantir, and pretty much every SV unicorn which exists because the law is slow to react and they’re running at full tilt? This seems like the accepted playbook in SV, and until recently it was lauded on this
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Russia orders Telegram to hand over users’ encryption keys(theverge.com)
35 points by portofcall 9y ago|10 comments
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by portofcall 9y ago
The ones who have gotten away with it so far to the tune of billions of users and dollars? The ones counting on a short media-public memory and attention span, and to all of our misfortune, they may be right. If you want that to change, it’
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T-Mobile’s parent company lets customers opt-out of bloatware(theverge.com)
1 points by portofcall 9y ago|0 comments
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by portofcall 9y ago
Again, I’m responding to people touting the safety of autonomous vehicles based on a tiny sample. Live by the sword, die by the sword. At this point the truth is that we’re surrounded by unknowns, and yet post after post features people cla
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Qatar Is Getting This Unique Amphibious 'Mother Ship' and Radar Picket Vessel(thedrive.com)
2 points by portofcall 9y ago|0 comments
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by portofcall 9y ago
3.2 fatalities per billion km driven by humans. So far 1 fatalities per 4 million miles by automated vehicles, which when you do the conversions... isn’t better. It’s not a lot to work with, but for the people speaking in stats, the actual
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In California, Helping the Homeless to Make Their Medical Preferences Clear(undark.org)
1 points by portofcall 9y ago|0 comments
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by portofcall 9y ago
Did you reply to the correct post? This seems unconnected to the topic at hand in the extreme, but maybe I’m missing something.
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In Search of God’s Perfect Proofs(quantamagazine.org)
2 points by portofcall 9y ago|0 comments
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by portofcall 9y ago
This is the way to go, and it would help (I think) to ease the calls I’ve seen around for holding individual devs responsible. The point is not to collect scalps, but prevent tragedy and malfeasance. Holding companies responsible, sure, bu
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by portofcall 9y ago
I don’t know, but made no attempt to stop is according to the police . Uber’s self-driving car was traveling at a speed of 40 mph when it struck a 49-year-old woman in Arizona Sunday night, and did not show significant signs of slowing do
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by portofcall 9y ago
Given just how poorly we react to terrorism and sharks, I’m not sure if that’s the direction I’d want to be headed in. I’m in favor of automation, but not with Uber’s “move fast and break things” attitude. Responsible, ethical, and careful
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by portofcall 9y ago
I doubt the police had the records from the car’s system. With all due respect, then why are they using their bully pulpit to blame this woman for her death at this early stage? The vehicle made no attempt to stop, which seems worrying if
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by portofcall 9y ago
In most places the driver isn’t an experimental automated vehicle. Maybe while trying new tech that can apparently fail to see a woman with LIDAR, stick to the damned speed limit? That seems fair to me.
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by portofcall 9y ago
Fortunately Google translate does a good job with that, thanks very much. I really love learning about new quirks of language. I’ve read it now, and that’s so cool. It also cam with some good references I’m going to get into now. Thanks aga
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by portofcall 9y ago
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/19/17140936/uber-self-drivin... The brakes didn’t even start to engage. Just how fast do you think this woman moved exactly?
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by portofcall 9y ago
And yet the speeding vehicle didn’t even attempt to stop. https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/19/17140936/uber-self-drivin...
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by portofcall 9y ago
Given that the car apparently didn’t even start to brake, maybe she was moving at light speed? https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/19/17140936/uber-self-drivin... The LIDAR probably couldn’t see with all the
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Uber’s self-driving car showed no signs of slowing before fatal crash(theverge.com)
3 points by portofcall 9y ago|1 comments
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by portofcall 9y ago
I love /r/askhistorians, they have fantastic contributions and moderation. Thanks very much for this.

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