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by post_below 4y ago
I had the same impression. He says things which are demonstrably untrue, it implies a lack of domain knowledge. But, on paper anyway, he has the domain knowledge. I agree with the idea that the right time to decide how to handle AI is befor
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by post_below 4y ago
Have you looked into high res projectors? Prices for the decent ones are comparable to TVs.
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by post_below 4y ago
To add to this, basic fingerprinting is trivial. And more advanced fingerprinting isn't much harder. I'm so confused by GP post. We were doing fingerprinting 15 years ago.
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by post_below 4y ago
I generally agree that tech monopolies are potentially bad for, not just national security, but general human wellbeing. > The tech sector is out of alignment with law enforcement In this particular case, I'd say that's a good
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by post_below 5y ago
I don't think it's counter productive at all. There was a period of time, when the appendix was (absurdly) considered vestigial, that surgeons would remove the appendix as a side quest if they happened to have the area opened for
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by post_below 5y ago
I agree, and also it's easy to forget how silly "Web 2.0" was Not the technology itself, that was great, and was already named. When Web 2.0 arrived as a buzzword the web was already an interactive, dynamic platform with dat
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by post_below 5y ago
Because sometimes HN hugs things to death. I went straight to the comments for the alternate link when the site was still loading after 10 seconds.
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by post_below 5y ago
The ecological problem is, in my opinion, what should lead the conversation. Climate change being what it is, we shouldn't even be considering technologies with carbon footprints as large as existing blockchains. In theory that problem
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by post_below 5y ago
Abuse of that system being a when, not if, scenario.
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by post_below 5y ago
There are of course a variety of factors, including the popularity of the site the page is published on. The signals related to the site are often as important as the content on the page itself. Even different parts of the same site can len
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by post_below 5y ago
I'm not sure how we got to it being strictly about advertising. Nor did I say 'all'. But the vast majority of corporations with the market power to leverage in shady ways for profit, do in fact do just that.
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by post_below 5y ago
We have plenty of historical data to draw from here. Cynicism is the rational approach. Corporations (beyond a certain threshold of market control) doing shady, consumer hostile things for profit is the norm. So I don't think the ticki
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by post_below 5y ago
Your point is valid but it's a question of degree rather than category. The Uyghur camps are about as evil as you can get, no question, but how much cumulative death and suffering has been caused by decades of destabilizing, bombing an
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by post_below 5y ago
The claim is partly based on the fact that the majority of people stop producing lactase (the enzyme needed to digest milk sugar) at an early age. Well aged cheese has little to no milk sugar, the cultures have eaten all of it. So, problem
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by post_below 5y ago
Hold on, when did anyone introduce the idea that a company won't make a right decision ever? That's a pretty dramatic mischaracterization of my comment. It's so easy to find something 'patently absurd' in a comment
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by post_below 5y ago
For profit companies don't make decisions because they're right. Right and wrong have no meaning in capitalism. Companies make decisions based on profits. We might wish it were different, but it very clearly isn't. The best w
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by post_below 5y ago
There's some truth in what you're saying, but mistrust of institutions is completely rational in light of history. Empirically, ignorance in this context would be unskeptically trusting institutions. That it strays into the irrati
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by post_below 5y ago
To my surprise you used you're instead of your in a comment about precise language.
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by post_below 6y ago
Not a crime, a reality, cheers to anyone who tries to keep that reality at the forefront of the conversation.
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by post_below 6y ago
As superpower mascots go, I think the eagle turned out to be pretty much perfect. Large, powerful, masters of their environment, noble from a distance. Up close, easily scared, shameless scavengers who love the opportunity to steal prey fro
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by post_below 6y ago
I suppose I should have added basic equipment as a barrier to entry, it seemed self evident as I was writing. Edit: I think you could call Windows mainstream (or becoming dominant) around version 3, maybe a bit before. So that's over 3
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by post_below 6y ago
> Will this ever end? It remains an interesting question. Is there any way to reclaim the autonomy and ethos of freedom from the earlier part of the digital era? I'm not sure how that would look. I don't mean in terms of a set
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by post_below 6y ago
I agree that Google is slipping... but DDG is essentially just a Bing syndicator, which means their result quality will compete at the rate of Bing. Hard to see a threat there.
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by post_below 6y ago
Lots of truth here, and some cathartic hilarity. > "Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else." It goes on to say that even six months is optimis
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by post_below 6y ago
I generally agree about slogans, but that seems unfair here. "Choose Boring Technology" isn't the sum total of the content, it's essentially the title. If you read past it, there is good stuff.
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by post_below 6y ago
"a new search engine that cannot be gamed" So you mean a search engine that's 100% human curated? Or rather, a directory, it wouldn't really be a search engine. Any algorithmic signal can be gamed. Although I'd be c
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by post_below 6y ago
Just a note: Your front page text doesn't wrap on mobile (android), requiring side scrolling.
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by post_below 6y ago
When it comes to the precise details, I imagine there aren't many people who know for sure how the convoluted machinations of money and policy played out on a particular issue. It's the nature of the game to keep it as opaque as p
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by post_below 6y ago
Not sure why your post is getting downvoted, the evidence for it's accuracy isn't in question that I know of. Real question: Does anyone think that food industry money doesn't influence policy and recommendations? If so can y
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by post_below 6y ago
Yes, aim measures at said entities, I support that idea. Repealing section 230 is not that.

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