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by rileymat2 5mo ago
It is questionable, I assume they are using standard corporate products and our local rural-ish area does not have very good options.
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by rileymat2 5mo ago
My local Starbucks has 2 bins for recyclables and trash with little images about what to put in each bin. Many customers look at them, think, and put them in the right bin. Most just throw them in the middle trash bin. At the end of the
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by rileymat2 5mo ago
The choices between not operating in that jurisdiction, accepting the legal consequences that jurisdiction can enforce or obeying the laws in that jurisdiction is certainly on a choice of the platform. And the resulting product is their re
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by rileymat2 5mo ago
Not opposite, a different problem. If you remove one viewpoint because of government mandate, while still carrying the other, your platform is creating a biased viewpoint to influence people, that’s on the platform.
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by rileymat2 5mo ago
You could frame the regulation in a variety of ways: 1. Require a clear labeling of sunset date. Or 2. Require an independent trust created from a portion of the initial payment to fund ongoing operation. Or 3. Ban fixed payments for things
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by rileymat2 5mo ago
In my time with it, about ~20 years ago, it had a lot of nice features for instance hg came with a web server/interface out of the box.
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by rileymat2 5mo ago
I think I liked the Mercurial branching model better than git, due to the branches being a first class record of events. What I did not know is how common the git rebase/clean linear history would become or a desire to change history
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by rileymat2 5mo ago
It is unclear to me what VPNs have to do with the conversation with respect to age gating. If a government has the ability to fine content providers for providing content to its citizens, why accept IP verification is good enough to determi
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by rileymat2 5mo ago
There are already whitelisting solutions that can be installed on devices controlled by parents.
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by rileymat2 5mo ago
Wouldn’t 45 to 95 years of use be plenty of time for ROI?
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by rileymat2 5mo ago
That’s an honest business model, absent in game purchases or user generated content.
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by rileymat2 5mo ago
I’d debate that there are “clearly stated terms” when the result is completely unpredictable, will it work for 10 years or 3 hours? Reading the terms you have no idea. The original sin is selling a product that has an ongoing cost for a fix
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by rileymat2 5mo ago
I read it as a comparison of the attitude of helplessness around it, not the acts themselves. So it was a bit meta, but unremarkably inoffensive.
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by rileymat2 5mo ago
There are much more annoying defaults in windows that are unmentioned, for instance the autoupdate automatic restarts.
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by rileymat2 5mo ago
Unemployment taxes/benefits are largely like that. And they are experience rated, so high risk pay more.
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by rileymat2 5mo ago
Not in the case of mandated back doors and warrants.
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by rileymat2 5mo ago
The fly in the ointment is that they control the software and updates to that closed software so can short circuit that with appropriate pressure.
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by rileymat2 5mo ago
In a competitive environment, yes. But, tech has been particularly monopolistic/duopolistic and anticompetitive in a lot of different ways. Avoiding being treated as a commodity the same way many of the employees of those companies hav
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by rileymat2 5mo ago
Of course, but not as an employee
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by rileymat2 5mo ago
Unless the method of increasing productivity increases it disproportionately for you or you find a way to outcompete in productivity gains, I am not sure that ever happens. Edit: To put a finer point on this, generally,employed people don&#
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by rileymat2 6mo ago
This presumes you have a working bunker and not a flawed one because you obscured the details from good actors that could identify problems.
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by rileymat2 6mo ago
If it does not obscure your own view of the security or reasoning about the security stance. For instance, with respect to url parameters, I have seen people being told they have an Insecure Direct Object Reference, then apply base64 encodi
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by rileymat2 6mo ago
It’s not that big a change these forms have existed for a long time, AOL was a giant closed Goliath for a large number of users.
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by rileymat2 6mo ago
We have consistently made exceptions to this rule in situations with limited choices. We would not abide by the electric company dictating a range of things, even of you have the option to run your own generator. The truth is there are two
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by rileymat2 6mo ago
You are describing theory, which is fine as a model but it is an imperfect model. There are a host of reasons this falls apart in reality.
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by rileymat2 6mo ago
I understand this aspect, and this conversation is tricky because most consumer routers have this barebones firewall built in to reject the routing mentioned by the OP. So what we think of as a "router doing nat" often is subtly
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by rileymat2 6mo ago
Can you say more about the ISP connecting to any computer on your network? I can’t find any references to this aspect in googling the right terms and the concept is foreign to me. There are a bunch of ways to break it, or misconfigure it. B
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by rileymat2 6mo ago
I am not sure ethics have much to do with it nor implied contract. In the past there was no ethical issue nor contractual issue with going to the bathroom during a network commercial break, no ethical issue with skipping multi page magazine
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by rileymat2 7mo ago
But if you were to ask that same question to a human with no specific math training there are exceedingly low odds they would get the right answer. We spend hours and hours over reinforced over years to have humans that can do it.
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by rileymat2 7mo ago
> are trained on what we told them we do. They don’t “think” at all. They’re a mixmaster of other people’s ideas, cleverly packaged in a way that we perceive as natural. Sometimes I wonder how this is different from most of my education.

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