samhw

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by samhw 5y ago
Interestingly, the only other context in which I've come across Prolog is from friends who studied at Cambridge, here in the UK. For some reason, the CS 'tripos' (course) there is really heavily focussed on Prolog, and everyo
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by samhw 5y ago
I'm not sure why infinite growth wouldn't be possible on a finite planet (even if we assume that "on a finite planet" is indeed a real constraint). Growth doesn't imply greater resource use.
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by samhw 5y ago
Ah, thank you. I didn't realise that. Appreciate the correction!
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by samhw 5y ago
This extension is explicit about scraping and storing data from Facebook, which obviously makes it rather more of a target. And I'm not sure what the point of bringing up a camera is - obviously Facebook can't stop people doing th
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by samhw 5y ago
Benford's law ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law ) is a pretty well-known test for fraudulent numbers. Of course, it's not infallible and (depending on the nature of the fake) it may be possible to
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by samhw 5y ago
They are referring to the privacy of _other_ users whose information could be scraped by these plugins, contrary to the privacy guarantees of their post (e.g. "only my friends can see this"). I'm sceptical of Facebook's
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by samhw 5y ago
It means: ``` if user.isUnderInvestigation { log(request.sourceIP) } ```
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by samhw 5y ago
FWIW, what they were accused of was squatting, not protesting climate change. I still think that's a ludicrous abuse of police powers, but it's worth being accurate.
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by samhw 5y ago
FWIW, this view is normally referred to as [cornucopianism]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornucopian ): this debate has been raging since at least the 1960s, and there are some interesting links from the Wikipedia page
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by samhw 5y ago
Honestly, I don't think that's going far enough. That "our vision is that we work as if we are one company" line couldn't be a better basis for an antitrust case if they were literally trying to incriminate themse
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by samhw 5y ago
I think his point was _precisely_ that it was a stupid mistake on his part, and not a 'master hacker' subverting his defences. But I agree it's odd that he doesn't seem to have heard of defence in depth, and relied entir
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by samhw 5y ago
This is different from banks actually _having_ an API. Many have stalled or successfully asked for exemptions, and even those who have gone ahead and, to some extent, complied, have still tried to make their APIs as difficult to use, featur
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by samhw 5y ago
> This was deemed in violation of antitrust laws for some reason My best guess at what that "some reason" may be is that it breaks shoddily built integrations like [Teller]( https://teller.io/ ), which, instead o
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by samhw 5y ago
Yeah, I would agree with that: it's payday loans with a friendly face. I once worked with someone who had previously been an exec at Klarna, and he had some 'interesting' stories about how they did credit decisioning. One of
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by samhw 5y ago
It's pretty easy to imagine an API having an endpoint like GET /api/account/mine, which is implicitly parameterised by the user ID associated with that session. Or even a 'list' rather than a 'lookup'
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by samhw 5y ago
> We have banned people in a few cases for serious $BigCo astroturfing but there's always a grey area in the Venn diagram around "PR operation" and "overzealous fan". You can't tell those apart without a smo
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by samhw 6y ago
> Pay for ad time slots, not user impressions. Instead of selling by CPM, publishers should say "independent analyst X says we have traffic Y on an average Sunday. You can buy placement for next Sunday for $Z." On top of the ot