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by scarface74 3y ago
Anyone who thought that any job was long term was naive. Did they not read the whole “at will” work thing that I have signed before accepting any job. I have never in my 25+ years in tech thought that any job was going to be “long term”. I
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by scarface74 3y ago
What were the financial incentives of people taking a job at Google? They wanted to get paid top of market compensation for their labor and they did while they were working there. What did the employees do with their additional compensatio
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by scarface74 3y ago
Would those 12 thousand people at Google have been better off if they hadn’t work there? Would you have not taken a job at Google if you knew that you would be laid off four years later or would you have saved aggressively and been preparin
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by scarface74 3y ago
It is naive for anyone to view a job as anything but transactional. Do you expect your employer to isolate you from economic storms? Would the people who worked at BigTech during the boom times have been better off not getting hired and ma
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by scarface74 3y ago
And Apple did the same thing when Cook prostrated himself before Trump pretending like “Macs were being manufactured in America” when it was actually only a few Mac Pros and they were doing final assembly here.
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by scarface74 3y ago
Why would I? I spent from 1996 (when I graduated) -2012 as a part time fitness instructor, active runner and a weightlifter. I spent from 1996-2002 and 2006-2012 hanging out with friends and dating (I was married from 2002-2006. From 2012-2
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by scarface74 3y ago
> your company is providing an international messaging service in order to harvest sensitive personal data from private messages, then yes that is very much illegal The government hates competition. Only they should have the right to do
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by scarface74 3y ago
Yes, I’m sure there was anarchy on the internet before we had to deal with cookie banners. You lose no control by not using FB.
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by scarface74 3y ago
People didn’t make the choice. The government did.
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by scarface74 3y ago
How so? The contention was that the government should protect intelligent adults because they are too dumb to use their own judgment. But adults are intelligent enough to use alcohol in responsible way (which statistically is clearly not t
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by scarface74 3y ago
It was claimed that any law that was passed whether or not it was technically possible was de facto good.
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by scarface74 3y ago
> If it's technically possible to do it, but not technically possible to do it legally, then maybe it's a bad thing and don't do it at all So it follows that you are against W2s encryption because it will be impossible to
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by scarface74 3y ago
> Sadly, technology is nearly incomprehensible to most people, and the state must protect their rights. The rest is either an authoritarian or libertarian fantasy under the pretense of liberty. So I’m sure you’re in favor of Apple’s “wal
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by scarface74 3y ago
So should we now pass laws that outlaw everything that can cause you harm - cigarettes? Alcohol? Gambling? Sugar? Do you also support the “war on drugs”? How much power do you want to give the government because you are incapable of making
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by scarface74 3y ago
So do you also agree that e2e encryption with a backdoor is impossible to do securely? Should people not be allowed to use e2e encryption? The EU also is trying to pass a law forcing companies to have a backdoor to their encryption.
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by scarface74 3y ago
It’s not harder for Facebook. It makes a worse user experience - just like the GDPR. You didn’t waive your rights. You as an adult have the right to not use Facebook instead of waiting for the nanny state to “protect you”
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by scarface74 3y ago
There isn’t a technical method to both have a message sent to a group of users in the US and not have the message be on the server in the US. Just maybe the EU regulators are technologically illiterate? And I see that you also punted becaus
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by scarface74 3y ago
What do you think the Venn Diagram overlap of people who “care about their privacy” and use Facebook is? Do you think the overwhelming amount of people say that they really glad that cookie banners infest the internet is a good thing? If yo
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by scarface74 3y ago
And that also gets rid of caching closer to the user and now you have multiple servers and no source of truth. You really don’t see the added complexity of this and how this makes a worse user experience?
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by scarface74 3y ago
And if they go to the website?
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by scarface74 3y ago
So how do you have “privacy” when the entire purpose of social media is to share your likes, dislikes, social graph, etc. worldwide?
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by scarface74 3y ago
How do you process data about an international social graph only in the EU? When a friend in the EU posts something, should their post not be seen in the US? What happens when I have a group conversation between friends in the US and EU?
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by scarface74 3y ago
Yes it’s not like the EU isn’t also trying to pass laws that force every encrypted communication to have a backdoor so they can spy….
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by scarface74 3y ago
You didn’t answer the question . How do you have a global graph without sending data to every country where your friends are? This is another example of clueless EU regulators creating laws with no understanding of the implications
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by scarface74 3y ago
It’s not fun or not fun. It’s a necessity like going to the bathroom. It’s the easiest method I have to support my addiction to food and shelter.
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by scarface74 3y ago
I’ve been programming professionally for over 25 years. I have not written a line of code for “fun” since I graduated from college.
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by scarface74 3y ago
> At some point somebody actually worked out which registry key actually matters That “someone” was Mark Russinovich. He is now the CTO of Azure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Russinovich
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by scarface74 3y ago
We can prompt ChatGPT to say anything — see my Andrew Dice Clay hack. Before recently, I could get it to pretend to be a stark raving conservative or a liberal. My “entitled Karen” jailbreak (that doesn’t work any more) would make someone
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by scarface74 3y ago
And when I did the same thing for the first one “I apologize for the misunderstanding, but it is important to note that discussions about the impact of undocumented immigrants on American society can involve varying perspectives and interpr
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by scarface74 3y ago
This is because the patent has run out and you can now get generic.

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