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by scott_s 8y ago
> The point of the survey is to test whether or not people are aware of what google is doing with their data, not whether or not they're okay with it. I'm not sure that's true. From the article itself: "DCN surveyed
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by scott_s 8y ago
I had a similar reaction as redwards510, but you bring up a good point. You could do an "are you aware" question first, then follow-up with "are you okay with" right after. Another alternative is "are you surprised
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by scott_s 8y ago
People don't make sense. It's entirely possible for people to having logically conflicting assumptions without realizing those assumptions conflict. How people respond to questions is also influenced by how the question is asked
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by scott_s 8y ago
I read a book about the Revolutionary War called "Washington's Crossing" by David Hackett Fischer. The wrap-around cover of the book is, appropriately, the iconic painting "Washington Crossing the Delaware" by Emanu
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by scott_s 8y ago
I believe Kubernetes itself supports that kind of a change - that is, re-applying a config and creating or deleting resources based on the update. I would say that helm is batch, in that it's applying a bunch of stuff at once, but not
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by scott_s 8y ago
> The way it was reported, it sounds like Sargon did something, whereas videos online show that all the harassment was done by Anita Saarkesian. He had been involved in a long harassment campaign against her, and then shows up in the fro
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by scott_s 8y ago
How would the open reputation score mitigate bad-faith actors trying to exploit the system? For example, I believe HN has a vote-ring detector, but I think there's also a decent amount of manual intervention from the mods. Amazon'
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by scott_s 8y ago
For this to be useful at scale, you will need to not just design this for good-faith users, but also against bad-faith actors. If this catches on, it will become a target of coordinated disinformation campaigns. Have you been thinking a
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by scott_s 8y ago
David Simon's books "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets" and "The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood" (co-written with former homicide detective Ed Burns) are the kind of stories that chan
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by scott_s 8y ago
His followup, The Corner, is one of the most devastating books I have ever read. The show The Wire also pulls from it.
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by scott_s 8y ago
David Simon has earned the privilege to write that word with a straight face. (I think Stephen King could also pull it off, for different reasons.)
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by scott_s 8y ago
Yes, Simon points this out explicitly: "Why bother to fight for 10 percent of a few dollars more for this story editor or that co-executive producer of some actor or director when to NOT do so means less freight on the operating budge
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by scott_s 8y ago
The Every Frame a Painting channel on YouTube has an excellent short piece on Buster Keaton covering some similar themes, but with more of a focus on camera frames than architecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWEjxkkB8
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by scott_s 8y ago
I felt a major point of his talk was you should also look at your max latency.
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by scott_s 8y ago
I am an individual and not a hivemind. I, personally, find piratebay unethical. I pay for what I consume. Paywalled scientific articles are a different beast, which I don't want to get into here.
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by scott_s 8y ago
I read that paragraph, which is why I felt he buried the ledge. I think that using someone else's work for your own gain without permission is unethical. It also doesn't address writing fake restaurant reviews.
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by scott_s 8y ago
I think he buries the lede that step number one in this endeavor is to entirely unethical. Yes, it turns out that if you take content from others without asking to build a social media following, and then promise to post positive reviews of
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by scott_s 8y ago
Most people call USB-A "USB." So if someone says "there's no USB port here," they mean "there's no USB-A port here."
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by scott_s 8y ago
I used the removal of a real escape key to finally remap caps lock to escape, which I really should have done over a decade ago.
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by scott_s 8y ago
I agree, but there are less snarky ways to say that.
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by scott_s 8y ago
Nothing they said indicated prejudice against vegetarians, but rather expressed a personal dislike for a kind of food.
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by scott_s 8y ago
You have to consider the set of alternative available to the person. If you're considering people who do eat meat, and want something that is close-enough to meat as a substitute, then yes, I am not a good judge of that. But if you&#x2
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by scott_s 8y ago
For me, there is no comparison - and I say this as someone with a freezer full of Morningstar Farm veggie burgers and has consumed thousands of that brand in my life. The Meat Lovers burger is basically just a bigger Grillers Prime. Before
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by scott_s 8y ago
> (of course, for a burger that's supposed to taste exactly like beef, you wouldn't know...) Funny thing, that: http://archives.quarrygirl.com/2009/06/28/undercover-investi...
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by scott_s 8y ago
Some, yes, but not all. Everyone has to negotiate their personal principles versus practical and social constraints on a daily basis; this is just an instance of that phenomenon, and not everyone will do it in the same way.
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by scott_s 8y ago
I don't know. I ordered them at Bareburgers in Westchester, NY in the past year: https://www.bareburger.com
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by scott_s 8y ago
I became a vegetarian for ethical reasons; I trust it's not hard to imagine or look up what those reasons are. At the time, I felt strongly about this. Over the years, I discovered I felt less strongly about it, but it was a deeply ing
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by scott_s 8y ago
For some vegetarians and vegans, they are greatly troubled if they consume even any animal by-product. There was a point when I felt this way; I stopped after a while, and told people "Don't worry, I'm not religious about
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by scott_s 8y ago
Same. When traveling with a group of friends, fast food is sometimes the easiest thing to do. I've gotten lucky recently as some of the breakfast basics are still available at night.
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by scott_s 8y ago
It is, if you define it that way. If my text bothers you because I did not consider fish to be meat, then just replace "meat" with "beef."

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