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Consumer Groups Back Out of Federal Talks on Face Recognition(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
3 points by scrrr 11y ago|0 comments
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by scrrr 11y ago
I guess they will simply block the username and delete the comments.
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by scrrr 11y ago
Well I assume the information would be made publicly available to anyone.
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by scrrr 11y ago
And, FWIW, Ruby is still a lot of fun to develop with. Not sure if developer happiness is a good metric for selecting frameworks though.
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by scrrr 11y ago
Oh well, looking at history and drawing parallels from the 19th century, we will probably get something like a basic income, or perhaps a massive police state. Either way, something will have to change. At least assuming that satisfaction w
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by scrrr 11y ago
Perhaps pay and lifestyle are already very good, why bother risking that for a startup that might fail or will, at the very least, cost a lot of time. That and the probably rather conservative nature of people in this profession are probabl
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by scrrr 11y ago
Yes, of course. Rule of thumb: What's been around a long time, will stay around for a long time. The longer something is used, the longer it will take for it to be displaced. Paper-books been round for thousands of years. ;) Besides, a
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by scrrr 11y ago
I don't know about this particular software, but I'm not too sure about this whole "giving my kid an advantage in life early on" business. I think there was a study done [1] that showed that love and security and the ava
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by scrrr 11y ago
Rest of the EU: Please follow this example.
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How do trains stay on track? (2009) [pdf](materials.mcmaster.ca)
139 points by scrrr 11y ago|29 comments
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by scrrr 11y ago
I forgot who said it, but it went like this: "If people recognise the banality of war, there will be no more wars." Of course its not that simple, but we, I suppose especially us techie boys (us because I am one), think that an M1
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by scrrr 12y ago
Someone said there's less suicides during times of economic depression, because then there's a generally accepted reason for failure. In times of success, there isn't and so it must be our fault. The more we believe that succ
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by scrrr 12y ago
You are probably constantly reading and hearing of those examples and you feel compelled to do impressive things. Worse yet, you assume that software projects, startups etc. are all big accomplishments. Just like becoming famous perhaps. Or
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by scrrr 12y ago
Philosophically speaking, no one will be saved. We are all basically dying. Of course it would be nice to reduce traffic deaths, but we should carefully consider in what way our actions will affect society. We should not assume this will on
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by scrrr 12y ago
A future, in which even minor offences (of whatever kind) are automatically reported to the police, will bring us one step closer to dystopia. I am not sure your "best case" is desirable at all. (Even if I sometimes wish humans wo
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by scrrr 12y ago
Related to this, especially with regard to privacy, I recommend everyone to check out the LEAP project and also this list of related projects: https://leap.se/email#related-projects
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by scrrr 12y ago
Well, this will go on until consumers react.
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by scrrr 12y ago
I've been thinking about surveillance lately and have come to the conclusion that it's simply here to stay. I really doubt any legal action will change anything what the NSA does. The future is digital, they cannot and will not st
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by scrrr 12y ago
Well, there's choice. I use more obscure tools, for example Unison instead of Dropbox or Tox instead of Skype. It would probably be feudalism if there were dependency, but nobody forces you to post on Facebook. I don't use it. I h
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by scrrr 12y ago
Please spend a little bit more money and hire a professional who knows what he is doing instead of just following installation tutorials.
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by scrrr 12y ago
Aichi Prefecture.
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by scrrr 12y ago
Off topic, but has it occurred to anyone that the overuse of the term 'war on x' might impair what the word 'war' really stands for?
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A World Without Work(nytimes.com)
15 points by scrrr 12y ago|2 comments
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by scrrr 12y ago
Does anybody actually still think it's anything else than that?
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by scrrr 12y ago
There's still peer to peer networks (see firechat and hong kong protests), there's still the whole field of steganography (hide data in pictures of cats for example), finally, there's still offline transport. (usb sticks with
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by scrrr 12y ago
Coming up: peer to peer chat (tox.im), hidden services (tor), distributed social networking, yadayada.. dont see how you can stop this, unless you turn off the power grid.
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by scrrr 12y ago
Well you can always hack on decentralised, encrypted, hidden peer to peer chat, or other open software alternatives of high quality for all the services we use every day and so forth. If media is a problem, work on solutions for anonymous p
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by scrrr 12y ago
yeah I just meant that good devs can use any language, not that any language is good for any problem. It obviously isn't. :)
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by scrrr 12y ago
Programming language specialisation is completely overrated. Job listings should probably rather read "Looking for software developer" than "Looking for Rails/Python/Clojure/whatever-developer" A good&#x2F
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by scrrr 12y ago
Careful what you wish for. ;) My hope is that deeper understanding by more people on how society, economy etc. work has the potential actually make it fairer/better. However, it will get more and more difficult to find ways for an &#x2

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