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by sedev 13y ago
Yeah, I think we're all pretty clear that the pending-comments feature is a different thing from conventional anti-spam measures, which have fairly reliable programmatic solutions in this kind of scenario.
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by sedev 13y ago
I didn't know that part, thank you for bringing that up again (I imagine you've had to repeat it). That reduces my worry level a lot.
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by sedev 13y ago
Prior restraint solutions sit very badly with me: there's a reason that "prior restraint on speech" is near or at the top of the list of First Amendment no-nos (yes, the First Amendment applies to US government entities rathe
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by sedev 13y ago
In America, there's a very annoyingly direct correlation between "cities with good public transit" and "cities whose administrators use public transit routinely." So that argues in favor of your point. I wish it cou
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by sedev 13y ago
> The other replies were mostly variations on the theme that Android users don’t pay for apps, they don’t have data plans, you can’t monetise them easily, and designers are all iPhone users and don’t really understand Android users … Soc
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by sedev 13y ago
It's been 2+ years since this story was last discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3390719 --- about time to see it again.
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Institutional Amnesia, Reverse Corporate Espionage, and Engineering Archaeology(wrttn.in)
1 points by sedev 13y ago|1 comments
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by sedev 13y ago
I admire that feat at the same time as I have an overwhelming urge to take a cheap shot about which Haskell projects are entertaining practical jokes.
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So You Think You Want to Open a Brewery(drinks.seriouseats.com)
206 points by sedev 13y ago|136 comments
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by sedev 13y ago
I'm not sure that the current track record supports "Large companies will be better able to resist secret court orders." They have more resources that they could use for that, but they also have more to lose. I don't t
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by sedev 13y ago
That piece was new to me, and very interesting! Thank you.
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by sedev 13y ago
That's a lot of "eventually." Uber is a software company that runs cabs, basically. Their competitors - the old school, that is - are cab companies who are now faced with the challenge of writing good software. The track reco
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by sedev 13y ago
I've had that experience: the logins that get automatically assigned at the Big Enterprise Company where I work, are sometimes nonsensical. I've seen some coworkers with just surname@example.com, but many more with an arbitrary co
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by sedev 13y ago
Coming from San Francisco, but not living there right now, I continue to be dismayed about the city government. They're about average for a local government in most respects, very good in some, and abysmal in a couple of important ways
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by sedev 13y ago
But it's also wrong to say that an institution and its members are completely separate. They aren't and can't be. There is no institution without members, and there are no members without an institution to be a member of. You
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by sedev 13y ago
We might be talking past each other. I'm saying - yes, the burden should be on current and former NSA employees to explain why they're trustworthy. People can set their standard of "acceptable explanation" however they l
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by sedev 13y ago
That is how social reproach works! I feel like you're strongly missing the point. The institution of The National Security Agency is made up of people. The institution and its members are embedded in a social context. Institutions,
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by sedev 13y ago
What I get from this article is "hey, what if we use HTML instead of LaTeX?" Unfortunately the answer to this is, "HTML is insufficient to specify all the things you need to make a paper publishable." LaTeX is a full-str
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by sedev 13y ago
If you'd never heard of parallel construction before today, that seems to powerfully undermine your credibility. Why should we take you more seriously than someone who says "I was a secretary at the NSA for years and I never hea
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by sedev 13y ago
This reads like it was penned by someone who's never heard of the Stanford Prison experiment or Milgram's research. When I read "I have a very high opinion of my former coworkers ... NSA employees are the law-abiding type ...
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by sedev 13y ago
I was also getting a strong Dave Barry vibe. It's not bad - but it's easy to let the schtick get old, and Dave Barry is still alive. Maybe the guy is testing the theory that if you understand it well, computers are as crazy as Flo
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by sedev 13y ago
For the same reason that sending me a postcard doesn't entitle you to enter my house and take an inventory of my fridge. To get that information about a user, you should need informed consent, not just a marketer's wistful greed
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by sedev 13y ago
Yes, and as a consumer, I couldn't be happier. All that shit is customer-hostile privacy-invading bullshit and I'm ecstatic that Google is making a move that kills it. I vigorously object to things like tracking bugs that leak inf
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by sedev 13y ago
There's a follow-up post[1] where he talks more about the reactions: "A vision of a future in which civilizations, species and worlds follow life cycles like those of all other natural things didn’t leave them furious or depressed
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by sedev 13y ago
A toy project I did not too long ago was "keep an eye on my Twitter account and when I favorite a tweet that contains a YouTube URL, add that video to my Watch Later playlist in YouTube." Nearly every time I mention this to someon
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by sedev 13y ago
There are some places lately with online ticket sales - I'm thinking particularly of http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2013/04/26.html - who have begun to demand not ID, but the credit card wit
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by sedev 13y ago
As recently as last year there were still niches where spelling errors led to arbitrage opportunities: I knew someone who was into CCGs (e.g. Pokémon, Magic: the Gathering) and would search for variations on card names, score cards cheaply,
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Yelp now identifies spammy/fraudulent reviews as simply "not recommended"(officialblog.yelp.com)
1 points by sedev 13y ago|0 comments
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by sedev 13y ago
Hey Airbrite folks, it's a blog post, it shouldn't be a blank page with NoScript in effect. That is a failure on your part. Regarding the substance of the article: I'd argue that you're introducing a bias towards the o
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by sedev 13y ago
Even if there's an innocuous explanation for this, the government has totally blown through the trust of communities like this one, the critical journalism community, and more.

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