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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
I’m not sure what argument you are asserting I’m making; it sounds like you’re saying I’m suggesting this site should be banned. I’m not. I’m merely stating my reasons for not reading the article, and why there are negative consequences of
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
I hear you, dang, but I’d rather not spend my time on a site that also hosts those kinds of articles. I don’t want to support them. I don’t want them to gain credence because they happen to have an article that’s not filled with harmful par
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
The threat was regarding emulation. Rosetta 2 isn't emulation, it's translation.
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." -- Des
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
> Are so many unscrupulous people now members of HN? Probably the same people who recently suggested re-colonization of Africa and downvoted my horrified responses to oblivion ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2389341
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
This is not a discussion looking back 250 years at someone. It's looking back on the behaviour of someone living 1 year ago. Or yesterday. Or today.
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
Sexism for sure. Like when someone named John Sonmez went on a sexist tirade on Twitter last year, Martin went to his support: https://dev.to/awwsmm/can-we-separate-the-artist-from-their-... And now when he was told he
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
I’m glad that the Canada COVID-19 contact tracing app is open source and available on GitHub, and I’m glad people can push fixes to it, but this kind of bug exists because it’s using React Native unnecessarily, and dragging in a zillion dep
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Matched.io: women could live more simply by accepting male pronouns as default(twitter.com)
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
You are suggesting a form of corporate neo-colonialism, which is an abhorrent position for anyone to have in good faith in the year 2020. That other people agree with you with downvoting my comment makes me extremely disappointed in the lev
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
As you can see by the reply, and the downvotes, it was a genuine statement.
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
This is an incredibly racist and supremely ignorant comment, displaying the same justifications that fuelled the colonialism in Africa hundreds of years ago that is still at the root of deeply systemic problems in that continent.
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
You answered your own question. When the “business side” can claim a N% increase in conversion/daily usage/whatever having FB login, a developer will be tasked with implementing it uncritically, because if they speak up, they’ll b
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
I can trust their motivations because... why? They want to make more money?
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
No love for these spying apps, but pretty sure PIA should not be throwing stones after climbing into bed with Kape. Or maybe this is part of a PR strategy?
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
Not unless you think PrivacyInvasionFramework should be a thing.
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
I use an NTI: https://nationaldentex.com/products/headache-therapy/nti-tss... Well, two actually; one of the top and one on the bottom. It prevents the jaw from clenching at night.
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
Consider the user experience of an email app that only works when you have a network connection — so you can’t even see your mail when you’re offline. Pretty lousy.
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
What makes you think that kind of Malicious Compliance update gets accepted at all? The problem with a hypocritical stance is that its existence defies logic to begin with.
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
While I agree with your sentiment that this is clearly overblown, and perhaps the usage of “AI” these days to describe simple systems in general, your stance is too strong. Markov chains/models have always been considered traditional A
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
They have more users, but so what? They suddenly found (privacy) religion, so now they can be trusted? That certainly sounds like a leap of faith. A blind one. Stop looking at the empty words they say, and start looking at their very in
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
Updated their priors? Review their history. Their "real intentions" have been "revealed" multiple times over the past several months (or years). It's a litany of privacy-related blunders. This is pure PR; words to d
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
Why trust any company that put out the initial policy in the first place? Have they had a fundamental turnover in management, indicating a new pro-privacy culture? Did they move their development out from under the thumb of the CCP? No and
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
Nice work! A passphrase, as opposed to a password, has spaces between each word. If you added those it would be easier to read, especially for mobile, if you used a multiline textarea, because the generated content isn’t fully readable at a
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
A few things: There are many ways how his tenure can come to an end. I am expressing a hope that he figures it out while he is still in a position to change things with his power as CEO. As for people who lose their job for doing the wrong
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
It’s sine qua non. You are arguing against the very essence of something having that essence. Please don’t insult me and then call me “friend”. It’s passive-aggressive and not suitable for this site.
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
Politics is the process of making a decision, so my point is that decision-making is inherently political. Your comment — and subtle trailing insult — is not constructive and non-sequitur.
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
It’s understandable to give up on a worthwhile cause because you’ve lost the energy for it, but it doesn’t make sense to actively encourage others to give up on it, if the cause was ever important to you at all.
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
Every decision made at the executive level is inherently a political decision , because someone will benefit. But not just affirmative actions: not cancelling a contract with an organization that builds concentration camps is making a st

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