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by shawn-butler 4y ago
It’s Altman. Does no one remember his world coin scam? Ethics, doing things thoughtfully / the “right” way etc is not on his list of priorities. I do think a reorientation of thinking around legal liability for software is coming. Ho
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
Doesn’t track: https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/?parent=wells-far... And particularly egregious: https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/violation-tracker...
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
Wells Fargo needs to be shut down. Hard to think of a more corrupt Western banking institution
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
Computer architecture used to be and imho was properly a part of electrical engineering. “Computer science” was never really scientific. Algorithms, symbolic logic, natural languages, computational complexity, finite model theory and compi
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
Mapbox was born from open source tools & culture. They were always active and supporting at FOSS4G. I wonder what has changed?
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
In my mind because Biden/Buttigieg had Congress impose a labor contract to prevent a strike a few months ago and rail safety due to labor cuts by these same rail companies was one of the issues workers were concerned about?
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
Says someone who I would guess has never been hungry a day in his or her privileged life? There is a valid argument to be made that food scarcity, like housing and medical care should not be subject to capitalist profit-taking. That some i
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
Selling advertising in their own app store is not selling user data to third parties. You are conflating lots of categories that maybe you don't quite understand. Not everything is a conspiracy.
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
>> Yes, apple does sell your data. They just don't want others to do it too. To whom?
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
a) false, b) irrelevant, c) false, and d) false
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
The issue is that I have to trust the proprietor. In my locale it has become common for restaurants to add ‘health & wellness’ surcharges which began as charity/Covid response and of course never went away. It is almost never the
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
Does it actually do anything positive for you? Credit monitoring always seemed to me like a scam ala antivirus, but in all fairness I have never purchased it either.
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
The people in these comments espousing "history"and want to blame every bad behaviour on the new owner seem to have a very short memory. Twitter has always given a proud middle finger to third party clients to suit its own strateg
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
BeOS icons were really fun. https://iconarchive.com/show/be-box-icons-by-be-os.html
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
>> Their incentive is to optimize for political approval, which means spreading facilities among as many congressional districts as possible, which creates a ton of inefficiency from poor communication Ummm.. I thought remote work was
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
From a technical perspective why isn't this a solved problem? Identity will always be a difficult problem, but being able to own your own face / likeness by demonstrating it should be technically possible right? Forced visual &quo
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
Why? What is the value in anonymizing your voluntary engagement within a single corporate entity? As long as that entity provides me with an accurate reporting of access when I request it? Why for example would I want to make it any more di
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
I wonder how much of the $30(?) million he donated to democratic political campaigns this cycle will turn out to have been customers’ funds too? Had to have been one of the top donors.
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
>> Yes, we took the wrong turn. As long as there is scarcity there will be competition and a "rat race" I would say we have two real scarcities left remaining: energy and the conjoined pair food/water. It can be argued
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
C++ standard 3.6.2[5] since like forever... A return statement in main has the effect of leaving the main function (destroying any objects with automatic storage duration) and calling std::exit with the return value as the argument. If cont
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
Recent Sony cameras[0] include an Android subsystem used to run apps from the proprietary Sony PlayMemories Camera App Store (PMCA). Sony utilizes both Linux and the AV real time operating system (µITRON RTOS) on its arm cores. Some of the
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
OnlyFans is just waiting to be “legit”
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
more like 80 million acres, just to update your fact regurgitation
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
fusion has better marketing in the marketplace of the uninformed. "Harnesses the power of the sun" vs "nuclear bombs" I'm sure the greens will try and tear it down it if it ever comes to commercial viability and st
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
Organic farming isn't really about transparency, but obfuscation nor is it always the more sustainable option. I would rethink your metaphor about organic software[0]. [0]: https://pketh.org/organic-software
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
Just curious what impact / relevance does being a criminal defense attorney have on using a device with FaceID?
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
Did you even read the article? They made a FOIA request and got the procurement documents which lists use cases such as "Examination of the effectiveness of public policy on [the] Navajo Nation" and monitoring "places of wors
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
And they wonder why silly conspiracy theories gain traction in the public? Honestly this is the dumbest thing to do in secret. The CDC was supposed to be apolitical and gave that up entirely during the pandemic, and now it appears they are
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
It’s not anonymous speech though but pseudonymous. The “profile” can get trusted over time without knowing the real identity by establishing a reputation for good content. Although this will probably get derailed now by GPT3-esque astrotu
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by shawn-butler 4y ago
It’s a joke, yes? Clearly identifiable as such. In bad taste? Probably. Sort of like baldness jokes about women with health conditions? You’re saying it’s ok for an “algorithm” to slap the comedian off the stage but not Will Smith? Your d

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