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by sjy 7y ago
Paedophiles too – they target children on unencrypted social media sites. The victims have no desire to switch to a more secure platform, but if Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat were to become secure by default then those companies would st
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by sjy 7y ago
It’s unfortunate that you are getting downvoted. It’s difficult to say whether the “majority” of bad actors are using insecure communications but certainly a very large number of the ones who get caught are. Search any legal database for “F
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by sjy 7y ago
Are you saying that hypothetical law would be unconstitutional, or just silly?
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by sjy 7y ago
Education has obvious value as a signal. I’ve never understood the step in the argument that leads to the conclusion that it has no other value , and therefore should be seen as “waste” to be minimised.
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by sjy 7y ago
I’ll never cease to be amazed by the number of people who think it’s obviously true that nothing of “fundamental” value is imparted by education. It’s a flawed system, sure, but people do actually learn things and that’s good.
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by sjy 7y ago
I assume you mean “worthwhile” from the selfish perspective of a worker competing in the labour market. Overall, writing résumés and “selling yourself” is a waste of time that is necessary to deter bad actors. People who believe in the “sig
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by sjy 7y ago
This is a good point. I did take a class on phonetics at uni, and it helps a lot with learning the basics of a new language. Maybe Duolingo should do a phonetics course which teaches IPA using examples from a range of different languages!
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by sjy 7y ago
The jury should know all the ins and outs of the law that is relevant to the issue they are deciding. https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/resource...
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by sjy 7y ago
Thanks for clarifying this; it would have been nice if it was stated in the article! Of course the $190m figure is ludicrous, but it’s not like the jury was forced to choose $190m or zero. They must have been told to apply U.S. federal defa
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by sjy 7y ago
So why display the cookie warning? I assume it’s an attempt to obtain “consent” to something that would otherwise be prohibited by the GDPR, and in relation to consent the GDPR says: “Consent should not be regarded as freely given if the da
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by sjy 7y ago
If you’re interested in exploring this, the university network shouldn’t be a problem if you create a private network between your laptop and phone and connect the phone to the internet using NAT on the laptop. The Internet Sharing feature
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by sjy 7y ago
I’m not too sure what “99.5% accuracy” is supposed to mean, but sites like https://amiunique.org usually tell me that my browser fingerprint is unique. Seems rather like a real fingerprint to me, except that I have more than one
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by sjy 7y ago
What country are you basing this advice on? I think it’s good advice, but if your income can increase by 20-30% as a result of optimising your business structure for tax purposes, that’s a dysfunctional tax system. I’d like to believe that
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by sjy 7y ago
The evidence for that “is limited, and support stems largely from theoretical arguments and analogies to other critical periods in biology such as visual development”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_period_hypot
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by sjy 7y ago
I don’t doubt that it’s less efficient than learning from a human teacher, if you just look at the time spent by the student and ignore the “efficiency” of software that interacts with millions of students at the same time. I’ve never heard
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by sjy 7y ago
Did you mean to refer to something other than Anki? I thought it was a free software project, not a company?
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by sjy 7y ago
I’ve studied French (easy for an English speaker), Japanese (hard but I already knew the basics from school) and Russian (hard and I didn’t know the alphabet when I started) on Duolingo. I assure you I have learned some things about those l
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by sjy 7y ago
What do you mean by worse? I’ve spent a lot of time on Duolingo as well as in face-to-face language classes, in high school and university. I’ve also spent a smaller amount of time self-studying from books, CDs and software that predated Du
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by sjy 7y ago
Suppose that this was fixed, and tech companies had to be profitable to stay in business, like mom and pop shops. Would that do anything to improve the circumstances of the McDonald’s worker described in this article?
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by sjy 7y ago
Users seem pretty satisfied with single-page apps. They are slow to load and have frustrating-to-use (inconsistent) interfaces, at least compared to my memory of 1990s desktop software. If users actually cared about performance then softwar
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by sjy 7y ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if 50 MB was a more common webpage size than 5 KB these days.
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by sjy 7y ago
This is whataboutism. Believing that businesses who can’t afford to pay their staff a living wage shouldn’t exist doesn’t entail any position on the issue of unprofitable tech companies.
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by sjy 7y ago
> If their expenses become higher than their earnings, the shops will close. Maybe that at least is an economic fact we can agree on? Or they could raise their prices. That’s what normally happens in my experience when a small business f
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by sjy 7y ago
What makes you think that VR will deliver on the remote work dream where videoconferencing failed? I don’t think the 2D nature of videoconferencing is the problem here.
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by sjy 7y ago
I have noticed the same tendency among people who follow politics and the media closely in Australia. Some political activists are organising talks designed to introduce non-technical people to doing their own cryptography. People would def
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by sjy 7y ago
Disclosure means sharing information that was previously “held close” (private). When people are afraid of being distrusted, they disclose their interests as a show of good faith. Disclaimer means refusing to accept responsibility for someo
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by sjy 7y ago
Would you apply the same rule to a software codebase? Perhaps if nobody can be bothered refactoring that code, it’s not needed anymore and should just be deleted? Sunset provisions are a pain for anyone who administers the law or makes plan
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by sjy 7y ago
Matt Stoller has been pumping out issues about government contracting over the past few months, and they’ve all been popular on HN. McKinsey is the archetypal management consulting firm and the role of consultants is an important part of an
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by sjy 7y ago
Are consultants’ fees generally accounted for as capital expenditure? Seems more operational to me.
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by sjy 7y ago
Many commenters are comparing this to the time sharing era of classical computing. There is an important difference here: we knew that classical computers were useful at the time, even though many people failed to predict that they would be

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