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by stegosaurus 10y ago
It's not really about 'security being addressed', we all know that. It's about marketers creating the illusion that security has been addressed for end users that don't understand it anyway. In the case of stuff lik
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
The criticism of economic metrics is sound but the rest of the article reminded me of Politics and the English Language (the use of complex words where simple ones would do). On the topic of economic metrics - I believe that at this point,
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
The article seemingly is very focused on employment. It's taken as axiomatic that people must do whatever they do because it leads them into an employer's arms, at some point. What about whether a PhD helps people with romantic re
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
I understand the principle here, but the specific examples given here are a bit odd. >>> shareholders or innocent executives may lose their jobs Shareholders are unlikely to be affected to a large extent because their holdings in E
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
I think you missed the part of my comment that mentioned me being in a computer store - I just played with it for ten seconds to check out the keyboard and touchpad of the machines, I have no plans to use Windows 10 thus no need to try to d
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
One thing I am interested in is visualizing a journey, or an average day, and considering the global view of it. Has anyone attempted such a thing? For example, on my commute to work I might pass a security camera, tap in my smart card, pas
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
The last time I visited Germany I was asked for my details in order to buy a phone, and the same to register the SIM card. I just gave invented details both times. So now it's impossible, eh? A mobile phone might be a 'new inventi
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
My experience of Windows 10 is limited to having a look at it in local computer shops (I've been trying to find a decent cheap laptop to stick Linux on for a friend). I clicked the Start Menu. Fully half of it was made up of flashing a
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
Do we just end up in a state where the idea of a 'firm' has to radically change? It feels like the ultimate endgame of all of this is either that the technology industry just freezes (because innovation is killed by bureaucracy),
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by stegosaurus 10y ago
I'd like to see average payment size data (median, mean). Is it necessary for the average person to be able to instantaneously spend hundreds of pounds? I don't see why all retailers need such high security (e.g. sandwich shops).
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
Generally in Western countries, the groups that pay in and take out are quite disparate. The universal basic income would be paid for by the upper and middle classes, and taken by the working class. At least in the UK these groups are seper
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
Indeed. I wouldn't even really say 'most' of the news. Unless you're in high finance or a journalist, it really is just trivia. Weather forecasts and crosswords are probably the best bits. For the rest, you're bette
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
The headline here is a bit odd - it seems self-evident. If we define the poor as a group which relies on regular labour to survive, and the wealthy as a group who does not, then many income sources of the wealthy dry up if the poor cease to
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
I wouldn't wear a fitbit for $500 a year.
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
Is it possible that the pay packages that this article is considering 'large' are actually not that impressive any more as a result of increasing wealth inequality? I don't know what pay packages are like in London nowadays.
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
'Could'? Why do media outlets persist in tiptoeing around these issues? A tiny, tiny minority of cashless systems are private and censorship-resistant. Almost all of the solutions that are actually currently on the table already d
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
You don't even need to assume governmental malice! What happens if I hack into your machine and plant something? I might have reason not to like you. I might just be a troll. It might give me a competitive advantage in some market to t
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
Illegal numbers are my favourite kind of numbers. How many bytes do I need? In the countries that have laws against cartoons, can I make an illegal favicon? Can I design a neural network which generates illegal favicons? More seriously, cri
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
Mandatory leave seems like a reasonable idea (you only have one bonding period, children are important). Paid leave seems a bit.. hackish, though. If I don't turn up for work, for whatever reason, I think any money given to me by my em
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
Sorry, it's the best I can do for now. We'll have to agree to disagree. :)
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
Cloned and ready to rock. Remember 09 F9?
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
The article is specifically talking about the 'next Netflix'. I'm talking here about the 'next Bitcoin'. Perhaps the current one is fine. What about the one after that? What about the 'Bitcoin' that launch
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
I can. You can. The general public can whilst the 'allow untrusted sources' box exists. But once that box goes, the vast majority of the audience for software outside of Google Play is gone. F-Droid is already tiny as it stands!
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
Many companies that exist today seemingly couldn't begin in 2016. The major computing platforms now have gatekeepers (Google Play, iOS App Store). Personal computers with attached storage are disappearing and giving way to thin clients
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
If you are interested in my views on copyright infringement, you might find this comment useful (commenting on ad blockers). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11422763 It probably makes sense for me to formulate the argu
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
The major issue with tax avoidance schemes is the effect on competition. It's kind of like the prisoner's dilemma. If no-one uses them, great. If everyone uses them, you have a lower effective tax rate and different policy outcome
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
Well, the streaming is combined with DRM that makes obtaining the stream difficult. Unprotected streams are not an issue.
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
To put it another way: I'm not sure that the creation and dissemination of knowledge works well as a capitalistic business. I'm not sure that it leads to optimal outcomes WRT the dissemination of said material. I don't know h
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
The producers of content that I view not being financially secure is a problem. I've read a lot of useful stuff over the years, and I really want the people who made that possible to thrive. I don't particularly care about whether
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
You (and I) are certainly more likely to lose a hard drive before YouTube disappears, but it's likely that at least a few of the videos I have here have already been taken down. Not to mention, if my hard drives and backups fail, I hav

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