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by trgv 9y ago
I think you're way off base here. Based on the story linked, this event was the result of a situation occurring that google engineers did not anticipate. It's just an edge case that was not handled properly. There's nothing
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by trgv 9y ago
I don't think this is a moral question. Whether or not this information should be collected at all may be a moral question, but how it's secured is about technical competence. I also think we should keep in mind that, even if it w
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by trgv 9y ago
I think there's already too much filtering. People need to make up their own minds regarding what is true and what isn't, what's worth their time and what's bullshit, which links to click on and which to avoid. If peopl
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by trgv 9y ago
> They have almost unfathomable amounts of cash, but complain about the lack of qualified American talent. If there really is a shortage of qualified American talent, then American tech companies should use some of the cash to train Amer
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by trgv 9y ago
Ehhhh, up to a point. The thing you're not mentioning is that these doctors don't live in Cuba. They live in capitalist countries in which the government doesn't (even try to) provide X, Y, and Z. Sure, the doctors got a fre
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by trgv 9y ago
Is the web not salvageable? Look at web assembly. The browser vendors added a VM and a bytecode format that runs on it. And they did it pretty quickly. In my mind, this is the way things are going to improve in web-land. Not "thro
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by trgv 9y ago
> I'm a much bigger proponent of languages such as Rust or Haskell which give the developer the _tools_ to ensure their own data integrity, but I guess that says something about me as a developer and why I don't like Golang. T
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by trgv 9y ago
It has occurred to me that the main "anticompetitive behavior" exhibited by these companies is "doing a better job than competitors." At the same time, there is evidence of real anticompetitive behavior that crops up fro
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by trgv 9y ago
The headline is clearly meant to be tongue-in-cheek, as is the article itself, at least to some degree.
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by trgv 9y ago
The missile NK recently fired over Japan recently was launched at 5:58 AM. At 6:02 AM the Japanese government sent a text alert. At 6:12 it landed in the ocean. We know about NK missiles launches very quickly after they are fired. I wou
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by trgv 9y ago
Another thing to keep in mind here is that these kinds of review systems will often result in high amounts of polarization regardless of whether the topic is controversial. My feeling is that people often vote based on how they want the cu
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by trgv 9y ago
Thanks for the advice, very helpful.
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by trgv 9y ago
Right now, one of the projects I'm working on calls a wasm function which returns a pointer. I then do a lookup in the wasm buffer at the address specified by the pointer and pull out a few numbers with a float64array constructor. Is
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by trgv 9y ago
> From what I understand, calling WebAssembly functions from JavaScript (and vice-versa) incur a runtime penalty that's way worse than calling JavaScript functions from JavaScript. Can you provide a source for this? I've never
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by trgv 9y ago
The point that I meant to get across was that dollars have value as long as the government has power. You're right that it doesn't matter what the government says. Rather what matters is whether or not the government can back up
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by trgv 9y ago
I agree with you that there's no such thing as objective value. But my feeling is that there is still something important that differentiates "real" currencies (fiat or not) from bitcoin/gold/etc. Namely, there is
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by trgv 9y ago
This is all so hyperbolic it's hard to do anything but laugh. Google has made mistakes and will continue to make mistakes. Evil? Nah.
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I always assumed this is just the result of the people who design the site not knowing what the company does.
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by trgv 9y ago
Morally perhaps, but not legally. It's sad really. It seems to me that the whole Wells Fargo scandal is ultimately a lesson about how this company abused their employees and set them impossible tasks like "each customer should ha
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by trgv 9y ago
I wonder if this isn't part of the games that prosecutors play. It seems like prosecutors might request the largest amount of data possible, knowing that someone will object and they'll get only a fraction of that. In general the
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by trgv 9y ago
It seems fairly uncontroversial to me to state that the vast majority of people who own cryptocurrency are treating it like a commodity, not like a currency. There's nothing wrong with that, and these people have made a lot of money (
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by trgv 9y ago
I just don't believe there are enough sinister, competent people available to carry out a large conspiracy while keeping it quiet.
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by trgv 9y ago
The post makes the argument that selling things is speech and that shopify is protecting free speech by not dropping controversial clients. You claim that this argument is disingenuous, ie that the argument is not sincere. It seems sincere
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by trgv 9y ago
> It's not a lie if you believe it. -George Costanza And even if it was a lie, lying is generally not illegal. The courts generally uphold the right of these groups to express their ideologies. I think correctly. My opinion is that