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by tzakrajs 8y ago
Can I chip away at that final assertion even more? If the data is easily discovered through crawling the network, and nodes on the network are less resilient than Facebook's sprawling infrastructure, you've potentially given a sin
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by tzakrajs 8y ago
What is this "offline" you speak of?
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by tzakrajs 8y ago
I will also add that lizard people require a lot of electricity to keep them at the optimal temperature.
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by tzakrajs 8y ago
Truly they would be better off with GNU.
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by tzakrajs 8y ago
The zeitgeist in tech and in culture generally is a moving target. Look at dandyism in the 19th century, no one would argue that is how grown-ups dress today.
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by tzakrajs 8y ago
Part of the interview process is selling the organization and its people. Maybe companies prioritize phone screenings and interviews first to steer the process and educate the candidate about the company and the position. Maybe candidates w
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by tzakrajs 8y ago
Is 800 transactions per second good? It seems like a low number but what do I know. I am impressed that Europe's largest betting system only does 800 transactions per second.
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by tzakrajs 8y ago
What are you alluding to?
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by tzakrajs 8y ago
Sure, except they only protect you from retaliation by your current employer. It does nothing to help you retain new employment once your reputation precludes you from opportunities at companies with draconian H.R. policies aimed at mitigat
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by tzakrajs 8y ago
Why would a vendor send a signal back to Facebook or an ad company that their competitors should stop spending money on useless ads?
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by tzakrajs 8y ago
The flip-side is that it is increasing demand for solar, wind and geo power.
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by tzakrajs 9y ago
Cupertino doesn't have its own police or fire department. Get real.
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by tzakrajs 9y ago
"the long run" is relative and subjective
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by tzakrajs 9y ago
I am sorry for your (and our community's) loss. Thank you for sharing this experience and I hope you the best!
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by tzakrajs 9y ago
The alternative is the military can insource these jobs and change their policies so they can hire the people they need to do defense work instead of coopting organizations that do other sensitive work for the public.
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by tzakrajs 9y ago
By driving a car, I have not optimized walking but instead have stopped walking and optimized transportation. Similarly, by doodling (or whatever), I have not optimized typing but instead have stopped typing and optimized programming. edit:
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by tzakrajs 9y ago
Indeed, and I am going to stop using Gmail as a result of this thread.
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And before being either of those, we are premature optimizers.
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by tzakrajs 9y ago
You are missing the point I am making. People are bartering with Facebook and using your private conversation with your contributions to do it. They ought to have no right to that data for their economic prosperity. This isn't your nan
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by tzakrajs 9y ago
> So you would also like to impose a ban on email forwarding then right? No. I would impose a ban on selling our conversations for money or for services. Edit: to clarify, I believe users on Facebook were bartering with data that wasn&#x
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by tzakrajs 9y ago
If we have a private conversation, you shouldn't have the right to reproduce the contents of my contributions to the conversation.
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by tzakrajs 9y ago
By granting access to your messages, they are also implicitly gaining access to your friend's messages with you. All people should have an expectation of privacy that when they send a private message to someone, that someone does not h
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by tzakrajs 9y ago
For those that don't have time to read it, the article you linked debunks misconceptions about the CA privacy breach. I think the article goes to show the type of culture that allows for such a privacy breach to occur. A quote from the
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by tzakrajs 9y ago
> What are those "clear and studied effects"? https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/01/effect-social-media-dem... https://hbr.org/2017/04/a-new-more-rigorous-study-confirms-
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by tzakrajs 9y ago
If they continue to work for Facebook after CA it shows that they are willing to be paid an income despite the clear and studied effects of their work (directly or indirectly). There are lots of businesses that don't have the luxury of
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by tzakrajs 9y ago
Read the comments in reply to that unnecessarily verbose comment. The follow-up comments destroy the original comment quickly.
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by tzakrajs 9y ago
Smart people can be really dumb.
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by tzakrajs 9y ago
Your last sentence reminds me of this recent post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHP-OPXK2ig and it gives such a cool sense of Shenzhen as a place to make and modify things.
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by tzakrajs 9y ago
They still have many narrow vertical electronics stores in Akihabara. You really still don't know what you might find. It is a real treat. I have been there three times in the past five years and each time has been roughly the same. Th
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by tzakrajs 9y ago
I about 2 weeks ago and it was full of really old shit that you were so sure you would never see again that you forgot it existed. It was the type of place you were really happy to know existed for any computer refurbishing project you coul

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