tzmudzin

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by tzmudzin 8y ago
While I appreciate the intent & the technical solution, why should I be paying for anything to protect me from someone's unhealthy interest in my data? Privacy is a human right. We should punish the offenders, not the subjects.
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by tzmudzin 8y ago
> 2,470 potential matches were identified. [...] > 2,297 - 92% - were found to be "false positives". ... so we have 173 true positives, but 450 people were arrested. I guess the 277 wrongfully arrested ones may have an opini
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by tzmudzin 9y ago
> The pressure from consumers is in the favor of slimmer, sleeker gadgets. This causes manufacturers to use production techniques that make repairing impossible. How does that apply to the John Deere tractors or your next car?
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by tzmudzin 9y ago
Maybe I misunderstood your problem, but how about a relational DB model with: - FEATURES table (~400k rows), primary key: Feature_ID - SAMPLES table (tens of thousands), primary key: Sample_ID - OCCURRENCE table (what you observed), with th
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by tzmudzin 9y ago
That only works if: 1. Profits are capped. 2. The company cannot gauge or drop service to non-profitable customers. Neither applies.
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by tzmudzin 9y ago
It is an acquired taste. One needs to invest some time into the listening (and preferably: some music appreciation courses/ material) to start picking up the nuances. BTW -- the analogy with IT systems holds here. A layman will not app
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by tzmudzin 10y ago
Law was invented specifically for this reason: to regulate behaviors into socially acceptable norms. Yes, occasionally it may degenerate (as the patent trolls show), but a social issue should be solved with social/legal means, not tech
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by tzmudzin 10y ago
Instead of going for legal crutches, why not follow the German example where explicit consent is needed for inclusion in such databases? AFAIK Facebook had to turn the facial recognition off in the EU, specifically for this reason.
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by tzmudzin 10y ago
I share your craving for less noise, but: - there's a whole lot of shades of grey between a hoax and a scientifically proven phenomenon. - we don't need to be alarmed -- we can be just interested in something new and unusual. Insu
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by tzmudzin 10y ago
So should we forget the Holocaust and WWII because of Godwin? Please note I've been very careful to put things into perspective here...
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by tzmudzin 10y ago
> I don't agree with Trump on a lot of things but I can respect someone who does what he says he'll do. Adolf Hitler was also keeping his promise of eliminating the Jewish "problem" or the lack of the living space for
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by tzmudzin 10y ago
... and that's when you learn to appreciate the allegedly outrageous German data protection laws. Under those the whole operation of the site would be illegal unless the individuals reported on granted their explicit consent.
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by tzmudzin 10y ago
The interesting part is the relatively low ransom amount. I understand it needs to be low enough to make payment an "attractive" option (at least compared to other means of recovery, if any...). But 200 USD is significantly less t
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by tzmudzin 10y ago
I agree with both, but these are normative statements, expressing what one expects to be right or moral. As these are based on belief systems, they may not be convincing to some of us in the forum. There's plenty of positive reasons ex
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by tzmudzin 10y ago
I do not agree with your views. Apologies if I did not make myself clear here -- English is not my first language (or second.. or even third...) Let me try to reword then: 1. Free market is NOT an appropriate solution for healthcare. There
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by tzmudzin 10y ago
... except that the market for health services is anything but healthy in the US. That's BTW also a major reason for the exploding cost of the health care - the lack of personal short term incentives isn't.
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by tzmudzin 10y ago
> They're not WiFi connected so they won't be the attack vector for my network, and Z-Wave has a pretty good record for secure mesh networking. [...] > Pairing my Echo to my Wink Hub now gives me complete voice control over
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by tzmudzin 10y ago
It's not unreasonable to expect that a device connected to the Internet should be patchable over the same connection. As for the influence on other countries -- blocking their traffic is an effective way to convince them of the need to
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by tzmudzin 10y ago
Do you suggest the new government should be allowed to disrespect the obligations and commitments of the previous one, just because it's newly elected? [Well, in a way, they are free to do so -- at the risk of losing every bit of credi
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by tzmudzin 10y ago
I agree this may be subjective, but aren't we crossing the line when the 'how' becomes more important than the 'what' (i.e. the purpose of the code?) Following this principle code example 2 (i.e. Javascript after de
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by tzmudzin 10y ago
If you want to prove a scientist wrong, present evidence to the contrary rather than personal innuendos and hypotheses / observations without proof.
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by tzmudzin 10y ago
> It kinda makes me miss Bush. In which respect? Wasn't the Bush administration guilty of a similar offense -- albeit on a much larger scale? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controv...
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by tzmudzin 10y ago
... just don't be surprised if you suddenly no longer understand how your systems work, and cannot change them. It's important to relate the advice to the size of the company and the type of the market you're operating in. -
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by tzmudzin 10y ago
Beethoven would agree :-) On a more serious note -- yes, but even this would become boring quickly despite the variations. This problem has been solved by: - using different themes for different sections, or - intertwining two or more such
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by tzmudzin 10y ago
For the general understanding please check "How Music Really Works" by Wayne Chase. Given your instrument choice you might also be very well served by the "Music Theory / Harmony / ... for Computer Musicians" s
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by tzmudzin 10y ago
Aren't those patterns and structures just there to avoid the cognitive overload, while we're entertained by lesser variations? (BTW, I believe we're overly simplifying by speaking of music as a single entity. All of the eleme
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by tzmudzin 10y ago
Correct. The commentary says it's equipped with 2 water pumps to remove whatever leaks through. I guess that's German engineering for less-than-perfect road and maintenance conditions. I like the redundancy too!
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by tzmudzin 10y ago
As this sounded intriguing, here's a video I've found of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C26rJiOnKLk . It appears the tank commander needs to guide the driver on directions, though...
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by tzmudzin 10y ago
True, but house ownership + mortgage (as opposed to rent) may be the only way to accumulate some wealth for a lot of people.
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by tzmudzin 11y ago
... and now Comcast will sue for posting this very code to Github. I am sure it is copyrighted... And it does not matter that they pushed it down the throat of their paying customers... I am a big fan of rules & regulations, but in case

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