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by ufmace 5y ago
In my opinion, it's not about the act of discrimination itself, but the method used to combat it. As an extreme example, I think everyone agrees that littering is bad. But how would you feel about summary execution for littering? Feels
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by ufmace 5y ago
This is true, as far as I know. I don't think it really means much though. Rosa Parks may have been a professional activist, but there was real and widespread oppression. Nobody had to go looking to find it. It was mandated by the stat
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by ufmace 5y ago
That's true, but not even half the story. The couple in question had gone around like a dozen other cake makers who were all fine with making the cake they said they wanted. So why sue that guy? It's pretty clear, this was never a
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by ufmace 5y ago
It's probably better to link the developer's original page about this rather than a news article about it: https://www.arctic81.com/
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by ufmace 5y ago
Much as I dislike Twitter as a concept and a company, I think this is a good idea. It's high time the tech majors started to move towards alternative revenue streams from advertisement, and encouraging users to pay producers directly f
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by ufmace 5y ago
One could just as easily say that there's no point in trying to have a rational discussion with people who want to compare anyone who disagrees with the worst thing they can come up with. If you wonder what kind of content is actually
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by ufmace 5y ago
I don't usually like to be the one complaining about how bad Twitter is for quality tech threads like this. But wow, it seems you can no longer view any of the pictures or the rest of the thread without a Twitter account.
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by ufmace 5y ago
Sorry to hear it. I found this video a while back that helps the rest of us get an idea of how it's not actually nice: https://youtu.be/Ikd0ZYQoDko
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by ufmace 5y ago
There was a pretty good SSC article on kind of the same subject: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/04/determining-consent/ Basic idea is, yeah it feels a very wrong and likely to cover up lots of seriou
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by ufmace 5y ago
There is kind of a 2-sided argument here: 1. Small time cheap skate business owners sometimes try to cheat professional artists by "paying with exposure", when they have no meaningful audience or influence and therefore no meaning
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by ufmace 5y ago
I don't think the latency issues are necessarily related to the poor schema. I'd say to dig into the query planning for your current queries and figure out what's actually slow, since it may not be what you expect. Rearchitec
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by ufmace 5y ago
I'd say your comment is a non-sequitur. Did you read the post that I responded to? He explicitly said the White House, not the Capitol. Nobody mentioned the Capitol except you. Speaking of, no cops were killed by the Capitol protestors
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by ufmace 5y ago
Are you talking about the time that BLM tried to storm the White House? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-moved...
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by ufmace 5y ago
> To many of you here: imagine the Trump admin trying to require you to take the vaccine in November of last year. Cities would have burned over it. It's very political. There's a bunch of screenshots and videos floating around
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by ufmace 5y ago
You're right. There are also edge cases that seem to get lost in the mania of one side or the other. What if you've already had Covid and recovered? The data seems a lot less certain about whether the vaccine is a clear advantage
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by ufmace 5y ago
I haven't seen this asked on any of the threads about this yet, but what happens if we identify a few of the pics in their database of Evil Pictures, and send them (presumably from a non-Apple device) to the iPhone of anybody we don&#x
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by ufmace 5y ago
I can agree in that CGI is a cool and simple technology that might make sense for some applications, and can be a good method to teach new developers the basics. I don't think I'd choose it for much now though, unless I knew it wa
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by ufmace 5y ago
There's no reason why it has to be horrific. I'd like to see someone make a decent attempt at making client TLS certs actually work well, including not using the same cert for multiple domains by default. Other problem is, I don&#
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by ufmace 5y ago
This is true, and the way things tend to work, but still short-sighted IMO. I don't think it's a good idea to design every process around the worst thing that could possibly happen. It further alienates the 99% of people who would
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by ufmace 5y ago
It's the app ecossystem that really changed things and makes a true smartphone. Symbian could technically install and run apps. I think there was a Nokia/Symbian app store, but it only had like 10 crappy apps. I never had any idea
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by ufmace 5y ago
There's kind of an XKCD What If for this, though with Jupiter: https://what-if.xkcd.com/146/ Summary is no for Jupiter, even the entire planet Earth wouldn't affect it that much. Mercury is much smaller thoug
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by ufmace 5y ago
A few interesting thoughts in here. I had tended to think of the social stigma against discussing salaries as being detrimental to workers and probably encouraged by companies to save a few bucks. But on the flip side, if a company was to b
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by ufmace 5y ago
People with exposure to tech support often complain that users never read error messages. It's almost understandable for low-skill users. But it's surprising and disturbing how many professional developers also don't read err
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by ufmace 5y ago
Ah yeah that makes more sense. I suppose managing FDE key via TPM is theoretically / ideally more secure, but has a lot more attack surface. Probably not many TPM implementations have been attacked enough publicly for anyone to be conf
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by ufmace 5y ago
Something like half of the comments are recommending using a password for the FDE key instead of the TPM. I thought that it wasn't normally recommended to use a hand-entered key directly, since they wouldn't be expected to have en
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by ufmace 5y ago
Hold up, > Rumor has it (according to a report from The Information) that Google Cloud Platform is facing a 2023 deadline to beat AWS and Microsoft, or it will risk losing funding. They're supposedly committing to stability and back
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by ufmace 5y ago
Upvoted for a number of interesting and unconventional opinions. Rolling your own JSON, XML, etc parsers raises some eyebrows. I guess it's sort of okay if you expect to only be reading your local config files versus arbitrary web cont
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by ufmace 5y ago
Maybe also related, I've also found Instagram to be the easiest service to create extra accounts on. Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc all demand phone numbers to create an account, if not immediately than within minutes of opening. They&
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by ufmace 5y ago
I have a feeling somebody somewhere is paying for it. Who that might be and what their real motives are, I have no idea. But it's well known that modern marketing companies will buy or create social media accounts and employ people to
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by ufmace 5y ago
I think there's a pretty big difference between "your messages can be intercepted and arbitrarily modified by anybody who has any access to any router or server between one of your devices and the Telegram server" and "y

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