underbluewaters

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by underbluewaters 11y ago
Is it completely legal to warn users of suspicious network activity like this? If for example Apple built detection into iOS and gave all users a warning that could do a lot for raising awareness and maybe some support for change. "The
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by underbluewaters 11y ago
Animals eating other animals is the basis of much of life on this planet. If a fish eats crustaceans or other fish, is it less "good" than one that eats only algae? How about a killer whale, which clearly understands the suffering
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by underbluewaters 11y ago
It would be pretty "funny" if all this military hardware coming home results in countermeasures being developed by drug traffickers that ends up back in Afghanistan. These guys probably have a freer hand and more funding to develo
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by underbluewaters 11y ago
My conclusion was that any hub that requires a round-trip to a internet service is just not realistic for home automation.
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by underbluewaters 11y ago
I've been a hue user for the past year. 1) Their lights/bridge are by far the most reliable IoT product I've used. A 9/10 where other products (Wink, GE, Lutron) are at best 3/10. 2) While 3rd party bulbs were sort
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by underbluewaters 11y ago
What you are describing is exactly what has been happening, and it is not working. We've abandoned the traditional role of government in solving these collective action problems in favor of empowering the rich to solve these problems t
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by underbluewaters 11y ago
As part of senior leadership pushing for the war in Iraq under false pretenses, which killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, thousands of Americans, and burned nearly 2 trillion dollars, I'd say she's earned the adjective of &qu
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by underbluewaters 11y ago
Same here. Sequelize looks nice on the surface, but I've found its documentation to be atrociously out of date. Bookshelf has less features but works better in practice.
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by underbluewaters 11y ago
Netflix: "I see you liked a couple scifi anime movies. Perhaps you'd like to watch our entire catalog of big breast anime aimed at a completely different audience."
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by underbluewaters 11y ago
"we can try to legislate against either but technology will probably overpower the legislation quickly" Technology is here to serve us. What's with this attitude that we don't have the tools (laws) to control what our go
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by underbluewaters 11y ago
The national security establishment routinely interferes with our democratic process to the benefit of corporations and powerful institutions. The latest news this week was how the FBI infiltrated the peaceful Keystone Pipeline protest move
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by underbluewaters 11y ago
I'd go further and say the nature of these new technologies changes what observations should be permitted by law enforcement, with or without a warrant. While automated license plate readers may be collecting the same information that
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by underbluewaters 11y ago
Very cool. Far easier to use than AWS Lambda. Not clear from the homepage. Is this a paid service? Open-source project?
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by underbluewaters 11y ago
This post resonates with my experiences of the last 6 months. I'm a very good web developer, and have been working for a while now on a couple iOS projects. Coming from javascript which everyone seems to regard as dangerous and overall
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by underbluewaters 12y ago
How does raising salaries change the situation? All the other party has to do is raise the offer another 10k. There are enormous costs associated with loosing a valued employee, but naturally very little cost for the employee to move.
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by underbluewaters 12y ago
Very true. For some apps native is the only solution. I'd wager most apps are on that same order of complexity though. For example, I don't think Flipboard's use of Canvas to wrap content with fancy animations and magazine-st
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by underbluewaters 12y ago
Let's not kid ourselves here. Most people download exactly zero apps per month: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/08/25/a_comscor... This matches my experience IRL exactly. The whole
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by underbluewaters 12y ago
I'm always surprised by "starving kids in Africa" argument. Why would one assume that hunger is a solvable problem? As soon as there is more food, there will be more children. It's basic ecology. If anything, the Green R
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by underbluewaters 12y ago
Gave me cancer
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by underbluewaters 12y ago
Easy. Each weapon is a tool that will likely never be used, but if it is must be 100% reliable and quickly deployable while under extreme stress. "Smart" guns introduce a new feature that would impact both speed and reliability. N
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by underbluewaters 12y ago
When I first started using Inbox I thought "Neat, it's all the Google Now-like stuff that they had incorporated into Gmail, but done a lot better". Whether Google rummaging through your email is something desirable is a serio
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by underbluewaters 12y ago
"“This is a fundamental tension,” Howe said. The “balance between how much privacy you’re allowed to have and how many rights the government has” is a question that has continued historically in the U.S., he said." Uh.. I thought
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by underbluewaters 12y ago
"The only place megafauna has survived to some extent to the present day is in Africa where people traditionally have lived in harmony with nature." Bullshit. From what I understand it's attributable to megafauna evolving alo
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by underbluewaters 12y ago
This is really impressive. It's clear someone really spent a lot of time making the controls feel nice and fluid. I'd love to know more about how vector tiles are streamed to the client, and how I could do similar streaming of my
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by underbluewaters 12y ago
No surprise to me as a spearfisher. People have this impression that we go underwater with a "gun" and fish are just lining up in front of you. Nothing could be further from the truth. Fish can tell the difference between your ave