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by uniqueid 6y ago
That's what I use, too: "normalized floats." I would prefer a better word, though. I work a lot with audio, and "signed normalized floats" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I'm saying mc32 listed two possibilities, but there is a third: for government to delegate to the public. The people can decide what standards of moderation they want. That's an in-between approach, as it doesn't involve gove
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by uniqueid 6y ago
All three infuriate me (and Mercer, even more than Zuckerberg) but Facebook is possibly the most powerful entity in the world. Regardless of whether you believe it already has, Facebook has the power to topple governments, if it chose to wi
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Ouch, that's pathetic. I've noticed companies that build medical devices have followed the lead of big tech companies like Apple. First it was devices with non-replaceable batteries, and now: subscription services. It's crumm
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by uniqueid 6y ago
What is the original source of these? I recognize "find each man's thumbscrew" from reading Baltasar Gracián.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Another option is for a government to involve itself indirectly . It could regulate by requiring a social media company meet a vague "community standard." I'm not convinced that would work, but it's less authoritarian t
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by uniqueid 6y ago
That is an attractive theory, which I also held for a long time. Sadly, as I see it, the world is not playing ball. There comes a point where you have to face the world as it is, not as it is supposed to be. I still think technology has equ
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by uniqueid 6y ago
> Just coz they fail somewhere does not mean they are bad. But looking at the bigger picture is not especially favorable to Google et al: Back in the 1980s, technology was advancing at a dizzying pace, and the world seemed on its
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by uniqueid 6y ago
"...and that, ladies and gentlemen, is how I invented Thalidomide." We're talking about a technology with the potential to cause accidental aneurisms and lobotomies. Maybe some conservatism really is in order?
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Probably the user would have to dig out their birth cert, and visit the notary they originally used to get internet access. Then the notary would contact their ISP (or maybe they push the update to their public records, and the user asks th
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by uniqueid 6y ago
That's an excellent point. I didn't address this aspect today, but I touched on it a little in a HN comment I posted a couple months back. Ideally, the identity-side would be handled in a distributed way through a network of brick
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by uniqueid 6y ago
My take is that the timing is perfect, so the rumor is likely true, but that Apple is going to screw it up royally. This is a great time for a big competitor to start a search engine. Google's reputation and search quality aren't
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by uniqueid 6y ago
It must be heaven for Math teachers and professors. No more mounds of discarded paper. I'm sure they use tablets already, but the look and feel of writing figures on an iPad isn't as nice as epaper.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
You could be right when it comes to the network "piece." The reason I proposed it is to enforce identification tied (indirectly) to a single human being , in perpetuity. It would also be attractive to make transmission of old-sty
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by uniqueid 6y ago
it wouldn't have helped in this case. I'm not certain that is the case. The trolling on Github was using a logged in account Except, if Github bans the user, that user (the actual human being, not their worthless ha
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by uniqueid 6y ago
In many cases: yes. It depends on whether the driver aids the criminal knowingly (eg: overheard "To my ex-husband's, driver! Can't wait to shoot him in the face"), and of the driver's own free will (eg: did not
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by uniqueid 6y ago
No. I actually discussed that, over here, in this other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24291757 Edit: Here is a more serious reply. I should have stressed that the new network-layer would support the old int
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I also think the mods should manually unflag this. The events in the article are interesting, and the issue of trolling is currently a hot-topic in tech. I could understand people flagging it if she went overboard making political prescript
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Yes, because we designed the internet and web "wrong". I've commented with my opinion on this, here on HN, before. In my opinion, the world should have two internets: the current internet, and a "safe for life" inte
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Once upon a time, it was as widely known in the tech community as HN is today.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
> My point is you should be directing your criticism to government data collection practices I agree. It's not a binary choice, though: if I rob a bank, and you drive the getaway car, I'm clearly guilty, but you share
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by uniqueid 6y ago
They make me uncomfortable, too https://huffpost.com/entry/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-a...
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Has MS worked with government to make it easier to call up records of my hemorrhoids or eczema? If so, I'll reserve some hate for MS, too. With billions of people on this planet, some terrorist kingpin and I might have the same birthma
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Not misguided. It's not like Palantir is selling hamburgers to millions of faceless individuals. They themselves want to take the responsibility for their consulting for government agencies. I assign responsibility to them, too. Can
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Close enough. I have ample pique to spread among multiple parties who have a hand in this.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
It's no consolation to me that a company is giving transcripts of my personal conversations and medical records to the American government instead of the Chinese. I don't want you to collect my damned data. Period.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I had the same reaction. That section was painful. On the other hand, sometimes people get away with it, so the advice is right in one sense, even if it's wrong in another.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
It's only the best English essay of its kind — or maybe of any kind!
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Subscription or no subscription? That is not the question(ia.net)
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Around every twentieth post on the front page of Reddit is a video of someone being punched, kicked, stabbed, or shot. If there are Reddit employees who hold a high opinion of Reddit's users, they should raise their standards.

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