unmole

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by unmole 3y ago
> If they get a match with a high school picture for "John Smith" from a school in an affluent area, they can adjust advertisements. Right, it's not like they gather location data and insist on real world names or buy data
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by unmole 3y ago
Doesn't matter. The person conducting the interview has probably never done that. And the job itself probably won't involve large scale system design.
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by unmole 3y ago
> They want your selfies for facial recognition in order to track you better across the web How on earth does facial recognition help with tracking someone across the web?
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by unmole 3y ago
There's always the option of not using the service.
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by unmole 3y ago
Are you upset that your parochial world view can be summarised in two just two words? And do you really want to pretend your comment chain which went into irrelevant tangents was constructive?
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by unmole 3y ago
Frankly this is unhinged. YouTube is a company providing a video streaming service. The fact that you think this is comparable to a totalitarian regime shows how divorced you are from reality. You basically want to extract value from YouTub
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by unmole 3y ago
The retroactive criminalisation at Nuremberg absolutely was controversial at the time. It only got pushed through because of US instance. It is literally an example of might making right.
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by unmole 3y ago
> The banner is malicious compliance Tell me what the banner on https://gdpr.eu/ says.
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by unmole 3y ago
I cringe everytime I'm forced to use perforce for work. Every action is more convoluted, slow and painful compared to git. Perforce might be great for binary files and non-technical users. But there is absolutely no reason to choose it
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by unmole 3y ago
> but human scale (rather than Linux kernel scale). What does that even mean?
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by unmole 3y ago
> where do you think one of the largest company in the world go their money from exactly? From advertisers. That stream is being cut down by ad-blockers. > more than enough profit You are extracting more than enough value from YouTube
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by unmole 3y ago
Bahrain, Quatar, Kuwait, UAE, Jordan and Oman are all home to US military bases. If they are not allies, is the US an occupying power in these countries?
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by unmole 3y ago
Talk is cheap. Show me the maths. How many Americans live off trust funds?
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by unmole 3y ago
Again, unfortunately the rest of aren't omniscient and infallible. And thus we must muddle through.
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by unmole 3y ago
Please whinge all you like. Just don't generalise your doomer worldview to the whole world. > We do in fact have our own < 25 years old here as well, they are not only living on the equator as you seem to suggest. I specifically
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by unmole 3y ago
> This downgrade is quite sad. Too many of the enterprise grade network devices rely on linux. This is in no way a downgrade. Juniper just read the writing on the wall. Arista boxes ran Linux from day one and have a much better reputatio
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by unmole 3y ago
> and routers/switches a lot, right? Juniper's boxes all used to run a FreeBSD derivative. But even they have introduced Linux based products.
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by unmole 3y ago
The world is messy and disorganised. People are fallible and at times stupid. The people who keep things working despite this might feel that their jobs are pointless. That doesn't mean that the people paying them to do the job see it
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by unmole 3y ago
> Surveys show that vast number of people are working what they believe to be pointless jobs Are survey conductors included in those stats? > So no, people do not need to be creating value to be paid. The fact that someone thinks thei
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by unmole 3y ago
> Why? A very large percentage of income is "passive". Define very large. And isn't the fraction of people who live off passive income the more relevant measure? > Even Marge Simpson I'm sorry, your example is a ca
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by unmole 3y ago
> Just passively consume and spend. Let other people keep the world from falling apart around you. One would presumably need to be creating something of value to be able to afford the consumption. So, they are likely the very people who
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by unmole 3y ago
I don't understand how this is relevant. You made a broad generalisation about how people under 25 are supposedly dommed. When the flaw in your argument is pointed out, you go into a tangent about Westerners patting themselves on the b
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by unmole 3y ago
> It's not the people of Brazil that are benefiting of the resources of the Amazon rainforest. Brazilian farmers would beg to disagree. > Even worse is believing that the destruction of the rainforest is the catalyst for Brazil&#
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by unmole 3y ago
> For real, having shared walls is such a detriment to mental health The fact that you can hear your neighbors through the wall is a sign of terrible design and construction choices. Hell, most sane apartment layouts minimise if not elim
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by unmole 3y ago
I live in the Global South. My perspective is from someone who has witnessed a dramatic improvement in the quality of life of my compatriots. The economic growth that my country has experienced in past few decades is down to abandonment of
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by unmole 3y ago
> Just look at anyone below age 25 The bulk of people below 25 live in the Global South. A majority of them live in countries experiencing strong economic growth, albeit from a low base. This kind of doomerism is exclusive to rich countr
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by unmole 3y ago
The inability to even hide a channel is a strictly worse UX.
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by unmole 3y ago
LGBT as an umbrella term has never made any sense to me. One of These Things Is Not Like the Others.
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by unmole 3y ago
> advocacy orgs staffed with people who don't even have to pretend to be neutral.
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by unmole 3y ago
I'd much rather see fifty variations of woodworking than parochial political content or people pulling a YouTube face. Different strokes.

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