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by waisbrot 8y ago
How did you determine "knowingly, and with clear consent"? I guess I'd agree that if someone wrote a 5 page paper describing all the ways that Facebook harvests their data and what might be done with it afterwards then they s
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by waisbrot 8y ago
Unless you're asserting that the hardware token is just as crackable as a password, it's not a 1:1 replacement. The problem with passwords is that you have 10,000 users and more than one of them has a bad password. The problem wit
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by waisbrot 8y ago
Too bad this isn't the default. Or better yet, something like "All versions of this product (...) / Just this variant (...)". Similar to the way Apple segments mobile app reviews by release version.
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by waisbrot 8y ago
Even without an explicit admission of guilt, you're putting yourself in a compromising position. Amazon made an accusation and then asked for redress, so if you give them that and were then involved in a lawsuit you'd have to expl
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by waisbrot 8y ago
Maybe if the story author had written a bot to reply "I don't understand. Please tell me what I did wrong." to every bot-generated email from Amazon, he could have made a more entertaining story. He could include some graphs
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by waisbrot 8y ago
For now, yes. Historically, corporations become more and more abusive until there's a public backlash that gets them regulated. Something like "there must be some clearly-defined way to get a response from a human" seems like
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by waisbrot 8y ago
> I'm certainly paying my share. That seems very hard to determine, especially as a business owner. What's the value to you of safe shipping lanes to get raw materials to you? What's the value of employees not worrying abo
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by waisbrot 8y ago
madamelic is saying that the described interview process would select against qualified candidates because some of the items on the answer sheet are flat-out wrong. Analogy would be if we were evaluating a blood-pressure drug, but our BP-me
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by waisbrot 8y ago
I mean, you maybe wouldn't just send an offer letter to someone who wrote an app, sure. (But depending on what they wrote, maybe you would. Something reasonably large and open-source, where they ended up incorporating a substantial amo
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by waisbrot 8y ago
> He's probably being interviewed for an SRE team lead or thereabouts OK, but incorrect/inflexible quizzing about tech questions is inappropriate full stop. If this was an interview for SWE summer intern it'd be a badly-ru
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by waisbrot 9y ago
But the story obviously wasn't referring to biological sex, but rather to the gender presented by the booth-worker. So "female" was also the incorrect term, besides being off-putting.
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by waisbrot 9y ago
The worst thing about academic CS is that nobody respects that it's chosen to be different from every other field?
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by waisbrot 9y ago
> However, they gave no answer for why unnecessary data was being provided. I mean, it was obviously a bug, right? I imagine the only "explanation" would involve detailing the origin and nature of the bug which would be unwise
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by waisbrot 9y ago
Research for the military isn't the issue here, it's Google's changing agenda. If the DoD or Raytheon or Weapons Systems Startup LLC hired someone to develop a better system for analyzing drone images, I don't believe th
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by waisbrot 9y ago
Slightly more nuanced. I think there is a clear difference between, say, selling food to the military (the service you provide generally allows the military to run better and the military is frequently responsible for killing people) versus
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by waisbrot 9y ago
She's not wrong, but to say "she just is [interested in things that are traditionally gendered]" seems a little incurious. Princesses, pink ponies, and frilly dresses did not exist when modern humans came into being. So likin
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by waisbrot 9y ago
Reinventing GPL with less care. I can copy the code, re-license as plain-MIT, and now commercial companies can use it for free. A dual GPL-commercial license is the correct way to handle this. A more useful contribution to the license lands
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by waisbrot 9y ago
I see a lot of confusion in the comments about "is it a motorcycle helmet?" If you scroll past the picture to read the _first two sentences_ I think it's pretty clear. > From air pollution to high demand on smart wearable
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by waisbrot 9y ago
Why should anyone have to tell you that a Breitbart story is untrue when you already know that they lie constantly?
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by waisbrot 9y ago
But why would someone who's avoided meat for 35 years be interested in something that pretends to be meat? I've not had milk-based ice cream for more than 5 years. There's a great variety of non-dairy frozen treats and I&#x27
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by waisbrot 9y ago
You're thinking of physical dependency. Addiction is compulsive behavior despite adverse consequences.
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by waisbrot 9y ago
Chat applications for work are insanely sticky, though? You can offer 5 great new features and a $500/month lower price-tag and I'm probably not going to want to lose my searchable chat history and have everyone unable to communic
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by waisbrot 9y ago
The parent post didn't say "and I'll benefit from this". Why can't they have made an honest post -- a truly fair economy would start with most citizens of first-world countries losing everything we've got.
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by waisbrot 9y ago
It's not zero-sum, but it's also not the case that your money and mine are unrelated.
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by waisbrot 9y ago
So, if I could hire 20 researchers and spend $1m/year each on their salaries and equipment... your guess is that I would accomplish nothing?
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by waisbrot 9y ago
The fines are against the property, so they go to the owner (that's part of being the owner). Murder is charged against the murderer (not the crime scene). Contraband is generally charged against the possessor (which would be either th
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by waisbrot 9y ago
Probably, the city got many complaints about parties, trash, and different people every week. They're not fining for "using AirBnB" they're fining for "short-term rental" or "code violations". But Air
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by waisbrot 9y ago
Yeah, I was struck by how both examples in the article were property owners living out of state who never even met their tenants? One of them thought she was renting to a family with two kids, but it was actually some scammers. Meeting your
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by waisbrot 9y ago
In D&D's alignment system "evil" is close to "selfish". A lawful-good company would try to promote better security for all users. A chaotic-good company would tank the search-rankings of anyone who didn't i
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by waisbrot 9y ago
> Google summer of code Trains and evaluates young engineers either for them to hire or to work in their ecosystem > $100 Million per year for non-profits PR, taxes, and as the article describes, leverage. > OSS releases Giving thi

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