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by wegs 6y ago
That's not a proposal for a law. I'm not arguing about how the law ought to work. For better or worse, that's a description of how the legal system in the US works RIGHT NOW. And yes, it does enrich a lot of lawyers. Look up
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by wegs 6y ago
In the US, we have currently about 40+ million people unemployed, and trillion+ dollars of stimulus. That's 1 in 4 workers. Many more have pay cuts, demotions, or other economic harm. Kids are learning a lot less with school shutdowns
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by wegs 6y ago
What was wrong with CamTwist? I've been using OBS+CamTwist to do this for years now. I mean, this will save a couple minutes setup time, but it's not like that wasn't decent.
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by wegs 6y ago
Disclaimer: I've used these tools. Google is really good about takeout. It's really bad about maintaining my privacy. The opt-outs are limited in scope to the point of being almost meaningless. I don't mind ads being targeted
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by wegs 6y ago
How about: "Websites shouldn't do digital fingerprinting to intentionally circumvent incognito mode." Does this make sense to you as a legal argument? And yes, this does mean that if it comes to litigation, a lot of this will
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by wegs 6y ago
That's not quite how the law works. If I tell you to get off of my property, and you stand on my lawn, you're trespassing, even if I didn't put up a military-grade wall. Or if I have a basic chain link fence, and you climb ov
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by wegs 6y ago
Lawyers generally copy each other. There is standard text which has gone through hundreds or thousands of litigations and hasn't done harm, and that's almost always used going forward. A lot of oddball conventions, such as THE USE
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by wegs 6y ago
I agree the evidence is weak. That's very different from no evidence (your walking in circles example). Vitamin D pills cost $12 per bottle where I live. I would guess the economic damage from COVID19 is going conservatively going to b
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by wegs 6y ago
This is a question of decision-making in the face of uncertainty. We have evidence this helps. It's not conclusive evidence. The odds of turning round in a circle three times helping are 0.000000001%. The odds of DMB helping are probab
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by wegs 6y ago
This is mostly obnoxious. Coding is a great way to build logical thinking, mathematical maturity, and creativity. Perhaps OP is confusing teaching syntax with teaching coding. At least on my end working with kids, it got creative almost imm
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by wegs 6y ago
"Applied Cryptography" is the best-written book on this topic that I know of. Author is a brilliant communicator. Esp. the section on cryptographic protocols should be required reading for any computer scientist. It's not ove
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by wegs 6y ago
I can sometimes be dumb with Google/apt-cache search/DDG like that :)
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by wegs 6y ago
Nah. (1) For open source, out early is better than out later. v0 (or v1 or where ever you start numbering) shouldn't be perfect. If it's perfect, you're sharing too late. (2) All this is volunteer work and a gift to the commu
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by wegs 6y ago
Well, I have to say: (1) This looks interesting. I had no idea any of this existed. (2) For the level of awesome, this is the worst-documented ecosystem I've stepped into in a long while. I hope some random user volunteers to make real
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by wegs 6y ago
I predicted we'd see rising prices for anything provided by essential workers: food, shipping, etc. I think if the lockdowns and pandemic continues, we'll continue to see that. The limit case is everyone stays home. We print money
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by wegs 6y ago
In abstract, it doesn't take a huge amount of time and resources to do that. But, there are probably around a hundred higher-priority ideas achievable with the same resources which would take priority over this on the projects I'm
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by wegs 6y ago
There's a spectrum of agreement. (1) I want builds to be 100% reproducible on deployment servers and on CI/CD pipelines. Otherwise, you can undebuggable Heisenbugs. On the other hand, I don't want builds to be reproducible be
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by wegs 6y ago
We definitely use virtualenv and pip. But: 1) There's a world of difference between that and docker, and especially docker with containers for not just postgresql, but a half-dozen specialized data stores, queuing systems, MTAs, etc. 2
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by wegs 6y ago
When I run teams doing Python development, I'm hyper-disciplined about avoiding unnecessary or bleeding-edge dependencies. My experience is that dependencies save time in the short term, but lead to exponential maintenance costs in the
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by wegs 6y ago
I don't think this is for a newcomer. Newcomer, here you go: print("Hello World!") This is for someone who has done Python for many years, but might have fallen behind on the latest and greatest trends. It collects a series o
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by wegs 6y ago
Oddly, I don't find WA to be great. WA can do complex math, but it's slow. To give a good example of what I've come to expect from all three, type "2 feet + 2 meters" into: * WA: You'll get a correct result, bu
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by wegs 6y ago
DuckDuckGo has 50-100 employees, according to CrunchBase, while Google has over 100,000 employees. The exact numbers are irrelevant, but Google has around three orders of magnitude more employees than DDG. a) DDG needs about 1/1000th t
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by wegs 6y ago
(1) Phones have your data, settings, apps, etc. on them. Syncing things sucks. (2) The ARM in your phone is probably faster than a $250 laptop CPU. It can be plenty fine for most tasks. (3) Many of us aren't CPU-bound in the first plac
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by wegs 6y ago
Your username suggests you shouldn't read these books. You should skim notes about these books and write obnoxious posts based on those, claiming the person you're talking to is lying based on no evidence at all. Indeed, Dictator&
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by wegs 6y ago
No, I can point you to reading the books. If you're don't read books, I don't think this is a bridge you'll cross. And I'm sorry you find two respected professors, one at NYU and one at Stanford, to be of dubious au
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by wegs 6y ago
They don't amount to an attack. They amount to a threat. Threats to our democracy need to be checked. This isn't about Trump or about giving or not giving someone the benefit-of-the-doubt. If it were Obama, Warren, Bush, or whomev
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by wegs 6y ago
... to the extent you consider one of the most influential and best-researched management books a "cliche and conspiracy." I'll mention I didn't claim that a CEO rarely knows something a critic doesn't; just that th
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by wegs 6y ago
Your postulate is generally correct on a quarterly time span. It's generally incorrect on a 5-year time-span. Good examples are Carly Fiorina gutting HP in ways which weren't immediately externally visible, or Bezos / Jobs pu
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by wegs 6y ago
If there's a public health crisis, and people can't safely leave homes and can't vote by mail, there is no meaningful election. Right now, he's: * Doing everything in his power to have a public health crisis (which means
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by wegs 6y ago
For the most part, I support platform neutrality. I don't agree with all the Google censorship of misinformation and "misinformation" on their platforms. I think Facebook should have less evil algorithms (it seems designed to

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