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by whatgoodisaroad 4y ago
I stopped using adblockers generally when I considered both 1) we get very little visibility on when an extension changes-hands/updates, combined with 2) you have to give it access to all your browsing data. People sell popular browser
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by whatgoodisaroad 4y ago
There's a way of looking at this as pretty much normal. I think we have yet to really face the fact that systems of common-law are ad-hoc LLMs (in contrast to statutory-law, which is more similar to standard programming). In particular
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by whatgoodisaroad 4y ago
This is clearly much more impressive technically since it runs seamlessly on my browser, but visually and tonally it reminds me of a peaceful game called Alba that I played recently.
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Yandex to Cut Ties with Russia(nytimes.com)
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by whatgoodisaroad 4y ago
I'm probably referring to the wrong component, yeah, but what I'm imagining is a car with no digital intermediaries between the pedal and the power going through the wheels.
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by whatgoodisaroad 4y ago
I'm optimistic about electric cars, but pessimistic when the companies producing them are the most craven financializers like this. Sometimes I wonder if there would be a market for a "maximally analog electric car" where, fo
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by whatgoodisaroad 4y ago
Having read this, I now realize a bit in the Abicada-bra episode of the IT Crowd was a parody of this incident.
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by whatgoodisaroad 4y ago
Perhaps Google hasn't found the right balance in this case, but as a general rule, less ethics === more market. This isn't unique in that way.
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by whatgoodisaroad 4y ago
Bloomberg also still hasn't printed a redaction of "The Big Hack" which is extremely damning to their journalistic credibility.
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by whatgoodisaroad 4y ago
On the other hand, Apple has been much much worse at privacy than Google if you are Chinese.
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by whatgoodisaroad 4y ago
CSP protects against an XSS threat model, but once the attacker has control of the browser itself, defeating CSP is trivial since you can just decorate scripts with the nonce string (or equivalent).
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by whatgoodisaroad 4y ago
DALL-E2 and similar are unbundlings: the best artists synergize 1) technical ability with 2) good taste. 1 is the ability to climb a hill and 2 informs the direction of "up", and both take years to develop well. What's really
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by whatgoodisaroad 4y ago
IIRC, there is a scene in the extended cut of the RotK that alludes to this part of the story.
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by whatgoodisaroad 4y ago
My understanding was that this sort of stock sale blackout is typically an internal thing to avoid insider trading liability, but if you've been laid off, you would no longer be internal and therefore no longer subject to the blackout.
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by whatgoodisaroad 4y ago
At the same time, if that state actor happens to be China, Apple will just give the government access to your iCloud data. Not all state actors are equally within Apple's striking range.
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
Folks in many militaries claim pacifism, and I understand this to be not uncommon in US forces during conscription. They’d end up being medics or similar roles.
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
An important difference between tobacco companies and big tech is that the latter sells tools to political campaigns. So far as I know, there was never a system where each cigarette could advertise a politician, but if there were, when worl
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
I would argue that both dates and datetimes dimensionally signify ranges of time with different lengths. A date being a range of ~24 hours and a time being a range of a minute/second/microsecond depending on the definition. It&#x2
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
You can be proven wrong distressingly easily. Hopefully nobody does.
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
Is this not more of a measure of beef related farm subsidies?
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
To what extent is this a supply side problem? What's the counterexample high quality health website that Google should have included? Part of the problem is surely how Google's ad model influences the success or failure of various
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
Not strictly so. An example of misaligned incentives would be an insurance salesman/CEO overstating the likelihood of death, and thus overstating the likelihood of a payout to the customer. This hypothetical would result in greater mar
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
You could make the argument that Disneyland is designed to be a loss-leader, and there's no reason for the parks to reach a price equilibrium per se. In its original formulations, the parks are one link in a much larger business model
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
Perhaps this is off topic, but it's always strange to see writing thousands of kilometers. If we're gonna use the meric system let's commit to it: either write megameters or millions of meters. It's a very cool visualiza
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
In the most recent episode of the Exponent [1] Ben Thompson and James Allworth make the interesting argument that it's intended to recreate the enterprise-to-consumer transition that PCs made but for VR technology. That is to say that
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
That proof uses Euler's formula, which is the real brain melter.
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
Does this writer genuinely think they are the first to think of convincing people to get vaccinated? And all we needed was a little facts and logic?
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
A police report != a 911 call from a legal standpoint (to my non lawyer knowledge).
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
Thank you for this thoughtful response! I think I see what you mean how values are not necessarily universal and that imposing them across cultures can go very very wrong. You’re totally right that we don’t have to look past the last severa
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
Well put. Perhaps it’s cynical, I think that’s true of any corporation of Apple’s size: their only true principle is to maximize shareholder value. The best we can do as privacy-concerned mere-mortals is to take our business where those pro

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