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by wilsonnb 8y ago
This comment thread [1] is a pretty good indication of why I don't think Jordan Peterson is worth listening to. He has no interest in answering the question he's being asked and instead throws out a single study to defend his posi
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
> Do you think it's somehow bad for a car manufacturer to not want to go through the hassle of making their cars conform to the safety standards? Ah yes, the old "all regulations are equal" argument. It should come as no s
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
You don't run Android Studio on your phone. Being able to run Android Studio isn't the definition of a general purpose computer. Being able to develop software for a device on that device also isn't the definition of a genera
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
The problem I have is that you are conflating potential damage and actual damage as the same thing, which is not how you accurately measure risk. I am honestly confused as to how you interpreted my last comment as "utterly cavalier
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
Are you talking about a "dumb" phone? That I would agree is a special purpose computer. A smartphone is definitely a general purpose computer, though. The definition of a general purpose computer isn't "a computer that c
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
I have a hard time seeing any justification for your view. Why would you own data about yourself? Do you own your name? Do you own the fact that you went to taco bell for dinner last night? Can you sue someone else for knowing you went to t
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
A phone is a general purpose computer, and most people pay more than $300 for their laptop or desktop anyways.
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
The essential phone didn't have a headphone jack either.
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
All of the big companies know that most people aren't willing to base their purchase on whether or not a phone has a headphone jack, and therefore they don't have much to lose from ditching it. They can use that space for more b
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
You forgot "target emerging markets", which is an important reason that Xiaomi and Huawei have been successful. Nexus phones also weren't really successful and weren't intended to be. They were intended to be development
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
That seems like an extreme perspective. Kind of like the tech version of abstinence only sex ed. Sure, it's the only 100% safe way, but it's not useful for most people. It doesn't weigh the benefits against the potential cons
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
The whole point is that they were not comparing anything to clean water or cheap food . They were comparing something to water that doesn't need to be moved inside manually and bread that doesn't have to be made at home. Neither
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
So you're saying that all data that has made it to the cloud will eventually leak? That seems like a strange assumption to me.
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
The problem with this logic is that it applies to phones, tablets, and laptops as well. There isn't much additional risk from having an Echo or a Google Home if you already keep a smartphone within 10 feet of you at all times, which mo
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
Where have you read that Amazon and Google send a ton of data back? I've heard that none of these devices send anything back until they're activated by a specific phrase.
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
Without data to back it up, your reasonable confidence doesn't help me much.
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
I'm pretty sure you can buy IBM's newest mainframe, the z14, with 32TB of memory. I don't think that mainframes are that popular in trendy "big data" though.
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
Your first source states in the headline that the drone strikes "kill innocents 90% of the time". Then, in the body, it says the drone strikes "caused the deaths of unintended targets nearly nine out of ten times". An un
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
First of all, people haven't even come to a consensus on when war itself is ethically justified. It shouldn't surprise anyone that drone warfare, a subset of something we can't come to an ethical consensus on, is a highly deb
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
They shouldn't be testing on public roads and highways then.
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
It's already illegal in many states in the US. Possibly at the local level as well. Here's the relevant law for Virginia. https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter9/secti... It's a
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
Corporations do operate primarily based on profits (not entirely, but mostly). You seem to be ignoring the fact that "profits" doesn't just mean how much money they can get today. It also means how much money they can get tom
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
Run for local government, or state government. Some millennials are old enough to run for a seat in the House. Depending on when you define the first birth year for millennials, some might be old enough to run for the Senate. Work for a lob
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
I wouldn't throw the New York Times and the Washington Post in the same bucket as the Huffington Post and Slate without some good evidence backing it up. It reinforces the idea that all news sources are roughly the same which is not tr
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
The substance is that I actually use a security feature that Apple has implemented and it makes my device more secure. That's my justification for saying that Apple cares about security. If it was security theater, then the feature the
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
Perhaps you could explain why you think those things are security theater. Then your comment would have some actual substance.
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
Your assumption that nobody at Apple cares about the customer's privacy and security is completely ridiculous. The fact that they have a setting to wipe your device after 10 failed pin/password attempts proves that they care about
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
I also use do not disturb mode all the time, so that only texts and calls from my family get through. The Android P beta has changed the way do not disturb works by default, though. Now it doesn't show the notifications at all. Previou
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
Pretty much the same books that are beneficial for non-programmers to read.
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
Assuming people are actually auditing the open source firmware.

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