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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Apple really screwed up PR by launching the iMessage feature alongside the scanning-and-reporting iCloud Photos feature. There's so much confusion out there about this. It's possible that they determined that dealing with the
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> does that mean that in the near future I think the parent comment is in reference not to the current system, but to potential future functionality, enabled by opening the Pandora's Box of client-side scanning. Though I agree that
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> convincing parents to spend a little more to get their children an iPhone as their first phone What do you mean here: I don't think makes things any safer for child _users_ of iPhones, does it? It's scanning for images of chi
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> reading after only hitting two birthdays is the stuff of legend. I don't think this is quite true. I started reading shortly after my third birthday, and I don't think I just missed the cutoff for "legend". Though a
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Why would current-day vegans want it? Most of the vegans I know gag at the idea of eating meat. The real target market is current-day meat-eaters who wish, for ethical or environmental reasons, that they ate less meat. Or my position: that
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Perhaps its just a case of removing subsidies on real meat Or simply deciding as a society that the horrific torture the modern meat industry engages in is unconscionable. As with cars, once you remove the "necessity"[1] of a
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Person with depression and suicidal tendency (because we are talking about CBT) on the other hand is not comparable to yoga video. It is more dire than you think. > Having lived with a person for 5 year with chronic depression, your
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
My rhetorical questions apply to your point too. Do you think information on how to do yoga, how to be mindful, and how to get started running should also be medicalized, made inaccessible without going through our byzantine medical system
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
A much more articulate and informed take than I'm capable of was recently written by a practicing psychiatrist, about the medicalization of CBT apps and how absurd it is. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/welco
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Totally tangential, but i didn't realize that there were well-advertised "anonymous helplines for at-risk thoughts". I'm kind of curious about it as a pathology (what does "help" look like?), but I'm uneas
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Ah, I misread your comment. I also wasn't making any broader point, just thought it was amusing how closely very recent news matched your hypothetical.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
It's funny you say that. Senator Rand Paul was just suspended from YouTube for disputing the effectiveness of cloth masks: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/11/business/youtube-rand-pau...
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> The only thing that counts are the $6 million in cash and $15 million in treasury bills. Those figures are all in billions. 21B/62B is still much much higher than the claimed 5%
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> So perhaps don’t jump to conclusions, especially when you’re doing it to impugn other people. It’s a bad look. I 100% don't doubt that there are individual people here that have irrational feelings about Google for reasons other t
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Sure, how can I reach you
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Hey hey—I didn't say one way or the other whether it was a good thing or a bad thing. But I've been in and out of Google (Waterloo). They were there long, long hours often. Just the same, people seemed happy and fulfilled. &q
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> I don't agree with this characterization - it's too willful. To me, it seems more like a helpless coping mechanism. Since they "overestimate the degree to which their privacy is compromised", they resign themselves
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> We also have an "Exceptional and Temporary Contribution" (CET), recently renamed to "Technical Equilibrium Contribution" (still CET. Smart one, that one). This is amazing
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I believe this is incorrect. > At the same time, because of the First Amendment, child pornography offenses are not "strict liability" crimes like statutory rape: in order to convict a defendant, the government must prove that
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I'm relatively extremist on privacy and user autonomy in general. But I hesitate to say that privacy is so fundamental that people shouldn't be _allowed_ to decide they're okay with it. It's a while since the ruckus abou
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
You're wasting your breath. It took me many years to reach this conclusion, but HN threads about Google are the official meeting place of people bitter about their failed interviews. Just look around this thread to see how wild-eyed an
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Google was previously known in the wider world for imposing longer than average work days under the guise of "you love it here at the office we have pingpong and rock climbing". Honesty, in my experience this impression is ju
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Therefore your math doesn't add up. 2hr commute against 8 hours of work is not a 25% increase. What? Going from 8 to 10 hours is absolutely a 25% increase. 10 is 125% of 8
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> If it’s just stats why do I need Google? I can write code to bubble up stats across text sources in any language. I'm not sure I understand your framing here, but in it, aren't you just describing what Google _is_?
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Poverty and hunger are downstream of climate shocks, not separate from it. Drought and other extreme weather events are powerful historical causes of war and famine. The GP question is whether that dynamic is canceled out by the economic be
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I don't understand this. Your claim is that it's literally impossible to complete industrialization with non-polluting technologies? Why? Is there something inherent to the energy that fossil fuels provide beyond their cost and ea
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I don't think the suggestion is that developing countries should get to pollute their way into modernity the way the West did. As you point out, the planet won't care whether the extra pollution comes from a place of historical &q
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Governments need to tax CO2 emissions on the business side and pour the money into carbon capture technology in the private space through investment and perhaps some sort of bounty program Unfortunately, getting this proposed, passed w
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Apple has long set itself in opposition to user control and autonomy. That approach runs bone-deep in their DNA; it's practically their brand! To me, that DNA makes a move like this entirely unsurprising. To be clear, this isn't
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> you can opt out of iCloud scanning by not using iCloud. You can opt out of any privacy concerns by not using the concerning product. That's a complete non sequitur in a conversation about the concern.

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