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by ygjb 2y ago
That's what happened last time around with Trump.
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by ygjb 2y ago
A side effect of my career is that I have been in compliance adjacent roles for 20 years or so, and as a result I have read most of the related regulations. I still defer to a lawyer for actual opinions, but have frequently had to explain
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by ygjb 2y ago
This service is currently running, in production, in the United States, and is missing key features that are regulatory or legal requirements. I won't enumerate them because I work in security, not privacy or compliance (although thos
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by ygjb 2y ago
> Comments on security: This is a huge issue for me. I've followed best practices as nearly as I can, but I've also been asking around to find out who could do a comprehensive security audit, but haven't yet found anybody
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by ygjb 2y ago
> The second is a bit more complicated, since multiple family members may have access to the same data, and may have different opinions on deleting it. I'll work it out. I know it's been said elsewhere, but you need a lawyer.
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by ygjb 2y ago
Uh, this is appears to be an application that collects data that is regulated in most legal jurisdictions, lacks a published terms of use, doesn't have a published privacy policy, and at first glance is missing rudimentary security con
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by ygjb 2y ago
Sure, Trudeau was a ski instructor. You will also note that I neglected to mention that Poilievre had a paper route; that's because paper routes aren't professional experience. Trudeau was also a secondary school teacher, acted i
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by ygjb 2y ago
Here's the primary problem with your argument: the current front-runner to win the next election is the Conservative Party of Canada, with Pierre Poilievre as leader, and pretty much a shoo-in for the next Prime Minister. Poilievre is
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by ygjb 2y ago
True, but this is normal; two other Prime Ministers have taken this approach over the last 30 years, Brian Mulroney and Jean Chretien both announced their intention to resign, and then held leadership conventions to select a new party leade
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by ygjb 2y ago
For the example Parmesan cheese vs PDO (Protected Designation of Origin, under European law) Parmesan Reggiano cheese, the differences are in flavour and texture. It is absolutely possible to make Parmesan that matches PDO Parmesan Reggian
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by ygjb 2y ago
Practically speaking, it also makes using and querying that data and doing any kind of analytics much, much more expensive. It is done that way in some cases, but in the absence of a technical requirement to do so, there are cheaper approac
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by ygjb 2y ago
I can't speak for any other companies, but you don't need to speculate. You can search the internet and find several articles outlining that the correct strategy for businesses here is to delete the data from production systems,
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by ygjb 2y ago
idk, I can definitely see value in a lightweight LLM component for VIM to help me look up the correct command sequence to exit :P
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> For large organizations, remote can be the difference between one state's paperwork + regs + taxation, and every state and country under the sun's paperwork + regs + taxation. That is a real burden. Not just the paperwork + a
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by ygjb 2y ago
> This barely-disguised contempt for what should likely be their most valuable power-user base suggests Yikes. I am a long time Mozilla supporter, active user of Firefox since before it was Firefox, and former Mozilla employee, but this
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by ygjb 2y ago
I think that the approach that Anthropic is taking to governance is a little different than "all for myself", it's worth having a read of https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-long-term-benefit-trust It sou
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by ygjb 2y ago
I didn't miss that part. I am telling you that users hitting report spam on emails (yours, or others) that they don't want to see are not abusing the button. They are sending a signal that they don't want to see (or receiv
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by ygjb 2y ago
> Their spam filters are awful and are harming what I feel is a very important project. Cried every marketer in history when individuals, groups, or governments implemented rules to make it hard to reach people. > They're allowin
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by ygjb 2y ago
There may not be a direct metric, but there are a number of mechanisms that municipalities can use to track things: * use of public transit * use of roads / traffic measuring * measuring counts of pedestrians * anecdotes and actual dat
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by ygjb 2y ago
It's a bike shed. It's easier to argue the definition or terminology than the technology, so it's the thing people go for.
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by ygjb 2y ago
If you don't know why society is dragging it's feet on wiping out, you should probably educate yourself before making such a suggestion. Mosquitos suck, literally, and I despise them, but they are a critical link in the ecosystems
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by ygjb 2y ago
> all because British people think an ID card means you'll get stopped on the street to show your papers. That's probably because all of the anti-immigration and anti-foreigner people who are asking the government to stop peopl
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by ygjb 2y ago
Yeah, less golden eggs, and more golden funnels (Chrome, Android).
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by ygjb 2y ago
Yeah. There is alot of over hyped and over funded nonsense that comes out of NASA. Some of it is hype from the marketing and press teams, other hype comes from misinterpretation of releases. None of that changes that there have been major
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by ygjb 2y ago
Sure, just on the training front, building and maintaining a broad corpus of properly managed training data with metadata that provides attribution (for example, content that is known to be human generated instead of model generated, what t
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by ygjb 2y ago
Of course they won't. The investment in the Heavy Press Program was the initial build, and just citing one example, the Alcoa 50,000 ton forging press was built in 1955, operated until 2008, and needed ~$100M to get it operational agai
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by ygjb 2y ago
Yes, most consumer home security products have a security subscription attached because they require monitoring (and many jurisdictions require monitoring for alarm permits to help reduce false alarms). For Ring, that also means the featur
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by ygjb 2y ago
> Instead of asking to stop, they should do just what they suggest, without further ado - distribute the income to the ecosystem devs the way they see fit Probably not. The amount of money they are taking in is very small, and if they s
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by ygjb 2y ago
> This kind of logic only works if you ignore any kind of possible nuances in the problem and just insist on throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Just because someone let you do automatic updates (or let's be real, you probably
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It's easy to make comments like this against automatic updates, but then you get popped because something that would have been automatically updated misses a patch because it was too critical to risk automatic updates. In practice, fai

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