zonidjan

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by zonidjan 7y ago
Yes. You can't rely on capitalism to regulate businesses, much less to regulate businesses who deal with the private information of people other than their customers. (See also: Google, Facebook)
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by zonidjan 7y ago
There's already an impossible barrier to entry. The ones that already exist have data on almost every person in the US, and your new upstart doesn't.
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by zonidjan 7y ago
So... you're saying E=mc^2 is false? Huh, who woulda thunk it.
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by zonidjan 7y ago
> But, Burns asks, what if the ring’s mass is much greater when it slides in one direction than the other? ... In fact, a simplistic implementation of Burns’s concept would be to replace the ring with a circular particle accelerator, in
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by zonidjan 7y ago
That is one side of the story. I'm quite certain there's another side to it, as with anything. (In fact, I'm quite certain there's many more sides to it, with all the people who have jumped on.)
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by zonidjan 7y ago
> Maybe don't volunteer there. StackExchange isn't even a charity, it's a private for-profit company. This. Stop giving your time for the profit of people who don't care about you. You want to help the community? You
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by zonidjan 7y ago
> Stallman made some technically-correct-but-utterly-tactless comments No. No, he didn't. He made some technically incorrect comments. Regardless of whether or not what Minsky did should be considered assault, it is considered a
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by zonidjan 7y ago
Seriously? Duh. If you don't teach your kids that they need to plan ahead and take responsibility for themselves, they never will. And if you haven't taught your kids, your teacher is gonna have to - especially if it means a disru
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by zonidjan 7y ago
> Sexual assault is an act in which a person intentionally sexually touches another person without that person's consent Rather than blaming the laws which define sexual assault this way, Stallman chose to blame the people who wrote
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by zonidjan 7y ago
> he's being persecuted for having expressing ideas, demanding proof of claims, advocating for objective standards, and asking questions. > The announcement of the Friday event does an injustice to Marvin Minsky: “deceased AI ‘pi
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by zonidjan 7y ago
I, personally, would absolutely push to fire anyone who thinks that phone calls (or SMS) are reasonable second factors.
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by zonidjan 7y ago
It actually sounds like they've already been analyzing all links, regardless of "nofollow". Which is not surprising in any way.
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by zonidjan 7y ago
Oh, hi Microsoft.
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by zonidjan 7y ago
> Dare I say that a better indexed web is a public good that we all benefit from immensely. Sure, if it were used for the benefit of the public, rather than the benefit of Google.
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by zonidjan 7y ago
"Do more work so that we have more info. No, it doesn't give you any benefit."
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by zonidjan 7y ago
Yeah, I would think the biggest benefit here would be insurance/benefits (and possibly taxation) related, which doesn't seem to be mentioned at all.
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by zonidjan 7y ago
Surprise! Large groups of people have bad apples!
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by zonidjan 7y ago
Do you really believe that any police officer anywhere in the US actually cares enough about littering to do a full-on forensic investigation?
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by zonidjan 7y ago
We don't live in a surveillance state! We have all these rights and everything to prove it!
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by zonidjan 7y ago
This is entirely unsurprising. Facial recognition for personalized (in public!) advertising is already a big market, and oh, various US localities are using facial recognition. This is, of course, on top of other tracking methods like ALPR
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by zonidjan 7y ago
I wouldn't be so sure about YouTube being safe.
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by zonidjan 7y ago
Until you realize that Hangouts is a core service which is being shutdown.
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by zonidjan 7y ago
The worst mistake I've ever made in an attic was doing cable runs (TV to the bedrooms) on a summer day in Texas. Sure, we started when it was cool at 7am... but we finished around noon. So, to add to that: do it on a nice day in spring
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by zonidjan 7y ago
I really wish I could have a well-designed (for electricity use) house. Unfortunately, they don't seem to exist unless you build it yourself, and I can't even dream of doing that (although to be fair I can hardly dream of buying a
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by zonidjan 7y ago
Ah, yes. The old "I have more right to this road than you" argument. The apps don't increase congestion, piss-poor infrastructure does. Apps spread it out.
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by zonidjan 7y ago
We already do.
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by zonidjan 7y ago
It's a lot easier to do things when you don't have to go "okay, what's the conversion between these two units again?". The problem isn't base 10 vs base 12, it's the fact that in SI, every unit scales in
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by zonidjan 7y ago
Meh. Every 10F difference is a bit under 5C difference (since the ratio is 9:5). So you can estimate that 40F~5C, 50F=10C, 60F~15C, etc. All I remember is 2:1 and 32F=0C.
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by zonidjan 7y ago
Umm... is this a surprise to anyone? I'm only surprised it's new.
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by zonidjan 7y ago
> Here I realized that Valve has no interest in EoP vulnerabilities. ... surprise? Of course not. Neither do 99% of their users.

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