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by LeftHandPath 5y ago
It's something I've noticed in modern peer-review practices, too. And some have gone as far as creating fake papers to study whether or not they get published: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/20
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by LeftHandPath 5y ago
At work, I've been writing a word document to explain every part of a program I've written and how each element interacts with the rest. It's been very helpful to find things that don't make as much sense as I thought th
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by LeftHandPath 5y ago
Reddit's design is what actively pushed me to Hacker News, the Risks Digest, and a healthy mix of paid news (WSJ, FT, Bloomberg, etc). The site is really being redesigned to enable astroturfing and user manipulation on a commercial lev
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by LeftHandPath 5y ago
I could see one case where it does make sense - stores after the gate in airports, where there are more people walking by and seeing the advertising than there are customers coming in looking for a specific product. In any place like a groc
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by LeftHandPath 5y ago
This is an incredibly interesting read. > TC is also aimed at payment systems. One of the Microsoft visions is that much of the functionality now built on top of bank cards may move into software once the applications can be made tamper-
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by LeftHandPath 5y ago
I think I would go to another store due to this. I think that non-HN type people like my dad or my mom would probably go to another store due to this. Not being able to see what's behind the glass makes it take longer to shop. People
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Will Windows 11 use TPM 2.0 – now required – for TC / DRM?
6 points by LeftHandPath 5y ago|3 comments
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by LeftHandPath 5y ago
I got it in 5:58 and I'm proud.
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Trusted Computing and Digital Rights Management: Theory and Effects (2004)
2 points by LeftHandPath 5y ago|0 comments
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by LeftHandPath 5y ago
> stimulatory addiction This really seems to be it, for me. There's a "high" that comes with being productive. Multitasking lets you trick your brain into thinking its being productive, giving you the high without actually
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by LeftHandPath 5y ago
I have noticed it as well, but I haven't gotten to the point of doing anything about it yet. If I'm playing a video game, I have to be listening to a podcast. If I'm reading a book, I have to check the news every few minutes.
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by LeftHandPath 6y ago
This is why it's important that the set of drivers killed in AI accidents will be different. The ones killed in accidents up to this point are the ones being reckless (and sometimes, the people they inevitably hit). The ones killed in
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by LeftHandPath 6y ago
I think this is the best argument for why self-driving cars are much further away than we realize. A fully autonomous vehicle that is perfectly suited for modern city roads is a long way off. A human is still required. In this case, it see
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by LeftHandPath 6y ago
It was something that I got preoccupied with when I was writing a lot back in middle/high school. I tended towards past-tense, but I noticed that a lot of young adult novels were first-person present, e.g. Hunger Games.
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by LeftHandPath 6y ago
I agree with the core point of the article, but I agree with your points as well. The conclusion of the article is definitely wrong. I recently buddied up with someone who has a CS degree to try and make a desktop app, as a side project. I
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by LeftHandPath 6y ago
To be fair, stifling web apps sounds like an anti-google move, not a pro-apple move (unless they've explicitly stated otherwise, I'd assume this is the reasoning). That said, I have been able to install some of my own websites as
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by LeftHandPath 6y ago
The biggest reason I haven't jumped ship to Android over the years is that the App Store has always been inherently curated, and typically more secure than the Android store. The iPhone has been pretty good for security / privacy
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by LeftHandPath 6y ago
My university is a mixed bag. We had an ethics discussion in a 101 course that seemed beneficial. However, the other "ethics requirements" seem like a way to shove political propaganda down the throats of students who would have
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by LeftHandPath 6y ago
Is that really exaggerating? Those are both legitimate examples of the words they used. Working at Facebook shouldn't mean that some official in the EU gets to know what kind of insurance I opt for or how much I make, or generally dig
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by LeftHandPath 6y ago
I'm still surprised it was so politicized on places like Twitter. Colbert, Trevor Noah, Seth Meyers, and others all roasted him for it and called the drug dangerous[0]. Meanwhile some center-left leaning places like the Hill were actua
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
I agree. I’ve been in the DDG camp for a little while, but I finally had to switch back to google as my primary search engine on my laptop - fixing searches was taking too much time. That’s after two or three months of using DDG and Bing e
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
I mean, it's more like saying that Nevada is west coast. It's definitely west --- but there's no coast. Czech Rep. is as far east as Austria, and I dont think anyone would question Austria being part of traditional central E
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
> Cynical answer though Honestly I don't think it's that cynical - it just makes sense. There are the people who can and will do that stuff - and do it happily - and they would presumably be the easiest to hire as junior devs.
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
I am definitely against the newest measures taken by car companies, e.g. Porsche completely covering the engine (and voiding warranty should you access it) save the oil reservoir, on the newest 911s. There is also something missing from my
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
There are a lot of cars that were maintainable, and built to be maintained, that can’t be maintained anymore simply because the manufacturer went defunct and there are no more parts (e.g. Saab, Datsun) or because the cost of manufacturing
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
I’ve been harassing my dad for ages over his purchase of a WiFi-enabled LG fridge. Neither of us know why it’s connected - but it is, and it proudly displays a WiFi icon with a backlit LED right above the water dispenser. The only thing you
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
Reminds me of a lot of the ire that I had for GDPR when I first read it (vague wording, general legislative over-reach, potential for arbitrary enforcement, and shoving it all through due to popular consumer sentiments that aren't nece
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
Actually, it doesn't necessarily have merit. It just seems like it does, because people will assume that almost any vaguely-worded paragraph that's supposedly about them must be true. See the Barner / Forer Effect: https:&#
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
I guess I've been lucky to avoid literally any of this at work. However, one of my classes at university has each student rate other students in their group with arbitrary personality factors that seem like they should be subjective.
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
This is what I was thinking as well, until I saw the “.dev” in the URL.

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