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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
If you don’t read what you sign, it’s not uninformed consent. It’s you being an idiot.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Of course there was consent. There is even an explicit EULA listing in plain writing that you are actually collecting data for them that people have to agree to before playing. That people suddenly wake up to the fact that they were dumb fo
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> So obviously, now that Niantic is getting things outside the game its reasonable the people who did the work ask for something from that. Absolutely not. If you are compensated for doing something, you can’t suddenly come back for more
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
GDPR is about personal information. If they just keep the positional data and location information like the video gathered without linking them to a player, it’s perfectly fine.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
I don’t think there is something amoral here. Niantic explicitly sends players to take videos of places for rewards. It’s not like it’s done in a sneaky way. Being somehow surprised they actually plan to do things with the data they have yo
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> prevent unfair business practices that could harm consumers. It prohibits certain actions that might restrict competition , like tying agreements So, it's plainly written - ations don't have to actually harm consumers, the
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> It sounds like the end goal of this is to enrich other companies, not customers. Then end goal is fostering competitions in a market where there is basically none. So yes, it obviously benefits would be competitors. That's the poi
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Sounds more to me like Google taking convergence seriously which is a clever way to attack Apple in the tablet market since Google has no real laptop line to actually cannibalise. With side loading, nothing really prevents you from doing de
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
That’s irrelevant. Pneumatic systems don’t expose telemetry towards the network. If you want to do that - and you do because having someone next to your equipment all the time to monitor things is both a waste of time and money and very err
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
I have been using upstream kernels on multiple machines including network equipments for more than a decade now. I will take the risk of regressions over back ported patches any day. Apart for regulations mandating vulnerable (we can call t
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Sure but the world would also be better without out of tree patches which don’t track the mainline.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
I used to work on military boats combat systems. I scanned the title, read it nanometers, thought it was weird, mentally corrected to nautical miles being familiar with the context and cursed the person who wrote the title for the incorrect
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> Ibm was not in the punch card machine making business. It was in the data processing business, and still is. IBM absolutely was in the punch card machine making business in that they were absolutely selling punch card machines and not
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> Go is the main language for the CNCF project landscape ecosystem and that is about it. And even then, newer projects are more likely to pick Rust. This part of your comment lost me. It seems to me that the overlap of projects where it
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
The actual problem is that Provider real POV is actually: "We already do the bare minimum required by the law and you are too insignificant to damage our reputation. It would actually cost our shareholders money to do more so please go
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Their point wasn’t that innovation doesn’t exist. Obviously things change. Still, both Exonn, Coke and Wells Fargo are still fundamentally in the same business as they were before. That’s not the case of other companies. IBM became big sel
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Note that the world would be significantly better if entreprise distros stopped doing that and just shipped the latest kernel. I understand freezing user space because most developers don’t care about shipping stable software and break com
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
The quote at the beginning of the article tells it all: "However, none pretend to describe optimal pathways for achieving a sustainable, equitable and secure energy outcome for all. Instead, they settle for “practical” solutions that a
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> I get having monitoring systems for it that are accessible in a way they could be hacked and disrupted Actually it’s very easy to isolate that part. One way network equipments with physical isolation have existed for decades. An optic
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> We would need global participation, otherwise carbon emissions can just be outsourced to other countries You can simply add a tax at entry to match your own carbon tax until evening rules are added into trade deals. The fact that such
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Growth doesn’t have to depend on finite resources. Growth is simply more value being exchanged. You can have sustainable growth. Plus the human population will soon be drastically contracting anyway. Abandoning the only system since the bir
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> To cut emissions, we need to kill materialism, consumption economy That’s a moral statement not a factual one. To cut emissions, we need to do exactly that. Pricing in externalities (yes it means less beef but that’s not the same thing
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> We know GR is wrong because it is incompatible with any form of QM and we know some form of QM is more or less correct. It’s not really about one model being correct. GR is not a perfect model because its predictions don’t match what’s
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
I would reverse the question: if it can be done by a BPF module, why should it be in the kernel? Distributions turning it on by default is another story. Maybe it deserves to be shiped on all the time but that's not the same thing as b
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Clickbaity title. They are not halting international student admissions. They are reducing the existing quotas and there is no available spots remaining for 2025 as all have apparently already been filled.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
I know it’s upvoted so the community must find it interesting but this is an article from a site called "Hitsubscribe" which could as well has been written by ChatGPT (and to be fair I’m fairly certain that ChatGPT would give a be
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Meta question, what is it with all this cookie cutter articles targeted towards new managers on HN at the moment? I find it strange especially when you consider that these are not even particularly good or insightful articles.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
The way music is written has more to do with tradition and legacy systems than being efficient and correct and musicians like to fight about ultimately meaningless things like time signatures.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Your post reminds me of the very underrated latest film from Orson Well, F for Fake , which is about forgery. It contains an excellent quote from Elmyr de Hory, a notorious art forger, who at some point exclaims: "Guilty? Of what? Mak
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> Evolution does care if something is useful, if it aids in reproduction. Evolution is an abstraction subsuming other mechanisms. It doesn’t care about usefulness. That’s a finalist bias. Individuals reproduce or they don’t. The rest of

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