RyanZAG

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by RyanZAG 8y ago
Seems highly unlikely to ever work, but why assume the technology is evil? If you could create a system that had a high accuracy of detecting terrorists, then that would be a good system, not an evil one. I get your point that a system that
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
All reporting is always biased. Every word you select is a direct product of bias, and the choice between multiple sentence phrasing changes emotional direction of the reader.
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
I don't think many would argue that the content was in any way worse back when the internet was used by a much smaller population. At the end of the day, the content that is really useful and that you actually want is rarely created by
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
If an app (even badly coded) causes memory leaks in the OS, that's a fault of the OS still. Of course fast moving OSes like Android or iOS are always going to have these kinds of bugs and it's probably not related to Swift as Swif
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
Companies are just people though - the guys in charge of decisions are the ones we're ultimately evaluating. That the left hand of the company doesn't know what the right hand of the company is doing isn't much of an excuse,
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
You'd need to get it into all servers too, which is probably a very long time frame.
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
Doesn't mean you go rob people's houses.
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
I don't think this is correct. For all the people who would have their data exposed in a public torrent, their data is likely safe at present and just needs to be removed from that website. If you put it in a torrent, you're hurti
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
"Missed opportunity" ? People can be stabbed in the back if they go into dark alleys without watching behind them. Let's stab a few people who go into these alleys so that everyone will be afraid to do so and we have an oppor
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
We should probably keep doing studies to check how dentists think we should brush our teeth. We just shouldn't have dentists do a study on a variable that directly harms their income as we would already know the results they would give
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
With one of the major contributors to the paper being 'Committee on the Impacts of Sexual Harassment in Academic Science, Engineering, and Medicine'[1] who only get paid because sexual harassment exists surely can never have an ag
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
Yes, it does feel that something is wrong somewhere, but I can't find out where. Nobody would be using the idiomatic goroutine-per-task with that kind of overhead, yet it's one of the most common building blocks of golang projects
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
Isn't that already the case though, regardless of net neutrality? Seems the large scale surveillance and manipulation will happen, whether it is legal or not.
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
Kind of defeats the purpose of using golang for a task like this. The whole point of golang is using the little greenlet threads, but actually using them in this case is terrible on performance. The remaining performance left behind is all
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
Google stopped caring about search a long time ago. Nobody at Google gets promotions for 'keeping search good', only for adding unwanted features. So more and more unwanted features keep coming from all directions, and Google&#x27
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
It's in the article, and the article isn't terribly long. But here you go anyway: > Eight of the rivers are located in Asia: the Yangtze; Indus; Yellow; Hai He; Ganges; Pearl; Amur; Mekong; and two in Africa – the Nile and the
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
Obligatory relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/882/ And if you think this only applies to statistics, you need to think about the problem being described here a bit more.
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
Hmm makes sense. I see what you mean from the position of say a general in US army tasked with this stuff: if someone says China can do X, his bosses are going to ask why America can't do X too. And therefore to force America into doin
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
Not so, nobody forces anybody to compete in an arms race. My point is that there is an arms race - and inventions such as AI for war are part of that arms race and are being developed. These are very easy inventions too, given the widely av
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
I don't think you have to worry here. Even as a kernel contributor, you'd likely never interact directly with Linus.
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
If you ever end up in a war with China, you'll be seeing plenty of drones. Obviously China doesn't use drones for killing terrorists - China doesn't kill terrorists because terrorists have no way to get into China in the firs
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
I'm not from the rural mid west, but no one from the mid west uses underscores for emphasis. But seriously, there are 65 million people living in the US midwest. I can promise that thousands of you guys use 'mid west', unde
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
It's a good point, and if anybody thinks an arms race isn't already happening then they are very naive. While we're debating the morals of this, the Chinese, Russians and many others are trying to make it happen. For all we k
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
That's just artificial scarcity, right? Rural property out in the woods is just as cheap as its ever been, in my experience. Cities just have a lot of laws preventing a lot of things, but I think most people who choose to live in citie
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
What does it indicate? You can go to a place like Mauritius where the delta is enormous, but everyone is pretty happy and the rich and poor mingle freely. Or you can have a place like France where the delta is far smaller, but the rich and
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
In terms of poverty, is there a difference between getting more wealth vs everything becoming cheaper? I don't think there is - your life has improved just the same either way. Fixating on silly numbers that ultimately mean nothing doe
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
Firing Musk is never going to happen. It would collapse the share price, and investors know that. They can complain, but they can't fire him and not lose a fortune all around.
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
I think point of above is more that it's in their interests to make sure they never do any checks, so no doubt they never do any. They could probably catch 99% of abuses by just specifying it in the contract with the 3rd party, but the
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
Windows 10 is really recent though. That said, since I like controversy: I'm happier to see Microsoft buy Github than I would be to see Google or Facebook buy it. And also! A big shoutout to Linus for helping to make source control dis
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by RyanZAG 8y ago
Github don't control git -- > Torvalds turned over maintenance on 26 July 2005 to Junio Hamano, a major contributor to the project.[25] Hamano was responsible for the 1.0 release on 21 December 2005, and remains the project's m

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