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by fixermark 7y ago
It's always interesting to me the number of people who come out on HN to advocate vociferously for ownership of their private data, given that HN doesn't even let you delete your account ;) https://jacquesmattheij.com&#
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by fixermark 7y ago
If that headline accurately describes the situation, in what sense of the words is it "my data" instead of "data about me?"
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by fixermark 7y ago
+1. When I was a Boy Scout, I had confirmation direct from an FBI agent that once somebody is wanted, the Agency has a long memory and a long reach. The anecdote he shared was a fugitive fled to Saudi Arabia. Over a decade and a half, the f
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by fixermark 7y ago
It's interesting that it may have been avoidable if he'd accepted rendition to Sweden to stand trial for the sexual assault accusation, given that the previous administration was apparently uninterested in extraditing him for this
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by fixermark 7y ago
If Assange gets extradited on a charge that the previous administration wouldn't push but the administration his organization assisted in getting elected is willing to (because they don't care about such a paltry thing as "en
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by fixermark 7y ago
First Amendment protections are not extended to non-US citizens.
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by fixermark 7y ago
Why? Every organization has whistleblowers. By the same token that Chelsea Manning leaked the state department cables, one can imagine a middle-tier operative with differing political ideology dropping a hint.
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by fixermark 7y ago
Correct. And would have been entirely unnecessary, because they could just wait him out. If the goal is deterrence, he works just as well as a symbol rotting in the Ecuadorian embassy as either dead or rotting in jail.
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by fixermark 7y ago
Wikileaks has leaked 10 some-odd documents on Australia, so I don't expect them to go to bat for him. The problem with being a uniform thorn in everybody's side is you run out of friends.
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by fixermark 7y ago
Or the release of the Vatican letters.
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by fixermark 7y ago
Problem is, Trump says a lot of things that he doesn't mean. Or he forgets, it's a little unclear. But the American intelligence community appears very interested in the guy and is known to have been working on extradition process
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by fixermark 7y ago
I honestly don't know what assange or wikileaks thought was going to happen when they leaked information that was politically embarrassing to an Ecuadorian ally. On the plus side, I'm now far more convinced of WikiLeaks' non-
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by fixermark 7y ago
If it was, WikiLeaks would have leaked the details by now.
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by fixermark 7y ago
Ah, see, I'm American. ;) The lane assist can be disabled and a cyclist who hard-brakes in front of me is taking their life in their hands because my Ford only stops if I touch the brake (it just stops as hard as it needs to to minimiz
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by fixermark 7y ago
I'll be honest, I still prefer it to the world where lack of software kills people. ... I avoided running over that child I couldn't see in my rear-view because the infrared sensors picked him up as a mobile object intersecting my
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by fixermark 7y ago
Not a pilot yet myself, but I know exactly enough about flight physics and control to suspect that while you are likely correct about the MCAS jack-screw positioning being undesired, the solution is probably not to auto-return it to neutral
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by fixermark 7y ago
This is referred to in the industry as a "Dr. McNinja scenario." (... nobody refers to it as that ;) ).
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by fixermark 7y ago
While this is true, the point that it's worth thinking through the nature and consequences of "obviously erroneous" sensor data is still a valuable exercise holds. If the temperature is past 280, generally speaking the same s
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by fixermark 7y ago
He doesn't seem to be an experienced owner of a home outdoor thermometer though. Or if he is, I need to know where he found one that goes to 452 degrees and why he even needs that much range. ;)
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by fixermark 7y ago
Google's entire privacy policy is laid out in (by the standards of other documents I've seen) very digestible language. https://policies.google.com/privacy#intro Beyond that, it's a trust and a penalties-for-
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by fixermark 7y ago
That's the thing though---given the interface of the law to the question, there are right and wrong things to say and do if one wishes to keep one's job. Paul Graham wrote an essay about "What you can't say" relat
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by fixermark 7y ago
A world built on completely unrestrained speech, surprisingly, is also a world built on fear. Counter-intuitive, but hypothetically: if a workplace has the freedom to openly declare that while they must act to comply with the law, they neve
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by fixermark 7y ago
> What information would these IT security staff have that we don't? The cost-benefit analysis of their individual industries and the risk tolerance of their companies.
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by fixermark 7y ago
> At what point does it become Google's responsibility The last time we tried to push the responsibility onto individual organizations to inform the public of the basics of how the Internet works, we ended up with "This site us
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by fixermark 7y ago
Perhaps the security staff are convinced that either Google doesn't actually have access to it in any practically-concerning sense ( https://www.quora.com/Can-Google-open-and-see-files-in-my-Go... ), or the risks associa
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by fixermark 7y ago
Privacy isn't a morality question for most users. If it were, we would expect to see more people up in arms about demographic surveys instead of willfully participating in them.
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by fixermark 7y ago
I'm looking for numbers on tickets sold but I don't know how to get them easily. Honestly, part of the problem may be that audiences for movies self-select for what they want to see, and there may be an upper bound on how many peo
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by fixermark 7y ago
Does Libre Office allow for simultaneous collaborative editing by multiple users and seamless passing of current version by passing a URL around? Does it require correct set up and maintenance of a Linux installation (which has gotten a lot
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by fixermark 7y ago
It was called "The Circle," it came out in 2017, and it did $40.7 million at the box office on a budget of $18 million.
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by fixermark 7y ago
Not only did we do it to ourselves, we're mostly enjoying and benefitting from it. The alternative (where all software is pay-to-play) actually shuts out the vast bulk of the world's population that doesn't have chips to play

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