gibba999

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by gibba999 5y ago
My experience is that one-off human costs tend to be extreme for exceptions at big organizations. Handling exceptions might require a business day or two of admin time just to handle the baseline exception. Multiply 16 hours by salary, and
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by gibba999 5y ago
Even without the crisis, what upside does the UK have over the EU proper? I feel like the UK was competitive when it was competing with European countries. Competing with countries in the EU? I just have no idea why anyone would invest in b
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by gibba999 5y ago
I don't care about "legally." I care about whether we live in a society where we have diverse opinions, and people feel free to express themselves. If we have a system where: - Market forces drive companies to support one poi
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by gibba999 5y ago
If it's just AI, you separate them with actual human oversight. From what I understand, they moved less because of demonetization, and more because of the chilling effect it had on free speech. They needed to be super-careful in script
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by gibba999 5y ago
They didn't pick Ron Paul to test this on, and it's not a bold move. YouTube has been in the censorship game for a long, long time. A lot of content creators -- of documentaries -- created Nebula because they were sick and tired o
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by gibba999 5y ago
This is sad. As much as I'm offended by many of the things Ron Paul does and stands for, I'm glad he's there. There's a lot of divergent thinking there. Outliers are good. I'd be terrified of a congress with a dozen
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by gibba999 5y ago
* Well, the links on the front page point somewhere random -- to a clipart site. * There's nothing about who is doing this or why. * There's no way to actually pay that I could find. * There's no information about overhead, o
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by gibba999 5y ago
Youtube doesn't give me a reliable feed of my subscriptions. If I haven't watched something in a few months, it's basically dead to the algorithm. This is obnoxious since I tend to watch series of documentaries, and I prefer
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by gibba999 5y ago
Epidemiology. Different scientific communities use different scientific methods, and often come to vastly different conclusions as a result. Epi, and related communities, uses frequentist statistical methods. It's an interesting dynami
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by gibba999 5y ago
That's an interesting hypothesis: The antivax/antimask/etc. movements as social media manipulation in preparation for a bioweapon. What's interesting is the dynamic between the epi community and the security community. I
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by gibba999 5y ago
Without commenting on China specifically, a few facts: - The cheapest, safest way to "invade" the US (or any Western democracy) isn't through an army, but through manipulation of news, social media, and elections - Indeed, if
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by gibba999 5y ago
I don't run Windows. I believe I was running Ubuntu at the time this was a problem, possibly Debian. This was a few years back.
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by gibba999 5y ago
I've had hibernated laptops wake up for whatever reasons in bags before. They get super-hot and shut down. Come to think of it, they were Dells. Perhaps some switch is not properly debounced or something.
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by gibba999 5y ago
Level of perceived versus implied condesension is a function of cultural communication style. People in some countries just talk like that.
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by gibba999 5y ago
And this is one of the many reasons why I'd never use Google for anything B2B, or that I have to rely on. I do tend to automate things in corporate settings in ways which differ from personal use, and I have seen many similar features
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by gibba999 5y ago
I say charge company B, but I disagree with your analysis of where the money will come from. Companies charge to maximize future profits. If company B tries to charge customers an extra $500, they'll be more expensive than company A, a
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by gibba999 5y ago
You're assuming perfect market transparency. That's a false assumption. Company A has good security, which adds $5 in your costs. Company B has poor security, which doesn't, which will lead to $500 down-the-line from a securi
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by gibba999 5y ago
They're npt. That's why they happen so often.
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by gibba999 5y ago
T-Mobile explicitly excludes out-of-date software from their bug bounty program. Same with CSRF and XSS issues. https://www.telekom.com/en/corporate-responsibility/data-pro... Most such issues are business-as-usua
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by gibba999 5y ago
Yes, the solution are astronomical penalties. And a corporate dissolution isn't the outcome. The outcome is that T-Mobile goes into bankruptcy, with its customers as the debtors. The outcome of that is that a bankruptcy court divides u
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by gibba999 5y ago
I'm over 30 too, and I believe in not allowing corporations to externalize costs onto customers. If my data is compromised, that should be very, very expensive for the corporation. When I was young, I wasn't a fan of this sort of
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by gibba999 5y ago
The best source I've seen are the tracing studies in China. Police state meant China could follow exact paths -- from camera footage -- of who caught COVID from whom. If both sides wore surgical masks (imperfect fit, but electrostatic
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by gibba999 5y ago
It depends on what other measures they take. A big part of the problem is everyone said "We're vaccinated, so we're done." That put enormous evolutionary pressure for the virus to learn to hop the vaccine.
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by gibba999 5y ago
... or using N95-equivalent masks and mild social distancing ... What's scary is gamma through omega.
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by gibba999 5y ago
No... early social distancing would have dramatically reduced R0. It's exponential growth. Fewer infections => fewer mutations. Proper masks (electrostatic or nano layer) are widely available, and they all but stop the original COVI
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by gibba999 5y ago
I don't know history, but the Wikipedia definition is good: "In economics, a free market is a system in which the prices for goods and services are self-regulated by buyers and sellers negotiating in an open market. In a free mark
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by gibba999 5y ago
I read the studies back in March 2020. There was pretty evidence from: * Studies on the spread of flu virus * Case studies of COVID in Asia. We know a little more today, but not a lot more. We have replicated the flu results with COVID19. I
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by gibba999 5y ago
Indeed it's not. ... and ironically, the liberals are far more individualistic, and conservatives, collectivist, at least as anthropologists use the term. A big part of the rationale for limited government is family and church support
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by gibba999 5y ago
Free markets are always regulated. I can't have slaves. In California, I can't have non-competes. I'm not allowed to dump toxic waste in the water supply. I need to take care of injured employees. I can't sell toxic food
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by gibba999 5y ago
Science is a process, not a democracy. Overall consensus is irrelevant. I know perfectly good scientists who believe cloth masks are useless. They're in the minority, and I disagree with them, but I can't classify reasonable opini

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