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by ickwabe 2y ago
This will be lost now in the conversation, but this video by woodworker Stumpy Nubs is worth watching for key context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxKkuDduYLk Yes SawStop sued Bosch for patent infringement and won. But
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by ickwabe 3y ago
I highly suggest people give Techno Tims walkthrough of this software. It explains use case and demonstrates it across all major platforms. https://youtu.be/2ITezMkbAqE?si=-YVJq8iqwFYQ9gMr
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by ickwabe 4y ago
Facebook engineers don't need to explicitly change their algorithm to promote violence. They do it by negligence; by letting the algo maximize for engagememt regardless of the outcomes. Facebook spends most of it's moderation ef
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by ickwabe 4y ago
That's semantic sleight of hand. The US is clearly a representative democracy. One related opinion on this topic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/yes-consti...
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by ickwabe 6y ago
I think many of these comnments are missing the broader implications for the fashion modeling world in general. Right now there are a lot of folks that are not models tied into this as well: photographers, lighting and set people, makeup,
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by ickwabe 6y ago
It may be able blocking ads or not. But I dont think it's about tracking. NYTimes already ran a successful test in Europe where they eliminated all third party behavioral based ads and saw no revenue drop. https://techcrun
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by ickwabe 6y ago
There's a gazillion videos all over youtube criticizing, mocking, and calling out the Chinese government for all sorts of repressive activities. I'm confused as to why people would think youtube is bothering to sensor those two ch
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by ickwabe 7y ago
One of the major problems with the concentration of wealth in such few hands is that the societies/countries where these folks live don't get to make collective decisions about how the money is spent. Most have made their money us
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by ickwabe 7y ago
Indeed! I enjoy many of the episodes. But the first time I had these thought was after reading Charles Stross' Accelerando. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando There's a character in there that has hi
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by ickwabe 7y ago
Well put. To wander a bit off topic, but I feel this is a specific example of a general problem in free societies. There is no perfect safety without perfect surveillance. In my opinion, it is necessary to be at peace with the fact that
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by ickwabe 7y ago
Whenever this conversation appears in the news and I listen to various law enforcement and political folks defend some sort of need for breakable encryption, I always jump to the logical end. Or at least one possible one. In the future the
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by ickwabe 7y ago
You should reach out to the folks at https://teamhuman.fm/ . Might be some connections you could make there along these lines.
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by ickwabe 8y ago
"On the Media" podcast this week addresses this as well. Worth a listen. https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/on-the-media-myth-of-merit...
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by ickwabe 8y ago
I use this as well. Found it very helpful.
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by ickwabe 8y ago
The Federal Trade Commision has that legal standing even if they chose not to exercise it.
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by ickwabe 8y ago
I dont think this is correct. I added the boolean security.ssl.disable_session_identifiers set to true in Firefox 62.0.3 and ran the SSL Labs browser test here: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/viewMyClient.html . Wit
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by ickwabe 8y ago
I think it's in there in the "waveguide" tech. iFixit has a pretty good write on on their tear down and they mention this. https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Magic+Leap+One+Teardown/1122... Also... h
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by ickwabe 8y ago
Re: "list prices are often incredibly far removed from the actual dollars paid, and the actual amount paid is all dependent on insurer contracts" Would be great if they were required to provide list, min insurer price, max, and me
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by ickwabe 9y ago
Agreed. As should Norway and Iceland.
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by ickwabe 9y ago
My suspicion is that this is a false-positive. If you go to about:config and search for doubleclick there is an entry called: browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectsAll Use is self-explanitory in the name. This twitter thread indicates same: ht
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by ickwabe 9y ago
https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/ https://github.com/exodus-privacy/exodus https://github.com/YalePrivacyLab/tracker-profiles
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by ickwabe 9y ago
Additionally it is in fact expressly illegal in 13 US states (Alabama, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, South Dakota and Utah) to use video or audio equipment in a private a
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by ickwabe 9y ago
Perhaps but at that point the US (or whoever) can counter with their own rules/laws. Might lead to manufacturing balkanization but I'd prefer the US not the one to step over the line first in the same way I'd prefer the US n
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by ickwabe 9y ago
Right. But there is an apparent balance at the moment where because no government has demanded and received back doors, no country mandates it. It's a precarious spot to be sure. But it would be bad for the US to step off the line f
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by ickwabe 9y ago
I agree. Yes. Perhaps I should have said I have zero expectation that most corporations would say yes. They will decide they just cannot ignore a chunk of the world population that big.
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by ickwabe 9y ago
My take away from this is quite different. Or at least tangential. I expect Apple and any other company to have to comply with local laws in various countries. It's unavoidable. What else could they do? Refuse and loose access to t
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by ickwabe 9y ago
This article provides little context or analysis. This article from the NYTimes provides a better jumping off point on this same topic (colleges and universities mentioned in the paradise papers) and is better at making clear what the pote
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by ickwabe 9y ago
Scientists need to try more "radical sharing"[1] as the member journalists of the ICIJ[2] did in order to report on the Panama and Paradise Papers. Setting aside ego,etc. I would think result in faster real-world discoveries and a
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by ickwabe 9y ago
David Foster Wallace This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
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by ickwabe 9y ago
I think this session from I/O 2017 provides a better overview in some regards. Admittedly it's brief on details but the overview is helpful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9_ytg6MUP0

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