spaceheretostay

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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
I don't understand this logic. SpaceX's bread-and-butter is building technology and setting up processes to lower launch costs to hilariously low levels. > Those thousands of sats will also need to be replaced as quickly as 10-
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
One method is that your neighbors may report you. In China, part of the social credit system is that your neighbors will report you for doing anything against the law or the rules. So they may not 'block' you from putting it up an
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
It will not take SpaceX 'decades' to enable widespread commercial and personal use of the network. It is SpaceX's intent to use it as a revenue driver for the early work on the Martian colony, which is planned to get started
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
I'm not sure how that could happen. No matter how much money you have, this stuff takes time. There should be multiple independent companies providing satellite internet at low-cost with thousands of satellites each within 2-3 years (S
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
> Have you never committed a bug before? Engineers who make mistakes that harm people are still responsible for the mistakes they made. You cannot just claim "it was a bug" and get off scot free if your code harms someone or ot
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
None of what Facebook has done here sounds plausibly legal to me. I'm not a lawyer, but this stuff is plain-as-day immoral and illegal from my eyes.
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
> Should a developer be responsible because the cookie banner they implemented wasn't compliant with the laws of 100 countries even though the legal team already told them it was ok? Yes. 100%. "I was just following orders&quot
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
We don't all need to be lawyers to understand the basics of our laws. Knowledge of the existence of the law is assumed for all citizens. Ignorance of the law has never been a valid excuse when the law is broken. (Yes, the US does hav
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
Facebook have broken a huge list of laws. But recently from my reading I think the current issue is a breach of contract. They signed a legal contract with the FTC and then broke it, hence the fine. There doesn't seem to be any debate
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
I have noticed this as well.
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
AI is a technical term with a specific meaning: > Computer science defines AI research as the study of "intelligent agents": any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of successfully a
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
> “We found that on days when managers reported high email demands, they report lower perceived work progress as a result, and in turn engage in fewer effective leader behaviors,” says Johnson. It seems this is largely a disparity in exp
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
How does it sound fake? It sounds lovely to me, especially much of the Chopin+pop piece sampled in the article.
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
> When Gallup investigated the responses more closely, it found that being under 50, earning a low income and having a dim view of President Trump’s job performance were correlated with negative experiences among adults in the United Sta
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
I wonder if, with OpenAI's state-of-the-art text synthesis, they could 'relatively' easily add stories with words and lyrics into this music.
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
I'm personally excited about Flutter largely because it seems the preferred development environment for Fuchsia. People will complain that Google kills projects too soon and too often, but I feel like Google has an MO and when you figu
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
> A massive investigation turned up no criminal conspiracy That is definitely not true. > failed to substantiate a charge of obstruction This is also not true. The events are ongoing, the investigation has not 'failed' in a
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
> Do you think that's the net result, Yes, 100%. > I have a very hard time believing that the total harm of devices that watch us (actively or potentially) exceeds the actual benefits delivered by those devices. This is a false d
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
A common feature of our modern society is that bad actors will take illegal actions and rarely/never face repercussions. This emboldens them to further do more illegal things. Meanwhile, the courts take months or years to reach decisio
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
Surely you can - that could amount to criminal negligence which is definitely a crime.
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
Isn't that just like 1 month's worth of revenue? That amounts to absolutely nothing in today's world, not even an incentive to reduce the bad behavior. Jail time for lawbreaking executives needs to happen . The financial pen
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
The harm done by surveillance societies is not completely subjective. People are suffering. Their suffering due to surveillance-pervasive society is objectively bad. And if you want to argue that people should suffer and that is a good th
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
Reality has already slipped further than I described.
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
I did not give a "political rant". I gave a run-on sentence (for effect) factual description of why privacy is a societal concern above and beyond personal concerns. I did that with historical listing of events. I am not injecting
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
> To be clear: there's no assertion of real-time access to microphones anywhere. Well yes I know, I figure this data is likely years-old or whatever, I don't see how that matters? I didn't bring up real-time access and I&#
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
> I'm so so so tired of these articles. What do you mean, isn't this the first article on this topic? > So a dev can listen to conversations because they write software to transcribe voice to text? That has nothing to do wit
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
> It seems like there's a legitimate use case for this data Maybe, but you haven't found it. To resolve your query, simply fudge the locations by 50-200m in random directions. You'll still get good local results and won&#x
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
The people who are packing the boxes and knocking on your door don't have access to the microphones inside your house. Hearing conversations and search requests from customers is quite different from knocking on their door or packing a
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
This is not a debate, it is a waste of time. > Show me the increasing temperatures since the 1930s and I'll concede I was wrong. What does the 1930s have to with any of this? Nobody who is making statements about climate change has
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by spaceheretostay 7y ago
I think you have based this all on false assumptions, which is why we have a communication breakdown. I still don't get it. > Thus my planes are carbon neutral, How though? The carbon went into the atmosphere first. Then - some time

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