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by tmotwu 5y ago
These excuses just keep getting funnier. App developers: make sure you file your patents, or else its YOUR fault if Apple decides to participate in blatant 90s style Microsoft anticompetitive behavior.
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by tmotwu 5y ago
As someone who spends their time maintaining every aspect of my cars (oil, brakes, bearings, everything), Toyotas were by far the easiest, simplest, cheapest, most reliable and longest lasting. What a weak point to make about Tesla over Toy
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by tmotwu 5y ago
And anyway, certainly the appreciation of the value of your home is more dependent on the plot of land and not the condition of the structure.
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by tmotwu 5y ago
Sorry, no. I was with you on your comment on doing. However, "working class" is an actual term [1] that does not fit your intended message. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_class
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by tmotwu 5y ago
Why is it weird to preserve and strongly regulate natural landmarks?
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by tmotwu 5y ago
> The references I shared make it very clear that Instagram is losing market share. Not sure why those dots were difficult to connect. I said that in the context of breaking up G/FB. Why isolate that sentence for no apparent reason?
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by tmotwu 5y ago
I am not exactly sure what you are trying to prove here. As far as I am concerned, Google and Facebook have not been broken up into pieces of YouTube and Instagram yet. How does this in any way demonstrate what would happen if we broke up b
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by tmotwu 5y ago
If we were to break up Facebook or Google, it would be of the granularity of YouTube or Instagram, which is actually what TikTok competes with. I cannot see how YouTube or Instagram could suffer or lose market share.
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by tmotwu 5y ago
Not many people realize, but Longyearbyen is very accessible during the season. There is a fully operational airport only a few miles out that services multiple passenger flights in and out daily. I came by to visit a few years ago and the
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by tmotwu 5y ago
Collaboration and competition are not mutually exclusive. Competition does not always result in self-determination. For instance, people mentor others because they might learn something new themselves or grow their network. Thus, you can en
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by tmotwu 5y ago
Where do you find the balance between spending time maximizing your child's entry into a safe and secure future versus entertaining their passions? Not that being passionate about something and school-like activities are mutually exclu
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by tmotwu 5y ago
People need incentives, and being competitive in school-like activities provides them. Universities have been moving away from evaluating candidates from raw academic or scholastic perspectives. For instance, removing standardized testing f
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by tmotwu 5y ago
Yea, we may never know. If Replit just went ahead and filed a lawsuit and presented their case in front of an actual court, that would shed light on the legitimacy of their claims. Some posters has offered to help pay for his defense. Optic
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by tmotwu 5y ago
I am not sure I agree. The topic of intellectual property and trade secrets in software, or if IP laws should even apply, is probably another discussion entirely. However, there's no reason to trivialize it to cutthroat copy and pasted
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by tmotwu 5y ago
No, lets be honest, this did not "change" for the reasons you listed. Mainboards are all manufactured in China. Right to repair advocates are not looking for manufacturing processes, silicon designs or calibration procedures. All
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by tmotwu 5y ago
I used to think it was fair. Then I learned that Apple provides exceptions only to some Apps through some sketchy backroom process. [1] Apps that don't directly compete with their products. Enough exceptions to popular apps to minimize
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by tmotwu 5y ago
Yes, opt-in informed consent from maintainers and reviewers of the patches.
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by tmotwu 5y ago
You are free to disagree. Obviously, not every scenario can be navigated using an arbitrary policy for conduct, which was what clearly happened here. 'Informed consent' in the context of cybersecurity research is described in the
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by tmotwu 5y ago
> If UMN’s ethics board has approved this experiment in cooperation with Linus/Greg No, informed consent must be with all participants and maintainers reviewing the patches. Why does Linus/Greg get to decide that for others?
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by tmotwu 5y ago
Perhaps why she did not explicitly call out rape in her message. However, it's a very realistic abuse and harassment claim, that in itself is already extremely problematic.
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by tmotwu 5y ago
Nope. Lets say IRB made the correct decision and demanded informed consent. Then informed consent must be requested from ALL participants, maintainers, and reviewers of the study. Higher up maintainers don't make that decision for othe
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by tmotwu 5y ago
I still do not get your initial point. You argue that firing would be justifiable in industry, e.g. non-academics, yet we don't hear Google or Facebook [1] scientists getting fired for controversially unethical experiments with poor pu
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by tmotwu 5y ago
> Non-academics get fired for doing unethical things entirely unrelated to their jobs all the time, just to avoid bad publicity. Yes, only if it's unrelated to their jobs. People get hired, not fired, to do unethical research in ind
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by tmotwu 5y ago
> The ethics around research that involves deception have been pretty well established and are are several good comments here explaining them. Ethics in computing research remains an active research area. This incident will be used as a
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by tmotwu 5y ago
For me, it's not learning the lesson the first time around. I completely agree their experiment is unethical. However, it's not actually clear cut to most researchers the ethical bounds of their work, especially for study papers t
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by tmotwu 5y ago
Yeah, it's not a great apology. I would say as far as justifications go, I think it's a certain level of depth expected from academics, you shouldn't overthink it. As far as giving benefit of the doubt, it's likely not d
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by tmotwu 5y ago
I understand where you are coming from, and you are right in some aspects. But there's more context to why there is a narrative that minorities generally "seem" to lean on the American left. It doesn't really have anythi
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by tmotwu 5y ago
Customers don’t infer the purpose of a product from it’s company mission. The audience of a company mission are employees themselves. Dropbox has expanded to more than file syncing over the past decade. It makes sense to have a broad vision
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by tmotwu 5y ago
So is Torch? A much more common word to refer to a flashlight.
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by tmotwu 5y ago
Sure thing mate. I'm not contesting on what available avenues are available for Googlers, perhaps you know more than I do. Just stating the factual observations, repeated cases of an individual employees getting fired for raising conce

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