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by yakult 9y ago
Alternative hypothesis: most 'secret family recipes' are in fact original. However, the average SFR never get passed around, because it produces average-tasting stuff. The recipe on food labels come from companies that know the p
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by yakult 9y ago
New Atlassian logo is better than the old logo. Old one always looked more like an unimportant decorative element than logo. I totally agree about the hate on rich markup replacing plaintext, though. Entirely counterproductive and stinks of
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by yakult 9y ago
They're probably going for native advertising.
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by yakult 9y ago
Sure, we CAN contribute. But what's in it for us? Are we going to get a browser that caters to our own needs? No, evidently power users are no longer the target demographic. Are we going to make a browser that we can recommend to our
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by yakult 9y ago
The telemetry probably shows that all the power users opted out of telemetry.
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by yakult 9y ago
Quite a dangerous tool. What happens if I copypaste some random text into the file and press save, by mistake? Are there mechanisms to limit the damage? Also, when I remove a hash and save, the file is gone permanently, even if I paste it
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by yakult 9y ago
...or you could just scrap the whole idea and not bother with it. This is true for the user, too. If the only viable choices are 'verify claims at great cost and no gain every few months', or 'use some other privacy-respecti
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by yakult 9y ago
what percentage of FF users on the planet do you expect could read a paper on differential privacy and actually verify those points, while understanding all the ifs and gotchas, and be able to tell if any of the arguments are wrong? What p
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by yakult 9y ago
So, what are the odds that we'll have an AI that writes at GoT quality before George finishes the last book?
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by yakult 9y ago
Look at it from a security-conscious user's perspective: I would have to verify that: 1. The concept is sound. 2. It is implemented as described. 3. It is implemented with no bugs. 4. Mozilla is trustworthy 5. Any third-parties Mozilla
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by yakult 9y ago
1. Any data collection at all deanonymizes the user, cf panopticlick. 2. Frankly even opt-out is not acceptable. I can't recommend any software that peridically asks users for data access, since there exist non-technical users who hav
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by yakult 9y ago
Look at it this way: whenever you are running a program you didn't write yourself, you're running a bunch of commands you never checked. This is no different to, say, downloading a precompiled executable and running it, with all
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by yakult 9y ago
>what nefarious things can one do knowing that some anonymous user happens to e.g. refresh pages a lot (or even, how can that data be sold)? Page refresh pattern data would go a long way in deanonymizing the user panopticlick style.
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by yakult 9y ago
Generalized version: "Only <low status> people get <common condition that I do not have, or would like to signal I do not have>". Once you see the pattern you'll see it everywhere.
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by yakult 9y ago
You need access to expertise, equipment, grounds, peer competition. These all require money and/or connections.
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by yakult 9y ago
Going pro depends significantly on the economics of supply and demand, if it's defined as 'finding enough people to pay you to do this for a living'. It's easy to go pro as a plumber. Not so easy when you have to compe
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by yakult 9y ago
I think the reason is that if he had used 'she', there would have been a shitstorm. If you do a word-replace of all instances of 'he' with 'she' and 'his' with 'her', it becomes an entirely
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by yakult 9y ago
Nonesense, obviously the money is in selling recorded conversations to the highest bidder. Identifying spending patterns via image recognition of pets and babies would be up there also.
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by yakult 9y ago
What's the current state of art in this direction? Is there a way to encode equations explicitly prior to training?
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by yakult 9y ago
Academic code typically just has to work once or a handful of times, for a small number of highly expert users, frequently just for the author. Ease of update is of the essence - you'll rewrite most of it many times, as your understan
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by yakult 9y ago
This is a story about misaligned incentives and social status. Having the special programs lowers the social status of the demographic it targets, because it suggests those people are not good enough to climb the ladder through meritocratic
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by yakult 9y ago
Depends on whether I get a price better than my assessment of the asset's present value.
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by yakult 9y ago
This is purely speculation, but judging by how gun-ho they were about OPEC production cuts, they may have much less oil than widely believed. It could be they would have needed to cut production anyway since the wells are aging, and they&#
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by yakult 9y ago
There's this, there's the post the other day about encouraging 'openness' with MDMA, there was the article proposing 'fairer' jerrymandering reform that just so happens to shift all the votes in a single direct
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by yakult 9y ago
The lesson there is that people have unrealistic budget and schedule expectations of large IT projects. Same with defense, medicare, etc.
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by yakult 9y ago
Meanwhile in America: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Roadways Unlike that debacle, this might even make economic sense once you factor in the government rebates/sweetheart deals and the PR bonus. Alas, nob
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by yakult 9y ago
Numbers don't make sense yet. Plus it takes up space, is a fire hazard, and I am doubtful the 10-yr+ warranties will actually hold up past year 5, especially for third parties. Right now it's mostly for conspicuous consumption an
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by yakult 9y ago
For large companies, I can imagine using new branch offices for a/b testing. A while ago I read a comment here about a university that, instead of paving roads to a new campus, just had grass everywhere. A semester later they paved ov
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by yakult 9y ago
I suspect that's actually part of the problem: a massive buildout of renewables without full accounting or planning for the complications to the grid, i.e. all the shock loads and lack of storage. Then the consumer is left footing the
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by yakult 9y ago
>It's easy to walk into someone's office and have a discussion. Certainly less easy than joining in on a conversation you overhear while sitting at your desk. What we have here is disgreement over the optimal 'activation e

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