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mark_edward··on Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras
You allow posts about mass surveillance technology yet it's supposed to remain apolitical.

Disgusting

mark_edward··on Dark Side of the Mac: Appearance and Materials
Why haven't you been replaced with a bot yet dang? Just download the training data from anal.tone-police.biz and run wild.
mark_edward··on Dark Side of the Mac: Appearance and Materials
Who is downvoting you? This site is full of fucking Apple cult members.
mark_edward··on EU parliament calls for Privacy Shield to be pulled until US complies
Look at it with the eyes of a whiny american who doesn't understand what a treaty is.
mark_edward··on Discord does not allow 3rd party clients
Of some note: some Rust core teams have already moved, piecemeal, official core team discussions to Discord, and are trying to get this done in a broad way:

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/exploring-new-communicatio...

mark_edward··on People getting killed by fake news on Watsapp
"Germany is the other Nation most in the eye of the world. Germany tried to unify its nation via taking over Austria. Germany’s religion is not what it should be. “German race pride has now become a topic of the day.

To keep up the purity of the Race and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging the country of the Semitic Races – the Jews. Race pride at its highest has been manifest here. Germany has also shown how well-nigh impossible it is for Races and cultures having differences going to the root, to be assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson for us in Hindustan to learn and profit by.” - Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar We, or Our Nationhood Defined

https://sanjeev.sabhlokcity.com/Misc/We-or-Our-Nationhood-De...

M. S. Golwalkar was the second supreme leader of the RSS

mark_edward··on People getting killed by fake news on Watsapp
This won't happen, the ruling coalition and PM have a long history of Hindu nationalist mob violence. Before modi became PM he was banned from the US for addicted that happened while he was governor of an Indian province with tacit approval. The RSS, the paramilitary wing if the BJP, openly takes inspiration from Nazis and Hitler's violent nationalism.
mark_edward··on Italy Wikipedia shuts down in protest at proposed EU copyright law
It'd probably be smaller because they'd have no domestic tech industry and be on Google Apple FB like everywhere else
mark_edward··on Microsoft Releases 125M Building Footprints in the US as Open Data
People like to say that, but in practice it's not true and hasn't been for over a century.
mark_edward··on Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Military Contracts
Maybe "many people here" feel that what our military does has little to nothing to do with defending our country, and often puts us at more risk and/or makes the world a worse place.

This is such a weird and controversial concept to so many people here.

mark_edward··on U.S. lawmakers want Google to reconsider links to China's Huawei
If google co-operates with teaching kinematics to Chinese teenagers, many of those teenagers may grow up to use them to shoot rockets at the US.
mark_edward··on Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their videos worldwide
Yeah it's almost like a lot of people really just want everyone to shutup and accept how things are.
mark_edward··on The Divorce Surge Is Over, but the Myth Lives On (2014)
What's the agenda? Why don't you people just say what you think instead of making ominous noises?
mark_edward··on Bay Area man must pay $136,000 in tech-support scam against elderly
I just kind of assumed they did. Also the sibling indicates this might be a troll so I'm taking the whole thing with a grain of salt.
mark_edward··on Bay Area man must pay $136,000 in tech-support scam against elderly
That's... If I ran a forum that was supposed to be moderated like HN I'd ban someone like that. This is Reddit-tier copy-pasta or YouTube "Social Experiment" garbage.
mark_edward··on Bay Area man must pay $136,000 in tech-support scam against elderly
Why would you share this story? It really is horrible. Anyway, glad you changed.
mark_edward··on Vue Native
Web Components?
mark_edward··on Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘restructures’ the company
Don't worry, the American Enterprise Institute and other business groups have produced plenty of educational material on how unions work.
mark_edward··on [dead]
Special treatment for tech CEOs on the social media/PR front of an incubator.
mark_edward··on Linus Torvalds on aliasing
I see what you're doing, and it doesn't make any sense. I just said I didn't like a pointless display of emotion, and so you do a "satirical" emotional appeal?
mark_edward··on Researchers suggest that R.E.M. sleep serves to warm the brain
From the god of the gaps to the pseudoscience of the gaps. The same 5 old tricks to justify superstition and folk belief.
mark_edward··on Linus Torvalds on aliasing
It's also people who throw fits with little provocation when they don't like things, which sounds fitting to me. Seriously, the thing gets merged anyway but he has to "express himself"
mark_edward··on Thoughts on AbbVie’s Rova-T Implosion
Don't worry, the free market will take care of it by killing patients who choose unwisely.
mark_edward··on Bypassing website anti-scraping protections
Move fast and break things, like norms
mark_edward··on Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially
I think you should read some stats on Korea or Vietnam and get back to me
mark_edward··on China’s SenseTime, the world’s highest-valued AI startup, closes $620M round
Who needs social credit scores telling you what to think when you have HN!
mark_edward··on Intel accused of age discrimination
>Older people are less innovative, learn slower and so on.

Why should I or anyone else believe this about older and more experienced programmers? I can't think of many fields where more experienced practitioners are generally worse...

mark_edward··on Bitcoin backlash as ‘miners’ stress power grids in Central Washington
It's just the opposite of targeting a business to pay less than other enterprises, which happens all the times as development incentives. I don't think it's any worse policy than that, it's just the flipside.

In this case, due to the fact that by taking the town's total usage up, they raise the costs for everyone in the town, you could also just see as internalizing an externality.

mark_edward··on Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app
You're right, I'm generalizing unreasonably. But I think can say that this is a problem. I don't think it's a particularly lawless town.

Breweries and bars might be different too

mark_edward··on Mapping the Segregation of Metro Atlanta’s Amenities
That's what the subsidies and other incentives that usually accompany that are nominally for
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