lerpa | 7 years ago | on: Red Programming Language: Plans for 2019
What's the different between that and plain old structured programming subroutines?
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lerpa | 8 years ago | on: Google YOLO clickjacking
Although I don't think this is some sort of conspiracy, HN front-page is curated content, ranking is not only based on votes.
lerpa | 8 years ago | on: IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016)
> Watson got bored of beating grand masters at chess and started refusing to play
That's when you reboot it, if that doesn't fix it good old persuasive maintenance techniques can also come into play
lerpa | 8 years ago | on: Sergey Brin warns of AI threats through a 'technology renaissance'
It is not a given that any AGI would be a treat. There are plenty of Natural General Intelligences, and I don't fear monkeys taking over the world, or creating faster, better, stronger monkeys any day soon
lerpa | 8 years ago | on: Sergey Brin warns of AI threats through a 'technology renaissance'
Aí winters happened because of the hype and that people ultimately realize AGI (not even talking about the Singularity) is not as easily achievable as hyped. So interest dies.
lerpa | 8 years ago | on: “Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy”
Debt possibly. I personally knew a few people that would spend money they don't have just to show off IRL before social media was a thing, and I can see doing it to a larger audience being much more efficient.
lerpa | 8 years ago | on: Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case
And that's how we went back to book burning, again.
lerpa | 8 years ago | on: I wandered off and built an IDE
If you're referring to the mission of impressing the girlfriend, success doesn't seem likely.
lerpa | 8 years ago | on: Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted
That's like saying having to pay for any product is extortion, just because it's something you want but don't want the consequences of that, in that case paying for it.
lerpa | 8 years ago | on: Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (2007)
Natural monopolies are like that. Artificial ones are either Govenrment enterprises or Government enforced taking what was initially natural one and making it into law, and tend to overstay their welcome because of that.
Monopolies are good as long as they can be gone in the flip of a hat if people decide so.
lerpa | 8 years ago | on: Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted
Exactly and they have the perfect excuse:
"Well when talking about deleting we mean we do the exact same thing the file system does to a file, it flags it, but doesn't actually erase it's content. Acting like a filesystem delete operation is what people expect when using that word"
lerpa | 8 years ago | on: Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted
You accept that when you join.
lerpa | 8 years ago | on: Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine
Exactly. Another example is applications "phoning home" (desltop applications sending information back to the server) that not that much ago was considered a serious abuse. And people on forums would lambast you when you asked how to implement something like that. Now it's called telemetry and is the norm.
lerpa | 8 years ago | on: Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine
It's the problem with that kind of speech, it's impersonal and dehumanizing.
Let's say it like it is: facebook betrays users expectations giving their data to other businesses.
Same for hacking: some people invaded system such and such and took private information.
It doesn't matter if it was a breach, a floodgate, a window, what matters is what happened, and what happened is that player X did Y. Let's just state that first and foremost.
lerpa | 8 years ago | on: EU wants to require platforms to filter uploaded content, including code
You're still free to open a competing service, and can leverage the fact that you are better than the other guys as free advertisement basically.
lerpa | 8 years ago | on: EU wants to require platforms to filter uploaded content, including code
Why would you block access from the EU if your site is hosted elsewhere?
If you think complying with foreign regulations is not worth it, or if you're not even aware of it, it's not up to you to block anything. Why would it be? If they care they would make providers block your site.
lerpa | 8 years ago | on: Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in Europe
In a sane world they shouldn't be liable of anything if a person from another country uses their website.
lerpa | 8 years ago | on: How poverty changes your mindset
Yes, it's not just because people are at the moment going through a problem that they know how to solve it. It's one thing to be in a bad situation, how it is and so on, another is to know how to get out of it.
lerpa | 8 years ago | on: How poverty changes your mindset
That's also why giving money is a lot of time not a solution. Despite being easy, lazy and making people feel good about it.
lerpa | 8 years ago | on: The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is damaging our minds
What matters is that it ressonates with a common oppinion that smart phones are bad, so as long as it supports that somewhat popular position it doesn't need to be checked.
We all have biases, and in fact I don't use a smart phone because of some of the issues I have noticed using one previously, but if truth matters to you, you cannot just accept stuff just because you agree with it.
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