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Brotkrumen··on I deleted my 118k-follower, verified Instagram account
Marketing departments
Brotkrumen··on My dog was killed on a walk with a walker ordered through Wag
Is losing the dog you had since you were eight better or worse than losing a distant father?

Different people have different experiences. Gatekeeping grief is so massively weird to me. Guidance for the future: instead of one-upping the griever with an IG post about how you are sadder, just show empathy and move on.

Brotkrumen··on China’s Nreal raises $15M to shrink augmented headsets to size of sunglasses
Everyone. If it looks bad, it will remain a niche product. With no adoption past the enthusiasts, the glasses will remain expensive, the dev ecosystem bad, the available software for limited and low quality.

You should always care whether your favorite product is sellable to a wide audience.

Brotkrumen··on Google may shut down its news service in Europe
every publisher is "small" at first. This is about not rocking the boat for larger publishers by better, maybe more professional, upstarts.

The argument about click-baity titles is relevant to whether a publisher is small or large. Every large publisher now has a yellow press sub-brand that just pushes out trash with click-baits.

Brotkrumen··on Google may shut down its news service in Europe
There is no lower limit on what constitutes copyrighted material and what isnt in article 11. A headline would also be copyrighted material, so subject to a license fee. HN would have to pay for a license if it wanted to operate in EU.
Brotkrumen··on Google may shut down its news service in Europe
He means that smaller publishers don't have a brand yet where people just browse directly to their site. Those smaller publishers get a disproportionate share of views when one of their article trends on google news.
Brotkrumen··on Google may shut down its news service in Europe
I wonder who those same publishers are going to blame when their visitors drop by 13% as they did in spain.

But maybe that's intended, as smaller publishers would suffer the most the large publishers would finally be able to decide what is news and how it's to be distributed.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150725/14510131761/study...

Brotkrumen··on Edward Snowden says a report critical to an NSA lawsuit is authentic
Germany had something similar: a fact-finding committee tried to figure out what to do about NSA and our local spies spying on Germans local and abroad. Pro privacy parliamentarians wanted to rely heavily on Snowden docs, ruling party and anti-privacy required an in-person interview in Germany of Snowden to admit the docs as evidence.

Of course tthey didn't wwant to guarantee Snowdens freedom while here, so that interview never happened and the docs were ignored.

I bet that's going to be the NSAs play here too

Brotkrumen··on Sqlite: Code Of Conduct
Well you also shall not commit adultery so marry them first.
Brotkrumen··on First analysis of how Uber and Lyft have affected roadway congestion in SF
At the most basic level: YYou take your congestion per citizen metrics before the market entry of uber, which should be linearly related, and extend that line. Then you draw another line with the metrics after uber. If you see a difference and you can't explain those away wwith other causes, you're confident it's ddue to uber.

The study very likely threw some more statistical tests, controls And models at it, but that's the gist.

Not an unexpected rresult either: personal vehicle use means the car is on the road twice per day, uber twice per passenger and the distance between passengers.

Brotkrumen··on Ex-Google engineer describing the company's role in China censorship
You go where your customers are, or audience iin this case
Brotkrumen··on Every Byte of a TLS Connection Explained and Reproduced
Per session.
Brotkrumen··on Chinese Intelligence Officer Charged with Economic Espionage
The allegation is

>conspiring and attempting to commit economic espionage and steal trade secrets from multiple U.S. aviation and aerospace companies.

What you are quoting is part of how he went about it.

Brotkrumen··on Study: Google is the biggest beneficiary of the GDPR
Yes, the amount of tracking cookies is declining.

https://www.techradar.com/news/gdpr-sees-cookies-crumble-on-...

The shutting down of companies is a desired effect, because those are the companies that won't get consent. Data resellers for example that dont provide any advantage tto the user.

We haven't even seen the actual effects yet because google Facebook et al are probably in violation and are waiting to be sued to fight it out in courts

Brotkrumen··on Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’ Year
3.5 million new cars are registered every year in Germany alone. If we can replace a significant amount of that with cheap, shared, swlf-driving electrics it'll be a massive step towards carbon neutrality.
Brotkrumen··on For progress to be by accumulation and not random walk, read great books (2010)
>This analogy is not generally accepted by most philosophers. Briefly: philosophy is not a science.

Which philosophers are you referring to? I'd agree with "many" but "most" is an empirical claim I'd not be brave enough to make. Do you perhaps mean to say "economics isn't a natural science"?

Case in point: there is tons of kuhnians running around that think of science as a consent-seeking endeavor with agreed upon principles. They recognise that any hard delineation between say econ not being a science but physics being one, usually kicks out a lot of progress in physics as not scientific. Especially those theoretical physics whose predictions are extremely fruitful bbut where experimental data is out of reach right now.

Brotkrumen··on Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams
Let's be real here: this is an enthusiast price point. Very few decently sized sized teams will want to fit a 100$ a month into their budget for this little value add.

This is maybe even the point: fewer but enthusiastic customers to gather relevant feedback.

Haven't seen the ability to host the videos locally, so serious developers are out too. Potentially broadcasting valuable info isn't a big selling point.

Brotkrumen··on Tesla has asked some suppliers for cash back to help it become profitable
Biased source but i found it an interesting read

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/elon-musk-vs-short-s...

Brotkrumen··on Lean Testing or Why Unit Tests Are Worse Than You Think
His claim of lacking empirical evidence shows his lack of research on the subject. There's tons of research that consistently shows comprehensive testing during development makes your product better and cheaper over its lifetime.

Just a quick google and not even the paper I was thinking of: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/6050...

Brotkrumen··on British cave diver considering legal action after 'pedo' attack by Elon Musk
Aren't outbursts at odds with quiet professionalism?
Brotkrumen··on British cave diver considering legal action after 'pedo' attack by Elon Musk
Quiet professionalism would've been "no comment about Musk. I'm happy the children are safe".
Brotkrumen··on British cave diver considering legal action after 'pedo' attack by Elon Musk
Also the hate for Musk is a bit unsettling. I made the mistake of viewing the replies to various tweets surrounding this controversy and there's a worrything amount of unreasonable haters ready to jump in and attack him by sniping at anyone talking positively about him. Why anyone would feel the need to attack a helpful narcissist is beyond me.
Brotkrumen··on Tesla opens the Model 3 reservation floodgates
I wouldn't want to make that assumption without further information.

If you are right, a lot of highly trained and paid people have made a grave mistake in their throughput estimates and might still be lying about it.

On the other hand there could be bottlenecks they know how to solve but are waiting for the tooling to be done.

Brotkrumen··on I Stop Celebrities from Blowing Their Money
There has to be a catch. Maybe high copays? 1500$ a year is ridiculously cheap
Brotkrumen··on Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Military Contracts
Not really. Being "on a single piece of hardware" is not necessary for a system to be air gapped. Its not cutting edge tech either and questioning the requirement of some systems to be air gapped is... not smart.
Brotkrumen··on Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Military Contracts
"Air gapping" just means not connected to the internet, directly or indirectly.

Usually goes along with the air gapped system running in a small intranet you strictly control access to.

Its not a bleeding edge technology as the article says (maybe the author made a joke?) but a standard security measure to protect highly sensitive or critical systems.

Brotkrumen··on EU copyright reforms draw fire from scientists
How GDPR is always listed as bad is beyond me. Do you actually know what it does or are you just repeating what the sellers of your data are moaning about right now?

Privacy is broken, GDPR with informed consent requirements for nonessential data uses, is a first step in the right direction. All the bitching right now is from companies that made money off of selling you out.

Brotkrumen··on How the modern containerization trend is exploited by attackers
This effect isn't new, even in ye olde days of waterfall. Back then it was called rapid prototyping and first system syndrome.

The rapid just got rapider today with easy packages, frameworks and containers. The prototypes just became "web scale" and are run way beyond their intended lifespan, just like any first system is.

Brotkrumen··on Footsteps, Pressure Sensors, and AI: The Next Step in Airport Security
You could probably trick that system by dragging something heavy, deviating from your regular gait. Now where to get something heavy to carry around at an airport, I have no idea.
Brotkrumen··on Some frustrated publishers are sitting out Google’s GDPR meetings
This forever popup unless you accept should run afoul of the language in GDPR that forbids the degradation of a service if a user does not opt in.
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