Nightshaxx

No worries. Just definitely find some support somewhere. Whether it be your family, therapist, or someone else. God bless.

Hey man, please feel free to email me at me at focalPoint49 (at) protonmail (dot) com and/or look for counseling online. I'm not a counselor but at least I can be someone to talk to so you don't feel as alone.

Google is basically the grim reaper of products....

Source?

The first thing I thought of when I saw this was this was almost certainly some sort of precursor/inspiration for the Facebook Portal which is a video conference focused smart....thing. I'd say your #1 is really on point.

I feel like notifications would be the only thing on that list I could see myself using. I know you can make the terminal make a noise, but I sometimes prefer visual alerts.

Not sure about Ubuntu's support for it, but they may have just decided to leave it for virtualization OSs specifically made for this purpose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXOaCkbt4lI

I should clarify: I meant to say that the first line was trying to indicate the comment was not specifically focused towards arguing for or against the weapon.

You clearly didn't read my comment. It starts with "we can debate the level in which America needs to be involved." I was not interested in getting into whether or not these tactics should be used.

My point was the OP said "these people do not pose a threat to my freedom" which is categorically false. Aal-Qaida is a terrorist group that directly caused the deaths of thousands of Americans, ripping them from their loved ones. To make _this specific argument_ against this weapon is just insulting to the victims.

Well then what constitutes misinformation? Is speculation misinformation? Are opinions misinformation? How does misinformation differ from someone exercising their right to free speech, but miswording what they say?

I think that is a slippery slope. In fact you just described communist russia where the government would get citizens to turn each other in for saying the wrong thing(this can easily be used for nefarious purposes). You are now allowing the government to suppress less-popular opinions by labeling them misinformation.

While we can debate the level to which America needs to get involved, are you forgetting 911 or any of the other terrorist attacks? It honestly feels downright insulting to the victims of terrorism that you would imply these extremist groups do not threaten your freedom.

The article specifically references that these devices used on members of aal-Qaida; the group responsible for 911.

So I tried to show this article to my mom and she had no idea what it was saying. When you introduce terms (and you are targeting non-"computer" people) you have to clearly define them right away. For instance she was really confused that hashing was used as both a verb and a noun.

I know a Riya whose name sounds like Ri-yuh, so I don't think you are completely wrong.

Darn, you spoiled it for me! I clicked anyways just to check :)

Thank you torrent freak for putting the legal documents directly linked at the bottom. I'm not sure why some news outlets don't do this.

"Correlation does not mean causation" has nothing to do with the amount that correlation is the result of causation. It means that the former does not directly imply the latter, you need to add more to your argument than just the correlation argument. There could be other factors at play that were the actual cause of the change. These factors could be the underlying causes for both events, or the events may be completely separate.

The only thing you said was "because X and Y happened at the same time, they seem to be connected". You did not make any other arguments about how X could cause Y. Within the past hour, I went to the bathroom, and also at least one person on earth died. As you can see, to say my bathroom trip caused that persons death is illogical without any other facts or evidence to back it up.

This is a really funny site btw: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

That makes sense! Thanks!

That's pretty dope! Any plans for adding VR at some point?

I bought the Zenfone 2 which had an Intel processor, and had a similar experience to the sister comment. The only super annoying thing that happened was when Pokemon Go came out all my friends had it but it didn't support Intel. By the time they made it available for the intel phones (which was a few weeks) the game wasn't cool anymore. :/

I saw you post this comment multiple times. Correlation does not equal causation my friend.

While I definitely think Mozilla is great for the internet, their main product is terrible from a business perspective. Trying to monitize a piece of free software that you are selling on this privacy benifits is a loosing battle. The reason free software is free is _because_ it can sell more valuable ads by using your data. Products that you pay directly for don't need to worry about selling ads so they don't have to do tracking and such.

A paid browser at this point is realistically impossible to sell at any sort of scale because chrome is free. IMO Firefox Mozilla needs to make a new product that is paid. Someone on HN suggested email and/or other services that compete with Google's user product suite? At that point you are selling server space so its easier to get people to pay for it.

As the article says, it's not about what they are collecting. It's about what they would do with that information and who they would ban.

Yes the US government does collect information, but at least to some extent they can be held accountable by it's citizens. No one can hold the CCP accountable and they can use these companies as a proxy to enforce Chinese censorship in other countries. (See Zoom banning US accounts made by Chinese protestors)

So I think you see the ban as a technological security risk, which, relative to most other big tech, it's not. It's a national security risk to the US and India.

I don't know much about if jobs pushed blame, but I read a book written by someone who worked closely with him. He actually had a really great talent which was understanding the consumer. He knew how to market and sell the products and forced through changes to do so.

But compared to the lottery, the skills needed to exploit the right place and the right time are not trivial to learn.

The accusations against China is that they do not follow the rules. Stealing IP is very illegal in the US but that didn't (allegedly) stop Waweii. So just saying "make more rules" is not a valid solution if the accusations are true. Byte dance already does store data in the US, but the only way to 100% prove they aren't sending data to China is to regularly audit ISP logs.

Without profit, people couldn't have created those things in the first place. Not because nessarily even they wouldn't have wanted to out of greed: if you can't feed your family at all with something it is less likely you will spend the amount of time on it that you would on something you can. Not to mention a lot of movies/books (Because of printing costs)/shows would just not have been possible without enough captial which comes from people who get said captial by making a profit.

I think it might be worth it to consider what coins we use nowadays. When the half-penny was abolished, it had more purchasing power than a dime. [1] Could we get rid of at least the penny so there is less waste?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/04/04/bringing-do...

Considering the fact it cost more to make the penny than it's worth, I'm not surprised.

You expect a lot from low-level dealers. We might even be talking highschool kids here.

Also I'd guess that hijacking the sitting President's twitter would make the hack much worse in a legal sense. Plus now you've pissed off the president who will make especially sure your life becomes he'll.