jasonlfunk

I've run into this before too. Sometimes I've actually added a delay timer to buttons that show loading spinners so that the spinner appears long enough for the user to see more than a flash. Is there a better option?

Problem isn’t so much about risk adverse cities, it’s more about litigious parents. If the city does anything That is considered risky, they open themselves up to big lawsuits if the children do get hurt.

Yeah, that’s a hard thing. Because the exploit is almost certainly worth more to the buyer than having it fixed is worth to Google.

People complain (not that OP is complaining per se) because the ads are irrelevant, but also object to tracking and profiling. You can't have targeted ads AND be anonymous to the ad companies.

Or, more likely, they were being intentionally vague to keep the details secret.

Unusable for you, maybe. But I'm sure the majority of people use MacOS without homebrew and find it perfectly usable for their use cases.

"It’s the Geek Chic way to nosh."

I agree with this generally. Though making specific laws can be helpful. For example, drunk driving laws. The only reason drunk driving is illegal is because it causes you to be a reckless driver, which is also already illegal. But the drunk driving laws make explicit the direct link between the alcohol and the recklessness. Maybe there is a similar case to be made for other drugs as well.

> I'm just saying that appealing to individuals to just "do the right thing" has almost never worked

Which is exactly what Mr. Benioff is trying to do with this article. Companies change when it's in their financial interest to do so; and rarely before then.

Sure it would be great for business leaders to change their ways, but the beauty of capitalism is that consumers can force businesses to change by their actions. Mark Zuckerberg could change Facebook overnight, but what incentive does he have? It’s still one of the most populous websites in the world.

It’s easy to blame to rich and wealthy for the problems but they cannot force us to give them money. Every time I buy Facebook ads, I’m telling Mark that it’s okay for him to continue what he’s doing.

It’s very fun these days to blame the 1% for societies problems. But the 99% enable them.

How is a smart phone any different? It has a microphone that, for most people, is always listening.

It’s not shocking at all. I find my Echo to be incredibly useful and I’ve decided that it’s worth the trade-off. Just like I did with the microphone I have on my wrist and the one in my pocket.

Is this article format normal for the telegraph? It seems strange to just have so many consecutive quotations in a row.

But what do you want Amazon to do? Send out two (or more) packages for every order on distinct routes just in case one gets delayed?

I understand that you are advocating for a minority group, and that's noble. But the expectation that it's not okay for Amazon to miss a delivery due to a plane crash is irrational. It has nothing to do with "ableism".

Apparently the new TOS says that they may do it, not they they will do it.

You, of course. No one is arguing that you should be forced to sell your privacy.

Nonsense. Why should the government ban Facebook? Unlike a lot of industries that consumers must use, Facebook is 100% optional. If you don't like what Facebook does, close your account and tell your friends to do the same. But if others want to use the services that Facebook offers, who are you to tell them that they can't?

Price shouldn't be based on the cost of production, but rather the value derived by the buyer. As a consumer, I don't care at all what the manufacturer paid to make the thing. I only care what I get out of it and whether the money I gave is worth the value get out of it.

This is terrible but blaming WhatsApp is misplaced. If it wasn't WhatsApp, it would have been another service. Either it will be easy to communicate or it won't be. If it is, it can be used as a force for good or a force for evil. The real problem is so much more difficult that it's easy to try to find something you can do, block the technology, so you feel like you are doing something even if it's completely ignoring the root of the issue.

In what sense can this actually be considered to be "AI"? It's software that builds a voice profile from input sources and then uses that profile to generate waveforms. Where is the intelligence?

What could go wrong?

It seems that anyone who knows enough to find this level of 0day vulnerability has skills that people would pay for.

It's still a little unclear to me what Facebook did wrong here. (Besides suspending the whistleblowers account, which seems like a dumb move.)

Is it that they collect too much data? We've known that they been doing that for years.

Is it that they allow apps to read not only your data but your friends data? That's not a surprise either.

So some company somewhere figured out a way to abuse these already known parts of Facebook in a way that already violates the their ToS.

What should/could they have reasonably done differently that didn't require changing their entire business model?

The best thing that I was able to do is to reduce my fulltime job hours to part time, initially 3 days/week, and used the other time to grow my own business. This may or may not be applicable in every situation, but if you are a positive contributer in your working environment, it's unlikely that your boss would rather just replace you (and retrain a new person) instead of just having you work less. This eases the stress tremendously on the new business if you don't have to worry about eating and rent/mortgage payments.

The first list is a list of 700 books. Personally, I don't find a reading list with so many books helpful. At one book a month, it would take 58 years to get through the list.

Well, the best way to communicate about software issues, requests, and bugs would be through a bug database - but certainly there is a lot more communication happening in a business that I would want mucking up my issue tracker.

As a side topic, are we really in a place that even vulnerabilities need branding and websites?

This is really an interesting idea.

Since the developers who live in cheaper parts of the country/world are now, effectively, paid more than those who live expensive parts of the world, are they not incentivizing employees to move out of the big cities?

I'm also curious about traveling expenses. I don't know if they do or not, but if they had an "all hands" meeting in Chicago, would they fly their employees in from all over the world? If so, do the people who live 10 blocks away from the office get the same "travel voucher" as those who live 10 hours away?

Yes. I often explained that CS was more like a math degree than an engineering degree.

Interesting map but the color choices are strange to me. I typically associate Red with difficult and Green with easy but it seems that this reverses that. I wonder if there is a reason.

> Everyone should get enough money to be able to refuse to work. That way, the incentive is shifted to employers, where it should be. Want someone to do something? Pay them enough to do it.

This sounds nice in theory, but how doesn’t this result in price inflation? Not only are you going to be taking a portion of businesses’ profits in taxes, but now you are increasing the cost of labour. And frankly, some jobs suck so badly that no one is going to want to do them without being paid a ton of money. For example, manual agricultural labor. Food costs would almost certainly skyrocket. (Unless you account for illegal immigrants, which you couldn’t naturalize because then you’d have to give them a UBI).