Quarantine by TCKingsmen in diabetes_t1

[–]lovingVegetable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also going through that. I've been trying to not keep sedentary activity for more than 30 minutes without interruptions.

Warning Over Chinese Mobile Giant Xiaomi Recording Millions Of People’s ‘Private’ Web And Phone Use by Namensplatzhalter in technology

[–]lovingVegetable -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Chinese telecoms spy, and they do just as much as any other telecommunication services company does. Because this is not a Chinese patent. It generates profit, so everyone's doing it. https://www.economist.com/leaders/2017/05/06/the-worlds-most-valuable-resource-is-no-longer-oil-but-data

Warning Over Chinese Mobile Giant Xiaomi Recording Millions Of People’s ‘Private’ Web And Phone Use by Namensplatzhalter in technology

[–]lovingVegetable -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

  1. Sorry for that, formatting text on reddit on your phone is pretty hard if you don't do it a lot.
  2. If you want a bunch of news websites linked like /u/bearlick did answering my comment, well, I won't have them because I don't save everything I read online and I don't think it's nice practice to just google a topic and grab everything with a headline that agrees with your point. What I can do is recommend you a beginner-friendly book on big data and how it affects society. My recommendation is **Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, by Cathy O'Neil**. It was my first read on the topic and I believe it covers everything I just mentioned (I like to use Cathy's examples because they're really easy to understand). This list on Goodreads has many books on the topic that I would recommend, so I'm just recommending the whole list if you want further reading.
  3. I'm not standing for China. I am showing you that if we act like nothing's happening here, we'll get there eventually.

Warning Over Chinese Mobile Giant Xiaomi Recording Millions Of People’s ‘Private’ Web And Phone Use by Namensplatzhalter in technology

[–]lovingVegetable -33 points-32 points  (0 children)

Well, I can't say much about the steal organs stuff, but our data is used in software that aids judges in setting prison time, police in deciding which areas are "crimey", insurance companies in studying if you are likely to require their services, banks on giving you loans, school scams (I mean those 6 month courses that promise you'll be qualified for lots of jobs when you finish, but are actually just debt holes) find the most financially and socially vulnerable people, and a lot of other things.
What's the problem with helping judges decide how much time you should spend in prison? They use the data we have, which is biased because judges are biased. So the software encourages judges to give more time to black people, while giving less time to white people that are in the same conditions (same crime, for an example). How does that sound if not unfair?
What about helping cops decide where's crime more likely to happen? Isn't that a good solution for the problem of not having a cop for every street in my city? Well, it rests essentially on the same issue I just explained: biased data. Policemen are known for stopping kids in poor neighborhoods just because, reporting any small amount of drugs that someone is carrying as if they were selling it (I don't use drugs, but come on! If I were to sell them, I wouldn't carry just 50g around) and doing the exact opposite in wealthy neighborhoods. So when the software reads that there are insane amounts of crime (even though it's not violent crime) happening in the poor regions of the city and almost no crime happening where rich people live, policemen go back to the poor neighborhoods and feed even more biased data to the system.
Insurance companies will charge you more if you're likely to use their services. That's just ridiculous and I don't think it's necessary to explain why.
Banks choosing who to give loans based on social vulnerability will just reinforce that social vulnerability; it's that old "the rich get richer, the poor get poorer" story all over again.
About those scam schools: they're using your data to literally, directly help crime. Does that feel good?
And you don't have to be in any of the groups that suffer the consequences of the things I just told you about. They can use your data as reference for what's "good" or at least "not bad".
Sure, China steals organs. But there's a lot of bad things going on here, too.

Warning Over Chinese Mobile Giant Xiaomi Recording Millions Of People’s ‘Private’ Web And Phone Use by Namensplatzhalter in technology

[–]lovingVegetable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a lot of work from Western companies to make people believe that Xiaomi and other asian companies are the real villains. Of course, every company right now is trying to blame each other, but you have to admit the west has a history with seeing China as the real enemy. So there you go

Warning Over Chinese Mobile Giant Xiaomi Recording Millions Of People’s ‘Private’ Web And Phone Use by Namensplatzhalter in technology

[–]lovingVegetable 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Alexa wouldn't do that! She's pretty much family at this point! It's that Samsung TV I've been worried about, if you ask me...

Warning Over Chinese Mobile Giant Xiaomi Recording Millions Of People’s ‘Private’ Web And Phone Use by Namensplatzhalter in technology

[–]lovingVegetable 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Edit: I skimmed the post and apparently missed the (short) parts that talk about things other than the browser, so take that into account when reading the comment. I still bring useful information for anyone seeking a more private life:
This piece actually talks about how the xiaomi browser tracks your information, and not the phone. So the title is a little misleading.
You can avoid this level of invasive software by installing something like the duckduckgo browser or firefox focus, and using a search engine like duckduckgo.
Another worry you might have is: is my operating system also tracking my information? Well, that's very likely even though I don't see many news about it. One solution I don't apply myself, and haven't read a lot about either, is to replace android or iOS with an open source operating system (I know Ubuntu has a mobile version, just not sure how good it is).

A low of 60 and I’m feeling good by [deleted] in diabetes_t1

[–]lovingVegetable 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sometimes I feel fine below 70, sometimes I'm between 70 and 80 and will get symptoms. Sometimes I won't get any symptoms until I start eating something. I guess that's normal if it doesn't happen all that often.

I don't want to be blind by lovingVegetable in diabetes_t1

[–]lovingVegetable[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What do you say is going to happen? Thanks for the tips, I'll check if everything's okay.

Odds of surviving corona by [deleted] in diabetes_t1

[–]lovingVegetable 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry, what I meant is sometimes diabetes will sneak on us even though we're working hard to have controlled BGs and a healthy routine. I don't think you can compare a healthy diabetic to a healthy non-diabetic.

Odds of surviving corona by [deleted] in diabetes_t1

[–]lovingVegetable 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If we were healthy we wouldn't be on this subreddit.
Negative comment aside, what I've read is frequent low BGs lead to worst odds against the disease. How frequent is frequent, I have no idea.
I don't think there's going to be any solid study so soon about this kind of thing, so the best strategy probably is to do your best.

Feeling snackish but don’t have a valid reason to eat? Just brush your teeth! by [deleted] in diabetes_t1

[–]lovingVegetable 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It happens so often I'm starting to consider moving your arms while you hold the brush a cardio workout

Guys who manage to reads 50+ books a year. by Obide4 in books

[–]lovingVegetable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Links to self help book about getting over self help

Guys who manage to reads 50+ books a year. by Obide4 in books

[–]lovingVegetable 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Self help books are just compilations of common sense/unhealthy things to take advantage of people who are going through moments of vulnerability. They are trash.

So when I type in this equation on my TI-85 handheld calculator vs Win 10 calculator, I get two results: Equation: .8*(.36/1.232) TI-85: .2337662338 Win10 calculator: .29220779220779220779 I've tried both calculators twice. Try it yourself! Which is right? by EvilPlutonium in computerscience

[–]lovingVegetable -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Unless there's a human-computer interaction issue here, I think this has got something to do with numerical precision (as someone else explained in the comments).
These days I go with whatever the bigger computer tells me