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> It has some practical issues (defense lawyers are not paid by the state, prosecutors are). Many defense lawyers are paid by the state: they're called public defenders.
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> One thing I don't understand is why are apps like authy or google authenticator not using push notifications to allow you to directly auth via unlocking or touchID instead of having to go through the app. If you really want the us
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> It looks like the Apple authorized service program may be dead, or at least on it's last legs. The writing was on the wall when Apple stores started opening up. In my city there was a decades-old independent Apple-focused compute
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> It will be to split the "MacOS" ecosystem in 2 and maintain two branches for x86 and ARM. And while they also have a team of pretty good software engineers with x86 and ARM experience they are already having major quality con
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> Why would they decode it only to re-encode it? Because it's more generic and easier to implement. I would imagine to support streaming AAC from the file to the AirPods, they'd need to create a special channel for it in the O
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> In the common case for Apple users (listening to iTunes), the AirPods will have the same quality as wired headphones, since they play back with the same codec/bitrate either way (256kbps AAC). Are they literally piping the AAC-enc
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What's up with Apple? Seems to me like they should have just dropped the i9 option altogether, since they couldn't make it work. It just further torpedoes their fading reputation for being able to build top-notch hardware.
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> I've often wondered why people don't publish names for people who send death threats. My guess is the threats are usually made anonymously-enough that that would be difficult to truly expose those who made them, and exposing
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>>> FB and Google are the only ones pushing the industry forward. The huge amount of data and computing power is what brings these researchers, its not all about money. In the long run the scientific advancements from these compani
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> FYI - Visa/MC/Amex will literally sell your transaction data to almost anyone Any way to opt out of this? I try to opt out of all the sharing I can with my bank, but if it's being sold at the Visa/MC/Amex leve
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> Where are people getting all these chinese knock offs? I have never had this happen on Amazon I am curious what products people are getting Here's a 1 TB microSD card [1]. No such product legitimately exists [2], so it must be
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> In my experience, Best Buy’s return policy and process has been awful. Granted it’s been years because it was so bad. Literally the worst of any store I’ve ever shopped at. Last few times I've had to return something to Best Buy,
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> Where are you that this is true? This is directly opposite of my experience. I genuinely can't remember the last time a Prime/2-day shipment was delayed. It happens all the time where I live. It's also not uncommon for
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> In Neil DeGrasse Tyson's version of "Cosmos" there is a great illustration where he says that if we visualize the entire history of the universe as being scaled to one calendar year then every human being that has ever l
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> Wouldn't you like to attend my seminar on the importance of representing yourself? Also, check out my book. And follow me on Twitter. That doesn't happen, or at least it doesn't happen at anything close to the scale of p
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> One can represent themselves. It might be dumb, but people should have the right to be dumb when they're the only ones getting hurt... The difference is there isn't a massive industry that will try to persuade consumers to do
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> It's a trade off since Doctors have a habit of using their prescription power to force you to schedule unnecessary visits to boost profits and they are not immune from marketing pressure. Citation needed. I'm sure are a few
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Would it be too much trouble to share what you know? Even just a list of the players would be helpful. I'd really like to understand more about this industry, but from a consumer perspective, it's very opaque. It's easy to
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> They have separate divisions for FCRA and non-FCRA data, so which products and data points you have access to depend upon who you are and what you're doing with the data. Do they still any of that data in bulk, or only in a produc
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Has anyone done any research to map out the relationships between the different data brokers? E.g. who has what data to sell, and who's selling what data to who?
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> Personally, due to experienck, I prefer to forego insurance and get my healthcare abroad. Better prices than paying deductibles, better services. But I can not recommend that for everyone. If you're in the US, that choice could b
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> Drugs, diagnosis, lab test (from the like of labcorps), or just point of sale addresses? If they had access to that, wouldn't it be a HIPAA violation?
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What kind of bulk data products do they sell? I'm almost certain they are one of the companies that does the legwork to directly ingest public records information from government sources, but I'm unsure if they sell that bulk data
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>> The only services that actually need to shut down are ones that are monetizing based on personal data. Small SaaS services that aren't doing that can be fully GDPR compliant with a little bit of copy writing and self-service o
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There's no mention of the NRA or National Rifle Association in the linked article. The articles title is "Russian National Charged in Conspiracy to Act as an Agent of the Russian Federation Within the United States."
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> It seems like manned fighter bomber aircraft are fast becoming an outdated concept. Drones can be lighter, turn harder and crucially not endanger the life of the operator. Why is the MOD committing £2bn to building new ones? Fighter ai
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> Kill cords are a thing (on powerboats, particularly) and the original metaphor is fine. The expression "pulling the plug" is idiomatic English (at least in the North American variety). "Pulled the kill chord" may b
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> It's not necessarily that "getting a good deal" is the reason that people shop at Amazon. Personally I think their customer service is pretty top-notch compared to most anywhere else and I know I'll be in good hands
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> I do think it's important to have unit tests when the unit's behavior is complicated. Where I start to get worried is when there are unit tests being written against classes that have very little behavior that doesn't in
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> Either the consumer is savvy and spent the requisite time considering their purchase, or they haven't. Retailers will always attempt to capitalize on this. And the news media will always try to educate the unsavvy consumers; espec

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