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> Google's alleged practice of recording location data about Android device owners even when they believe they have opted out of such tracking has sparked an investigation in Arizona, where the state's attorney general could po
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> Weird. So I could get a job and then just hang out outside “striking” and not work and still get paid and they can never fire me? Striking workers don't get paid by the employer while they're striking. That's why unions
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> If Tesla is anti-union... they can just fire people who strike. I'm not so sure, it seems like they can't in many circumstances: https://blogs.findlaw.com/law_and_life/2014/10/can-you-be-fi...
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> No idea what do to about the reviews, They need to patrol the sources for fake reviews (facebook groups, etc) and perform sting operations to catch the sellers who solicit them. It shouldn't be too hard, a simple Facebook search
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> No matter how powerful the thing in your pocket is, I have a box next to my desk that can hold 50 of them. And we're always going to find ways to use more power. Yeah, but convergence could mean transferring a memory image to the
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> Xanadu concepts are, to a great extent, an alternate (and alien) universe. Many of the ideas, paradigms, and systems pursued by computing pioneers (especially of the 70s and 80s) feel this way, especially those that didn't catch o
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> Exactly. Facebook isn't dramatically different than your local pub, church, Elks lodge, knitting club, or any other self-selected social group. Singling them out and treating it like a new problem gives too much credence to the no
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> But they did appeal to enough of the electorate. Clinton received ~3% more votes, which was in line with the polling data. No, they didn't. The right and correct way to count votes isn't the method that would've given y
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> I knew Salk refused the patent, not about the USSR's pioneering work in barely feeding their people (sorry, phage therapies). That's pretty stupid snark, by the way. More evidence of unthinking dogmatism and rather limited u
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> I'm saying that it's unsustainable to maintain a hundreds of features for the benefit of different slices of 1% use. There isn't one kind of "power user," especially for something like a web browser. If you wa
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> You're advocating for breaking a country's laws. What makes Russia's laws worth less than any other country's? Whether you agree or not with them, you have to respect them. No, you don't. Websites are internat
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> This is why the USSR created the Polio vaccine, Venezuela created the MMR vaccine, and India leads the world in drug resistant antibiotics. > OH WAIT. The USSR actually did a lot of interesting work developing phage therapies which
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> Doesn't the "lake" get filled with sand eventually? Do you need to then excavate/move it away to maintain effectiveness? In the video, it seems like the dug wells (or laid piping) in the sand to allow the water to b
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> This only works if you can get private businesses in other parts of the world to do your R&D for you. Not a viable strategy for all of the world, tragedy of the commons, etc. That's assuming the prices set by those drug R&
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This is a paywall bypass for a Financial Times story. I think that should be mentioned in the title.
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> And replacing criminal proceedings with cash fines improves this how? Because apparently the solution for not living in a utopia is to deliberately construct something that will obviously be a dystopia.
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> but from what i've heard, China has some kind of system like this. Where if you go to the police about something, they just sort of force the two parties to work it out and one of the parties pays the other a fine. IIRC, if you ac
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> This is a terrible idea on its own, but I find it particularly unpalatable because the author is deliberately tickling the fancy of all the "My theories are so beautiful and internally consistent" libertarians who wouldn&#x27
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> Full employment is not a goal. Our society's goal is to ensure people have access to goods and services. Unfortunately, that's hard to optimize for, so we optimize for full employment as a proxy. I disagree, at least if democ
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> That way, the vacuum can't access the internet but I can still control it. Interesting! The camera functionality still works without an internet connection? I'd always assumed that some of the processing was getting offlo
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My concerns aren't about what the Roomba would do to other devices on my network, but what kind of data it's sending out and how that data could be used. That can't be mitigated by just having the thing connect to a separate
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Are you saying it's unsustainable to maintain an application suitable for power users? It'll definitely take more effort than maintaining a restrictive, dumbed-down app; but it's certainly not impossible and I think the benef
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> Facebook and the various other messaging platforms sole purpose is to make money. End of story. They have no values no morals or ethics. They do what is necessary and within a legal framework (region dependent) that allows them to make
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> This looks like a networking protocol, but this is actually process for electing the main node in the network, which will eventually revert it back to the mean of centralization. Let's see how Mastodon scales Would you say the sam
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> Since the key doesn't have wifi or anything, how can the private key flow back to China? The bluetooth one has a bluetooth radio (obviously). I suppose it's conceivable that the firmware could have a backdoor that allowed ex
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> This is a pretty compelling U2F solution. It matches the price of a Yubikey Not really. The $50 Yubikey does a lot more than these (e.g. storing PGP keys, etc). If you only want U2F, Yubico sells their blue key for only $20 (or a 2
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> It basically means: worth tailoring to, given precious UI space and limited developer resources. How much precious developer time is required maintain a user-facing text field on an entity with only a handful of other fields? Certainl
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> I've read somewhere that Firefox telemetry showed that hardly anyone used the bookmark descriptions. > In that case, understandable they chose to remove them. It's not understandable. That logic leads to dumbed-down, poin
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> A very concerning attitude, to assume people have no rights at a workplace. Ironically and disappointingly this attitude seems prevalent among Americans. I'm an American, and it seems many of my countrymen think property rights sh
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> I mean the government doesn't take on basic IT security responsibilities for corporations. It's up to each campaign. Couldn't the DHS provide recommendations (e.g. practices, particular providers and configurations), and

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