Amadou

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by Amadou 13y ago
Cultures would reject them until a famine struck. Then the ruler would eat them out of necessity. It is incredibly rare for the "rulers" to have their personal food supply impacted by a famine. Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize in
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No, he's stated that Omidyar made him an offer too good to refuse. He's very pleased with the Guardian, he's just looking out for #1 here.
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A couple of somewhat contradictory points: (1) Procedures are only as good as the people who follow them. Somebody has to actually access the data - that guy is the insider you have to worry about bypassing the procedures. Maybe I am just
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A Court Order is an Insider Attack(freedom-to-tinker.com)
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I highly doubt he's going to be asked to shape a story to fit someone political viewpoints. That's not how these things work anymore. It is more of a case of funding "useful idiots." You find someone who has a viewpo
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Even if you paid cash for that house, the tax records can be public. The short version: (1) Hire someone to create a New Mexico LLC, there are lots of companies out there that will do this for you. (2) Transfer ownership of the NM LLC to
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Alanis level irony: millions of people use Ghostery and most aren't aware it tracks them and sells their data. You have to actively turn the reporting on, it is not the default. It isn't a hidden option either, it is the very f
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I like my friends, I like to travel, I like to do things. Effectively letting the government control your life because you are afraid of what they MIGHT do? Give me a fucking break. The problem is the reverse here. The "system"
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I certainly didn't know there are tags in tires That's the first I've heard of it myself, although it seems inevitable since one of the biggest selling points of RFID tags is for inventory management. We are likely to see
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How long do you expect upgrades to work before a break in compatibility? Forever? At least the linux kernel has an explicit goal of never breaking userspace. That doesn't mean other parts of userspace don't break themselves, b
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They aren't free, but these guys cover more benefits than Zenefits does. The business model isn't exactly the same either, but they do cater to small businesses. I have no financial interest in them, but I've been using the
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I'm not talking about passion in general, I'm talking about passion for the results of your work. Do you work solely to get rich, or do you work to create something that others will appreciate and benefit from? Do you have pride
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It's a massive job to rebuild a library, Building it is only a fraction of the effort. Maintaining it is where it gets exceptionally hard. Until very recently we had a system in the US - most worthwhile ideas made it into print and
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by Amadou 13y ago
> Quotation needed about mother's involvement. "In 1980, she discussed with then-IBM Corp. Chairman John Opel, who was also on the United Way committee, the business IBM was doing with Microsoft. Opel, some accounts say, knew
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Wait, don't public corporations have an fiduciary duty to their shareholders, debt duty to their bond holders and payroll obligation to their employees. Sort of. It sounds good on paper - in a perfect world perhaps the invisible hand
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The problem with "grinders" and taking the passion out of business is that it implicitly encourages amorality. One of the biggest reasons that Google's "don't be evil" mantra gets so much play is because it is
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Also if they gave a shit, they'd have staff on all checkouts and not use self-service checkouts. Staff are more expensive. They know; they just don't care. While I agree that the stores "deserve" the amount of the thef
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by Amadou 13y ago
I was hoping to see more discussion on this point. Are there other cases where subpoenas have been issued for tools that enable the gathering of evidence? Has that sort of thing always required a warrant? Is it moot that a warrant was even
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Volokh is not a philosophy site for people to opine about morality. Exactly my criticism. There is an underlying current of morality at that site and it seems to be firmly anchored in process. They need to exercise editorial control to
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My impression, as someone who is not a lawyer, is that much of what gets posted to the volokh conspiracy is "pro-process." I think it is entirely reasonable to analyze the situation from the perspective of the law, but it seems li
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Often people behave very ethically without supervision. Individuals yes, absolutely. Organizations no, never.
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This contract echoes the story of Nina Palin's attempt to get her Free (creative-commons share-alike) movie "Sita Sings the Blues" on netflix streaming without DRM. Netflix refused. They even refused to let her put a title-
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by Amadou 13y ago
You might find the essay, 'The Checkpoint' interesting (and thoroughly bleak). It is by an Israel Defense Force conscriptee who started working those internal checkpoints between israel proper and the occupied territories. It is
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I'd like to see a customer satisfaction survey implemented across the board. It needs to have teeth. All of these problems are the result of giving people responsibility without accountability. As it is now, the only accountability
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Not allowing shitty (or pirated!) music is a hard problem to solve. As others have said, shitty is entirely subjective. But pirated is a really easy problem to solve. Just run it through an identifier like Echoprint. http://ec
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Ho hum. Just another day in the War on Dignity. This sort of thing is the inevitable result of giving people responsibility without accountability.
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If you've already got the tool to check it out empirically that's going to be a lot easier than digging through hundreds of thousands of lines of code that you aren't familiar with. Since it seems he wrote his resampleScope t
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do you want anybody who is interested to be able to dress up like a hobo and sift through your trash with impunity any time they feel like? As far as I know, that is perfectly legal throughout the USA. Certainly there is no warrant requi
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FWIW, just now I went looking for a firefox plugin that reports (in a human-friendly way) whether or not the SSL connection for a page is using perfect forward secrecy (PFS). I found "Calomel SSL Validation," which I am about to i
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They need a new term -- "Vulna" is just too close in sound and in look to "vulva." Maybe it is on purpose to catch people's attention (it caught mine in a near spit-take), but that would be a poor decision for anyo

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