Ansil849

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Watch the First Stars in the Universe Being Born in This Incredible Simulation(vice.com)
3 points by Ansil849 5y ago|1 comments
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Scientists Capture Best Images yet of Unexplained Ring Structures in Space(vice.com)
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Where, specifically?
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Do you also have this same opinion on Google's Project Dragonfly (Google's censored Chinese search engine)? That is, that people shouldn't have "bashed" Google, since it was the Chinese government "forcing&quot
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by Ansil849 5y ago
So an interesting caveat to this apparently is [1]: > FLSA prohibits public sector employees from volunteering, without compensation, to work additional time performing the same type of services or work for which they are employed. For
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Volunteers are exempted from minimum wage requirements. But there is nothing in this job posting indicating that this is for a volunteer position.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
How is this legal? Not a rhetorical question. I genuinely would like an explanation of how you can legally post "Applicants must understand there will be no compensation for this position" in a job posting, when minimum wage laws
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Super interesting, thanks. Kind of surprised more people aren't talking about this.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Are there any consumer-grade atmospheric solar water generators on the market right now? I did a very quick search and didn't find anything. Is there anything like this that people can buy right now?
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Yeah sure, but 1) prior to needing DCs, people need clean drinking water, and 2) the subset of people who need DCs is vastly smaller than those who need clean drinking water.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
My question was more, how does this help individuals without access to clean water, not a dystopian 'how can it be co-opted by corporations for business ends', but I appreciate the varying definitions of "practical" peop
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by Ansil849 5y ago
So what is the practical use of this? Let's say that I'm not an engineer or a researcher or a coder, but would like to set some of these units up to collect water. How do I do so? Do I approach someone to build this for me (who?)?
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> I just checked; "slave" is an acceptable guess in Wordle, as is "cunts". Like I said in another comment: > Up until today 'slave' (and 'agora', and 'wench' and etc.) was removed. It
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Up until today 'slave' (and 'agora', and 'wench' and etc.) was removed. It seems like starting today NYT has reinstated the previously-removed words. Interesting.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
'This is why we can't have nice things', which is what my comment (and likely the article title) was referencing, is an idiomatic, not a literal, expression [1]. [1] https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/this+i
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> What did you lose? User privacy, for one. The wordle page is now full of trackers. Freedom from arbitrary corporate decisions about which words are acceptable or not ('slave' is no longer acceptable, while 'cunts' i
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by Ansil849 5y ago
If anything, Wordle is proof that we can't have nice things. It is now full of privacy-eroding trackers [1] and nonsensical, inconsistent, and seemingly arbitrary word bans [2] -- wherein words like "agora" and "slave&qu
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by Ansil849 5y ago
A recent BBC documentary on AI hiring practices: > If you’re applying for a job today, your application could go through several stages before it is seen by a human. BBC journalist and former recruiter Daniel Henry deep dives into this n
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Computer Says No [AI hiring documentary](bbc.co.uk)
3 points by Ansil849 5y ago|2 comments
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If there is now a pending card fraud case that you are now involved in, how did you manage to get another job? Like you said, this kind of thing is a carrier killer. Does your current employer know about it?
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by Ansil849 5y ago
The question is what is the limit of the creative input? If you sit someone or something down and tell them to draw, do you own the copyright or who/whatever did the drawing?
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> he had no input in creating the work (effectively a lie) What is the lie? If you give loose instructions to another person to create a work, who holds the copyright, you or the person who created it? Giving input is irrelevant to being
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> Can you tell me which data was nonconsensually obtained from phones? This is clearly explained, multiple times, in the article that you yourself linked to: > This time, the CNIL decision, dated 17 March 2011, concerns data collected
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by Ansil849 5y ago
I am not sure why you continue to misrepresent this case. Using Google Car data was only one of the privacy violations, the other was mobile phone data. I will post the quotation one more time: > The CNIL held that since it was carried o
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> not for any nonconsensual data collection. It was absolutely for nonconsensual data collection. From the very link that you provided: > The CNIL held that since it was carried out without the knowledge of the data subjects, the co
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by Ansil849 5y ago
The total amount of all GDPR fines ever (all 907 of them) is ~€1.5 billion [1]. Google's revenue for 2021 alone, was €230 billion [2]. Fines may deter small and medium-sized corporations, but not large ones. Therefore something else
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> This looks like they are confusing two different things (Latitude and Location Services, though maybe Latitude required Location Services to be enabled). The Google Latitude case also resulted in an actual fine levied. Your stance is t
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> Google Latitude was an opt-in service. Ostensibly, so is Google Pay. And yet here we are. See also, from the third link in my previous post: > And the privacy watchdog said users of Latitude were not informed that Google tracked the
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Corporations treat fines as cost of doing business. In order to actually be effective, there need to be mandatory minimum prison terms for C-level staff who greenlit a particular program.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> Somehow Chrome autopopulating credit card fields got transformed into me having a Google Pay account. If you give a company your information in one department, another department will invariably use it. See also: Facebook using the pho

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