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That's kinda different since the quotes I pulled directly contradict the headline. The headline should've been: "Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Suicides and maybe homicides dropped."
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Try Fastmail. If you want to reply you can setup a sending identity with the necessary email address. You don't have to do anything ahead of time.
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This is not true. They offer no fine-grained control besides dicking around with dozens of unsubscribe links over several weeks. For instance, how do you easily configure Facebook to ONLY send you emails when you're invited to an even
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> If every email they send has an unsubscribe link On Facebook, the unsubscribe link is very fine-grained, and is specific to the exact type of notification the link appeared on. I don't think you can fault anyone for giving up o
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> Now, Australia's homicide rate was already declining before the NFA was implemented, so you can't attribute all of the drops to the new laws. > Pinning down exactly how much the NFA contributed is harder. One study conclud
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What's that from?
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> Prisoners already have communication mediums that guards can monitor Those are often exploitatively priced, a situation Ajit Pai has sought to preserve: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/republi
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The balance has been struck all wrong, though, with thinking like that totally dominating the policy discussion. Yes, there are some inmates (like fruadsters, drug kingpins) who will use any communication channel for more crime, but there
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Have you ever watched this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE All kinds of people think they can talk their way out of an arrest. Unsavvy people might interpret that statement as saying their excuses and ex
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> If you do want to talk to me, I can tell the juvenile court judge or adult court judge and Probation Officer what you tell me. It's missing the explicit warning that "what you say can and will be used against you in the court
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>> It's news when some of the biggest and wealthiest companies in the us do not pay their staff (regardless of work, regardless of contractor status) a livable wage. > That isn't a reasonable expectation. Morally speaking
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If it's a moral issue, it's hard to give Facebook a pass for going "not my problem." Especially since they have the cash to actually act morally.
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It includes naturalized citizens .
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Why's that? Are you using some commercial VPN service where they're blocking the DNS?
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I get the impression that the idea that Chinese culture is somehow more naturally accepting of authoritarianism is part of a propaganda narrative promoted by Chinese authoritarians to protect their own power. > China Takes Aim at Western
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> As I understand it, essentially any high performing college student can join the party Not necessarily. I understand that it also takes personal connections and/or a little bribery to get in. > and then there's deal makin
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They changed my number in their database promptly and effectively when I asked them to during a blood donation. I redirected it to Google Voice and configured their numbers to go straight to voicemail. I figure if they have anything import
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I'm not a cryptographer, so I only know what's in the OP. However, it's clear important design information the ISO cryptographers wanted was being withheld by the NSA for at least 3 years.
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> Ban Trump from Facebook (co-op with Twitter to ban him there also) So, what exactly do you think would happen if they did that? I'll tell you: Facebook will start having some serious conversations with government regulators about
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> I don't think self-perception and outside-perception align very often for anybody Yeah, that's true, but for more conventional identities the possible misalignments are not as extreme and basic.
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Peer review isn't a panacea. It's totally possible that the NSA knows of a vulnerability or class of vulnerabilities that the rest of the peer review community doesn't. The cipher could be bad but still pass peer review (or
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> At times it feels like they are demanding an unlimited right to "self define" I think it's a bit more extreme than that. It's not just they want to be able to self-define, but they also want to command others to ac
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> I think it's important to take a step back, take a breath, and look at this rationally. > Whatever company you work for, if you do not have regular pentests, you are no better off. > It seems very strange to choose this one
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Like I said in another comment, I think a company breakup would help make the interop mandate work. If Facebook is left as dominant as it is now, it would have lots of opportunity to kneecap the mandate. I think you need the right social
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But breaking them up would provide the motivation to make the federation actually work. If there's a federated system, but with one player with 99% of the users, that player can still use its network effects to kneecap the federated p
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> But Facebook, despite being a monopoly or nearly so, isn't either of these. It makes no sense to speak of breaking Facebook up -- what does that even look like? Each if the Baby Books gets 1/20th of the users? I think you ans
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I don't know about iOS, but I think it recent versions of Android you can suppress notifications from an app at the OS level? Does it nag you about that?
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> FYI, LinkedIn has somewhat fine-grained email/notification configuration so you can stop these at the source. Facebook does too, but it's also slimy too. You can't preemptively opt out of specific notifications, but you
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> People are starting to learn that the vast majority of "science" are poorly-controlled white papers that get accepted and are never looked at again unless it is by a group of replication-crazed people (or what I like to call
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> Is FB getting more aggressive because it wants even more or because it is actually losing clicks/logons/attention? Probably the latter. I only recall getting the clingy email messages when I haven't checked it in a few

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