LurkersWillLurk

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by LurkersWillLurk 7y ago
I don't agree. I would argue that the rise of the victims' rights movement suggests that culturally, the United States is beginning to see the few false reports/convictions as an acceptable casualty to the vast majority of tr
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by LurkersWillLurk 7y ago
I agree. I feel that the case would have ended up much differently if he had sued in his federal District Court.
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by LurkersWillLurk 7y ago
Each violation of HIPAA can carry a fine between $100 and $50,000 per violation. The hard part is that many people don't know what their privacy rights are, or to whom they go when their rights are violated (in this case, the Office of
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by LurkersWillLurk 7y ago
I'm surprised, but glad, that a federal magistrate judge would take the time to write out an article like this. It feels odd to me that a judge - someone who is supposed to be neutral - would openly take a stance that prosecutors are o
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by LurkersWillLurk 7y ago
I'd speculate that the certification of hours might be an effort to deny unemployment benefits. The company can fire you for cause and claim that you lied about your hours. If everyone breaks some minor rule all of the time, then prose
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by LurkersWillLurk 7y ago
I'm reminded of parallels between cell phone location privacy and genetic tracking. The average person does not understand that they are creating a record of everywhere they go when they have their cell phone on. The same is true with
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by LurkersWillLurk 7y ago
The asymmetry with the criminal penalties individuals face versus the civil penalties private organizations face feels like a rejection of the idea of the rule of law. The worst part, for me at least, is I'm not even sure how you would
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by LurkersWillLurk 7y ago
The problem is that most terms of service include forced arbitration clauses. Even if they don't, you generally have to sue in the jurisdiction where the company is incorporated, which for the vast majority of people, is very far away.
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by LurkersWillLurk 7y ago
That is called "making false statements", a serious federal felony. 18 U.S.C. § 1001.
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by LurkersWillLurk 8y ago
This API endpoint will get you all past messages (except for those encrypted by Secret Chats): https://core.telegram.org/method/messages.getMessages
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by LurkersWillLurk 8y ago
Telegram's crypto contest is questionable (see "A Crypto Challenge for the Telegram Developers" https://hackerfall.com/story/a-crypto-challenge-for-the-tele... and https://news.ycombinator.com
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by LurkersWillLurk 8y ago
> I NEVER received a thank you from any of these people. Is it possible that they (perhaps mistakenly) believe that communicating with you could open them up to civil liability?
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by LurkersWillLurk 8y ago
The First Amendment applies to all three branches of the government, not just Congress. The executive branch can attempt to obtain a gag order, but the 1st Amendment nonetheless places limits upon them. See, for example, https://
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by LurkersWillLurk 9y ago
Here's a more specific article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_Scho...
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by LurkersWillLurk 9y ago
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16084575
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by LurkersWillLurk 9y ago
I hope this purported initiative will be accessible to all users, not just to those on a whitelist. As it currently stands, I can use a security key as my second factor, but I can also receive a text message, which defeats the whole point o
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by LurkersWillLurk 9y ago
You seem to be implying that depressed people are selfish, which is generally unhelpful, false, and disrespectful to those who have suffered.
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by LurkersWillLurk 9y ago
If you manually verify safety numbers and mark your contact as verified, it will hard-stop you and require confirmation if your contact's identity key changes afterwards.
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by LurkersWillLurk 9y ago
Is the date that the green card was bought recorded by USPS? Basically, how exactly does writing the tracking number within the letter prove that the letter was mailed with that envelope?
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by LurkersWillLurk 10y ago
How did you do that, if I may ask?