MikeUt

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by MikeUt 6y ago
> protecting customer privacy Does "privacy" mean Amazon will spy on their customers, but won't share that data further?
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> gladly took in and integrated foreigners? So why were non-white populations in Europe negligible until about 60 years ago? Statistics are hard to come by, but do these pictures of London shortly after the fall of the British colonial e
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by MikeUt 6y ago
"Analyze" can be as simple as "cross-reference follower names with some other database". So nothing a user with read-only access to their company account couldn't manually do.
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by MikeUt 6y ago
So users "explicitly consent" (as signaled by continued use of Instagram) to all of Instagram/Facebook's data collection, as well as to letting random third parties read their posts, as long as those random third partie
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by MikeUt 6y ago
Tech giants can spy all they want and sell that data to whoever they want, but letting others access data they can already see otherwise in a more convenient way would be intruding on privacy?
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by MikeUt 6y ago
There's a big difference between scraping and posting. Companies putting both into the "bot" category is intentionally conflating the two, so they can ban user-empowering behavior (reading with unauthorized software, i.e. scr
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by MikeUt 6y ago
It's the colonial empires that caused the refugee crisis? I thought it was the much more recent bombings. But if it was the colonial empires, how come Turkey faced no refugee crisis from their colonies in south-eastern Europe [1,2]? Ho
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by MikeUt 6y ago
Are the "foreigners" mostly other Europeans?
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by MikeUt 6y ago
It was the US that pushed for and did (is doing?) most of the bombing, and Europe that got hit with refugees. But even if it were the same country, it's not the same people - the wars were pushed from the top [1], the resistance to imm
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by MikeUt 6y ago
But monetization itself is what degrades content. Just compare app stores to linux package repositories.
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by MikeUt 6y ago
Don't worry about ad tracking - nothing similar could happen here ! All the intelligence gathered on you will be used only for more relevant ads, guaranteed. Your employer, the police, military, school system, insurance companies, ind
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by MikeUt 6y ago
"GreatSchools [..] has updated its rating systems [..] to improve its effectiveness in providing information that minimizes inequity in educational opportunities." Is this intentionally vague? How does updating a rating system min
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by MikeUt 6y ago
Related: Finland Had Patent-Free Covid-19 Vaccine 9 Months Ago–Still Went with Big Pharma: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26308060 Billions in profits buys a lot of lobbying.
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by MikeUt 6y ago
Is writing software that has, as its default, the musical system you're familiar with, really "colonization"?
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by MikeUt 6y ago
they refuse to explain why "so people dont game the system" Like being accused of a crime, but not told which crime, so you "don't game the legal system".
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by MikeUt 6y ago
Isn't what Nacon did illegal under the anti-circumvention provision of the DMCA?
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by MikeUt 6y ago
With the exception that they're promoting US instead of Russian interests, yes. A glance at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Central_Intelli... should dispel any delusions of CIA trustworthiness.
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by MikeUt 6y ago
I'm sure if Russia was covertly training journalists in the US to produce an “attitudinal change in the participants,” promoting a “positive impact” on their “perception of Russia.” and CNN was full of ex Russian FSB agents, you&#x27
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by MikeUt 6y ago
"Nevermind the fact the only reason they think it's true is because I told them it's true." Is that really the only reason? Could things such as major networks hiring ex-CIA personnel [1] contribute to that impression?
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by MikeUt 6y ago
Mitigate, or offload? Instead of facing a global famine, we're causing a global ecological catastrophe. The world didn't end, but species are rapidly going extinct, and it's only a matter of time before it comes back to bite
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Young Black men and teens killed by guns 20 times more than white counterparts(usatoday.com)
4 points by MikeUt 6y ago|2 comments
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On Anti-Asian Hate Crimes: Who Is Our Real Enemy?(medium.com)
2 points by MikeUt 6y ago|1 comments
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by MikeUt 6y ago
"a British Army unit that uses social media to help fight wars. Twitter's head of editorial in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa Gordon MacMillan is a reservist for that unit. Twitter reviewed his Army role in 2019 and found no
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> should not be performing sterilizations given that it's optional I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that these sterilizations included procedures that can be medically necessary, such as hysterectomies [1]. And that any medical care
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by MikeUt 6y ago
Only in paragraph 12 (out of 16 total) does the article finally get around to describing what exactly prompted this: Mr. Eddings and other former Gimlet employees said that Mr. Vogt and Ms. Pinnamaneni vigorously opposed efforts to unioniz
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by MikeUt 6y ago
Were all of those 1400 involuntary?
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> That it carries out no access control is somewhat irrelevant if it is not intended to do so in the first place. That's circular logic - Google's access control is OK because Google intended to do it? Do the users get a say in
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> If you want to use Google services, wouldn't you already just be using Chrome? Would you make the same argument if those services were Google search, Gmail, or Youtube?
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by MikeUt 6y ago
I didn't review the millions of lines of vim code either, yet notepad.exe lets me use it to edit passwords.txt and banking_details.txt just fine.
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> Google is framing this change as an attempt to limit third-party access to Google services. Apparently accessing your own data using unapproved software makes you a 3rd party.

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