MikeUt

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by MikeUt 5y ago
> It feels to me much more aimed at being able to fire people when controversy arrises than something used to actively screen new hires. If you mean my speculation about political posts, then you're probably right. But if you mean t
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> You have overlooked No, the comment I replied to overlooked it. > This is not the same system as the photo-scanning and authority-alerting one. Which makes fighting child-grooming an even worse argument in favor of the authority-a
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by MikeUt 5y ago
Maybe not lose your job, but the University of California will prevent you from getting one, as they require all job candidates to commit to and have a history of advancing diversity. Conflicting political posts would probably harm your abi
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by MikeUt 5y ago
Seemed relevant with the news about Apple scanning for child sexual abuse images on user devices. A gray area even in the US, I found Canada particularly notable, since their law makes no distinction between cartoons, and images of real chi
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Legal status of fictional pornography depicting minors(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by MikeUt 5y ago|2 comments
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> So the M1 has turned me off of Apple products because, quite frankly, I don't want to spend (more) of my time fixing shit a trillion dollar company broke and doesn't care to fix. What is broken about the M1?
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> So: where are the proposals for a better solution? Better policing and child protective services to catch child abuse at the root, instead of panicking about the digital files it produces? If you'd been paying attention, you'
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by MikeUt 5y ago
You may have paid for the phone, but you are not its owner - it answers to a different master.
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by MikeUt 5y ago
Thank you for catching that. Now if only he'd state how much greater, but apparently he ran out of numbers by this point in the article. But he does give us some clues. Earlier in the article he states: > City-wide, 24% of residen
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> The vast majority of iPhone users won't consider it a betrayal that they can't send images of child abuse Probably neither would child abusers, since as soon as they send an image of child abuse, they're much more likely
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by MikeUt 5y ago
The replies are so typical of these discussions. The media float a narrative without bothering to support it with any evidence. When someone actually looks and finds the easily available evidence says the exact opposite, that evidence is
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> Unshared data shouldn't be subject to search. Once it's shared, I can make several cases for an automated scan, but a cloud backup of personal media should be kept private. Our control of our own privacy matters. Not for the
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> These populations have a disproportionate share of minorities, so it would have been plausible that they would have felt like guinea pigs. That's grossly overstating it. Whites make up 78% of all employed people, and 72.5% of al
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by MikeUt 5y ago
To show that awareness of Tuskegee is, if anything, negatively correlated with vaccination rate, and therefore unlikely to be the driver of lower vaccination rates among Blacks. Edit: Correction: As crackercrews pointed out, I wrote "n
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by MikeUt 5y ago
So do you believe this article should be disregarded, because it uses data that differs from California's and Chicago's? Or would you instead prefer to only use the parts of this article that support your position, and replace tho
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by MikeUt 5y ago
I.e. a different study in a different location.
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> Am I reading this wrong? It should be noted that table counts Hispanics as white (as does the 76% of population you cite). It has separate columns for if the offender is Hispanic.
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> Another possible explanation is that Blacks are more likely to be criminals, and these stops represent police getting bad guys off the street. [..] City-wide, 68% of no-arrest stops city-wide were of Blacks, the same proportion as arre
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by MikeUt 5y ago
Could you explain, for those not familiar with Jamie Dimon?
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US sues Texas to block state troopers from stopping migrants(hosted.ap.org)
3 points by MikeUt 5y ago|1 comments
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by MikeUt 5y ago
"and then every-so-often batches those metrics out to Apple's servers" means they do know, even if we trust the implementation. For example, if you publish an ad that only matches the word "fnord", and the metrics
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> The iAd framework then collects just the impression metrics — how many times each ad was shown to a given user — and then every-so-often batches those metrics out to Apple's servers. If Apple knows how many times you were shown ea
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by MikeUt 5y ago
Are they also a backward firm for not making a hairdresser Barbie until 2008, and a make-up artist Barbie until 2007? I had typical boy's toys - lego and some action figures. None of them were news anchors, presidents, basketball playe
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> Cherry picked. The dolls were available to buy. Would you prefer they stopped selling their other models, to focus on these?
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by MikeUt 5y ago
Such as surgeon in 1973, astronaut in 1965, and business executive in 1960? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie%27s_careers
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> But it's possible that secretly planting a ProxyHam on someone else's network might be interpreted as unauthorized access under America's draconian and vague Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. If that were what caused him to
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> AMERICA FIRST - good Only someone completely unfamiliar with western media could honestly write this. It took Hitler’s conquest of Europe, near-conquest of Britain and, finally, Pearl Harbor to convince a majority of Americans that Am
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by MikeUt 5y ago
So FB can take over the VR market by over-moderating FB, and making Oculus a requirement to get support. Looks very anti-competitive and illegal.
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> Unless it’s glass, fibre, or aluminum, you are lying to yourself if it’s going into the blue bin. You mean you are being lied to , by well organized groups: https://www.startribune.com/lobbying-group-fights-insurgence.
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by MikeUt 5y ago
I was referring more to barring civilians from leaving the city, and shooting at children.

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